Trollied

After an absence of nearly a decade, Sky recently decided to jump back into sitcom production and came up with Trollied. Featuring a pretty solid group of veteran actors, the network has reportedly committed to producing 27 more episodes in the coming couple years. Of course, these things can change (The IT Crowd for example). The setting of Trollied is a supermarket and it's employees. (For those of you in North America, in the UK what you call a "shopping basket" or "shopping cart", they call a "trolley".....and the rear wheels are not fixed so they don't go in a straight line when you push them.) The creator of the show felt a sitcom about a supermarket might work and it hadn't been done before. Guess he wasn't around when Tripper's Day and Slinger's Day were on the box and then there was 2010's Shelfstackers.
Some very recognizable people in this, starting with Jane Horrocks (no need to list her creds...would be too long anyways), Mark Addy (The Thin Blue Line, Sunnyside Farm, the USA show Still Standing, Bonkers, Robin Hood), Jason Watkins (Duck Patrol, All About George, Funland, Five Days, Life And Times Of Vivienne Vyle, Little Dorrit, Murderland, Being Human, Psychoville), Rita May (Fat Friends, Early Doors, Coronation Street), Carl Rice (Massive), Lorraine Cheshire (Early Doors, Tittybangbang) and so on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trollied

The Gold Robbers

The Gold Robbers was a 1969 crime serial.
From an internet site:

This dynamic and tightly scripted drama centres on the search for the perpetrators of a multi-million-pound gold bullion robbery; Peter Vaughan stars as the C.I.D. officer doggedly tracking down all those who hold clues to the identity of the mastermind behind the raid. Vaughan’s strong performance is supported by some of the key dramatic actors of the late ‘60s, including Joss Ackland, Alfred Lynch, George Cole, Bernard Hepton, George Innes, Roy Dotrice and Peter Bowles. Arthur Butler, the former Scotland Yard officer who had worked on the investigation into the Great Train Robbery, acted as technical adviser on the series, and it earned acclaimed producer and screenwriter John Hawkesworth (Upstairs, Downstairs) a BAFTA nomination for Best Drama Series; among a celebrated team of writers were former Z Cars contributors Alan Prior and Eric Coltart.

Quite Interesting - Disc 8

Quite Interesting is currently in its 9th series (the "I" series). All episodes are the uncut 44-minute "XL" broadcasts plus the short Comic Relief special from last March and an hour long special about the show that aired about 10 weeks back.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quite_interesting

Midsomer Murders - Disc 18

Midsomer Murders - Disc 18
DCI Tom Barnaby has sailed off into the sunset and now cousin John is investigating the doings in Britain's most crime-infested fictitious county. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsomer_Murders

The Slap

The Slap is a new Australian drama show of 8 episodes (55 min.) based on the Christos Tsiolkas novel of the same name. It is also currently airing on BBC Four in the UK on Thursday nights and running a few weeks behind the Australian broadcasts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Slap_%28TV_series%29

Emmerdale 2011 Disc 8

Emmerdale 2011.....Disc 8

The Walking Dead - Disc 1

The Walking Dead - Disc 1
The Walking Dead is an American post-apocalyptic horror show.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walking_Dead_%28TV_series%29

Spy + Threesome

2 new comedies from the UK. From what I've read, I wouldn't be surprised if both of these return for second series in a year or so.


Spy stars Darren Boyd (Hippies, Kiss Me Kate, Los Dos Bros, Smack The Pony, Watching Ellie {US show}, Broken News, Green Wing, Saxondale, Little Dorrit, Personal Affairs, Whites, Case Sensitive), Dolly Wells (Star Stories, Free Agents, Campus), Mathew Baynton (Horne & Corden, Gavin & Stacey), Tom Goodman-Hill (The Office, The Worst Week Of My Life, Spoons, Broken News, My Family And Other Animals (film), Never Better, The Devil's Whore, Free Agents, Candy Cabs, Case Sensitive, Case Histories, Ideal, some recent Doc Martin eps), Rebekah Staton (State Of Play, Outlaws, Jane Eyre, Unforgiven, Tess Of D'Urbervilles, No Heroics, Pulling, Home Time, forthcoming new Wallander (UK) series), and Robert Lindsay (Get Some In!, Citizen Smith, Seconds Out, G.B.H., Nightingales, Jake's Progress, Jericho, My Family). 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_%282011_TV_series%29


Threesome stars Stephen Wight (Diamond Geezer, The Great Outdoors, Whites), Irish actress Amy Huberman, and Scottish actor Emun Elliott (Feel The Force, Paradox, Lip Service).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threesome_%28TV_series%29

Wild Boys

Wild Boys is an Australian period drama that takes place in the 1860s and in the western hemisphere would be called a "western". 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Boys_%28TV_series%29

Moving On - Series 3 (episodes 16-20)

The 3rd series of Moving On was aired this week (episodes 16-20 on Disc 2). Moving On is an anthology series of stand-alone dramas produced by Jimmy McGovern and featuring some very well known actors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_On_%28TV_series%29

Paul Temple

Paul Temple, a private detective slash crime novelist, began as a BBC radio serial in 1938 and made many returns right up through the 60's as well as several recent remakes. Four films were also made in the late 40's / early 50's and over a dozen novels have also appeared in the past 73 years. The character also had a large following in Germany with many German radio serials produced as well as an animated series. 
The TV program was co-produced by BBC and German broadcaster ZDF. 64 episodes were aired from 1969 to 1971 but only 11 episodes survive today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Temple_%28TV_series%29

Fresh Meat

Fresh Meat is, according to Channel 4, a comedy-drama. 
Wiki says this:
"Fresh Meat is a British sitcom created by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, who also created Peep Show. Fresh Meat marks the acting debut of comedian Jack Whitehall and also stars Kimberley Nixon (Cranford) and Joe Thomas (The Inbetweeners). The show revolves around the lives of six students who are freshers (with the exception of Howard) at the fictional Manchester Medlock University. They live in a shared house off-campus rather than university halls of residence."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresh_Meat_%28TV_series%29

This Is Jinsy

This Is Jinsy is a recent comedy. A pilot was aired by BBC in 2010 but the series was carried by Sky.
It has an impressive list of guest stars (David Tennant, Peter Serafinowicz, Catherine Tate, Simon Callow, Nigel Planer, Jane Horrocks, Don Warrington, Marcia Warren, Brian Murphy...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_is_Jinsy

Rab C. Nesbitt update

Rab C. Nesbitt was back again. Rab has now been around for a long time, going back some 25 years to the sketch show Naked Video. He still has a ways to go to pass Alf Garnett in the longevity column though. I believe it was over 33 years between the Comedy Playhouse pilot for Till Death Us Do Part and the Australian show The Thoughts of Chairman Alf. 
Anyways, the 10th series of the Scottish sitcom ended last week. I was able to upgrade some of the files while at the same time reducing the number of discs (the Series 8 files I had were huge for some reason).
I'd still like to get this with hard coded subtitles someday, but I don't have all the episodes that way and still haven't been able to sort that process out anyways. But for those of you that understand the Glaswegian dialect, here's Rab from A to Z, including the 1992 Live in Aberdeen performance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rab_C._Nesbitt 

Coronation Street - 2011 - Discs 7-8-9-10

Coronation Street - 2011 - Discs 7, 8, 9, 10