City Homicide

Does anyone have this 2007 - 2011 Australian cop/crime drama and interested in doing some trading? 

Not Going Out - Series 6

The comedy Not Going Out returned for a 6th series in early April. Supposedly, it will be back with a Christmas special followed by a 7th series in Spring 2014.
Not Going Out

Watson & Oliver

The comedy-sketch duo of Lorna Watson and Ingrid Oliver returned for a second series.
Watson & Oliver

Frank Thornton 1921 - 2013

I received an e-mail today from one of you here in the US about my noting the recent deaths of people like Richard Briers, Richard Griffiths, Paul Shane and Bill Pertwee and was wondering why I had passed over Frank Thornton who died at the age of 92 on 16 March. It's because until today I wasn't aware that he had died. In mid-March, between catalog work, burning disks and working for the Phillies, I was probably logging 80-85 hours a week so I often forgot to check in with the world to see what was going on. So I'm 10 weeks late with it which is too bad as Frank was probably one of the better known English actors in the USA thanks to PBS' Are You Being Served? broadcasts (along with As Tine Goes By and Waiting For God...they've been beating those 3 to death for about 20 years now.) and also Last of the Summer Wine.
BBC obit
The Guardian obit

Body Of Proof

Body Of Proof has come to an end. Here's the third, and final, season.
Body Of Proof

Shameless

After some 9½ years, the popular comedy-drama Shameless has come to an end.
Shameless 

Bluestone 42 + The Wright Way

2 new comedies from the BBC.

Bluestone 42

Bluestone 42

The Wright Way

The Wright Way

Smörgåsbord - Discs 52 - 53 - 54

5 fairly recent films from Australia

Cliffy

Mental

Not Suitable For Children

The King Is Dead!

Wish You Were Here

6 fairly recent films from Ireland

Charlie Casanova

Citadel

Grabbers

Hideaways

Parked

The Guard

5 fairly recent films from the UK

12 In A Box was filmed back in 2007 but released only a couple months ago due to the recent success of Miranda Hart who has a very small insignificant role in the film.

12 In A Box

Another Year

Hard Boiled Sweets

I Give It A Year

The Woman In Black

Bill Pertwee 1926-2013

Bill Pertwee has died. Remembered for playing a policeman in Two In Clover, Chance In A Million and You Rang M'Lord?, Bill is immortalized for his role as Chief Air Warden-green grocer-Capt. Mainwaring nemesis Hodges in Dad's Army.
Bill Pertwee dies

Arne Dahl - Disk 1

The crime novels of Swedish writer Arne Dahl adapted for the little screen. 3 hour films split in two. Swedish audio with hard-coded English sub-titles.
Arne Dahl

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

From Australia, last year's somewhat fanciful and glitzy costume murder investigative drama which is currently in production for series 2. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries stars Essie Davis in the title role (most recently in The Slap, Cloudstreet).
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

Ice Cream Girls + Life Of Crime + The Politician's Husband

3 new 3-part drama mini-series.

The Ice Cream Girls - based on the Dorothy Koomson novel.
The Ice Cream Girls

Life Of Crime
Life Of Crime

The Politician's Husband - starring David Tennant and Emily Watson.
The Politician's Husband

Scott & Bailey - Series 3

The female detective drama Scott & Bailey returned for a third series.
Scott & Bailey

I think it was Wednesday on the BBC afternoon drama serial Doctors that a rare appearance was made by Tessa Wyatt. In the past 20 years I can only recall her showing up in single episodes of 2point4 Children, Peep Show and The Old Guys. 

Here she is about 49 years ago in Alice.

Of course, she'll always be best remembered for her appearances in the final series of Doctor At Large (1971) and Robin's Nest (1977-1981) both of which she appeared in with Richard O'Sullivan with whom she had a personal relationship that produced one child.

Family Guy - Disc 10

Family Guy has wrapped up it's 11th season with 22 new episodes. Unfortunately, only 21 will fit on the disk and the last episode will have to wait.......unless you want it really bad. I tried a few things to make it fit, but the loss of quality was very noticeable. 
Family Guy

Wodehouse woes

If anyone got this disk from me and would be willing to e-mail me a copy of episode 3 by DropBox or Pando, please contact me. Thanks.

EastEnders 2013 - Disc 4

EastEnders

2013

Disc 4

Coronation Street 2013 - Disc 4

Coronation Street

2013

Disc 4

Motive

Motive

Motive

Doctor Who update

Doctor Who was back. It will be returning in late November with a 50th anniversary special followed by a Christmas special.
Doctor Who

Mr & Mrs Murder

Mr & Mrs Murder is a new murder investigation themed comedy-drama in Australia starring Shaun Micallef (Full Frontal, SeaChange, Welcher & Welcher, Laid) and Kat Stewart (Supernova, Underbelly, :30 Seconds, Tangle and Offspring) both of whom are no strangers to the Australian TV audience. They don't play detectives, they are the team that goes in and cleans up murder scenes while practicing their amateur interest in solving crimes. I think this is sort of a jab at the endless shows out there of this nature. You know, all the "medical examiner" shows featuring pathologist-fashion model-international spy types that end up solving all the crimes. In reality - they perform autopsies. End of story. And then there are the Marple types and private investigators and so on. Perhaps Rosemary & Thyme inspired this show? If you like that one you'll most likely enjoy this. Shaun's a funny and clever comic and he makes it work. Thirteen 45-minute episodes. No word on if this will be returning in the future. 
Mr and Mrs Murder

Paul Shane 1940 - 2013

Paul Shane, who played the characters Ted Bovis, Alf Stokes and Jack Skinner in three of the all-time great British TV comedies, Hi-de-Hi!, You Rang M'Lord? and Oh Doctor Beeching,  has died at the age of 72.
Paul Shane dies

Island At War

Island At War is yet another drama about the German military occupation of the Channel Islands in the 1940's. This one is a serial mini-series. These are the original full-length episodes and not the ones shown on PBS in the USA with 5 to 10 minutes edited out. Unfortunately, the first episode begins with the following graphic

and most historians would laugh at the bottom line because it couldn't be further from the truth. 

Island At War

2 Broke Girls - Season 2

2 Broke Girls - season 2 of the US sitcom

2 Broke Girls

Person Of Interest - Disc 4

Person Of Interest - Disc 4. This will be returning for another season, but this is it for now.
Person Of Interest

Coast - Disc 10

Coast returned for an 8th series of six new 1-hour episodes. They've gotten away from the geographic themes and now focus on various general themes as illustrated by the episode titles. And, as usual, everything they discuss is the greatest!, most awesome!!, most incredible!!! most totally amazing!!!! thing in the world!!!!! like they're in some sort of drama competition with the numerous Dan Brown documentaries, which frequently go over the top. Maybe they're trying to keep the short-attention-span crowd watching and away from their smart phones for more than 30 seconds?
Coast

The End of IT

Media outlets are reporting that the return of The IT Crowd for a final episode is about to get underway.
The IT report

A Sense Of Guilt + Jute City

Here's a couple of mini-series from the early 90's out of a big ol' box of video tapes stashed in someone's attic.

A Sense Of Guilt is a drama of passion, adultery and crime starring Trevor Eve, Lisa Harrow, etc.
A Sense Of Guilt

Jute City is a Scottish crime drama with David O'Hara, Clive Russell, Joanna Roth, John McGlynn, etc. Soundtrack by Dave Stewart (Eurythmics).
Jute City

Red Widow

Red Widow is an American remake of a Dutch drama called Penoza which is available on Region 2 DVD through AmazonUK, but I don't know if it has English subtitles or not. Story about a housewife/mother who takes over the family drug-dealing business when her husband is killed. 
Red Widow

Endeavour

Endeavour first appeared as a one-off TV movie during the 2011 holiday season (it is on Smorg 35). Now it has returned with 4 more feature-length episodes and most likely that will not be the end of it. Endeavour is a prequel to the popular 1980's/1990's crime drama Inspector Morse and takes place in the mid-1960's just after Morse has left Oxford. With Lewis (itself a Morse spinoff) coming to an end, perhaps ITV will be focusing on this one looking to develop a younger targeted audience. 
Endeavour