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41) Ideal
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Award-winning comedian Johnny Vegas stars in a comedy about the finer things in life. For over twenty years Moz has been dealing drugs from his small bedsit in Manchester which he shares with girlfriend, Nicki. Despite his chosen profession, Moz is a man of principle - he deals only in the best quality marijuana and nothing else.
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Impressionist duo Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona chart the über-couple's transfer from Beckingham Palace to Madrid. After waving Adios to sunny Manchester, the King and Queen of the premiership set their sights abroad. But all is not well in the Beckham camp - will the designer boutiques of Madrid be posh enough for an ex-Spice Girl with a wallet the size of the Costa Del Sol?
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With an extraordinary ear for mimicry and a sure sense of character and comic timing, Catherine Tate presents a variety of unique and quirky characters in the first series of her widely-acclaimed sketch show. Meet teenage nightmare Lauren who is never 'bovvered', foul-mouthed Nan, Aga Saga mum Helen, frightened Margaret, enigmatic cop DI Amanda Hogg, randy Nurse Bernie and a host of other oddball creations.
44) Mongrels
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Join Nelson the metrosexual fox and his friends as they negotiate life and love in the back alleys of the urban jungle. The cast of puppet characters features Destiny, a pretentious pedigree 'it-bitch'; Kali, a deeply cynical pigeon; Marion, an abandoned tom cat; and Vince, a streetwise geezer fox. But scratch their hairy surfaces and these guys are just five mixed-up kidults struggling with everyday emotional truths about life, love, sex, aspirations,...
45) Famalam
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Famalam shines a comedic light on everything - from alien encounters in the outer reaches of the galaxy to what happens when a man is left on his own in a house for 10 minutes holding only a phone and a remote. With a dazzling array of accents, cultural observations and colourful costumes, Famalam gives us a glimpse of the latest Nollywood blockbuster, reveals who might be responsible for internet spam and introduces us to the real rulers of the world...
46) Tinsel Town
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A group of twenty-somethings trying to balance love, work and relationships in a city that lives for the weekend. Sandra, Jack, Brady, Coutts and Teresa live high-octane night lives of drugs, sex and crime among the party-mad crowd of Glasgow's club scene - their love lives as difficult to hold onto as their day jobs.
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Based on the books by L. M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables Emily is a dreamer – a romantic young girl who gazes at the night sky and imagines worlds hidden among the twinkling stars. And she writes because that is her passion. When she is suddenly orphaned, Emily is sent to live with her stern relatives at the family farm, New Moon. Under the roof of her heavy-hearted Aunt Elizabeth, there is no room for emotion or imagination. Emily’s...
48) Almost Royal
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This faux- reality series follows two clueless British aristocrats on a trip to the USA. George and Poppy Carlton enjoy privileged lives as distant descendants of the British royal family. The siblings - 50th and 51st in line to the throne - have agreed to a camera crew following them on their unconventional royal tour. But while the siblings are actually played by comedians, the unsuspecting public have no clue these two aren't for real. Cue bemusement...
49) Hoarders
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HOARDERS profiles adults who suffer from extreme hoarding, a mental disorder marked by an obsessive need to collect things, even if the items are worthless, hazardous, or unsanitary.
51) Hyperdrive
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Nick Frost and Kevin Eldon appear in a series where comedy meets sci-fi, that's literally bursting with stars. It's the year 2151 and the British have launched a fleet of spaceships to explore the galaxy in the only way the British can. That means with a stiff upper lip and regular tea breaks. Their mission? To export all things British - overpriced supermarkets, housing estates and call centres - to all corners, and to protect Britain's interests...
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Dawn French and Alfred Molina play a happily married couple in this domestic comedy set in real-time. Each episode begins with one of the couple already at home and we watch what happens when the other arrives to join them. Successfully married for over 20 years, Roger and Val are beautifully in tune with each other. They rely on each other for distraction from any woes, and - because they have no children - they are, it has to be said, somewhat lazy....
53) Porridge
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Nigel Fletcher - ‘Fletch’ to his friends - is a sharp-witted chancer with no respect for authority. Just like his grandad Norman. Now, nearly 40 years after Norman served time, Nigel is following in his grandad’s footsteps. By heading straight into a prison cell. The original Porridge, starring Ronnie Barker, is widely considered one of the best British sitcoms ever.
54) Holding On
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This is a tapestry of interwoven personal stories featuring more than 25 characters. All are united by their efforts to survive in London in the 1990s. Starkly contemporary, fast-paced and unsentimental, occasionally shocking and often funny, the tales build towards climaxes that are sometimes cataclysmic, sometimes healing.
57) Maigret
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In Maigret Sets a Trap, Maigret comes under pressure from his superiors and the press to catch a serial killer of women with no common feature except their hair. Making no progress Maigret sets a trap using undercover police women. Maigret's Dead Man focuses on the murder of a gambler with connections to a brutal gang from Czechoslovakia whose members are robbing and killing wealthy Parisians.
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Sue Johnston, Dawn French and Joanna Lumley lead a celebrity cast in an eccentric comedy written by and starring Jennifer Saunders. Clatterford is a small town, with a good cross section of people, local shops and a late night convenience store - a place which also has a thriving Women's Guild; who promote truth, justice, tolerance and fellowship - or is it just an excuse for a good old gossip? Without a job and feeling very much alone, Sal slowly...
59) Hoff the Record
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After five divorces and some misguided professional decisions, David Hasselhoff is in the UK to star in a new film that could reboot his career. But alarm bells start to ring when he gets the low budget treatment on arrival. The Hoff tasks his manager with finding him something more worthy of his talents. But as his attempts fall into disarray, can The Hoff get his career back on track?
60) The Old Guys
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Housemates Tom and Roy are the ying to each other's yang. Roy is well-read, organised, clean and sensitive. Tom, well, isn't. As both of them settle into retirement, they are faced with the prospect of life simply not turning out quite how they imagined. Together, however, they manage to muddle through life - answering the important questions that retirement poses. Questions involving religion, true-love and precisely how early is too early to start...
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