Thick As Thieves + The Losers

Thick As Thieves, the 1974 comedy starring John Thaw, Bob Hoskins and Pat Ashton, is nothing new here. Thick As Thieves

The Losers starred Leonard Rossiter and a young Alfred Molina. Believe it or not, in the UK as late as 1979 they were still wiping video tapes after broadcast and this show suffered that fate. Fortunately, out there somewhere, someone watching had an early video tape recorder (back when they were as big and heavy as the largest PC tower you've ever seen) and managed to get all but the last episode. Rossiter was a great actor, but this wasn't his finest hour by any means. Molina has gone on to enjoy a very successful career. 
The Losers

Richard Griffiths 1947-2013

Richard Griffiths has died following heart surgery. During the past 40 years he amassed a long list of credits on the stage, in television and in film as one of Britain's greatest character actors. On TV he starred in Bird Of Prey, ffizz, A Kind Of Living, Pie In The Sky and had many memorable guest appearances on shows such as The Hollow Crown, Episodes, Bleak House (2005), TLC, Hope & Glory, Gormenghast, Vicar of Dibley, Canterbury Tales, In The Red, Lovejoy, Inspector Morse, The Good Guys, El C.I.D., Perfect Scoundrels, Boon, Bergerac, The Cleopatras, Whoops Apocalypse, The Sweeney, When The Boat Comes In and Village Hall. He appeared in films such as Superman II, Chariots of Fire, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Gandhi, Gorky Park, Whitnail & I, The Naked Gun 2½, Ted & Ralph, five of the Harry Potter films and one of the Pirates of the Caribbean films.  
Richard Griffiths dies
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Lightfields

You may recall from a couple years ago a 5-part drama series called Marchlands about three different families that lived in the same Yorkshire house (one in 1968, one in 1987, and the third in 2010) that were linked together by the restless spirit of a young girl that died under suspicious circumstances in the house in 1967.

Or maybe you don't?

Anyway, a follow-up series called Lightfields has aired. This time the setting is a farm in Suffolk and the three occupying families of 1944, 1975 and 2012. Spoiler alert: avoid the episode descriptions on the wiki page.

Lightfields
Marchlands

The Neighbors

The 60's had My Favorite Martian, the 70's had Mork & Mindy, the 90's had 3rd Rock From The Sun and now the whatever they call this decade? has The Neighbors - the latest alien-from-outer space-stuck-on-Earth sitcom from those rarely inventive people in Hollywood. No word on whether this will return for a second season, but if it made it this far then I imagine they should be able to flog it for another 150 episodes or so. 
The Neighbors

Smörgåsbord 50

Bert and Dickie

Great Expectations

Lines Of Wellington

Film involves Portuguese, French and English participants each speaking their own language. The French and Portuguese dialogue has hard-coded English subtitles.

Sightseers 

Smörgåsbord 47 - 48 - 49

Cheerful Weather For The Wedding

Ginger & Rosa

Mary And Martha

Our Girl

The Lady Vanishes

Complicit

Frankie Go Boom

Love Bite

Tower Block

Upside Down

Modra 1

Modra 2

Mother Fish

Searching For Sugar Man

Shadow Dancer

The Corridor

Cornwall with Caroline Quentin

Caroline returns with a second series about the people and places of scenic Cornwall. 

Locomotion + The Railway

Couple of recent documentary series on British trains. One on the past, one on the present.

Locomotion - Dan Snow's History of British Railways.
Locomotion

The Railway: Keeping Britain On Track
The Railway: Keeping Britain On Track

Smörgåsbord 46

All films from the UK.

Broken Broken

Hollow Hollow

Secret Life Secret Life

The Fall of the Essex Boys The Fall of the Essex Boys

The Night Watch The Night Watch

The Night Watch (novel)

The Walking Dead - Disc 3

13 more episodes of the US apocalyptic zombie thriller.
Walking Dead

Inspector Montalbano

Here's some more material for the non-English language crime enthusiasts. This one's from Italy. I've used the English titles. (Il Commissario) Inspector Montalbano is based on the detective novels by Andrea Camilleri, although some of the episodes are stories written just for the TV series. I don't have the four most recent episodes (Series 8) at this time. Italian audio with hard-coded English subtitles.

Inspector Montalbano

Girls - Disc 2

Girls was back with a second season. The USA comedy-drama will be back next year with 12 new episodes.
Girls

Engrenages (Spiral) - Disc 5

This brings the French crime-thriller Engrenages (known as Spiral in the English-speaking world) up to date. French audio with hard-coded English subtitles. 
Spiral

Call The Midwife

Call The Midwife - the second series ended last weekend. This time around it had 9 episodes and there's just no way all 9 are going to fit on a single disc. Sorry, but that's the way it goes. The Christmas special is going on Disc 1 with Series 1. If you already have Disc 1 from a year ago, and didn't get the Christmas special earlier, I'll gladly try and fit it on another disc for you. On a happier note, the cast appeared in a Comic Relief special Friday night. It was actually a spoof on the UK observational documentary series One Born Every Minute. Much to the shock of the mother and father-to-be, they find themselves in the labour room attended by the Call The Midwife cast who rode into the room on bicycles, of course, and are soon joined by a very special doctor. It's only 6 minutes long, but a lot of fun. Call The Midwife is set to air in the USA in a couple weeks. I imagine PBS will be editing the episodes. These are full-length. Speaking of Comic Relief, the big news this time around was the return of the Vicar of Dibley for the first time in 6 years. It's just a 9-minute episode, but all the cast is there except Alice. Alice has left the building. Damian Lewis also appears in it. As usual - well done. It was like seeing an old friend after a long spell.
Call The Midwife

Village Hall

Village Hall is a 1974-1975 comedy-drama anthology series of 14 stand-alone hour-long episodes about the various groups and organizations that use the same local village hall for their meetings and functions. Each episode has a different writer and cast. A lot of very familiar actors appears in this. Some in the twilight of their career, others that were at their height, and some that are still active today, nearly 40 years later, such as Jane Carr, Kenneth Cranham, Jan Francis, Richard Griffiths, Bernard Hill, Lesley Manville, Sue Nicholls, Gwen Taylor and Zoë Wanamaker. Some of the other familiar faces that appear include Trevor Adams, Ben Aris, Erik Chitty, Denise Coffey, George Cole, Lewis Collins, Arthur English, Derek Francis, Joe Gladwin, Bernard Hepton, Joan Hickson, Madge Hindle, Dilys Laye, John Le Mesurier, Valerie Lush, Frank Mills, Ron Moody, Priscilla Morgan, Richard Pearson, John Rapley, Michael Ripper, Anton Rodgers, Norman Rossington, Liz Smith, Nicholas Smith, Elizabeth Spriggs, David Swift, Syd Tafler, Patrick Troughton, Richard Vernon, Tom Watson, Colin Welland.