"Citizen Khan Citizen Khan is a British sitcom produced by the BBC and created by Adil Ray. Five series have been shown so far. It was set in Sparkhill, East Birmingham, described by its lead character, a British Pakistani Muslim Mr Khan (Ray), as ""the capital of British Pakistan"". ""Citizen Khan"" follows the trials and tribulations of Mr Khan, a loud-mouthed, patriarchal, cricket-loving, self-appointed community leader, and his long suffering wife (played by Shobu Kapoor) and daughters Shazia (Maya Sondhi 2012–2014, Krupa Pattani 2015–16) and Alia (Bhavna Limbachia). In Series One, Kris Marshall starred as Dave, the manager of Mr"
"were 140,000 Pakistanis living in Birmingham, making up 13.5 per cent of the city's population. Although London has almost twice as many Pakistanis, Birmingham is viewed as the 'main location' of all Pakistanis in Britain. The largest concentrations are in inner city Birmingham and areas such as Sparkhill, Small Heath, Bordesley Green, Balsall Heath, Aston, Ward End, Lozells, Nechells, Alum Rock and Washwood Heath. Wealthy middle-class Pakistanis tend to live in Hall Green and Yardley. The majority of ""Brummie"" Pakistanis can trace their roots to Azad Kashmir, with large minorities from Punjab and more recently, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The BBC sitcom ""Citizen"
"Sparkhill Sparkhill is an inner-city area of Birmingham, England, situated between Springfield, Hall Green and Sparkbrook. Sparkhill takes its name from Spark Brook, a small stream that flows from Moseley to the River Cole in Small Heath. It was, as the name suggests, a hill that was situated alongside the stream. The watercourse can be traced almost entirely along its length from source to where it joins the River Tame, although most of its tributaries are now culverted, and is a popular route for leisure walkers and cyclists. The only part where it cannot easily be followed is a short"
"Khan"" is set among the Pakistani community of Sparkhill, described as ""the capital of British Pakistan."" In 2007, it was estimated that 80,000 Pakistanis lived in Bradford, 16.1 per cent of the city's population. The 2011 Census breakdown shows that the population had reached 106,000. One can find several shop signs written in Urdu when in Bradford. The majority of British Pakistanis here can trace their roots to the Mirpur District of Azad Kashmir. Pakistanis make up the largest ethnic minority in Scotland, representing nearly one third of the ethnic minority. The 2011 census recorded 22,405 Pakistanis in Glasgow, 3.78%"
"Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath (UK Parliament constituency) Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election. The constituency was notable for having the largest percentage of Muslim voters of any UK constituency at 48.8% (based on 2001 census figures). The seat was abolished following a review of parliamentary boundaries by the Boundary Commission for England. The City of Birmingham wards of Fox Hollies, Small Heath, Sparkbrook, and Sparkhill. This was an inner-city residential"
"and the Second Coming of Christ. ""Springhill"" was released on Region 1 DVD on 18 June 2013. Springhill (TV series) Springhill was a British soap opera/drama created by Paul Abbott, produced by Granada Television, and broadcast from 1 October 1996 to 18 June 1997 on the Sky One satellite channel, and later on Channel 4. It consisted of 2 series, each containing 26 episodes. Set in Liverpool, ""Springhill"" based its main theme on the battle between good and evil, entwined around a complex family drama. Issues covered included adoption revelation, genetic sexual attraction, bigamy, homosexuality, infertility, surrogacy and murder. Aside"
"Springhill (TV series) Springhill was a British soap opera/drama created by Paul Abbott, produced by Granada Television, and broadcast from 1 October 1996 to 18 June 1997 on the Sky One satellite channel, and later on Channel 4. It consisted of 2 series, each containing 26 episodes. Set in Liverpool, ""Springhill"" based its main theme on the battle between good and evil, entwined around a complex family drama. Issues covered included adoption revelation, genetic sexual attraction, bigamy, homosexuality, infertility, surrogacy and murder. Aside from this there was a supernatural aspect, which included elements of religion, Angels, apparitions, witchcraft, time travel"
"Pakistan from London, England with her mum. She does not like him due to his attitude and unusual habits and falls in love with another boy from that village Shahid a.k.a. Shedu (Anjum Malik) who is also one of Aftabs best friend. Then at the end Tina's mum promises to get Aftab married from England, to a girl she knows and he becomes very excited about the prospects of going to London and living their with his newly wed wife. Miki Kharo England was very popular and successful amongst the Pothwari/Mirpuri community. Because of its popularity and humour a sequel"
"BBC Two, to BBC One. Peaky Blinders (TV series) Peaky Blinders is a British crime drama television series primarily set in Birmingham, England in the aftermath of World War I. The series, which was created by Steven Knight and produced by Caryn Mandabach Productions, Screen Yorkshire and Tiger Aspect Productions, follows the exploits of the Shelby crime family. Screen Yorkshire provided funding for the production through the Yorkshire Content Fund. It was the first production to receive funding from the Yorkshire Content Fund, which in turn made certain the majority of the show was filmed in Yorkshire as part of"
"Sparkbrook Sparkbrook is an inner-city area in south-east Birmingham, England. It is one of the four wards forming the Hall Green formal district within Birmingham City Council. The area receives its name from Spark Brook, a small stream that flowed south of the city centre. It was later channelled and partially used for a canal. Sparkbrook ward is represented by three Labour councillors on Birmingham City Council, Mohammed Azim, Tony Kennedy and Victoria Quinn. Its former independent councillor, the late Talib Hussain, was elected as a Liberal Democrat but resigned from the party after being sacked from the council's cabinet."
"Black"", generally shown most Fridays throughout the year at 9.00pm. Well-known BBC programmes based in Birmingham included the drama series ""Dalziel and Pascoe"", ""Dangerfield"", ""All Creatures Great and Small"", ""Howards' Way"", ""This Life"", daytime soap opera ""Doctors"", anthology series ""The Afternoon Play"" and daytime property show ""To Buy or Not to Buy"". Quiz shows including ""Telly Addicts"" were made by BBC Birmingham and filmed at ""Pebble Mill Studios"". Gardening programme ""Gardener's World"", cooking show ""Hairy Bikers"", factual series ""Coast"" the countryside and environmental series ""Countryfile"" and viewer feedback show ""Points of View"" were also all based here, until moving to"
"company(BBC). According to the googal Information the CEO and chairperson of BBC is Muhammad Riaz Buttar and Ahmad Riaz Buttar. Shaikh Rajada Shaikh Rajada, also spelled ""Shaikherjada"", is a village on Pasroor Road in Gujranwala District in West Punjab (Pakistan), with a population of around 2000. It is said that the village is named after a person Shaikhu. He has three other brothers named Pandu, Gagard and Azam so the sarounded villages are named after them i.e. Gagarke, Pandupur, Thata Azam Khan respectively. The village is predominated by the Jatt people of Buttar community/clan. It is located at . The"
"the Birmingham Hippodrome which starred ""Torchwood"" star John Barrowman in the lead role. A joke-telling robot, possessing a Dalek-like boom, and loosely modelled after the Dalek, also appeared in the ""South Park"" episode ""Funnybot"", even spouting out ""exterminate"". A Dalek can also be seen in the background at timepoints 1:13 and 1:17 in the Sam & Max animated series episode The Trouble With Gary. In the ""Community"" parody of ""Doctor Who"" called ""Inspector Spacetime"", they are referred to as Blorgons. The BBC approached Walter Tuckwell, a New Zealand-born entrepreneur who was handling product merchandising for other BBC shows, and asked"
"Beehive (TV series) Beehive is a British sketch comedy series which was broadcast in 2008. It stars Australian comedian Sarah Kendall and British comedy actresses Alice Lowe, Barunka O'Shaughnessy and Clare Thomson, who wrote much of the show's material. Producer Siobhan Rhodes stated prior to production that the show would be about funny women, who do not feature regularly on TV. The show also features Habib Nasib Nader and Jack Whitehall. The politically incorrect South African flight attendants is a recurring sketch, as is a parody of ""Sex and the City"". Initial reviews of Beehive praised the show's colourful costumes"
"Peaky Blinders (TV series) Peaky Blinders is a British crime drama television series primarily set in Birmingham, England in the aftermath of World War I. The series, which was created by Steven Knight and produced by Caryn Mandabach Productions, Screen Yorkshire and Tiger Aspect Productions, follows the exploits of the Shelby crime family. Screen Yorkshire provided funding for the production through the Yorkshire Content Fund. It was the first production to receive funding from the Yorkshire Content Fund, which in turn made certain the majority of the show was filmed in Yorkshire as part of the deal. Cillian Murphy plays"
"BBC Drama Village The BBC Drama Village is a television production facility run by the BBC. It is operated by their BBC Birmingham branch and based largely at the Selly Oak campus of the University of Birmingham in Birmingham, England. The centre consists of five buildings - ""Archibald House"" and ""Melville House"", two Grade II listed arts and crafts-style former college buildings on the university campus, and three units on an industrial estate in nearby Stirchley. Facilities include studios and sets, wardrobe and technical departments and extensive post-production suites. The programmes made on the site are ""Doctors"" and ""The Afternoon"
"Blakewill & Harris Blakewill & Harris (Marc Blakewill and James Harris) are a UK-based comedy writing partnership, with credits on television and radio. They have written on the popular CBBC sketch shows ""Horrible Histories"" and ""Sorry, I've Got No Head"", as well as ITV1 topical animation shows ""Headcases"" and ""2DTV"", ""Comedy Cuts"" (ITV2), ""The Charlotte Church Show"" and ""The 11 O'Clock Show"" (both Channel 4) and ""The Sitcom Trials"" (ITV1) - and have written caustic put-downs for Anne Robinson on ""The Weakest Link"" (BBC). Most recently they wrote the pilot for ""Ace Of Clubs"", a BBC panel show hosted by"
"and international performers. Famous comedians from Birmingham include Sid Field, Tony Hancock, Jasper Carrott, Shazia Mirza and Joe Lycett. Other leading figures include Jo Enright (Lab Rats, Phoenix Nights, Time Trumpet), Natalie Haynes, James Cook, Weakest Link winner Andy White and Barbara Nice (the creation of actress Janice Connolly). The Glee Club is the city's main comedy venue. The mac also host monthly/regular comedy sessions while smaller independent comedy promoters/ venues include The Cheeky Monkey Comedy Club, The Laughing Sole (in Strichley) and MY Comedy (Kitchen Garden Cafe, Kings Heath) with other nights at Old Joint Stock Theatre (city centre),"
"Play"". BBC Drama Village The BBC Drama Village is a television production facility run by the BBC. It is operated by their BBC Birmingham branch and based largely at the Selly Oak campus of the University of Birmingham in Birmingham, England. The centre consists of five buildings - ""Archibald House"" and ""Melville House"", two Grade II listed arts and crafts-style former college buildings on the university campus, and three units on an industrial estate in nearby Stirchley. Facilities include studios and sets, wardrobe and technical departments and extensive post-production suites. The programmes made on the site are ""Doctors"" and ""The"
"Three, following a BBC investment of £10m to allow the online-only platform to commission and publish some of its short-form content in the city, including its ""Amazing Humans"" series. The channel also films comedy series ""Man Like Mobeen"" in Birmingham. The BBC Drama Village, based in Selly Oak, is a production facility specialising in television drama and is the home of nationally networked programme ""Doctors"". Birmingham-based BBC Two television crime drama ""Peaky Blinders"", created by Brummie native film director Steven Knight, is partly filmed in the city, where it has had several of its red carpet premieres. Birmingham used to"
"have their own balti businesses. Sparkbrook Sparkbrook is an inner-city area in south-east Birmingham, England. It is one of the four wards forming the Hall Green formal district within Birmingham City Council. The area receives its name from Spark Brook, a small stream that flowed south of the city centre. It was later channelled and partially used for a canal. Sparkbrook ward is represented by three Labour councillors on Birmingham City Council, Mohammed Azim, Tony Kennedy and Victoria Quinn. Its former independent councillor, the late Talib Hussain, was elected as a Liberal Democrat but resigned from the party after being"
"Psychoville Psychoville is a British psychological horror-thriller black comedy mystery television series created & written by and starring ""The League of Gentlemen"" members Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton for the BBC. It debuted on BBC Two on 18 June 2009. Pemberton and Shearsmith each play numerous characters, with Dawn French and Jason Tompkins in additional starring roles. The first series was followed by a Halloween special, broadcast on 31 October 2010, which saw Imelda Staunton added to the main cast along with previously supporting actors Eileen Atkins and Daniel Kaluuya. The second series started broadcasting on 5 May 2011 and"
"of Shuja was filmed in each country he went through and the rest was filmed in Pakistan. Daldal (TV series) Daldal (Urdu: دلدل) (English: Swamp) is a Romantic Pakistani Drama airing on Hum TV. It stars Zahid Ahmed and Armeena Khan in the main lead, with many lessons and a promising story, Daldal reflects on the evil practices of society that are still being carried out to this day. The story revolves around the themes of illegal immigration, dowry and corruption (greed). Shuja (Zahid Ahmed), a member of a low-middle-class family, dreams of going to London one day in order"
"Sundays at 9.00am for half an hour. The Birmingham studios also occasionally accommodated productions usually based in London when regular studio space was unavailable, for example ""The Brothers"" starring Jean Anderson, the children's programmes, ""Play School"" and ""Jackanory"", and the current affairs programme Nationwide during the power cuts of 1972 when the Lime Grove studios in London were in darkness. Some nationally popular programmes were hosted by BBC Birmingham and filmed at the ""Pebble Mill Studios"" which included the children's programme The ""Basil Brush"" show. A popular BBC2 programme from Birmingham for much of the 1970s-1990s was snooker programme ""Pot"
"Television re-branding as Local Television Ltd. The Sikh Channel, which broadcasts across Europe, Africa and Asia, is based in the city's Aston area. Birmingham has an independent television production sector, with companies including Maverick Television, who produce ""Embarrassing Bodies"" and ""How to Look Good Naked""; and North One Television, whose productions include ""Fifth Gear"" and ""The Gadget Show"". In May 2018, Birmingham was included in a bid to secure and host the partial relocation of national broadcaster Channel 4. Birmingham's bid was submitted by the West Midlands Combined Authority alongside that of Coventry. In July 2018, Birmingham made the final"
"1890 edition of The Birmingham Mail. This newspaper is possibly the earliest evidence of the Peaky Blinders put to paper: The BBC television drama series ""Peaky Blinders"", starring Cillian Murphy, Sam Neill and Helen McCrory premiered in October 2013. It presents a fictional story in which the Peaky Blinders contend in the underworld with the Birmingham Boys and the Sabini gang and follows a single fictional gang based in post-World War I Birmingham's Small Heath area. Many of the scenes for the show were shot at the Black Country Living Museum. Peaky Blinders The Peaky Blinders were a criminal gang"
"Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking is a British television film originally broadcast on BBC One in the UK on 26 December 2004. Produced by Tiger Aspect Productions, it was written by Allan Cubitt and was a sequel to the same company's adaptation of ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"", made for the BBC two years previously. Although ""Silk Stocking"" retained the same Dr. Watson, Ian Hart, this time the character of Sherlock Holmes was played by Rupert Everett. In November 1903, young women are being killed in London,"
"[sic] is not a BBC member of staff and is not representing the BBC. Therefore we will not be commenting on Twitter posts made by third parties.' The series has yet to be released on DVD. Written by Thom Phipps and Peter Bowden Asylum (2015 TV series) Asylum is a British comedy series which is shown on BBC Four from 9 to 23 February 2015. The satirical comedy series revolves around a whistleblower and an internet pirate find themselves trapped together under the threat of extradition in the London embassy of a fictional Latin American country. The show was inspired"
"TV studio outside London at the time. When Pebble Mill closed in 2004, BBC Birmingham moved to the Mailbox building in the city centre, and to the BBC Drama Village in the Selly Oak district. In the 1970s and 1980s, BBC Birmingham was home to the English Regions Drama Department, established in 1971, and headed by the senior BBC producer David Rose. Its remit was to produce programmes set in various regions of England in order to provide balance to the output from London. Among the Department's best known productions are perhaps ""Boys from the Blackstuff"" (1982); Play for Today"
"all owned by the Trinity Mirror. ""Forward"" (formerly ""Birmingham Voice"") is a freesheet produced by Birmingham City Council, which is distributed to homes in the city. Birmingham is also the hub for various national ethnic media, and the base for two regional Metro editions (East and West Midlands). The BBC has two facilities in the city. The Mailbox, in the city centre, is the national headquarters of BBC English Regions and the headquarters of BBC West Midlands and the BBC Birmingham network production centre. These were previously located at the Pebble Mill Studios in Edgbaston. The BBC Drama Village, based"
"Bordesley, West Midlands Bordesley is an area of Birmingham, England, to the south east of the city centre, in the southern part of the City's Nechells ward. It is the real life setting of the BBC series ""Peaky Blinders"", and home to Birmingham City F.C.'s ground, St Andrew's. It should not be confused with nearby Bordesley Green. In Old English ""Bord's leah"" means 'Bord's clearing'. ""Bord"" may indicate 'boards' or 'planks', a place in the forest clearing where timber products could be obtained, but it is also a male personal name. Here, perhaps as early as the 7th century, Bord"
"Daldal (TV series) Daldal (Urdu: دلدل) (English: Swamp) is a Romantic Pakistani Drama airing on Hum TV. It stars Zahid Ahmed and Armeena Khan in the main lead, with many lessons and a promising story, Daldal reflects on the evil practices of society that are still being carried out to this day. The story revolves around the themes of illegal immigration, dowry and corruption (greed). Shuja (Zahid Ahmed), a member of a low-middle-class family, dreams of going to London one day in order to escape his current unsatisfactory life. Shuja's mother, Sakeena (Asma Abbas) is a very greedy person, and"
"St John's Church, Sparkhill St John's Church is an Anglican church in Sparkhill Birmingham. St John's is a welcoming multi-ethnic church situated in the heart of Birmingham's Balti Belt, it is one of England's most ethnically and religiously diverse parishes. The main Sunday service is held at 10.30am, the first Sunday of the month being an All Age Service followed by a shared meal for those who wish to stay. The church is a member of the South Asian Forum of the Evangelical Alliance and the New Wine Network of churches. The Church hosts the Armenian Church in Birmingham and"