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1) Mistresses
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
You don't wake up wanting to be someone's mistress - somehow it just happens. Mistresses follows the lives and loves of a group of thirty-something friends who met at university. Katie is a doctor who has been having an affair with one of her patients. Her best friend Trudie grieves the loss of her husband who was killed in 9/11. Then there's Jessica whose anarchic lifestyle supplies lots of gossip and humour, and the happily married Siobhan - but...
2) W1A
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Hugh Bonneville returns as beleaguered BBC head of values Ian Fletcher, trying his best to set a steady course for one of the nation's great institutions as stormy weather looms and others on deck around him continue to try to prise his hands off the wheel and steer it in other directions. In this series the stakes are higher than ever for everyone as the BBC attempts to navigate its way past the potentially perilous rocks of Charter Renewal. Did...
3) Youngers
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Youngers is the journey of two young boys, Yemi and Jay, in their quest to break into the music industry. Yemi, 16, has just received straight A's in his GSCE's. He is destined for great things - but his love of music keeps pulling him in. Jay, a school dropout who didn't even attend his school exams is his best friend. The boys are opposites in every way apart from their love of music. The boys decide to enter a competition in a local club for upcoming...
4) Big School
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
David Walliams and Catherine Tate return in this comedy set in an urban secondary school. It may be the start of a new year at Greybridge, but the teaching staff are as dysfunctional as ever. Miss Postern and Mr Church's relationship has taken a downward turn after a misunderstanding over a date; the woefully under-qualified Mr Gunn is now teaching geography; and Mr Barber's got a new job as the school caretaker. This year the teachers are joined...
5) The Paradise
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
Denise Lovett, a young and ambitious country girl with only her wits to live on, arrives in a booming Northern city to take up a long-held promise of work in her uncle's drapery shop. But she soon discovers that her uncle cannot afford to employ her as most of his customers have been seduced away by The Paradise, England's first department store, right across the street.
6) Up the Women
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The welcome return of the hilarious suffragette sitcom, written by and starring Jessica Hynes. Under Margaret's passionate leadership, the hapless women of the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle Politely Requests Women Suffrage are back in the Church Hall cooking up more schemes to attract attention to the worthy cause. The series is full of special guest stars, laugh out loud jokes, japes and plenty of physical comedy. It's a heart-warming celebration...
7) Wanderlust
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Is monogamy outdated? Can you love more than one person? After years of respectable marriage, Joy and Alan are going to try doing what's right for them. Toni Collette and Steven Mackintosh star in playwright Nick Payne's drama.
8) One Child
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
One Child is the compelling story of a young woman drawn into a deadly race against time when she returns to her Chinese birthplace. Mei Leung, a first-born Chinese girl adopted by an American mother and British father, is asked to return to her birthplace, Guangzhou, when her birth mother desperately seeks her assistance in saving her son, who has been wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. How far will Mei go to help the woman who gave...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Once again, brothers Adam and Jonny return to Mum and Dad’s house for a Friday night dinner of soup, chicken and crimble-crumble – plus massive side-orders of wind-ups and bickering. Dad buys a grotty old caravan – and starts living in it, Mum almost has a heart attack when the boys both get ‘females’, Jonny buys the world’s most disgusting coat, Adam gaffer-tapes Jonny’s phone to the ceiling, Aunty Val takes up sexting, Horrible Grandma...
10) Famalam: S3
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The cool satirical sketch show with a warm heart returns with a posse of new characters and the stars of the first two series including: Moses Mountree, the tough New York cop pounding the less-than-mean streets of sleepy Midsomer in rural England; Scribbler P, the grime MC, dishing out lessons in black British histor-y; and the leftover-hunting Aunties.
Publisher
Indigenius
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The impact of World War I on families in New Zealand from life at home to the fronts of Gallipoli and Egypt. Beginning at a time of optimism, even as the world prepares for war, but as the battlefield beckons, few foresee the horrors to come.
12) Citizen Khan: S3
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The warm, family-based sitcom set in Sparkhill, Birmingham returns, following the trials and tribulations of the loud-mouthed, self-appointed community leader Mr Khan and his long suffering family - wife Mrs Khan and daughters Shazia and Alia. Not forgetting Mr Khan's son-in-law-to-be, the 'pakora short of a picnic' Amjad... With the wedding fast approaching, will the course of a Khan wedding run smoothly?
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
David Jason reprises his role as grocer Granville, who has inherited the small corner shop from his Uncle Arkwright. On hand to help out with the oddball customers and eccentric requests is Granville’s dashing son Leroy. The shop is the setting for endless mishaps and surprise visitors, including a giant mouse, a vampire impersonator and a pram full of turnips. Granville’s cost-saving measures are as cunning as ever as he attempts to sell all...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Government embarrassment, ministerial cock-up, coalition rows, backroom deals, policy U-turns, spin-doctoring, political back-stabbing, wild media speculation, and more time spent with one's family. It can only be the eagerly-anticipated return of Armando Iannucci's Westminster political comedy. Rebecca Front and Peter Capaldi reprise their roles as Nicola Murray and Malcolm Tucker, now consigned to the opposition benches, but still desperate for...
15) In My Skin: S2
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
With her mum well again, Bethan finally finds herself free to experience the joys of teenage life, including falling in love. But Bethan is once again forced to choose between protecting her mum or pursuing her own chance at happiness.
16) Ladhood: S2
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Liam Williams' coming of age comedy returns. Freshly heartbroken, Liam looks back at his early-noughties adolescence in search of answers. Could time spent dating, driving and drug taking provide some answers to his modern-day millennial angst?
17) Lovesick
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Infectious comedy following Dylan as he contacts ex-lovers to tell them he has Chlamydia.
18) Ladhood: S1
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Liam Wlliams searches for the secret to a less idiotic future. But can he learn from his past mistakes? With his best mate Ralph, reflecting on lad culture and the formative experiences of his youth, Williams skewers modern day masculinity by delving into the memories of his own misspent adolescence, loitering in the streets, parks and graveyards of suburban Garforth.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Featuring a stellar ensemble cast, the award-winning hit comedy is back for a third series of mayhem at the gloriously idiosyncratic Goodman family's traditional Friday night dinner. Adam gains a new female admirer - a 9 year old girl, Jonny gets the world's worst tattoo, Dad gives the boys a graphic lecture on sex education and tries to hide a dead, frozen fox from Mum, Mum practices being a counsellor on her horrified family, Grandma goes back out...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The coming-of-age adventures of lovable rogues Conor and Jock. Life's a breakneck rollercoaster when you're having as much fun as Conor and Jock. That's okay, because they'd do anything for each other. Anyone who has a best friend would understand that.
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