Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their fellow townsfolk and thinking up adventures not usually favored by the elderly. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse in 1973. The show ran for 295 episodes until 2010. It is the longest running comedy Britain has produced and the longest running sitcom in the world.
The lives of several families in the Yorkshire Dales revolve around a farm and the nearby village. With murders, affairs, lies, deceit, laughter and tears, it's all there in the village.
The story of a young group of siblings pretty much abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits - and humor - on a rough Manchester council estate. Whilst they won't admit it, they need help and find it in Steve, a young middle class lad who falls for Fiona, the oldest sibling, and increasingly finds himself drawn to this unconventional and unique family. Anarchic family life seen through the eyes of an exceptionally bright fifteen year old, who struggles to come of age in the context of his belligerent father, closeted brother, psychotic sister and internet porn star neighbors.
Im Mittelpunkt der neuen Krimireihe nach den Romanen der britischen Autorin Ann Cleeves steht die Ermittlerin DCI Vera Stanhope.
The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at home, in the workplace, and in their local pub, the Rovers Return Inn. Britain's longest-running soap.
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.
Sitcom about the lives and loves of five twenty-somethings in Runcorn.
Life on Mars handelt von dem Polizisten Sam Tyler, der von einem Auto angefahren wird, sein Bewusstsein verliert und im Jahr 1973 wieder aufwacht. Nach seinem Zeitsprung beginnt er wieder als Polizist zu arbeiten und versucht, ein eher rückständiges, marodes Ermittlerteam zu organisieren, um gemeinsam Kriminalfälle zu lösen.
Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her husband, and her pocketbook, this senior sleuth takes on all the cases the police deem too minor.
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
Waterloo Road is a UK television drama series the first broadcast was in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Originally set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, England, the location of the show was moved to the former Greenock Academy in Greenock, Scotland in 2012. The series focuses on the lives of the school's teachers and students, and confronts social issues such as extramarital affairs, abortion, divorce, child abuse, and suicide.
Waterloo Road is produced by Shed Productions, the company responsible for Bad Girls and Footballers' Wives.
British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-china-shop-copper Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick Detective Sargent, later Detective Inspector, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining a down to earth wit and humour.
Wenn es um mysteriöse Mordfälle geht, zieht Detective Inspector Carol Jordan vom Police Department in Bradford den renommierten Psychologen Dr. Tony Hill zu Rat. Hill hat sich darauf spezialisiert, mit inhaftierten Mördern über ihre Taten zu sprechen, um so die ganze Wahrheit über ein Verbrechen herauszufinden und erstellt so ein Täterprofil …
Sitcom about a small-time dope dealer and his strange collection of acquaintances.
Set in 1996 in Lincolnshire, the show tells the tragic and humorous story of a very troubled young girl Rae, who has just left a psychiatric hospital, where she has spent four months after attempting suicide, begins to reconnect with her best friend Chloe and her group, who are unaware of Rae's mental health and body image problems, believing she was in France for the past four months.
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.
Aufgrund von Budgetkürzungen werden zwei Schulen zusammengelegt, die zuvor hauptsächlich von britischen Schülern auf der einen und von asiatisch-stämmigen Schülern auf der anderen Seite besucht wurden. Das neu geschaffene Ackley Bridge College dient nun als Schmelztiegel für Schüler und Lehrer unterschiedlicher ethnischer und kultureller Herkunft. In turbulenten Zeiten durchleben die Schüler, Eltern und Lehrer die Herausforderung, Vorurteile abzubauen und Konflikte zu begraben und stattdessen Beziehungen zueinander aufzubauen.
All Quiet on the Preston Front (or the shortened Preston Front as it became known for series two and three) was a BBC comedy drama about a group of friends in the fictional Lancashire town of Roker Bridge, and their links to the local Territorial Army infantry platoon. It was created by Tim Firth and ran from 1994 to 1997.
Alan Bleasdale's five-part series relates the further experiences of unemployed Liverpudlian tarmac layers Dixie, Chrissie, Loggo and Yosser, and their revered older friend, retired longshoreman and union leader, George Malone. As they struggle to make ends meet in a depressed economy, and to hold together their financially battered families, they are harrassed by the petty bureaucrats of the DHSS. But the lumbering investigational juggernaut is, both comically and tragically, guided by drivers with only a provisional license.
The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.