"Bottom Live: The Big Number Two Tour Bottom Live: The Big Number Two is a 1995 live stage show based on the UK TV series ""Bottom"" that was filmed at the Apollo Theatre Oxford. After a strange, half-mentioned turn of events, Richie and Eddie are about to meet the Queen. Richie is very excited over it while Eddie keeps forgetting it, because he's permanently drunk (as mentioned in the Bottom TV episode ""Burglary""). When the Queen is rallying through Mafeking Parade, Hammersmith, they think she'd enjoy them getting out their ""todgers"" and set off a massive fireworks display, a mixture"
"Manchild (TV series) Manchild is a British television comedy/drama series that ran for two series on BBC Two between February 2002 and April 2003 with seven episodes in Series 1 and eight episodes in Series 2. The show starred Ray Burdis (Gary), Nigel Havers (Terry), Anthony Head (James) and Don Warrington (Patrick) as four successful fifty-something men dealing with different problems such as marriage and children or life after divorce, aging parents, sexual dysfunction, lost youth, a succession of (younger) girlfriends, and the problems of how to enjoy the wealth and success they worked so hard to achieve. Upon the"
"and Paul Hipp. The pilot made significant changes to the characters and premise as it moved the setting from London to Los Angeles. Manchild (TV series) Manchild is a British television comedy/drama series that ran for two series on BBC Two between February 2002 and April 2003 with seven episodes in Series 1 and eight episodes in Series 2. The show starred Ray Burdis (Gary), Nigel Havers (Terry), Anthony Head (James) and Don Warrington (Patrick) as four successful fifty-something men dealing with different problems such as marriage and children or life after divorce, aging parents, sexual dysfunction, lost youth, a"
"Parade's End (TV series) Parade's End is a five-part BBC/HBO/VRT television serial, which is an adaptation of the tetralogy of novels (1924-28) of the same name by Ford Madox Ford. It premiered on BBC Two on 24 August 2012 and on HBO on 26 February 2013. The series was also screened at the 39th Ghent Film Festival on 11 October 2012. Its five episodes were directed by Susanna White and written by Tom Stoppard. The cast was led by Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall as Christopher and Sylvia Tietjens, along with Adelaide Clemens, Rupert Everett, Miranda Richardson, Anne-Marie Duff, Roger"
"in 2012. In 2004, ""Bottom"" came in at No. 45 in the ""Britain's Best Sitcom"" poll by the BBC. Eddie and Richie are two pathetic, misogynistic, slobby flatmates living in a filthy, damp flat at 11 Mafeking Parade in Hammersmith, London. Mayall described them as ""unemployed survivors"". They spend their time concocting desperate schemes to convince women to have sex with them, including buying sex spray, forging money, and pretending to be aristocrats. Their plans are never successful however, and the stress of their miserable lives can cause them to become irritable with each other. Whenever tensions hit breaking point,"
"That's Britain! That's Britain! is a 2011 British television series which takes a light-hearted look at aspects of modern life which frustrate and infuriate people. Presented by Nick Knowles and Julia Bradbury the series first aired on BBC One at 8pm from 23 November to 14 December 2011. The first series comprises four episodes. Topics covered in the show centre on every day issues, such as hospital parking charges, roadworks and overcrowded trains, with subjects being investigated by celebrity guests. For example, in the first episode the television presenter Grainne Seoige took a look at junk mail and comedian Ade"
"Misfits (TV series) Misfits was a British science fiction comedy-drama television show, on E4, about a group of young offenders sentenced to work in a community service programme, where they obtain supernatural powers after a strange electrical storm. The show premiered on 12 November 2009 and concluded on 11 December 2013 in its fifth series. Antonia Thomas, Iwan Rheon, Lauren Socha, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, and Robert Sheehan are introduced as Alisha Daniels, Simon Bellamy, Kelly Bailey, Curtis Donovan, and Nathan Young respectively. Sheehan left after the second series, replaced in the third by Joseph Gilgun as Rudy Wade. After the third"
"Barking (TV series) Barking is a late night sketch comedy show broadcast on Channel 4 in 1998, starring Mackenzie Crook, David Walliams, Omid Djalili, Peter Kay, Dave Lamb, Rhys Thomas, Catherine Tate and Marcus Brigstocke. The series featured up-and-coming comedians, most of whom went on to successful careers. The show was released on DVD in November 2011. Episode 1: This first episode features a guided tour of Buckingham Palace, a WI meeting that goes horribly wrong and introduces us to Mr Bagshaw: bully, sadist, social misfit and Maths teacher. There is also a special guest appearance from an Airfix Matthew"
"Blandings (TV series) Blandings is a British comedy television series adapted by Guy Andrews from the Blandings Castle stories of P. G. Wodehouse. It was first broadcast on BBC One from 13 January 2013, and stars Timothy Spall, Jennifer Saunders, Jack Farthing, Tim Vine and Mark Williams. The series was produced with the partial financial assistance of the European Regional Development Fund. Set in 1929, Lord Emsworth (Spall) resides at Blandings Castle, along with his imperious sister Connie (Saunders), his empty-headed son Freddie (Jack Farthing), and any number of houseguests, love-struck nieces and their boyfriends. He would rather be left"
"tragedy"", and Andrew Billen criticised it for the ""emptiness at its heart and not enough going on peripherally to make up for it"". Nicholas Barber thought it ""an impressive leap from catchphrase-heavy sketch comedy"" with ""topnotch supporting actors"". Many reviews singled out Johnny Vegas's performance as being the strongest among the cast. Happiness (TV series) Happiness was a British sitcom broadcast on BBC2 with dramatic, melancholy overtones written by Paul Whitehouse and David Cummings with Whitehouse in the lead role. There were two series, the first running in 2001 and the second in 2003. Whitehouse has stated that there will"
"Coupling (UK TV series) Coupling is a British television sitcom written by Steven Moffat that aired on BBC2 from 12 May 2000 to 14 June 2004. Produced by Hartswood Films for the BBC, the show centres on the dating, sexual adventures, and mishaps of six friends in their early thirties, often depicting the three women and the three men each talking among themselves about the same events, but in entirely different terms. The series was inspired by Moffat's relationship with producer Sue Vertue, to the extent that they gave their names to two of the characters. ""Coupling"" is an example"
"Porridge (TV series) Porridge is a British sitcom, starring Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and broadcast on BBC One from 1974 to 1977. The programme ran for three series, and included two Christmas specials and a feature film of the same name (in the United States, the film was released under the title ""Doing Time""). The sitcom focuses on two prison inmates, Norman Fletcher (played by Barker) and Lennie Godber (played by Beckinsale), who are serving time at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland. The show's title is a reference to both"
"Martin and Julie's best friends are Duncan Amis, an author, and his wife Sarah who is a television actress. Martin and Julie try new jobs and therapy in order to cope with their life. Mcfly's cover of the Queen song ""Don't Stop Me Now"" accompanies the closing credits, while Queen's original accompanies the opening credits. Trivia:Georgia Moffett is actually the daughter of Peter Davison (and Sandra Dickinson) Fear, Stress & Anger Fear, Stress & Anger is a British sitcom that aired on BBC Two in 2007. Starring Peter Davison and Pippa Haywood, it was written by Michael Aitkens. There is"
"proceeds to wreck his wife's café plans by gazumping her, and talk of a divorce is soon in the air. Later (in the second series) Sean turns his attentions to rock singing, becoming a fledgling star, while Nigel becomes Sean's landlord and develops an interest in his new neighbour, Geraldine (Georgina Melville). Square Deal (TV series) Square Deal is an ITV comedy series starring Lise-Ann McLaughlin and Timothy Bentinck as Nigel and Emma Barrington, a yuppie couple whose apparently comfortable lifestyle is brusquely shaken by the arrival on the scene of Sean, an incurable and impoverished young romantic. It was"
"humorous pop culture references to appeal to an adult audience, and which would fly over younger viewers' heads. On 16 November 2011, the episode ""Why do Things Have to Die?"" from series 2 won a Writers' Guild of Great Britain award for Best Children’s Television Script. Series 1 began airing on 8 January 2009. Performers who appeared in series 1 included: Kirsten O'Brien, Lucy Porter, Justin Edwards, Ishia Bennison, and David Penn. Series 2 began airing on 6 October 2010. The first two episodes were shown on BBC Two (because the 2010 Commonwealth Games were being aired on BBC One),"
"Married (radio series) Married is a BBC radio comedy with science fiction themes, first aired on BBC Radio 4. The main character is Robin Lightfoot, a confirmed bachelor with a successful architectural practice, who wakes up one day in a parallel universe in which he is married with two children. Unfortunately his counterpart in the parallel universe, who has evidently been swapped into our universe, is a cad, a womanizer, a swindler and possibly a murderer. Only the younger of the two children, Ned, believes Robin's story, largely because he reads about parallel universes in comic books. Apart from his"
"to sea, we've only got a few. Let the women and children drown, man, we've got to save the crew."" Two days after the first episode was shown, the British cross-Channel ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsized with the loss of 193 passengers and crew. As a result, Channel 4 dropped the title sequence from the second and third episodes, and it was not used at all in the second season. Series 1: Two social misfits (Tessa Peake-Jones and Martyn Hesford) team together to get revenge on everyone who has crossed them in the past; Charles Gray appeared as"
"Vexed Vexed is a British comedy-drama, police procedural television series for BBC Two. Created and written by Howard Overman, the first series stars Lucy Punch as D.I. Kate Bishop and Toby Stephens as D.I. Jack Armstrong, a detective duo with a fractious relationship. Jack is lazy and disorganised but charming whereas Kate is efficient and usually exasperated by Jack's way of doing things. The show also starred Rory Kinnear who plays Kate's husband Dan, with whom she is going through marriage counselling. Other recurring characters are Naz, an eccentric crime scene specialist, and Tony, owner of the bar at which"
"Ayoade. In 2008, Fielding appeared with comic partner Julian Barratt on ""Transmission"". As usual, he wore a somewhat flamboyant attire, this time featuring Cuban heels and polka dot trousers. In 2009, he helped host ""Comic Relief Does Top of the Pops"" with Reggie Yates and Fearne Cotton. Fielding played the role of ""Marcus"" in the series 3 of ""How Not to Live Your Life"", which was broadcast in November 2010. In 2011, he took part of Catherine Tate's TV movie ""Laughing at the Noughties"" in which he and other British comedians discussed the comedy highlights of the noughties. Fielding produced"
"the second episode of the series. The British Prog-rock group Crippled Black Phoenix sampled Reeve's character DI Fowler in the song ""Laying Traps"" on the 2012 album ""(Mankind) The Crafty Ape"". Catterick (TV series) Catterick, aka Vic and Bob in Catterick, is a surreal 2004 BBC situation comedy in 6 episodes, written by and starring Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, with Reece Shearsmith, Matt Lucas, Morwenna Banks, Tim Healy, Mark Benton and Charlie Higson. The series was originally broadcast on BBC Three and later rerun on BBC Two. Reeves has said that the BBC do not want another series of"
"mostly positive reaction from reviewers, and was nominated for a BAFTA award (Best Comedy Programme 2012) and the British Comedy Awards (Best Comedy Drama 2011). He appeared in ""Episodes"", a British/American television comedy series created by David Crane and Jeffrey Klarik and produced by Hat Trick Productions. It premiered on Showtime in the United States on 9 January 2011 at 9:30 pm and on BBC Two in the UK on 10 January 2011. The show is about a British husband-and-wife comedy writing team who travel to Hollywood to remake their successful British TV series, with disastrous results. On 11 December"
"Square Deal (TV series) Square Deal is an ITV comedy series starring Lise-Ann McLaughlin and Timothy Bentinck as Nigel and Emma Barrington, a yuppie couple whose apparently comfortable lifestyle is brusquely shaken by the arrival on the scene of Sean, an incurable and impoverished young romantic. It was produced by London Weekend Television. Sean Hooper (Brett Fancy) is a determined dreamer who has set himself until his next birthday – eight weeks hence – to make a success of his life; he then bumps into Emma – literally, they have an accident from which he ends up in plaster –"
"man"". He was a plumber who liked a bit of betting and a drink before coming home. His wife, Thora, was noted for her incessant talking while giving her husband a hard time. The couple had at least two children, one named Peter who is now 23 and married. The series has much in common with the later BBC sitcom ""Keeping Up Appearances"", except that the central couple were unmistakably working class while in ""Appearances"" social climbing was a central element of the programme. The catchphrases of the series were both Thora's. The first occurred whenever the socially-aspiring Thora introduced"
"an impression of Bodie from The Professionals"", although he believed there was a chance that Lucy Punch was ""wasted"" in the show. Series two of ""Vexed"" was broadcast Wednesdays at 9pm at the same time as the London Olympic games. Episode five was broadcast at the same time as the opening ceremony of the London Paralympics games. Both Series One and Two are available on Netflix in the U.S. Vexed Vexed is a British comedy-drama, police procedural television series for BBC Two. Created and written by Howard Overman, the first series stars Lucy Punch as D.I. Kate Bishop and Toby"
"double entendres. The ladies shared a house (The Old Manse or Utopia Ltd) in the fictional village of Stackton Tressel in Suffolk, where they employed the services of an eccentric housekeeper, Maud, played in the radio series by English character actress Daphne Heard. Hinge and Bracket spent two years in the 1970s performing in London pubs and clubs. This included the Royal Vauxhall Taverna (a popular gay venue), and the Kensington restaurant AD8, owned by Desmond Morgan and April Ashley. Hinge and Bracket appeared in 1974 at the Edinburgh Festival. They toured for several years before appearing on the BBC"
"beating the crap out of people. Nathan is a con artist and thief with a heavily inflated sense of his own attractiveness, intelligence and potential. Misfits (TV series) Misfits was a British science fiction comedy-drama television show, on E4, about a group of young offenders sentenced to work in a community service programme, where they obtain supernatural powers after a strange electrical storm. The show premiered on 12 November 2009 and concluded on 11 December 2013 in its fifth series. Antonia Thomas, Iwan Rheon, Lauren Socha, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, and Robert Sheehan are introduced as Alisha Daniels, Simon Bellamy, Kelly Bailey,"
"Dream Stuffing Dream Stuffing is a British television sitcom which aired on Channel 4 in early 1984. The series followed the exploits of two working class young women, Mo (Amanda Symonds) and Jude (Rachel Weaver), who share a flat in a council tower block in London's East End, along with their three-legged cat, Tripod. Mo has a menial job in a glass eye factory, whilst Jude is on the dole. Part way through the series, Mo loses her job and the two girls become a thorn in the side for employment review officer Mrs Tudge (Helen Brammer). Other characters include"
"Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy, known as Luxury Comedy 2: Tales from Painted Hawaii for series two, is a British surreal comedy television series written and directed by Noel Fielding and Nigel Coan. The initial format for the series changes after the first series, with series one being a surreal sketch show, and series two being a sitcom.The series stars Noel Fielding, his brother Michael Fielding, Tom Meeten, Dolly Wells, and occasionally Rich Fulcher, Dave Brown, and Richard Ayoade.The first episode premiered on 26 January 2012 on E4. The music for the first series was written by"
"be snobbish, Elsie soon learns to appreciate Sharon and the two become friends. Many episodes revolve around the family life of either Sharon or Elsie, with Sharon's brother Elvis (Lee Daley) and her boyfriend Wayne (John Wild) and Elsie's husband Roland (Bruce Montague) making regular appearances. Factory scenes would usually involve the lecherous floor manager Stanley Crabtree (John F Landry) and Sharon and Elsie's prickly responses to his womanising. Grumpy tea lady Ivy (Maggie Jones) would also make regular appearances. The series did not have individual episode titles. The series was shown on BBC1 between 1984 and 1985. It was"
"The Big Quiz (TV series) The Big Quiz is a British entertainment quiz show hosted by Stephen Mulhern. It started as an annual quiz between soap operas ""Coronation Street"" and ""Emmerdale"". The first episode aired on 16 December 2011 with the teams consisting of the cast of ""Coronation Street"": Jennie McAlpine, Malcolm Hebden, Patti Clare and Jack P. Shepherd and ""Emmerdale"": Mark Charnock, Natalie Anderson, Danny Miller and Meg Johnson. The second episode aired on 15 April 2012 with the teams consisting of the cast of the hit comedy ""Benidorm"": Jake Canuso, Crissy Rock, Janine Duvitski and Shelley Longworth and"
"singer Gary Glitter in a school nativity; Stephen Fry as a head teacher doling out corporal punishment to his younger self played by Daniel Roche; and Dawn French as the Queen Mother, whom she met at the age of four. David Baddiel, Julian Barratt, Bill Bailey, Jo Brand, Victoria Wood, Chris O'Dowd and Julia Davis are among the other actors who recreate childhood incidents and memories. Catherine Tate's Little Cracker, ""My First Nativity"", was nominated for Best Comedy Programme, at the British Academy Television Awards 2011. It was beaten by BBC Two's Harry and Paul. The series was commissioned by"
"16 May 2008. Mark Arden Mark David Darwin Arden (born 31 July 1956) is an English comedian and actor, best known for being one half of comic double act ""The Oblivion Boys"" with Stephen Frost. Arden was born in Newbury, Berkshire. He and Frost came to prominence in the late 1970s alternative comedy boom, and became recognisable to a national audience with regular spots on ""Saturday Live"". In the early 1980s they were instrumental in the forming of long-running north London comedy show ""News Revue"", and shortly afterwards began appearing as a pairing in episodes of series such as ""The"
"Crashing (UK TV series) Crashing is a British comedy drama series commissioned by Channel 4 and produced by Big Talk Productions. The six-part series premiered on 11 January 2016. ""Crashing"" follows the lives of six twenty-somethings living together as property guardians in a disused hospital, keeping the building safe in exchange for cheaper rent and a strict set of rules. The story began as two plays, written by Waller-Bridge, which were developed for television by the production company, Big Talk. The setting of the show was inspired by Middlesex Hospital, an abandoned hospital located in Fitzrovia near the production company's"