"IT technician Richmond Avenal (Noel Fielding), who resides in the dark server room, also features in a number of episodes. The comedy premiered on Channel 4 on 3 February 2006, and ran for four series of six episodes each. Although a fifth series was commissioned, it was not produced. The programme was concluded with a special, one-off episode, that aired on 27 September 2013. The show was critically acclaimed and has become a cult television series. ""The IT Crowd"" is set in the offices of Reynholm Industries, a fictional British corporation in central London, located at 123 Carenden Road. It"
"the largest communications empire in the UK. Douglas Reynholm states his father Denholm, whom he succeeds after Denholm commits suicide, once described the IT department as being run by ""a dynamic go-getter, a genius, and a man from Ireland."" Roy and Moss, the two technicians, are socially inept geeks or, in Denholm Reynholm's words, ""standard nerds"". Despite the company's dependence on their services, they are despised, ignored, and considered losers by the rest of the staff. Roy's exasperation causes his laziness: his support techniques include ignoring the phone, hoping it will stop ringing, and using reel-to-reel tape recordings of stock"
"Railways in their plan to open a direct rail route from London Marylebone to Oxford via Princes Risborough in 2015. The cost of reinstating bridges was considered prohibitive. ITV used Thame many times as a location for the ""Midsomer Murders"" drama series, representing the fictional town of Causton. The town's two largest employers, CPM Group and Travelodge, both have their head offices on the edge of the town. W. Lucy & Co. moved its base from Oxford to Thame in 2005. See above for details of Haddenham and Thame Parkway station. As of 2013 the fastest London Marylebone trains took"
"Channel Four Television Corporation Channel Four Television Corporation is a publicly owned media company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Its original and principal activity is the British national television network Channel 4. The company was founded in 1982 as Channel Four Television Company Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the IBA, and became an independent statutory corporation in 1993. November 1998 saw Channel Four expand beyond its remit of providing the 'fourth service' in a significant way, with the launch of FilmFour. Since then the corporation has been involved in a range of other activities, all in some way associated"
"Soho media and post-production community Much of the British independent film, television and post-production industry is based in London's Soho area. Many of the people who work in the industry form a village-like community, with the various companies hiring and re-hiring one another's employees, and, like many other villages, having a lively social life that revolves around gossip and the eighty or so pubs in Soho. Post-production companies in Soho include: The above listed ""Cinesite"" company is near London's Piccadilly Circus, though there is also a non-graphical department based at Pinewood Studios, who made some of mechanical props for the"
"disabled artist Tony Heaton. Channel Four Television Corporation Channel Four Television Corporation is a publicly owned media company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Its original and principal activity is the British national television network Channel 4. The company was founded in 1982 as Channel Four Television Company Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the IBA, and became an independent statutory corporation in 1993. November 1998 saw Channel Four expand beyond its remit of providing the 'fourth service' in a significant way, with the launch of FilmFour. Since then the corporation has been involved in a range of other activities, all"
"digital channel E4 before the pilot was broadcast. ""PhoneShop"" is set in a mobile phone shop in Sutton, London and follows a graduate named Christopher (played by Tom Bennett) who goes through a one-day trial and subsequent employment. His fellow employees are Jerwayne (played by Javone Prince), Ashley (played by Andrew Brooke), Janine (played by Emma Fryer) and store manager Lance (played by Martin Trenaman). Tom Bennett A university graduate who joins the PhoneShop team at the start of the series on a one day trial as the replacement for ""Little"" Gary Patel. Christopher is a gentle natured and naïve"
"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,"
"is housed in a large stone-built building with a brass plaque out front. Soho media and post-production community Much of the British independent film, television and post-production industry is based in London's Soho area. Many of the people who work in the industry form a village-like community, with the various companies hiring and re-hiring one another's employees, and, like many other villages, having a lively social life that revolves around gossip and the eighty or so pubs in Soho. Post-production companies in Soho include: The above listed ""Cinesite"" company is near London's Piccadilly Circus, though there is also a non-graphical"
"was produced by Brighton-based company Littleloud, and won a BAFTA in November 2008. City of Vice City of Vice is a British historical crime drama television series set in Georgian London and was first screened on 14 January 2008 on Channel 4. It is produced by Touchpaper Television part of the RDF Media Group. The series mixes fiction with fact following the fortunes of the famous novelist Henry Fielding (Ian McDiarmid) and his brother John (Iain Glen). Henry and John Fielding were magistrates of Westminster and the men who created the modern police force in Britain through the Bow Street"
"Babylon (TV series) Babylon is a British drama television series co-created by Danny Boyle, Robert Jones, Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain for Channel 4, and produced by Nightjack Ltd. The series is set in London, and follows various characters working for the Metropolitan Police Service, police officers on the streets, who are responding to incidents, as well as the top management and PR department at New Scotland Yard, who try to counter any backlash from such incidents. The series follows the new Director of Communications, the American Liz Garvey (Brit Marling), who has been headhunted by the Police Commissioner Richard"
"family business. The humour is understated, lurking under a stereotypically laconic Yorkshire mindset. Various running jokes are used. ""Head Office calling!"" means Mrs. Street, who fields customer calls at home, is calling Johnny on his mobile phone. The ""lady with the boiler on Misperton Avenue"" is a fictional customer used as an all-purpose excuse for not being able to take on a job right away (the builders do not want to seem desperate for business) or for making a quick exit from an embarrassing situation. The first series (4 episodes) was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005 with Nicholas"
"NY-LON NY-LON is a 2004 British drama series that aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. The series was created and written by Simon Burke and Anya Camilleri, and starred Rashida Jones and Stephen Moyer. ""NY-LON"" was also broadcast on BBC America in the United States. The series chronicles the transatlantic romance between Edie Miller (Rashida Jones), who is from New York City and Michael Antonioni (Stephen Moyer), who is from London. ""NY-LON"" is the first British drama filmed in both London and New York City. The scenes in New York City were filmed in the neighborhoods of the"
"City of Vice City of Vice is a British historical crime drama television series set in Georgian London and was first screened on 14 January 2008 on Channel 4. It is produced by Touchpaper Television part of the RDF Media Group. The series mixes fiction with fact following the fortunes of the famous novelist Henry Fielding (Ian McDiarmid) and his brother John (Iain Glen). Henry and John Fielding were magistrates of Westminster and the men who created the modern police force in Britain through the Bow Street Runners. The series was written by Clive Bradley and Peter Harness, whose scripts"
"Crayola. The former company, now owned by The Linde Group, was based in Windlesham. British Car Auctions is on the A325 in Farnham. Scotts Garden Chemicals are at Catteshall. Motor company McLaren and McLaren Automotive are based at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking as are the UK base of Yum Restaurants (owner of KFC), SABMiller, Mercian Sports, BIW Technologies (project software), SPSS (statistical software), and Capgemini; ISS UK & Ireland (Danish services company, similar to Serco or G4S) is next to the railway on the Sheerwater Ind Est. In the south of Woodham, next to the Basingstoke Canal, is"
"episodes, including the three Christmas specials, all three broadcast as part of ""All Star Comedy Carnival"". The fourth and final series was broadcast as a sequel entitled ""Albert!"", which ran for a further series of seven episodes. Series 1 was produced by Thames Television, while the subsequent series 2-4 were produced by Yorkshire Television. Albert Courtney (Rodney Bewes) leaves his home in the North of England to live in London. He writes home to his mother, grossly exaggerating the events that have happened to him. Albert finds work in a confectionery company, moves into a flat he shares with two"
"""Dome Heist"" (Channel 4) ""Changing Sex"" (Channel 4) 2000 ""Posh Rock"" (E4) ""Sex Tips for Girls"" (Channel 4) ""Nigella Bites"" (Channel 4) (Co-production with Pacific) ""Real Gardens"" (Channel 4) (Co-production with Ark Productions) ""Strippers (TV programme)"" (E4) ""The Twentieth Century Garden"" (Channel 4) Ricochet (TV production company) Ricochet, part of Warner Bros. Television Productions UK, is an independent television production company that produces factual and entertainment programmes for broadcast by networks in both the UK and US. Ricochet joined the Shed Media Group in 2005. 2011 ""Born to Be Different"" (Channel 4) 2007 ""My Child Won't Eat"" (ITV1) ""The Mummy"
"October 2014 with a new cast and new hospital. The new series was set at St Georges Hospital in Tooting London. The production company behind the series (The Garden Productions) have also made a four-part observational documentary series about mental health. Two years in the making, ""Bedlam"" was filmed within clinical services provided by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM). Both SLaM and King's College Hospital are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. ""Keeping Britain Alive: The NHS in a Day"", also made by The Garden Productions, but for BBC Two, was based on the"
"Namesake"", ""The Human Stain"", and ""The Last Kiss"". In 2004 she married actor Gabriel Macht. On August 20, 2007 she gave birth to a daughter, Geraldine Macht, in Los Angeles. Sharon Gitau works as a singer, songwriter, composer and producer. The Real World: London The Real World: London is the fourth season of MTV's reality television series ""The Real World"", which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras follow their lives and interpersonal relationships. It is the only season of ""The Real World"" to be filmed in"
"BBC Studioworks BBC Studioworks Limited, formerly BBC Studios and Post Production Ltd is a commercial subsidiary of the BBC, providing television studios, post production and related services to the market. It works with broadcasters and production companies, making award-winning content for the likes of the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky, Endemol Shine and FremantleMedia. Titles range from The Graham Norton Show and ""A League of Their Own"", to ""EastEnders"" and ""Strictly Come Dancing"". When BBC Television Centre in West London was temporarily closed for redevelopment in 2013, Studioworks consolidated its London studios business onto two sites in Borehamwood,"
"Ricochet (TV production company) Ricochet, part of Warner Bros. Television Productions UK, is an independent television production company that produces factual and entertainment programmes for broadcast by networks in both the UK and US. Ricochet joined the Shed Media Group in 2005. 2011 ""Born to Be Different"" (Channel 4) 2007 ""My Child Won't Eat"" (ITV1) ""The Mummy Diaries"" (Channel 4) ""Into The Big Wide World"" (Channel 4) ""Colin and Justin's Home Show"" (UKTV Style) ""My New Home"" (Channel 4) ""Fat March"" (ABC) ""It's Me or the Dog"" (Channel 4) ""My Crazy Life"" (Channel 4) ""The World's Toughest Tribes"" (Discovery) ""Britain's"
"4 Lawn Buildings ever since. Richard Loophole is a solicitor-advocate and senior partner in the firm of Fillibuster and Loophole. He is overpaid and - for the most part - underworked, unlike his luckless assistants, who regularly have to work over the weekend as Richard saunters off to play golf with his clients. Quentin Crawley is a pupil barrister in 4 Lawn Buildings and all around dogsbody. His grasp of law is slender at best and his appearances in court are inevitably fumbled. He lives in permanent terror of being found out and booted out of Chambers. Mr Sprocket is"
"which creates a virtual reality on the basis of popular shows like sitcoms, using a new technique called ""Mimecom"". Harry Wyckoff is a successful patent attorney on the brink of becoming a partner in the legal agency where he works. He has two children with his wife Grace, a perfect housewife who also moonlights as a boutique owner: 11-year-old Coty, who has just been cast for the new ""Channel 3"" series, and the ever-silent 4-year-old Deirdre. His mother-in-law is the impossibly chic socialite and interior decorator Josie Ito, a woman of strong will and numerous connections. At night, Wyckoff is"
"to a parody of Channel 4's right-on output of the time. 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"
"parking. However, many businesses were based at Teddington, providing products/services that catered for all production needs. Teddington Studios Teddington Studios was a large British television studio in Teddington, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, providing studio facilities for programmes airing on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky1 and others. The complex also provided studio space for channel continuity. The site was run by the Pinewood Studios Group. Pinewood Group's lease on Teddington Studios expired in 2014. The studios are being demolished to be turned into housing, with programmes made there having moved to other facilities. The studio buildings"
"London Films London Films Productions is a British film and television production company founded in 1932 by Alexander Korda and from 1936 based at Denham Film Studios in Buckinghamshire, near London. The company's productions included ""The Private Life of Henry VIII"" (1933), ""Things to Come"" (1936), ""Rembrandt"" (1936), and ""The Four Feathers"" (1939). The facility at Denham was taken over in 1939 by Rank and merged with Pinewood to form D & P Studios. The outbreak of war necessitated that ""The Thief of Bagdad"" (1940) was completed in California, although Korda's handful of American-made films still had Big Ben for"
"The Office (UK TV series) The Office is a British television mockumentary sitcom, first broadcast in the UK on BBC Two on 9 July 2001. Created, written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the program is about the day-to-day lives of office employees in the Slough branch of the fictional Wernham Hogg Paper Company. Gervais also stars in the series, playing the central character, David Brent. Two six-episode series were made, along with a pair of 58-minute Christmas specials. When it was first shown on BBC Two, it was nearly cancelled due to low ratings, but it has"
"the building. Ragdoll Productions Ragdoll Productions is a British television production company located in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, that produces children's programmes. It was founded in 1984 by Anne Wood, who had previously made similar programmes for Yorkshire Television and TV-am. Among its most famous productions are ""Teletubbies"", ""Rosie and Jim"", ""Brum"", ""Boohbah"", ""Tots TV"", ""In the Night Garden..."", ""Pob's Programme"", ""The Adventures of Abney & Teal"" and ""Twirlywoos"". Ragdoll Productions is owned by Ragdoll Ltd, which in 2006 formed a joint venture with BBC Worldwide, Ragdoll Worldwide, to sell and license the company's programmes outside the United Kingdom, Canada, & the"
"received critical acclaim and some of Showtime's highest recorded ratings. As of 2018 eight seasons have aired with a ninth planned, making it the network's longest running original-scripted program. On 14 September 2017, Fox Türkiye began airing the Turkish adaptation, starring Hazal Kaya and Burak Deniz. It is called “Bizim Hikaye”, which translates to “Our Story”. On 24 September 2017, NTV began airing a Russian Adaption titled , Russian for Shameless. Shameless (UK TV series) Shameless is a British comedy-drama series set in Manchester on the fictional Chatsworth council estate. Produced by Company Pictures for Channel 4, the series aired"
"projects include 'The Peng Life' with the Chicken Connoisseur for Channel 4, 'NYPD Biggest Gang in New York?' for the BBC, 'The Women Who Kill Lions', 'Top Dad with Ashley Walters' and series 3 of 'Random Acts' for Channel 4, as well as Pranksterz for ITV2 In 2015, Channel 4 took an equity stake in Renowned Films as part of its £20 million Growth Fund, which has seen the company grow and establish itself as one of the fastest growing indie production companies in the UK. David Abraham Channel 4’s Chief Executive said: “Renowned are a passionate and ambitious team"
"then London Hospital, Whitechapel to a conference of surgeons in Bern, Switzerland. The programme was relayed by the European Broadcasting Union. In 1980, Meditel made ""Microsurgeons of Shanghai"" about Chen Zhong Wei's work on limb and finger replantation (""TV Eye"", Thames TV). When Channel 4 began under Jeremy Isaacs, Shenton and business partner Alison Hawkes turned Meditel Productions into a limited company and secured one of Channel 4's first factual programmes commissions. They made ""Kill or Cure?"", two series of programmes on injury from prescribed drugs, together with pharmacologist Dr Andrew Herxheimer. These programmes were used by University College London"
"in the Manchester city region - the largest cluster outside London & the city's stated ambition is to be recognised as one of Europe's top five digital cities by 2020. This cluster is reflected not only in BBC digital output but also the setup of the non-London UK-base for tech giants like Microsoft, Google & the open secret of around 1000 Amazon employees setting up near Piccadilly. Similarly, the recent decision from Channel 4 to open its new Headquarter offices outside of London resulted in bids from various cities across the country, with Leeds prevailing as the destination for the"
"sources Bethlem Royal Hospital Bethlem Royal Hospital, also known as St Mary Bethlehem, Bethlehem Hospital and Bedlam, is a psychiatric hospital in London. Its famous history has inspired several horror books, films and TV series, most notably ""Bedlam"", a 1946 film with Boris Karloff. The hospital is closely associated with King's College London and, in partnership with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, is a major centre for psychiatric research. It is part of the King's Health Partners academic health science centre and the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health. Originally the hospital was near Bishopsgate just outside"