Emmerdale - EastEnders - Coronation Street

House Of Fools + Nixon's The One + Uncle

Some new UK comedy.

Reeves & Mortimer return to the box with House of Fools. If you enjoy Miranda and Mrs. Brown's Boys type of productions, you may enjoy this one too.
House of Fools 

Nixon's The One, starring Harry Shearer, originally aired as part of the first series of Sky's Playhouse Presents. As with the episode PsychoBitches, it was extended into a series. (Harry was also in last night's episode of Outnumbered.) Based on selected conversations from the Watergate Tapes, it comes across as funny now....at least to those of us that were around at that time and can appreciate Nixon's delusions better than someone that didn't live it. Each episode runs the end credits with a good ol' song from about 42 years ago - Moody Richard by Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks with Maryann Price and Naomi Eisenberg....as I recall. Striking It Rich was the LP. Harry's been around forever, of course, and is well known for Saturday Night Live, Spinal Tap, several voices on The Simpson's, etc., but was also the Eddie Haskell character in the 1957 pilot of Leave It To Beaver. He was offered the part but his parents refused it because they wanted him to have a normal adolescence. 

Uncle is new series from Steve Coogan's Baby Cow Productions starring stand-up comic Nick Helm with Daisy Haggard (Episodes, Parents, Psychoville, The Persuasionists, Man Stroke Woman). It is supposed to be returning next year with another series.
Uncle

Inspector George Gently - Series 6

Inspector George Gently, British septuagenarian crime fighter, has returned for a 6th series with four feature-length episodes.

Inspector George Gently

Smörgåsbord 72

Affinity

Babylon

Death in Brunswick

Intermission

Quartet

Smörgåsbord 71

A Belfast Story

Colette

Filth

Schapelle

The Broken Shore

The Turning

Smörgåsbord 70

Smörgåsbord 70..........some recent films out of the UK.

Austenland

Le Week-End

One Chance

Philomena

The Happy Lands

MGM Cartoons complete

After several years of being a distributor for some independent animation studios, MGM opened their own studio in Hollywood in 1934 and over the next 25 years, certainly the golden age of animation, they produced some of the finest cartoons ever made. 

 M-G-M cartoon studio

It took me a long time to piece this together. If anyone has an interest in the history of the golden age, there is an excellent, and very in depth, book that can be found for under 20 bucks called Hollywood Cartoons by Michael Barrier. 

Holby City - Series 16 Disc 2

Love/Hate - Disc 3

Can't get enough glorified gangland crime and violence? Return to the Dublin underworld with the new series of Love/Hate. 

Love/Hate

A Moody Christmas + Ja'mie: Private School Girl + Problems

Sorry - this isn't new - I posted it previously, but Blogger isn't letting me change it.

Three comedies from Australia

A Moody Christmas

A Moody Christmas

Ja'mie: Private School Girl

Ja'mie: Private School Girl

Problems
Problems

Ken Jones 1930 - 2014

British comic actor Ken Jones has died. Of the shows still in circulation, Ken starred in The Wackers, The Squirrels, Seconds Out and Valentine Park, however he is more likely better remembered for his limited recurring roles as 'orrible Ives in Porridge, Uncle Bernard in Watching and Uncle Dermot in The Liver Birds. His late wife, Sheila Fay, also had a recurring role in The Liver Birds and starred opposite him in The Wackers where a young Alison Steadman played their daughter, Bernadette.

Ken Jones death

Lowdown

Lowdown, the award-winning Australian comedy.

Lowdown

Benidorm - Disc 4

Speaking of the Spanish coast, Derren Litten's comedy Benidorm has returned with a 6th series. Steve Pemberton, Siobhan Finneran, Jake Canuso, Janine Dutvitski, Kenny Ireland, Sheila Reid, and Oliver Stokes all remain from the very start. The show now also includes Tim Healy, Sherrie Hewson, Perry Benson (You Rang M'Lord?, Oh Doctor Beeching), Tony Maudsley.....and life goes on at the all-inclusive Solana. 
Benidorm

Gibraltar: Britain in the Sun

Gibraltar: Britain in the Sun is a documentary from Britain's Channel 5 that was filmed in June 2012, when it is indeed quite sunny and warm, about the microscopic overseas territory near the entrance into the Mediterranean Sea. Narrated by Timothy Spall. 

This Is Jinsy

The whimsical comedy This Is Jinsy returned for another series with its usual array of guest stars. 
This time around they included Eileen Atkins, Derek Jacobi, Katy Brand, Stephen Frye, Olivia Colman, Ben Miller, Rob Bryden, Phil Davis, Debbie Chazen and Stephen Mangan along with the cast of Chris Bran and Justin Chubb (who also created and write the show) with Janine Duvitski, Alice Lowe, Geoff McGivern, and Jennifer Saunders. 
This Is Jinsy

Midsomer Murders - Disc 21

Midsomer Murders  - Disc 21.......first hit the box 17 years ago next month and tonight aired its 100th episode. 
Midsomer Murders 

Fall Of Eagles

Fall of Eagles was another of the big 1970's drama serials. It began its 13-week run 40 years ago next month. There are many familiar faces in this one. 
Fall of Eagles

Alf Garnett crisps

The big grocery store chain here in Florida is called Publix. It's employee-owned so the profits don't go to the shareholders of some big holding corporation in Belgium, the Netherlands or UK who could care less about their employees or customers, so I give my business to them and Costco - another company that doesn't treat their employees like smokeless tobacco (chew 'em up - spit 'em out).

Anyway, although I'd have to be desperate to eat them, I couldn't help but notice that they've put the image of Alf Garnett on their bags of crisps....or potato chips as they're called in the USA.

I bet their security people, hidden away someplace, are still wondering why someone stopped to take a photo of a bag of chips.

Actually, I'm sure it's just a take on the old Mr Potato Head toy, but I couldn't help but notice the resemblance to Alf, the character played by Warren Mitchell for some 33 years.

Person Of Interest - Disc 5

Person of Interest - Disc 5

Person of Interest

Republic of Doyle - Disc 6

The most recent Republic of Doyle season has come to an end. The Newfoundland private investigator comedy-drama is also aired in Australia and the UK.
The Republic Of Doyle 

QI (Quite Interesting) - Disc 12

QI has wound down another series. Oops....I see a typo.
QI

The Bridge - Series 2

The Bridge, the joint Danish / Swedish crime thriller serial, returned for a second series last autumn. The wiki page for this show contains spoilers in the Series 2 plot section, so if you plan to watch this you may want to avoid that. One-hour episodes.