Strictly Confidential + The Time Of Your Life

2 ITV drama mini-series from back in the double-naughties.
Strictly Confidential
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strictly_Confidential_%28TV_series%29

The Time Of Your Life
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_of_Your_Life_%28TV_series%29

Come Fly With Me + Episodes

Come Fly With Me + Episodes

Come Fly With Me
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Fly_with_Me_%282010_TV_series%29

Episodes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episodes_%28TV_series%29

Both of these are returning for a second series sometime in the future.

Hatching, Matching and Dispatching + Testees

Originally I had Testees on a disc with Season 1 of 18 To Life, but since that show needs it's own disc here's a new program to go with Testees.

Hatching, Matching And Dispatching is a Canadian sitcom about a family and associates that operate a combined ambulance, wedding and funeral business somewhere in Newfoundland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatching,_Matching_and_Dispatching 

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

18 To Life

18 To Life is ending its run tonight as the Canadian sitcom comes to an end. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18_to_Life

Packed To The Rafters update

Packed To The Rafters returned for 6 new episodes but is now on hiatus until June. Supposedly there is another 16 new episodes forthcoming later this year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packed_to_the_Rafters

Neighbours 2011 - Disc 2

Neighbours 2011 - Disc 2 - what Brookside Close was to Liverpool, the cul-de-sac known as Ramsay St. is to Melbourne. Another 25 gripping drama-filled episodes.

Brookside - Disc 15

Brookside, the long running Liverpool community drama series, Disc 15. 

Secret Diary Of A Call Girl - Disc 2

Secret Diary of a Call Girl wrapped up its 4th series tonight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_diary_of_a_call_girl

Home & Away 2011 - Disc 2

Home & Away - 2011 Disc 2

Coronation Street 2011 - Disc 2

Coronation Street - 2011 - Disc 2

South Riding + Upstairs Downstairs

South Riding is a recent 3-part drama production from BBC Manchester with funding provided by Masterpiece (and PBS "viewers like you") which means it will be aired, or has already?, on PBS in the US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Riding_%282011_miniseries%29
There was a 13-part story back in 1974 on ITV, so this must be an abridged edition for the short attention span crowd.

Upstairs Downstairs was a 3-part drama production from BBC Wales with funding provided by
Masterpiece (and PBS "viewers like you") which means it will be aired, or has already?, on PBS in the US.
http://www.updown.org.uk/epguide/newshow.htm
There was a 68-part story back in the 70's on ITV, so this must be an abridged edition for the short attention span crowd.

Wild At Heart update

OR

Wild At Heart wrapped up its 6th series a week ago. Warren Clarke guested in the first episode. Hayley Mills is still there. She's been in Africa for about 100 years now. Ever since Flame Trees Of Thika.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_at_Heart_%28TV_series%29

Hollyoaks 2011 Disc 2

Hollyoaks 2011 Disc 2....23 more episodes of life in the nitty gritty reality of community college. Ya, baby!

Skins - Series 5

As we leave Shameless and continue on down the Dirty Blvd., next stop is Skins (aka Shameless Junior). Series 5 ground to a halt last week.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skins_%28TV_series%29

Shameless - Disc 9

Shameless - Series 9 is now on hiatus until October or something. But if you're yearning for the 10 most recent episodes.......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shameless

Wire In The Blood

Wire In The Blood was a crime drama starring Robson Green, Hermione Norris and Simone Lahbib.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_in_the_Blood

Lunch Monkeys

Lunch Monkeys is a sitcom with Nigel Havers (Don't Wait Up, etc.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunch_Monkeys

Bedlam + Mad Dogs

Bedlam and Mad Dogs are two recent programs on Sky.

Bedlam is a "supernatural drama thriller mystery" and Mad Dogs is a "black comedy drama psychological thriller".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedlam_%28TV_Series%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Dogs_%28TV_series%29

Hustle - Series 7

Hustle, the BBC crime drama, wrapped up its 7th series back about a month ago. It will be returning next year for an 8th. This time around guest stars included The Old Guys: Clive Swift and Roger Lloyd Pack and the always lovely Hannah Gordon........even if she did kill Victor Meldrew. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustle_%28TV_series%29

Fortunes Of War

Fortunes Of War is a 1987 adaptation of the Olivia Manning series of novels produced by the BBC with funding provided by WGBH for PBS Masterpiece Theatre. This one had an impressive cast including Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson as the featured couple of the story. They must have hit it off pretty well off-camera as they ended up being married for a period after this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortunes_of_War_%28TV_series%29

Shine On Harvey Moon

It took several years to piece this one together, but Friday, with the airing of Love And Marriage on the Yesterday channel, it is done.

Shine On Harvey Moon was another program from Marks & Gran. If I had to classify it I guess I'd call it a comedy-drama. It takes place in London at the end of WWII. It had a great cast including Kenneth Cranham, Maggie Steed, Nigel Planer, Linda Robson, Elizabeth Spriggs, Lee Whitlock, Pauline Quirke.

There was a 10 year gap between Series 4 and 5 and the final series takes place in the 1950's. Kenneth Cranham did not return for that one and Harvey Moon was played by Nicky Henson.

Visually, the period detail achieved by the production team is very impressive for a television show.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shine_on_Harvey_Moon
http://www.shineonharveymoon.co.uk

EastEnders 2011 - Disc 2

EastEnders 2011 - Disc 2

Shortland Street - Disc 7

Shortland Street - Disc 7

Brookside - Disc 14

Brookside - Disc 14

The Gentle Touch

The Gentle Touch was a police drama starring Jill Gascoine (The Onedin Line, Home To Roost) as DI Maggie Forbes. The Gentle Touch had a 56-episode run (in 5 series) and Series 1 - 4 are on these discs plus one episode from Series 5. I'm not sure if Series 5 will turn up one day or not. This show has a very impressive list of guest stars and you check it out in the episode list on the wiki page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gentle_Touch 

C.A.T.S. Eyes

C.A.T.S. Eyes was a spin-off of The Gentle Touch with Jill Gascoine's Maggie Forbes leaving the police to work for a private investigation agency. In that respect it was more or less the British version of Charlie's Angels. It also starred Don Warrington (Rising Damp, Manchild, The Crouches, Casualty), Leslie Ash (Seconds Out, Men Behaving Badly, Where The Heart Is), Rosalyn Landor (Love In A Cold Climate, Rumpole Of The Bailey) and Tracy Louise Ward (Cluedo). These files are from video tape recordings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.A.T.S._Eyes

Spearhead

Spearhead was a drama series about an Army regiment during the great war against Northern Ireland and Hong Kong.....or something. This was the steadiest gig they ever had for a lot of these actors, but there are some familiar faces in this too....such as Roy Holder (probably best known as Frank in Sorry! and was also in The Caves Of Androzani which many feel was the all-time best Doctor Who serial. Roy also appeared as a milkman in both Happy Ever After and Terry & June which may be the only continuity link between the two.)
The late Robin Davies was also in this and he is probably best remembered as a juvenile actor in Catweazle and as Simon, the older son in And Mother Makes Three/Five. Even Nicholas Lyndhurst appears in some of these episodes, sporting the most skeletal arms ever seen on a living person.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spearhead_%28TV_series%29

Doctor Who - Fifth Doctor

Doctor Who - Fifth Doctor......who was Peter Davison (All Creatures Great And Small, Love For Lydia, A Very Peculiar Practice, Campion, Fiddlers Three, Ain't Misbehavin', Mrs Bradley Mysteries, At Home With The Braithwaites, Fear Stress And Anger, The Last Detective, Distant Shores).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who

Rural Drift + Seven Periods With Mr Gormsby

2 comedies from New Zealand......and if you're offended by impolite language and political incorrectness, pass these by. On the other hand..........

Rural Drift http://tvnz.co.nz/rural-drift/3931860

Seven Periods With Mr Gormsby http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Periods_with_Mr_Gormsby

Kidnap And Ransom + Marchlands

Kidnap And Ransom + Marchlands....2 recent drama mini-series on ITV.

Kidnap And Ransom stars Trevor Eve (Shoestring, Dear John, Heat Of The Sun, Waking The Dead, Bouquet Of Barbed Wire) with John Hannah (Out Of The Blue, MaCallum, Rebus), Helen Baxendale (Cardiac Arrest, the US show Friends, Adrian Mole The Cappuccino Years, An Unsuitable Job For A Woman, Cold Feet), Emma Fielding (A Dance To The Music Of Time, Big Bad World, Cranford).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnap_and_Ransom

Marchlands stars Jodie Whittaker, Denis Lawson, Tessa Peake-Jones, Anne Reid, blah-blah-blah.........
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchlands