David Ryall 1935 - 2014

British actor David Ryall died on Christmas. David had a long career with many mostly supporting roles. Aficionado's of British comedy television will remember him from Bless Me Father, Lytton's Diary, The River, Shelley, Goodnight Sweetheart, Outnumbered, Trollied and his guest appearances in shows such as Two's Company, Some Mothers Do 'ave 'em, Last of the Summer Wine, Adrian Mole, This Is David Lander, About Face, A Fine Romance, Perfect Scoundrels, Minder, Law and Disorder, Hamish MacBeth, Lovejoy, Doc Martin, The Legacy of Reginald Perrin, Love and Marriage.....and no stranger to drama with roles in The Pallisers, Love For Lydia, Enemy at the Door, The Singing Detective, The Chief, The Men's Room, In The Red and, most recently, the second series of The Village. Some of his drama guest appearances include Hadleigh, Reilly Ace of Spies, Spyship, Boon, Inspector Morse, The Paradise Club, Prime Suspect, Bonekickers, Jake's Progress, Pie in the Sky, A Touch of Frost, Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Peak Practice, Casualty, Foyle's War, Down to Earth, Heartbeat, Inspector Lewis, Midsomer Murders, Our Girl.....and films like The Elephant Man, Drake's Venture, The Woman in Black, Unconditional Love, Lucky Jim, Byron, Around the World in 80 Days, Clapham Junction, Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows, Quartet, Mr. Turner, The Tractate Middoth.
I think it would be safe to say he was an expert at playing cantankerous outspoken men.

 David Ryall

Paul Temple

The final 5 episodes of Paul Temple, the early 70's private investigator crime drama, added. Only 16 of 52 episodes survive. 

Paul Temple

Not Going Out - not coming back?

The 7th series of Not Going Out wrapped it up tonight with an outtake show. The sitcom made its debut over 6 years ago and Lee Mack has made several statements indicating that this will probably be the end of the show.

Not Going Out 

Out Of The Unknown

All of the surviving material of the science fiction drama anthology series Out Of The Unknown has been digitally remastered and released. The four episodes marked {R} on disc 3 are reconstructions of lost episodes using the original audio track and hundreds of production photo's. 

Out Of The Unknown

Brookside

10 more discs, 190 episodes, of the popular Liverpool drama serial.

Downton Abbey - Disc 5

Downton Abbey

Doctor Who - 12th Doctor......to date

Twelfth Doctor

Episodes

Doctor Who - The Third Doctor

The Third Doctor

Series and Episodes

Cuckoo

Cuckoo returned for a second series last summer and had a Christmas special tonight. 

Cuckoo

The other current comedy series also starring Greg Davies, Man Down, returned last night with its second Christmas special and the new series 2 will begin early next year. 

Jeremy Lloyd 1930 - 2014

Writer and actor Jeremy Lloyd has died. His many credits include creating and writing, with David Croft, the comedy classics Are You Being Served? and 'Allo 'Allo!

Jeremy Lloyd dies

The Wrong Mans

James Corden & Mathew Baynton's The Wrong Mans has returned with 2 new double episodes.
(From what I've seen, Robert Webb & David Mitchell's Ambassadors is not returning. Pity.) 

The Wrong Mans

Psychobitches returns

Psychobitches has returned for a second series. Still featuring Rebecca Front, Sharon Horgan, Samantha Spiro, Michelle Gomez, Selina Griffiths, Frances Barber....and some new faces in the new series such as Doon Mackichan, Mark Benton, Sheridan Smith, Katy Brand, Johnny Vegas, Sheila Reid, Kevin Eldon, Liza Tarbuck....all pop up here and there.

Psychobitches

The Railway - First Great Western

The Railway - First Great Western....a look behind the scenes of the day-to-day operations of Britain's largest passenger rail operator which serves from London to the southwest of England and the southern coast of Wales.

The Railway First Great Western

Trollied

Sky supermarket sitcom Trollied has returned with a fourth series, Eight episodes this time around. 

Trollied

Some Girls

BBC Three comedy Some Girls returned for a third series.

Some Girls

Derek

The Ricky Gervais mockumentary comedy-drama Derek returned tonight with a special 47 minute final episode. 

Derek

Fat Friends - Disc 4

Fat Friends

Homeland - Disc 5

Homeland

Gibraltar - Disc 2 + Corfu: A Tale of Two Islands

Channel 5's Gibraltar: Britain in the Sun returned for a third series, which means they've gotten 20 episodes out of a place that's only two square miles! Timothy Spall still narrating.

Corfu: A Tale of Two Islands was filmed in 2012 and looks at the popular British sunshine destination and the effect the Greek fiscal crisis was having on the many British ex-pats living there.
Narrated by Lesley Sharp. 

Heroes Of Comedy

Heroes Of Comedy

Graham Norton Show - Series 16 Disc 1

Citizen Khan

Mr Khan, community leader, was back for another series......and will be back for a 4th series in 2015. 

Citizen Khan

Detectorists + Puppy Love

Two new comedies, but not your typical sitcoms. Mackenzie Crook + Toby Jones + Joanna Scanlan + Vicki Pepperdine + Channel Four = you expect something different and with these, you got it.
Detectorists is returning in the future. Puppy Love just ended tonight. Toby Jones, by the way, will be Capt. Mainwaring in the new Dad's Army film in production.

Detectorists

 Puppy Love

Babylon

Babylon first appeared as a feature-length one-off earlier this year. It's found on Smorg 72. This is categorized as a police comedy-drama, but I don't think it is. I'd call it satire-drama. There's a lot of familiar faces in this. Andrew Brooke, Nick Blood, Paterson Joseph, Jill Halfpenny, James Nesbitt, Nicola Walker, Jonny Sweet, Ralph Brown.......
It requires about two-thirds of a disc and I have nothing else that small to fill it out.
Babylon

The Fall - Series 2

Northern Ireland crime drama / thriller The Fall returned for a second series. The two series will not fit on a single disc. It's not even close. The last episode is feature-length.
The Fall

Emmerdale 2014 - Disc 12