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Shaun the Sheep

BBC

Aardman Animations creates a series focusing on the breakout star of Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave: Shaun the Sheep. In this series, Shaun has many adventures the rest of his flock, the farm dog and other barnyard animals.moreless
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The Graham Norton Show

BBC

Each week celebrity guests' join camp comedian, Graham Norton to discuss there latest projects and the celebrity gossip hitting the newstands during the week. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out with. The shows seventh series is currently airing on Monday nights at 10.35pm on BBC1.

Throughout series one the show was recorded on the Wednesday at 7pm before it's transmission at 10pm on the Thursday in Studio 2 at the London Studios. The show remained in the same timeslot throughout series 2, 10pm on Thursdays, however began to be recorded in it's current home the larger, studio 1 at the London Studios. Since series 6 the show has been recorded on Thursday nights.

Throughout the first three series Graham Norton Uncut aired late night on Sundays, which included fifteen minutes of extra footage. The show returned for a third series, changing to a earlier air time of 45 minutes at 9pm on Thursday 17th of April, the Uncut edition did not air the following Sunday. The week afterwards returned to the 10pm slot, with Uncut airing the Sunday afterwards. This changed again from May 22nd, with the full Uncut show airing from 9.45pm as well as the weekend repeat.

The fourth series of the show began airing at 10pm on the 2nd of October 2008, with the Uncut show airing late Sunday night, often early Monday mornings. The show changed timeslot from the 7th episode, moving from the original 10pm slot to 9.30pm.

The fifth series of the show began airing at 10pm on the 9th of March 2009, it ended it's run on May 29th 2009. The sixth series of the show began airing on October 5th 2009, it moved from BBC2 to BBC1, at 10.35pm on Monday nights, with a repeat late night on BBC Two at some point during the week. This series ended it's run on December 31st with a festive special. The seventh series of the show began airing on April 12th 2010, the BBC Two repeat airs on Tuesday nights. The series ended on June 28th 2010. The eighth series of the show shall see it move to Friday nights, into the slot previously occupied by Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. It is due to start airing on October 22nd 2010.moreless
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Come Fly With Me

BBC

From the creators of Little Britain comes Matt Lucas and David Walliams' latest comedy: a six-part series set in a busy airport in which the two men play nearly all the characters.moreless
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New Tricks

BBC

New Tricks is a BBC television drama series which follows the work of the Metropolitan Police Service's Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS). Led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.moreless
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Outnumbered

BBC

BBC's family comedy following a beleaguered mother and father of three.
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Absolutely Fabulous

BBC

Sin Is In! This hit British comedy series began 1992 and remains one of the BBC's highest rated and most popular shows. Absolutely Fabulous follows the lives of three (and later four) generations of the Monsoon family and the people around them. It began as a short French & Saunders sketch with Jennifer Saunders in her familiar role as Edina and Dawn French playing her daughter. A pilot for the series was filmed with the comediennes in those respective roles but Julia Sawalha was cast to replace French. Add a dash of actress Joanna Lumley and the immensly popular and entertaining series was born. Wheel's on fire, Rolling down the road! Best notify my next of kin, This wheel shall explode!moreless
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Last of the Summer Wine

BBC (ended 2010)

The longest running comedy series in the world started out, as many British comedy successes did, with a 1973 episode of the BBC series "Comedy Playhouse". The basis was simple but complex at the same time, telling the stories of three old men, who in all essence couldn't be more young at heart. The original trio consisted of Bill Owen, as Compo Simmonite, the scruffiest man in Yorkshire, with only two passions in life: his ferrets and Nora Batty (Kathy Staff). The second man of the group, Norman Clegg, played by Peter Sallis, was from the beginning shown as the most timid of the group, and also the one who gets carried away by the crazy ideas and schemes of his companions, which always seem to get him in trouble. Initially the third man of the group was Blamire, played by Michael Bates, but he was soon replaced by Foggy Dewhurst (Brian Wilde) who always seems to have a scheme or a story that somehow leads to his old days as a war hero... or so he says. In 1986 Brian Wilde left the series, to start filming his new sitcom, which proved to be a wrong move, as the show hadn't the success needed to sustain even a second series. during his 4 year absence from last of the summer wine Michael Aldridge played Seymour, the new third man of the trio, until 1990. Brian Wilde returned to do the next seven years of the show. When Brian Wilde left the series for the second time in 1997 Frank Thornton replaced him as the new third man on the trio as Truly Truelove of the Yard, an ex-police officer who's always remembering his past, both in the police force and in his former marriage to the former Mrs Truelove. When Bill Owen passed away, his son Tom joined the series, replacing him for the rest of the season as Compo's long lost son, Tom. Compo's permanent replacement would come the next year when Keith Clifford joined the cast as Billy Hardcastle, a man who fancies himself the descendant of Robin Hood. In 2003, the traditional trio became a quartet with the addition of Brian Murphy as Alvin Smedley, Nora Batty's new next door neigbour. With the addition of Alvin, an element of physical humour missing since Compo's death returned to the series. The quartet once again became a trio when Keith Clifford left the series in 2006. In 2009, the series was once again redesigned to allow Sallis and Thornton a reduced role on the series. A new third man was introduced in the form of Hobbo Hobdyke (Russ Abbott), a former milkman who fancies himself a former MI-5 agent. By combining Hobbo with Alvin and the electrical repairman, Entwistle (Burt Kwouk), a new trio was formed, proving once again the ability of the show to redesign itself over time. The main cast has always been surrounded by some amazing supporting cast throughout the run of the series, who helped to mantain the series as fresh today as it was when it premiered on the BBC.moreless
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George Gently

BBC

George Gently is a BBC detective series starring Martin Shaw (Judge John Deed, The Professionals) and Lee Ingleby (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) and based on the Inspector Gently novels by author Alan Hunter. The series takers place in 1960s-era Northumberland, and follows George Gently (Shaw) and his headstrong new partner John Bacchus (Ingleby) as they track down the culprits behind North England's unsolved mysteries. Inspector Gently is a legend of the police force, known for his relentless pursuit of the truth and undying passion for justice. When his wife is murdered by an infamous gangster named Joe Webster, Gently considers retiring from law enforcement. However, when Gently hears about a fresh case in Northumberland that might involve Webster, the old bloodhound can't help but take the case. Teamed with a young local sergeant who doesn't care about the rules, George Gently gets to the bottom of England's most challenging mysteries.moreless
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My Family

BBC (ended 2011)

Meet the Harper family, who, on the face of it, seem quite normal; a married couple with 3 children. However, this family is far from normal. Ben is a Dentist who wishes he'd become a doctor. He frequently tries to understand his wife and kids, often with little success. He just cannot wait until his children have left home, something that unfortunately for Ben, never seems to happen. Played by Robert Lindsay. Susan is a tour guide in a museum, with her second failed passion being cooking. She knows how to get what she wants...even if Ben doesn't want it! Emotional blackmail is one of her strong points. Played by Zoe Wanamaker. Nick is definitely the joker of the family, who's main determination in life is to get a job and keep it for more than a few hours. He's been through several jobs, each one more surreal than the last, but ultimately he gets sacked anyway. He never loses his determination and seems happy with his lack of success, even though his father isn't. Played by Kris Marshall. Janey is your typical teenage girl with a selfish streak as big as her shopping list. Like Susan, she loves to get her own way. She made Ben and Susan Grandparents by a one-night stand at University, which lead to the birth of Kenzo and consequently her being expelled. Played by Daniela Denby-Ashe . Michael is the most intelligent and, he thinks, the most sane member of the family. He thinks of his family mostly as an oppression, permanently scaring him psychologically with their mad behaviour which he also blames for his lack of success with girlfriend relationships. It's unwise for another Harper to attempt to trick Michael, as he will always have the last laugh. Played by Gabriel Thomson. Abi is the daughter of a one of Ben's cousins. She's naive and about as bright as spent light bulb. She can never seem to do anything right but this isn't helped by the fact that most of the time she's completely oblivious she's doing anything wrong.Played by Siobhan Hayes from Series 3 onwards. Roger works in the dentist practice above Ben's and in many ways, without realising it, is Ben's arch nemesis. This is mainly because, like his love interest Abi, he's not very bright although unlike Abi, is quite irritating with it. Regardless of how often Ben makes it blatantly obvious he doesn't like Roger, it doesn't seem to faze him continuing to believe all is perfect with the world. Abi and Roger make the perfect couple if only either one of them would be honest about their feelings. (Played by Keiron Self from Series 4 onwards).moreless
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Have I Got News for You

BBC

"Have I Got News For You" is a long-running, satirical panel quiz, poking fun at the news stories of the past week. Each week two guests join team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton, with a guest host presiding over the points.moreless
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Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

BBC (ended 2010)

With a cheeky gag never too far away and a wit sharper than his own suits, don't expect the guests to get an easy ride on the way to plugging their latest film, book, session in rehab or range of underpants. Funny, likeable and unlike any other chat show host, if you get to sit with Jonathan you're doing something right. Either that, or you're just Ricky Gervais.moreless
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Comic Relief

BBC

Comic Relief is the BBCs biennial fund raising event, which raises millions for the charity of the same name. The charity supports people suffering both in the UK and the third world.
Comic Relief began on Christmas Day 1985 with a fund raising event on the BBC's Late, Late Breakfast Show hosted by Noel Edmonds. More live events followed until finally Comic Relief was allowed to take over the BBCs main channel on February 5th 1988 for the first of the 'Red Nose Day' variety shows. The result has been a phenomenal success, gaining national cult status and taking over the normal lifestyles of millions of people who pull out all the stops to do something seriously daft for charity and put their hands in their pockets for a good cause. The most common thing to see in the UK, in the run up to Red Nose day, is the Red Nose itself which has taken on many different forms over the past 20 years.
The effect of Comic Relief's variety show cannot be understated, raising the total raised from £15 million in 1985 to £337 million in 2003 and all of it goes to charity.
Each 6-hour show is an amalgamation of hundreds of TV Celebrities, Comedians and Musicians work, as they all pull together to partly amuse the British public, but most importantly make sure we know exactly why they're doing it. Regular film inserts are featured demonstrating the poor lifestyles people suffer and what we, the viewers can do about it. Celebrities like Lenny Henry, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Billy Connelly, Victoria Wood and Davina McCall deliberately subject themselves to poverty and famine in Ethiopia and other third world countries to create devastatingly real and poignant accounts of what the more unfortunate people around the world have to put up with every day of their lives.
This isn't just a show, it's a national institution and without it, there would be a lot more people a lot worse off around the world today.moreless
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Not Going Out

BBC

After Kate moved out (back to the US? never really explained) Lee is faced with losing the flat and his rather inadequate cleaner Barbara (thankfully she disappears in series 4). Lee rents the spare room to Tim's younger sister, Lucy. Of course this doesn't work out. Tim obviously becomes suspicious of Lee's influence on sister, in the same way as he as with Kate (his ex-girlfriend, in season 1. Series 1 was very different. Things used to be great between Lee and Kate, two flatmates who counted Tim as their best friend and boyfriend respectively. But ever since Tim and Kate broke up, things are more complicated. Tim can't get over the break-up, and how is he supposed to handle the deepening friendship between Lee and Kate?moreless
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Death in Paradise

BBC

A BBC light-hearted drama series about an English Detective Inspector who is forced to transfer to the small Caribbean island of Saint-Marie; unfortunately, he hates sun, sea and sand.
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In With The Flynns

BBC (ended 2012)

Young parents Will Mellor and Niky Wardley are living in Manchester with their young kids. The show is filmed in front of a live audience.
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Dennis and Gnasher

BBC (ended 1998)

TV series based on the Beano's Dennis and Gnasher. Originally called "Dennis the Menace" in the UK, but was renamed "Dennis and Gnasher" in international countries to prevent confusion between both "Dennis" characters.moreless
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The Wright Way

BBC
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The Matt Lucas Awards

BBC

Matt Lucas brings his Radio 2 panel show format to television. Guests nominate people and things for his obscure award categories.
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Kevin Bridges: What's the Story?

BBC (ended 2012)

Kevin Bridges: What's the Story? is the BBC series where comedian Kevin Bridges goes out into the world to explore the real-life origins of the jokes in his stand-up acts. See clips of his act with documentary segments showing the origins of his career and his stories, like heading to the US to meet with Chad Hogan, a typical American party animal who inspired the name of one of his bits.moreless
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Emma

BBC

Jane Austen's period drama is adapted by Bafta-winning writer Sandy Welch. Starring Johnny Lee Miller (Eli Stone), veteran award-winning actor Michael Gambon and Robert Bathurst (Cold Feet).