Den årlige Grønsagskonkurrence nærmer sig. Men lige inden den store begivenhed bliver de hellige grønsagsmarker udsat for natligt hærværk af et skummelt bæst. Opfinderen Walter og hans foretagsomme hund Trofast får til opgave at fange monsteret. Men også den ærgerrige Victor sætter alt ind på at gøre det af med dyret, for løsningen af opgaven er forbundet med store hæder og ære.
En hønsefarm i Nordengland. 50 høns, der er trætte af livet bag pigtråd, hvor kun døden kan befri dem, når de ikke kan lægge flere æg. En årvagen vagt med to bidske hunde til hjælp. En bagmand med omlægningsplaner, der snart vil indhylle hønsene i blandede grøntsager og mørdej. Og så en enlig amerikansk hane, der kan flyve og dermed hjælpe hønsene på flugt. Scenen er hermed sat til Nick Parks (Wallace & Gromit) vældig morsomme version af Steve McQueen-klassikeren The Great Escape. Den tyske fangelejr er lavet om til en hønsegård med alt, hvad det medfører af hønset adfærd og næbbet opførsel. Høns er, som de fleste vil vide, ikke specielt modige dyr, så der skal en speciel støbning leder til for at få dem til at vove fjerene og satse alt på den store flugt.
Billy tvinges til at gå til boksning af sin far, selvom han er en elendig slagsbror. En dag, da den arme dreng er til træning, ser han, at de i lokalet ved siden af danser ballet. Billy lader sig overtale til at deltage af balletlærerindens datter. Da Billys far opdager sønnens "umandige" interesse, bliver han rasende, og Billy bliver korporligt fjernet fra øvelokalet. Men lærerinden, der har set Billys talent, giver ikke op.
Seks arbejdsløse stålarbejdere bliver inspireret af Chippendales og vælger at starte deres eget striptease show. Det viser sig dog ikke at være helt så let, som de gik og troede, samt hvad siger koner, børn og venner til det? Men vigtigst af alt, er der virkelig nogen der vil se seks almindelige mænd smide alt tøjet? Dette er en vellykket og vildt morsom film. Et sikkert grin.
Daniel Blake har arbejdet som snedker i Newcastle det meste af sit 59-årige liv. For første gang nogensinde har han brug for hjælp fra staten efter at være blevet arbejdsløs på grund af sygdom. Daniel møder Katie, der er enlig mor til børnene Daisy og Dylan. Katies eneste mulighed for at komme ud af et værelse på et hostel for hjemløse i London er at takke ja til en smadret lejlighed i en fremmed by næsten 500 km væk. Daniel og Katie befinder sig i ingenmandsland, fanget i et velfærdsbureaukrati uden fleksibilitet eller medmenneskelighed. Deres venskab giver dem mod og styrke til at gå imod et sygt system.
Fire britiske islamister har en plan om at gennemføre et terrorangreb i England, men det, der skulle have været en markering af et ideologisk synspunkt, bliver i stedet en opvisning i idioti, for de fire har hverken hænder eller hoveder skruet rigtigt på. Omar er gruppens leder – mest fordi de andre ikke har tænkt så langt - og som helhed kan de fire knap mønstre hjerneceller nok til at udgøre en fare for andre end dem selv.
Elmo McElroy har opfundet en ny type narko, som er 51 gange stærkere end alt muligt andet og vil blive et stort hit. Han svigter sin aftale med gangsterkongen The Lizard og stikker af til Liverpool, men her er ingen ende på baghold og svindel.
Jack Carter er en småforbryder i London, som tager hjem til Newcastle, da han hører om sin brors død. Da han nægter at erkende at det var selvmord, tager Carter selv på jagt i Newcastles voldelige undergrund, efter den der slog hans bror ihjel.
I en lille engelsk by får to veninder en ide. Hvert år udgiver den lokale kvindeforening en kalender for at rejse penge til velgørenhed. Det er ikke nogen succes - men hvad nu, hvis de sædvanlige blomster- og landskabsmotiver blev peppet op med nøgne kvinder? Foreningens medlemmer er ikke længere helt unge. Alligevel siger de ja til at smide tøjet, for hvad gør man ikke i en god sags tjeneste?
Den unge Heathcliff kommer fra fattige kår og strejfer hjemløst rundt i Liverpool, da han adopteres af familien Earnshaw fra Yorkshire. Allerede i ungdommen fødes et særdeles stærkt bånd mellem Heathcliff og hans nye stedsøster Catherine, der med tiden udvikler sig til et forhold med dramatiske, erotiske og ikke mindst stormfulde følger.
Den sande historie om Brian Clough og hans 44 forbandede dage som manager for Leeds United, der på det tidspunkt var Englandsmestre - en historie spækket med kontroverser og sort humor. Brian Clough påtog sig opgaven uden at have sin betroede højrehånd Peter Taylor ved sin side og med omklædningsrummet fyldt af spillere, som han troede var loyale mod hans forgænger og bitre modstander Don Revie. Det førte til, at Cloughs aggressivitet og genialitet blev testet uden sidestykke igennem 44 dage.
Den midaldrende værftsarbejder Maurice Flitcroft melder sig til den prestigefulde golfturnering British Open - selv om han knapt nok har slået til en golfbold før. Med en urokkelig tro på sig selv kaster Maurice sig ud et forsøg på at spille golf på professionelt topplan. Maurice's håbløse bestræbelser vækker stor frustration hos golfeliten, men gør ham til en britisk folkehelt.
Joseph er en mand som plages af et voldeligt og selvdestruktivt raseri. Han får en ny chance i form af Hannah, en selvopofrende kvinde der sidder fast i et destruktivt forhold.
Lady Macbeth er en ung kvinde i 1800-tallets England. Hendes far har lovet hende bort til en midaldrende mand, og hun lander i et kærlighedsløst ægteskab, hvor lykken ikke lader sig opsøge. Da hun indleder en affære med en af mandens ansatte, tændes hendes livgnist – og snart løber lidenskaberne af med hende.
En uregerlig klasse af begavede og charmerende teenagedrenge bliver undervist af to excentriske og innovative lærere, mens deres rektor presser på for, at de alle skal blive optaget på Oxford eller Cambridge.
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.
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.
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.
Sitcom about the lives and loves of five twenty-somethings in Runcorn.
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.
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.
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.
Sitcom about a small-time dope dealer and his strange collection of acquaintances.
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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.
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? is a British sitcom which was broadcast between 9 January 1973 and 9 April 1974 on BBC1. It was the colour sequel to the mid-1960s hit The Likely Lads. It was created and written, as was its predecessor, by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. There were 26 television episodes over two series; and a subsequent 45-minute Christmas special was aired on 24 December 1974. The cast were reunited in 1975 for a BBC radio adaptation of series 1, transmitted on Radio 4 from July to October that year. In 1976, a feature film spin-off was made. Around the time of its release, however, Rodney Bewes and James Bolam fell out over a misunderstanding involving the press and have not spoken since. This long-suspected situation was finally confirmed by Bewes while promoting his autobiography in 2005. Unlike Bewes, Bolam is consistently reluctant to talk about the show, and has vetoed any attempt to revive his character.
The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.
British comedy series focusing on the lives of a working-class family in Manchester who love the TV.
A detective chief inspector from 2006 is investigating a serial killer when he is knocked over by a speeding car. Waking up, he finds himself mysteriously transported back in time to 1973. Initially struggling to come to terms with his situation, he has to come to terms with the old-fashioned technology and attitude of the day, while figuring out how he came to be trapped in the past.
Still Open All Hours is a sitcom set in a grocer's shop. It is a sequel to the series Open All Hours, written by original series writer Roy Clarke and featuring several of the permanent cast members of the original series
Set in Valco, a fictional budget supermarket in the north west of England, Trollied finds the funny in one of our most familiar surroundings and focuses on the types of characters we all recognise: bored checkout staff, ineffectual managers and a range of customers, from the irate to the downright bizarre.
Follow the lives and loves of a group of thirtysomethings in a heart-warming comic drama as they try to find true love - or at least keep their relationships on track. In this wry and funny look at a generation which is as confused as it is liberated by the choices it faces, will the chill in their feet put out the passion that burns in their hearts?
The League of Gentlemen is a British comedy television series that premiered on BBC Two in 1999. The show is set in Royston Vasey, a fictional town in Northern England based on Bacup, Lancashire. It follows the lives of dozens of bizarre townspeople, most of whom are played by three of the show's four writers—Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, and Reece Shearsmith—who, along with Jeremy Dyson, formed the League of Gentlemen comedy troupe in 1995. The series originally aired for three series from 1999 until 2002 followed by a film in 2005. A three-part revival mini-series was broadcast in December 2017 to celebrate the group's 20th anniversary.
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.
Celia and Alan are both widowed and in their seventies. When their respective grandsons put their details on Facebook, they rediscover a passionate relationship that started over sixty years ago.
