New Tricks - Disc 10

New Tricks - Disc 10. Ol' misery guts has left the show and been replaced by Denis Lawson. It's returning next summer for another series but after that Redman and Armstrong are also leaving with only Waterman remaining from the original cast. 
New Tricks

Connie

Connie is a 1985 drama series starring Stephanie Beacham (just before her role in the US show The Colby's.) 
Connie
Stephanie recently appeared as the new store manager in the first 8 episodes of the current series of Trollied, which gave it a nice lift.

Haven - Disc 3

Haven is back with a third season. This supernatural drama, loosely based on the Stephen King book The Colorado Kid, is filmed in Nova Scotia and aired on the Syfy channel in the US and UK, and is also aired in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and in many other countries.
Haven

The Thick Of It - Disc 3

The Thick Of It, the popular political satire, returned for a fourth series.
The Thick of It

Winners & Losers - Disc 3

Winners & Losers - Disc 3 - more from the Australian drama.
Winners & Losers

Coronation Street 2012 - Disc 10

Coronation Street 2012 - Disc 10 - the latest from 'Weatherfield' and Britain's most-watched show.

Sadie, It's Cold Outside + Yanks Go Home

2 comedies from the 70's.

Sadie, It's Cold Outside was written by Jack Rosenthal (who in addition to writing many TV episodes, TV plays and movies, wrote The Dustbinmen, The Lovers, a series of Pardon The Expression, Moving Story) and starred Rosemary Leach (Susan's mother in My Family, Odd Socks, The Power Game, Life Begins at Forty, The Jewel in the Crown, The Charmer, Summer's Lease, Titmuss Regained, Berkeley Square, The Tomorrow People, the US sitcom Growing Pains, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman) and Bernard Hepton (The Charmer, Bleak House, Mansfield Park, Secret Army, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Colditz, The Six Wives of Henry VIII).
Sadie is about a bored and discontented mid-life wife with a bored-but-contented husband. Sounds similar to Butterflies (which it pre-dates) but Sadie didn't have a Leonard to torment and her children are no longer part of her life.
Sadie It's Cold Outside

Yanks Go Home took place during WWII and was about a Lancashire town and its interactions with the many American military personnel based there. With the final 6-episode series of Dad's Army in production when Yanks first aired, it seems Granada was in hopes of picking up some of the huge Dad's audience, but it didn't work out that way in the end.
With Meg Johnson (on Emmerdale for the past decade), Stuart Damon (who starred in the late 60's spy show The Champions and more recently in several American soaps), David Ross (the final episode of Last of the Summer Wine, The Green Green Grass, Roger Roger, 32 Brinkburn Street, G.B.H.), Alan MacNaughton (To Serve Them All My Days, The Sandbaggers). Peter Sallis (Last of the Summer Wine) appears in four episodes and Richard Wilson (not going to list them all) appears in two. 
Yanks Go Home

Rake - Series 2

Rake, the popular Australian legal comedy-drama from 2010, returned for a second series.
Rake

Maggie And Her

Maggie And Her, the late 70's comedy with Julia McKenzie (Fresh Fields, French Fields, Marple, That Beryl Marston, Blott on the Landscape, Cranford) and Irene Handl (For The Love Of Ada, Never Say Die, Metal Mickey) is now complete and not from old video tapes.
Maggie and Her

World Without End

World Without End

World Without End

Girls

Girls is a US comedy-drama that aired last Spring and just started airing in the UK last night on Sky Atlantic and has also previously aired in Canada on HBO-Canada, in Australia on Showcase, in New Zealand on SoHo and in quite a few other non-English speaking countries. It will be back next year for another series. I see Chris O'Dowd even turns up in a couple of these episodes. No wonder we're still waiting on that final episode of The IT Crowd.
Girls

Copper

Copper is a new period crime drama set in 1860's New York City.
Copper

Casualty - Series 27 Disc 1

Concluding Series 26 in July and kicking off Series 27 in August, the latest from the popular BBC Saturday evening drama Casualty.
Casualty

Micawber + The Way We Live Now

Micawber + The Way We Live Now

Micawber is nothing new here, but I've had The Way We Live Now sitting around for a year or two and finally got around to doing something with it.

Micawber is a comedy-drama take on the character from David Copperfield. Written by the late John Sullivan and starring David Jason.

The Way We Live Now is an adaptation of the 1875 satirical novel by Anthony Trollope starring David Suchet (of Poirot fame) with a stellar cast. As I recall, this was also aired in the US on PBS Masterpiece about 10 years ago.

The Way We Live Now

Mount Pleasant

The comedy-drama Mount Pleasant returned for a second series with Robson Green, David Bradley (A Family At War, Our Friends In The North, The Wilsons, Our Mutual Friend, The Way We Live Now, Wild West, Ideal, Prisoner's Wives, the Harry Potter films, World Without End), and James Dreyfus (The Thin Blue Line, My Hero, Gimme Gimme Gimme) added to the already impressive cast. 9 new episodes but the 10th and last in the current series will be aired as a Christmas special in a couple months. If you can't wait that long, the 9 new episodes are available.
Mount Pleasant

Holby City - Series 14 Disc 6

Holby City - Series 14 Disc 6.....concludes Series 14 of the long running medical drama. Series 15 begins Tuesday night.
Holby City

Citizen Khan + Hunderby + Moone Boy

some new comedy......

Citizen Khan is about the Khan family of Birmingham. Starring Adil Ray, Shobu Kapoor, Maya Sondhi, Bhavna Limbachia. Kris Marshall of My Family fame is also in this and it will be returning for another series next year.
Citizen Khan

Hunderby is a black/macabre comedy written by and starring Julia Davis (Gavin & Stacey, Jam, Human Remains, Big Train, Nighty Night, Lizzie & Sarah) with a big cast including Rosie Cavaliero (Spy, Jam & Jerusalem, Saxondale, Little Dorrit, Feel The Force, Eyes Down, Cold Feet), Rebekah Staton (State of Play, Outlaws, No Heroics, Pulling, Home Time, Spy, Inside Men, Wallander), Alexandra Roach (Candy Cabs), Kevin Eldon (Dead Set, Hyperdrive, Funland, Nighty Night, Big Train, World of Pub, Brass Eye, Fist of Fun), Ben Bishop (Titanic, Whitechapel). I can find very little information about this.
Hunderby

Moone Boy is an Irish comedy co-written by and co-starring Chris O'Dowd (The IT Crowd, The Robinsons, FM, Gulliver's Travels, Bridesmaids). Steve Coogan and Johnny Vegas make guest appearances. It will be returning for another series next year.
Moone Boy

and speaking of the mistress of black comedy, Julia Davis, also on the disc is the pilot of a new comedy called Bad Sugar that will be airing sometime next year with an all-star cast that in addition to Davis includes Sharon Horgan, Olivia Colman, Peter Serafinowicz, Reece Shearsmith.
Bad Sugar

The Adventures Of Lano & Woodley

The Adventures Of Lano & Woodley, the late 1990's Australian comedy sketch show.
The Adventures of Lano and Woodley

Shoulder To Shoulder

Shoulder To Shoulder was a 1974 BBC drama anthology about the women's suffrage movement in Britain during the years 1890-1919. The book that accompanied the series can still be found on AmazonUK with used copies available for a few £. Writers for the production included some big names such as Alan Plater, Ken Taylor and Hugh Whitemore. Some of the more notable actors that appear include Michael Gough, Judy Parfitt, Robert Hardy, Fulton MacKay and Bob Hoskins.
Shoulder to Shoulder

Leaving + Mrs Biggs

2 recent drama's. I was hoping to include Good Cop on this disc, which after a delay is ending Saturday, but there isn't enough space. Not even close. The last drama threesome, A Mother's Son + Parade's End + The Bletchley Circle, went over like a loud fart in church, so I guess it really doesn't matter.

Leaving is a 3-part drama about a cougar on the prowl for fresh young meat. Starring Helen McCrory and Callum Turner. Not much info out there about this, but here's a promo article about it.
Leaving

Mrs Biggs is the 50 years back true story of the wife of "Great Train Robber" Ronnie Biggs. Starring Sheridan Smith as Mrs Biggs and Daniel Mays as Ronnie. Filmed in both England and Australia, as that is where the story actually took place....
Mrs Biggs

update

In the past few months I've had a few inquiries about Life Without George, Dressing For Breakfast and Foreign Bodies. Thanks to help of Stu (of the Southampton Stu's) and Sheena in the Lowlands, those shows are available again.

Hell On Wheels - Disc 2

Hell On Wheels, the US 19th century western drama, returned for a second season.
Hell on Wheels

EastEnders 2012 - Disc 8 + 9

Catching up with the people around Albert Sq. and Britain's most watched show.

Underbelly Badness

Alright...for those of you who just can't enough extreme glorified drugged-out violence, Underbelly is back with a new series called Badness. Does anyone else out there besides me wish all directors and actors had to take some sort of weapons training if they are going to play violent roles? Don't you love it when they shoot from the hip? Sheesh.
Underbelly: Badness

The House Of Windsor + Safe And Sound

The House of Windsor is a 1994 comedy starring Warren Clarke (Pardon The Expression, Jennie, The Onedin Line, Shelley, Wish Me Luck, Sleepers, Gone To The Dogs, Gone To Seed, Moving Story, Down To Earth, Dalziel & Pascoe, The Invisibles, In With The Flynns, etc etc), Leslie Phillips (Casanova '73, Chancer, Honey for Tea, and a couple hundred other things), Neil Stacy (Duty Free, Three Up Two Down, Get Well Soon, The Fourth Arm, To Serve Them All My Days), and others.
The House Of Windsor

Safe And Sound is a 1996 comedy starring Sean McGinley (The Hanging Gale, Pulling Moves, Single-Handed, Republic of Doyle), Michelle Fairley (Game of Thrones).
Safe and Sound

Honey For Tea + Mother's Ruin

Honey For Tea is a 1994 comedy starring Felicity Kendal (The Good Life, Solo, The Mistress, The Camomile Lawn, Rosemary & Thyme), Caroline Harker (Middlemarch, Harry Enfield & Chums, A Touch of Frost, Auf Wiedersehen Pet), Leslie Phillips (Casanova '73, Chancer, House of Windsor, and a couple hundred other things). Written by Michael Aitkens (Waiting For God, A Perfect State, Class Act, Midsomer Murders, The River, Stay Lucky, Bust).

Honey for Tea

Mother's Ruin is a 1994 comedy starring Dora Bryan (Last of the Summer Wine), Roy Barraclough (All The Small Things, Funland, Coronation Street), Julia Deakin (Oh Doctor Beeching, Side By Side, Spaced, So Haunt Me)

Mother's Ruin

Double First + Nice Day At The Office

Double First, a 1988 comedy starring Michael Williams (A Fine Romance, Conjugal Rites, September Song, Love In A Cold Climate, and the late husband of Judy Dench), Ann Bell (Tenko, The Forsyte Saga), Jennifer Hilary (Sam) and with Holly Aird (Flame Trees of Thika, Dressing For Breakfast, Monday Monday, Affairs of the Heart, Hope It Rains, Soldier Soldier, Waking The Dead, Identity).
Double First

Nice Day At The Office, a 1994 comedy starring Timothy Spall (Outside Edge, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, The Street, The Syndicate, dozens of films including Harry Potter), John Sessions (Porterhouse Blue, Gormenghast), the late Anna Massey (recently....Poirot: The Clocks, The Robinsons, Worst Week of My Life, Darling Buds of May, and about every detective serial), David Haig (The Thin Blue Line, Keeping Mum, Soldier Soldier), Brian Pettifer (Rab C Nesbitt, Get Some In!, Hamish MacBeth), Nicola Stephenson (Brookside, Out of the Blue, Holby City, Clocking Off, Dead Man Weds, Northern Lights, City Lights, The Chase).
Nice Day At The Office

Pig In The Middle

Pig In The Middle, now with the first 11 episodes. 1980 UK sitcom starring Joanna Van Gyseghem (Duty Free, Rumpole of the Bailey, Down to Earth), Liza Goddard (Take Three Girls, The Brothers, Yes-Honestly, Watch This Space, Bergerac), John Quayle (The Nineteenth Hole, Farrington of The F.O., Terry & June, Upstairs Downstairs, Nanny), Nichola McAuliffe (Surgical Spirit).
Pig In The Middle

Murdoch Mysteries

Murdoch Mysteries, the Canadian period detective drama that takes place in the late 19th century.
Murdoch Mysteries

Coronation Street 2012 - Discs 8 & 9

Colin and Patricia will be glad to see these...which is good because sometimes I think they are the only readers of this blog. I wonder if the lupins are blooming in Otago yet? Hopefully, I'll soon get caught up with the UK's #1 TV show as well - EastEnders.