Christmas specials

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Liz Smith 1921 - 2016

Actress Liz Smith has died at age 95. She was 50 when her professional acting career began with appearances in Mike Leigh's 1971 film Bleak Moments and an appearance in an early episode of Last of the Summer Wine. She last appeared in the first series of The Tunnel a few years ago. Her appearances in between makes for a long list and include her popular roles in the Vicar of Dibley and The Royle Family (and she was killed-off in both!)

Liz Smith

Liz Smith

Liz Smith credits

Un Village Français - Disc 6

Disc 6, containing Series 7, of Un Village Français, one of the all-time big French television blockbuster drama's. It began in 2009 and, from what I'm reading, this is the end of the show.  Some of the subtitles in this series have a slight glitch where a vowel character with an accent is used (whether a circumflex, acute, or grave)  a diamond-shaped character appears in its place. Since we don't use those in English, it's usually just in a person's name.

Un Village Français - The Telegraph

Un Village Français - Euro TV

Citizen Khan - Disc 2

Citizen Khan

Emmerdale 2016 - Disc 10

The Comedy Company?

Does anyone Down Under have the four disc DVD release of material from this late 80's / early 90's Australian comedy sketch show?   The Comedy Company

Deddie Davies 1938 - 2016

Deddie Davies has died. Her TV career spanned nearly 50 years, first appearing in two 1967 landmark series, The Forsyte Saga and Vanity Fair. She followed that up with a leading role in 1970's classic The Railway Children and her supporting appearances in drama and comedy remained nearly continuous since: Clochemerle, The Rag Trade, Father Charlie, A.J. Wentworth BA, That's My Boy, Chance In A Million, My Husband And I, Time After Time, Waiting For God, Mr. Charity and Stella and appearances in New Tricks, Midsomer Murders, White Van Man, Whitechapel, Land Girls, Catherine Tate's Nan, Sensitive Skin, My Hero, Keeping Mum. You Rang M'Lord?, Jeeves & Wooster, Trouble In Mind, No Place Like Home, Miss Marple, You're Only Young Twice, Get Some In!, Upstairs Downstairs, My Old Man, Some Mothers Do 'ave 'em, Doctor at Large................

Deddie Davies

Close To The Enemy + In Plain Sight

Close To The Enemy

Close to the Enemy wiki

In Plain Sight

Aftermath

Canadian apocalyptic drama.

Aftermath

Would I Lie To You? - Series 10

Would I Lie To You?

Trollied - Disc 3

Supermarket sitcom Trollied keeps rolling along and has returned for its 6th series.

Trollied

Two Doors Down

Originally airing a pilot as a Hogmanay special a few years ago, Scottish comedy Two Doors Down returned for not one, but two series in 2016 and has been cleared for a third. Starring Alex Norton (Taggart), Arabella Weir (The Creatives, Posh Nosh, The Fast Show, Drifters), Doon Mackichan (Beast, Bedtime, Taking The Flak, Plebs, Toast of London), Jonathan Watson (Naked Video, City Lights, Bob Servant Independent, Fried), Elaine C. Smith (Naked Video, City Lights, Rab C. Nesbitt),  Sharon Rooney (My Mad Fat Diary, Mountain Goats), Jamie Quinn (Bluestone 42, Still Game). 

Two Doors Down

Y Gwyll - Series 3 + Anita

Welsh noir crime drama Y Gwyll returned for a third series. It's English-language version, Hinterland, will probably air sometime next year. As a bonus, also on the disc is the mostly Welsh language comedy-drama Anita, which aired earlier this year. 

Y Gwyll

Anita

Humans - Disc 2

UK Channel 4 scifi drama Humans returned for a second series with Tom Goodman-Hill, Katherine Parkinson, Danny Webb, William Hurt, Colin Morgan, Jill Halfpenny, etc.

Humans

Modus

More Nordic noir. This one is a Swedish psychological crime thriller.
"During a snowy Christmas season in Sweden, psychologist and profiler Inger Johanne Vik finds not only herself but also her autistic daughter drawn into the investigation of a number of disturbing deaths, through which she meets detective Ingvar Nyman of "Rikskrim", a Swedish national police force. Nyman is dispatched to Uppsala to investigate the shocking Christmas Eve murder of bishop Elisabeth Lindgren. In Stockholm, the bodies keep turning up - though the causes of death vary. But before long, Inger Johanne starts noticing a pattern. MODUS is a thrilling story that raises questions about religion, human rights, and the very nature of love itself. It goes beyond conventional crime and peppers the story with red-hot political issues and criticizing intolerance."