Jimmy Mulville

A satirical swipe at the phone-hacking scandal surrounding the British newspaper industry.

The Secret Policeman benefit shows for Amnesty International brought together comedy grand masters - from Python and Beyond the Fringe - and performers then relatively unknown, like Rowan Atkinson. Narrated by Dawn French, the programme includes interviews with many of the comedians and musicians who took part: John Cleese, Stephen Fry, Michael Palin, Sting, Lenny Henry and many more. The shows and their stars had a huge effect on modern British comedy. There are few comics today whose careers have not been heavily influenced by the anarchic and surreal humour of these events.

John Truscott (Hugh Dancy) é um jovem oficial inglês que é enviado para a Malásia, para participar dos esforços de colonização britânica no local. Logo ao chegar Truscott tem problemas com a língua local, sendo que para resolvê-lo os Ibans, a tribo nativa do lugar, oferece um "dicionário de cama", uma nativa que viveria com ele e iria ensiná-lo a língua e os costumes locais. Inicialmente Truscott recusa a oferta, mas acaba aceitando-a e passa a viver com Selima (Jessica Alba). Porém, Truscott se apaixona perdidamente por Selima, abandonando sua missão, seu país e até mesmo seu idioma, o que provoca a ira de seus oficiais no exército britânico.

Compilation of classic moments and unseen outtakes from the first 23 series (1990-2002) of the popular BBC comedy show.

The host of a British Shock-TV Show blurs the line between show business and life.

As Christmas celebrations get under way, Britain is rocked by a deadly new food scare - "mad turkey disease".

Comedy drama. Retired Lord Chancellor Bill Webster decides to sell his memoirs to a tabloid newspaper in order to save his crumbling Cornish house. The Prime Minister wants to stop him as he believes the government will fall if his book is published. One of Bill's old girlfriends, now the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, is sent to try and stop him, but also on his trail is a tabloid journalist who senses a scoop.

A curtain raiser for the 1995-6 football season and a state of the Premiership comedy drama about the corrupt world of football. Sir Bob is a football club chairman and megalomaniac. As the season draws to a climax his club are staring into the abyss of relegation. Can new manager Ted save City from the drop?

After the criticisms of the 1987 show’s disproportionate focus on music - and the financial disaster of its music-only Festival Of Youth weekend concert in 1988, Amnesty returned to the original formula that had been so successful in the 1976-1981 era with a primary focus on comedy. Pat Duffy was dropped from organising any further benefit events for Amnesty and for the 1989 show, Amnesty hired producer Judith Holder.

This is the British remake of 1984 Danny DeVito film

The story begins on a small spaceship docking with a refueling station. On board are a group of four aliens, Bernard, Sandra, Desmond, and Julian. During a particularly tedious period of their stay at the station, the other three begin playing with the ship’s controls while Bernard is outside playing spaceball. They accidentally disconnect his part of the ship, leaving him stranded while they crash into a large blue planet close by...