The BBC America has announced the season premiere of British ITV television show Primeval, and its another move towards bringing British TV fans in the US the latest shows as soon as they are available.Premiering on BBC America on January 1st at 9pm on the same day as the premiere on ITV1 on UK television. Check out…
The BBC Three show Being Human has been remade for the Syfy channel and they have released a trailer to promote its broadcast in January 2011. The remake has stayed faithful to the BBC show’s original concept of a twenty something comedy drama where a vampire, a ghost, and a werewolf live together as roommates…
Comedy writer Jennifer Saunders is said to be considering writing another series of Absolutely Fabulous after co-star Joanna Lumley confirmed they had been approached by the BBC about a new series. Absolutely Fabulous is a BBC sitcom about two immature, chain-smoking, alcoholic fashion-obsessed Londoners that ran for three series from November 92-95 with a fourth…
British comedy show A Bit of Fry & Laurie starred friends Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie (House), broadcast on both BBC2 and BBC1 between 1989 and 1995. It ran for four series.
Harry Enfield’s Television Programme was a British TV Sketch show broadcast on BBC2 in the 1990′s. Starring Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, in 1994 BBC1 commissioned a new series renamed Harry Enfield and Chums. The show resulted in catchphrases that could be heard all around England such as “He does a lot of charidee (charity)”…
Another classic clip from Little Britain. The comedy sketch show about the exaggerated stereotypical British public. Written by and starring Matt Lucas and David Walliams. In this clip Daffyd Thomas is the self proclaimed only gay in the village organizes a gay night at the local pub not expecting anyone else to show up.
If anyone can take “suburban normality” and make it into a great movie it’s British director Mike Leigh, he’s done it for years, take Happy-go-lucky and Life is Sweet as a couple of examples. His new movie Another Year has (as usual!) been picking up excellent reviews on the festival circuit and we have managed…
The Royle Family is BAFTA award winning TV Comedy on the BBC, it ran for three series between 1998-2000. The Royle Family is about a family from Manchester reliant on state benefits and fixated with TV. Most episodes take place in the families living room in front of the TV. Written by Caroline Aherne and…
British X Factor traveled the globe this week where the 8 contestants from each final group sang for their Judges to determine if they would make it through to the live finals. The boys flew out to Australia to meet with Danni, Louis took the over 28′s to his home in Dublin, Simon took the…
Alas Smith and Jones is a British comedy sketch TV series featuring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. Broadcast from 1984-1998 on the BBC with a name change part of the time to simply Smith and Jones. The original name Alas Smith and Jones was a pun on the American television series Alias Smith and…
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You may remember last year British comedian Catherine Tate appearing on the US version of The Office…
