No Job For A Lady update

No Job For A Lady is now complete and much improved. This excellent political comedy starred Penelope Keith (The Good Life, To The Manor Born, Executive Stress, Sweet Sixteen, Law And Disorder, Next Of Kin) and remains her favorite work. Similar to the wonderful Yes Minister, this was written by Alex Shearer (Chalk And Cheese, The Two Of Us, Law And Disorder) and also featured the late Garfield Morgan (The Sweeney, Shelley, You Must Be The Husband, The Nineteenth Hole), veteran Scottish character actor Paul Young (Tales Of Para Handy, The Last Salute, Still Game), George Baker in the first 12 eps (Bowler, I Claudius, DCI Wexford in the Ruth Rendell Mysteries) and Mark Kingston (Shine On Harvey Moon, The Bretts). Previously episode 11 was missing and the files were VHS conversions. All the files are now excellent quality which makes me wonder since eps 7-18 have not been on a DVD to the best of my knowledge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Job_for_a_Lady

Home And Away - 2010 Disc 10

Home And Away reached the end of the current season today. It will be returning near the end of January for another year. I know there aren't many episodes on this disc, but I'm sure there are many faithful followers that would prefer not to wait until late February to catch the last 8 eps. What can you do?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_and_Away

Emmerdale - 2010 Disc 11

Emmerdale - 2010 Disc 11
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmerdale

Doctors 2010 - Disc 8

Doctors - 2010 Disc 8
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors_%28BBC_soap_opera%29

Where The Heart Is - Discs 7 & 8

Where The Heart Is - Discs 7 & 8
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Heart_Is_%281997_TV_series%29

The Bill - Classics 1996 - Discs 1 & 2

The Bill 1996 - Discs 1 & 2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bill

Peep Show returns

Peep Show returns tonight for its 7th series and 6 new episodes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peep_Show_%28TV_series%29

Brookside - Disc 7

Brookside - Disc 7 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookside

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The classic tale of cold war intrigue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker,_Tailor,_Soldier,_Spy

Smiley's People

Smiley's People The sequel to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley%27s_People

Help + Legit + Time Trumpet

3 BBC comedy programs from the previous decade.

Help starred Paul Whitehouse (Fast Show, Harry And Paul, Swiss Toni, Happiness) and Chris Langham. 
Whitehouse wrote, produced and appeared in the 2005 comedy drama Help. In this show he took 25 roles, all patients of Langham's psychotherapist (except one, who is Langham's psychotherapist's psychotherapist).

Legit was a sitcom that appeared on BBC One Scotland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legit_%28TV_series%29

Time Trumpet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Trumpet

Thirty Minutes Worth

Thirty Minutes Worth, Series 1 &2. A comedy-sketch program featuring Harry Worth (How's Your Father, My Name Is Harry Worth). Tim Wylton and Trevor Bannister of Dustbinmen (and beyond) fame appear in some of the sketches.
http://www.phill.co.uk/comedy/thirty/index.html

Neighbours 2010 - Disc 10

Neighbours 2010 - Disc 10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbours_%28TV_series%29

Home and Away 2010 - Disc 9

Home and Away 2010 - Disc 9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_and_Away

EastEnders 2010 - Disc 10

EastEnders 2010 - Disc 10 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Enders

Offspring

Offspring, an Australian comedy-drama, just concluded it's initial series. It will be returning in a year or so for another. It kicked off with a TV movie and ended with a feature length double episode. Also included is the 13 mini-episode spinoff The Nurses that was available for viewing on the internet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offspring_%28TV_series%29
Go to the official website and click the link "About The Show" for a good description.
http://ten.com.au/offspring.htm

This Life

This Life   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Life

Mumbai Calling + The Indian Doctor

Yup. Different genres, different decades, different networks.....so what does this 2-for-1 have in common? Sanjeev Bhaskar (Goodness Gracious Me, The Kumars At No. 42). Mumbai Calling was a sitcom while The Indian Doctor, broadcast this week (43½ minute episodes), is a period drama that takes place in Wales in the 1960's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Indian_Doctor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai_Calling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjeev_Bhaskar

Reggie Perrin update

Reggie Perrin Series 2 concluded tonight. There is a lower budget feel to it compared to the first series, but that's not unusual these days (how about that last Doc Martin series?..talk about low budget!) Or perhaps the budget was the same but Martin Clunes and Fay Ripley got a larger piece of it? Alexander Armstrong (Life Begins, Armstrong & Miller) was added to the cast this series. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggie_Perrin

Ladies Of Letters update

It all began in 1988 with one of Patricia Routledge's appearances on the television program Talking Heads. It was the episode A Lady Of Letters (!). Based on the series of books written by Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman, a comedy radio program was produced 11 years later with Routledge (Keeping Up Appearances, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates) and Prunella Scales (Fawlty Towers, After Henry, Mapp & Lucia). The original radio program ran for 7 episodes and continued on for another 8 or so programs through 2009.
In 2009 a television sitcom adaptation was produced but with veteran comedy/drama actors Anne Reid and Maureen Lipman in the roles. (Keep in mind Prunella Scales is now 78 and Patricia Routledge is coming up on her 82nd birthday, Anne Reid is 75 while Lipman is just a kid of 64.) Four tremendous actors.
A second series of 10 episodes started back in April and with a 5 month hiatus in the middle concluded the other night. 
In addition to the 20 TV episodes there are 26 radio shows from Ladies of Letters (1997), Go Global (2006), Say No (2007), Go Green (2008) and Crunch Credit (2009).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies_of_Letters

Inspector George Gently update

Forgot about this one. George Gently returned a while back for a couple more 90-minute episodes and they have been added to Disc 2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_George_Gently

Johnny Kingdom update

One the most interesting people on TV, Johnny Kingdom returned with a 3 part series called Year With The Birds and that has been added to his Disc 2. This guy is not an actor, he's not a presenter, he's just a real person with integrity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Kingdom

Lip Service

Lip Service
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lip_Service_%28TV_series%29

Single Father

Single Father, a 4-part drama with David Tennant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Father_%28TV_series%29

State Of Play + Talk To Me

State Of Play is a "political thriller".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Play_%28TV_serial%29


Talk To Me is a 4-part drama serial.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_to_Me_%28TV_series%29

Formula 1 Highlights - Disc 3

The final 4 races of the exciting 2010 season and to fill out the disc are a variety of highlight films from 30 or so years ago.

Packed To The Rafters - Disc 6

Packed To The Rafters, the popular Australian comedy-drama, finished its 3rd series yesterday. It will be returning for a 4th series of 22 episodes sometime in 2011 so there will be more episodes added to this disc at some point in time, but for those that are staying current here are the 6 most recent episodes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packed_to_the_Rafters

Moving On - Disc 2

A year and a half ago the BBC presented a series of 5 weekday standalone dramas in a program called Moving On. Earlier this month the program returned for another 10 episodes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_On_%28TV_miniseries%29

DCI Banks + The Little House + Thorne

DCI Banks: Aftermath was a 2-part ITV cop show starring Stephen Tompkinson (Drop The Dead Donkey, Ballykissangel, Wild At Heart, Ted & Alice, Preston Front, Grafters, Mr. Charity, Bedtime, Downwardly Mobile). There will be another edition in a year or so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCI_Banks

The Little House was a 2-part ITV drama
"adapted from the novel by Philippa Gregory about a young woman's psychological battle with her mother-in-law. Ruth's independent city life is turned upside down when she and her husband Patrick move into an isolated country cottage close to his parents. Ruth falls pregnant and, following a difficult birth, struggles to cope with her demanding baby. However, her subtly manipulative mother-in-law Elizabeth is always on hand to ease the tension, seizing every opportunity to take the child away to her own home. Starring: Francesca Annis, Tim Pigott-Smith, Rupert Evans, Lucy Griffiths, David Mallinson, Sam Hazeldine"

Thorne is yet another crime thriller in 2 3-part stories on Sky1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorne_%28TV_series%29

Miranda returns

Miranda returns for a second series of 6 episodes tonight on BBC 2. Miranda Hart stars in this sitcom along with a good cast of familiar faces: Patricia Hodge, Tom Ellis, Sally Phillips, Sarah Hadland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_%28TV_series%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_Hart

The Bill 1995 - Disc 7

The Bill 1995 - Disc 7
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bill

Where The Heart Is - Disc 6

Where The Heart Is - Disc 6

Quite Interesting

Quite Interesting, the comedy panel quiz program hosted by Stephen Fry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quite_interesting
http://www.qi.com/tv/

Then Churchill Said To Me

Then Churchill Said To Me was a Frankie Howerd comedy that was actually produced in 1982 but sat on a shelf someplace for 11 years before it was ever broadcast. More of the same in the Up Pompeii! and Whoops Baghdad vein. To fill out the disc there is also 3 episodes of Frankie Howerd from 1966. A one-off Thames special from 1968, the 1972 film Up The Front which is in the Carry On tradition, the pilot episode of the Heroes of Comedy program and the Frankie Howerd episode from "The Unforgettable" series.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Then_Churchill_Said_to_Me

Brookside - Disc 6

Brookside - Disc 6  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookside

New Tricks - Disc 8

New Tricks - Disc 8....with the last 4 episodes of Series 7 which concludes Friday night. Until next year.....woof!   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Tricks_%28TV_series%29

Walk On The Wild Side update

Walk On The Wild Side - Series 2 added.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_on_the_Wild_Side_%28TV_series%29

Waterloo Road - Disc 12

Waterloo Road - Disc 12
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_Road_%28TV_series%29

Outrageous Fortune - The End

Outrageous Fortune, the popular comedy-drama out of New Zealand, has reached the end with its 107th episode.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outrageous_Fortune_%28TV_series%29