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British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves (2016)
$15.00Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context from which our favourite sitcoms grew. We enjoy a trip through the comedy archive in the company of the people who made some of the very best British sitcoms. From The Likely Lads to I’m Alan Partridge, we find out the inspiration behind some of the most-loved characters and how they reflect the times they were living in.
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Sunshine
$8.00Sunshine is a three-part comedy drama that began on 7 October 2008 on BBC1 from the co-writers of The Royle Family and Early Doors. These co-writers, Craig Cash and Phil Mealey, also appear in the series.
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The Day Today
$8.00The Day Today is a surreal British parody of television current affairs programmes, broadcast in 1994, and created by the comedians Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris. It is an adaptation of the radio programme On the Hour, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1991 and 1992. On the Hour was written by Morris, Iannucci, Steven Wells, Andrew Glover, Stewart Lee, Richard Herring, David Quantick, and the cast. For The Day Today, Peter Baynham joined the writing team, and Lee and Herring were replaced by Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews. The principal cast of On the Hour was retained for The Day Today.
The Day Today is composed of six half-hour episodes and a selection of shorter, five-minute slots recorded as promotion trailers for the longer segments. The six half-hour episodes were originally broadcast from 19 January to 23 February 1994 on BBC2. The Day Today has won many awards, including Morris winning the 1994 British Comedy Award for Best Newcomer. All six episodes are available on BBC DVD, having previously been issued on VHS.
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The Dinner (2017)
$15.00Two brothers and their wives meet up at a haute-cuisine restaurant to discuss what to do about a horrific crime that their sons committed together. As the quartet debate their options, the conversation reopens old wounds between the siblings.
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Shepherds and Butchers (2017)
$15.00A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he’s witnessed.
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The Trip to Spain (2017)
$15.00Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on a road trip along the coast of Spain.
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Neighbors from Hell
$16.00Neighbors from Hell was a satirical American animated sitcom that ran on TBS from June 7, 2010 to July 26, 2010. The executive producer of the series is Pam Brady. The first and only season consisted of 10 episodes.
The series is owned by 20th Century Fox Film Corporation. It’s produced by Fox Television Animation and MoonBoy Animation, a division of DreamWorks Animation. The majority of the animation is produced by Bardel Entertainment in Vancouver, and a team of animators in Los Angeles, Bento Box Entertainment, did some of the animation and retakes.
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Robbie the Reindeer
$4.00Robbie the Reindeer is a series of three animated comedy television specials shown on BBC One at Christmas, filmed in aid of Comic Relief. Written by Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley, the programmes are based on the story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, with Robbie as Rudolph’s son and the tenth of Santa Claus’s reindeer. The three episodes produced so far are titled “Hooves of Fire”, “The Legend of the Lost Tribe” and “Close Encounters of the Herd Kind”. Mark Knopfler composed most of the music for the television specials; along with the accompaniment of Guy Fletcher.
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Coogan’s Run
$8.00Coogan’s Run was a 1995 UK TV series featuring Steve Coogan as a series of odd characters living in the fictional town of Ottle. It was written by various people including Coogan, Patrick Marber, David Tyler, Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews, Geoffrey Perkins and Henry Normal. The series consists of six self-contained stories, although Coogan’s characters from the other episodes in the series make occasional cameo appearances.
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Saxondale
$8.00 – $12.00Saxondale is a British television situation comedy programme, starring Steve Coogan and co-written by Steve Coogan and Neil Maclennan. The series is directed by Matt Lipsey and produced by Ted Dowd. Coogan and Henry Normal served as executive producers. The show is set in Stevenage, showing middle-class suburbia.
Produced by Baby Cow Productions, the programme commenced broadcast on BBC Two from 19 June 2006. It features Coogan as Tommy Saxondale, a former roadie with anger issues who now owns a pest control business. Other principal characters include Saxondale’s Welsh anarchist girlfriend, Magz and his naïve assistant, Raymond. British actors Morwenna Banks, Mark Williams, Greg Davies, Ben Miller and Liza Tarbuck also feature. Comedian Matt Berry composed the incidental music for the series and appeared in Tommy’s therapy class in two episodes of the second series.
According to a BBC press release, over the course of the series Saxondale “gets his eyesight improved by a prostitute, almost befriends a celebrity, kneecaps an annoying hippie… and experiments with women’s makeup.” Coogan describes his character as “genuinely witty, while still being a bit of a dick”.
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