Spitting Image
Spitting Image is an award winning British satirical puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. The series was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Independent Television over 18 series which aired on the ITV from 1984 to 1996. The series was nominated and won numerous awards during its run including 10 BAFTA Awards, including one for editing in 1989, and even won two Emmy Awards in 1985 and 1986 in the Popular Arts Category. The series featured puppet caricatures of celebrities famous during the 1980s and 1990s, including British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and fellow Tory politicians, American president Ronald Reagan, and the British Royal Family. The Series was the first to caricature the Queen mother.
Yes Minister
Minister kommen und gehen, doch Staatssekretäre verweilen mitunter Jahrzehnte auf ihren Posten. Sie sorgen dafür, dass übereifrige Minister nicht zu großen Aufruhr verursachen. Auch James Hacker, der Minister für Verwaltungsangelegenheiten wird, muss dies einsehen. Hacker ist ein verantwortungsvoller Demokrat. Als Minister, denkt er, kann er endlich ein paar überfällige Reformen durchsetzen. Doch die Rechnung hat er ohne seinen Staatssekretär Sir Humphrey Appleby gemacht.
The League of Gentlemen
The League of Gentlemen ist eine britische Comedy-Fernsehserie, die 1999 auf BBC Two uraufgeführt wurde. Die Show spielt in Royston Vasey, einer fiktiven Stadt in Nordengland, die auf Bacup, Lancashire, basiert. Es folgt dem Leben von Dutzenden bizarrer Stadtbewohner, von denen die meisten von drei der vier Autoren der Serie gespielt werden – Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton und Reece Shearsmith – die zusammen mit Jeremy Dyson 1995 die Comedy-Truppe League of Gentlemen gründeten. Die Serie wurde ursprünglich von 1999 bis 2002 für drei Serien ausgestrahlt, gefolgt von einem Film im Jahr 2005. Eine dreiteilige Revival-Miniserie wurde im Dezember 2017 ausgestrahlt, um das 20-jährige Bestehen der Gruppe zu feiern.
The Day Today
A spoof of the British news - including ridiculous stories, patronising vox pops, offensively hard-hitting research and a sports presenter clearly struggling for metaphors. Adapted from Radio 4 series 'On The Hour'.
Rising Damp
Set in a seedy bedsit, the cowardly landlord Rigsby has his conceits debunked by his long suffering tenants.
Decker
The free world is in danger, and only one man can help. Jack Decker has sworn to defend America from foreign terrorists regardless of which spineless president is in charge. This is Decker: The Series.
The Mighty Boosh
A British comic fantasy containing humour and pop-culture references. Episodes often featured elaborate musical numbers in different genres, such as electro, heavy metal, funk, and rap. The show has been known for popularising a style called "crimping"; short acappella songs which are present throughout all three series.
Another Period
Die Comedy „Another Period“ ist eine Art Fake-Doku über eine reiche Promifamilie, vergleichbar mit den Kardashians oder den Geissens. Der Clou ist allerdings, dass diese fiktive Familie im Jahr 1902 lebt. Die Bellacourts sind die „erste Familie“ in Newport, Richmond. Sie haben der Welt eigentlich nichts zu bieten, aber eine Menge Geld auszugeben. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Schwestern Lillian (Natasha Leggero) und Beatrice (Riki Lindhome), deren Gedanken sich lediglich darum drehen, wie sie aussehen, welche Partys sie besuchen sollen und wie sie berühmt werden können – was zur vorletzten Jahrhundertwende noch wesentlich schwieriger war als in unserem Internetzeitalter.
I'm Alan Partridge
The fortunes of a former chat show host who is reduced to a lowly slot on Radio Norwich. Alan Partridge is divorced, living in a travel tavern, and desperate for a return to television.
Utopia
Set inside the offices of the “Nation Building Authority”, a federal government organisation responsible for overseeing major infrastructure projects, Utopia explores that moment when bureaucracy and grand dreams collide.
Gimme Gimme Gimme
Linda La Hughes shares a flat with Tom Farrell. Linda is overweight, loudmouthed and not particularly attractive. She thinks she's gorgeous and irrestible, however. She's also sex mad and obsessed with men. Tom is an aspiring actor. He's got an agent, but finds it difficult to get parts. He doesn't like Linda much, in spite of (or perhaps because of) the fact that they share a flat. She isn't completely comfortable with his homosexuality, perhaps because she finds it difficult to live with a man who doesn't find her sexually attractive.
Psychoville
Five strangers receive blackmail notes from an anonymous source, leading them on a dark and surreal journey as their lives unravel, featuring bizarre characters like a man-child, a one-handed clown, and a blind millionaire.
Big Train
Twisted and original sketch show from the minds of Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews, starring Simon Pegg, Kevin Eldon and Mark Heap.
Blackadder
Blackadder ist eine historische Sitcom-Anthologie der BBC, die die Missgeschicke des gerissenen, sarkastischen Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) und seiner begriffsstutzigen Gehilfen (meist Baldrick und Lord Percy) auf ihrem Weg zum sozialen Aufstieg in verschiedenen Epochen verfolgt. Jede der vier Staffeln spielt in einer anderen historischen Periode – Mittelalter, Elisabethanisches Zeitalter, Regency-Zeit und Erster Weltkrieg – und zeichnet sich durch satirische Handlungen, geistreiche Dialoge und einen festen Cast aus.
Shooting Stars
Shooting Stars is a British television comedy panel game broadcast on BBC Two as a pilot in 1993, then as 3 full series from 1995 to 1997, then on BBC Choice from January to December 2002 with 2 series before returning to BBC Two for another 3 series from 2008 until its cancellation in 2011. Created and hosted by double-act Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, it uses the panel show format but with the comedians' often slapstick, surreal and anarchic humour does not rely on rules in order to function, with the pair apparently ignoring existing rules or inventing new ones as and when the mood takes them.
French & Saunders
French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. It is also the name by which the performers are known on the occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act.
The Red Green Show
The Red Green Show is a Canadian television comedy that aired on various channels in Canada, with its ultimate home at CBC Television, and on Public Broadcasting Service stations in the United States, from 1991 until the series finale April 7, 2006, on CBC. The Red Green Show is essentially a cross between a sitcom and a sketch comedy series, and is a parody of home improvement, do-it-yourself, fishing, and other outdoors shows.
Phoenix Nights
The owner of The Phoenix Club is the wheelchair-bound Brian Potter, who has presided over two clubs in the past: the first (The Aquarius) flooded, the second (The Neptune) burned down. His ambition (with the help of Jerry St Clair) is to see The Phoenix Club become the most popular in Bolton and thus outdo his arch-nemesis, Den Perry, owner of rival club The Banana Grove.
Ideal
Sitcom about a small-time dope dealer and his strange collection of acquaintances.
Reno 911!
Wegen einer terroristischen Bedrohung durch Biowaffen stehen alle richtigen Polizisten in Miami unter Quarantäne, und die unglückseligen Außenseiter aus Reno, die wegen einer Konferenz der Polizei zufällig in der Stadt sind, werden zur letzten Hoffnung für die Bewohner von South Beach. Aber jetzt, wo sie endlich Zugang zu echt schnellen Streifenwagen, richtig gefährlichen Schusswaffen und einem Wahnsinnshelikopter haben, könnte es auch passieren, dass Lt. Dangle und seine stümperhafte Truppe Miami zerlegen, bevor die Kriminellen überhaupt erst angefangen haben.
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