First transmitted on Channel 4 in 1990, Nightingales focuses on three security guards who have the unenviable task of working the graveyard shift in a tower block, a situation which regularly turns to the surreal. A werewolf that performs open-heart surgery, bouts of Shakespearian verse and an undercover police operation...
Set in Singapore in the early 1950s, this impressive adaptation of Leslie Thomas's best-selling, scandalous novel centres on a group of naïve, young British Army recruits billeted to Malaya who have no experience of either love or war.
Both affectionate and affecting in its look at young men in wartime,...
A massive success for Sky One, this hit sitcom from the producers of Cuckoo and People Just Do Nothing stars BAFTA winner Jason Watkins, Sarah Parish, Stephen Tompkinson, Miriam Margolyes, Jane Horrocks, Chanel Cresswell and Mark Addy in an ongoing saga of beleaguered managers, oddball checkout staff and unsatisfied customers...
Featuring well over 100 songs on 3 CDs.
- The most detailed and definitive look at the career of cult hero Frank Sidebottom.
- With an introduction by former bandmate Mark Radcliffe and an exclusive interview with Chris Sievey's (Frank) son, Stirling.
- As well as the interview, Stirling has...
Comedian Pierre Novellie was on stage when a heckler suggested he was autistic. Usually, this disruption would be water off a duck's back but two things made this heckler different: first, he was himself autistic. Second, he turned out to be absolutely right.
This random encounter led to a diagnosis...
The hilarious sixth book in Sue Townsend's bestselling series sees Adrian fall in love, be inconvenienced by the war, and face his new nemesis: a swan from the local canal...
Wednesday, April 2nd:
"My birthday.
"I am thirty-five today. I am officially middle-aged. It is all downhill from now. A...
Celebrate Adrian Mole's 50th birthday with this new edition of the fifth book in his diaries, where Adrian faces divorce, fatherhood and (short-lived) television stardom...
Adrian Mole is thirty, single and a father.
His cooking at a top London restaurant has been equally mocked ('the sausage on my plate could...
Sunday 1st July:
"NO SMOKING DAY. A momentous day! Smoking in a public place or place of work is forbidden in England. Though if you are a prisoner, an MP, or a member of the Royal Family, you are exempt."
Adrian Mole is thirty-nine and a quarter. He lives in...
The Lost Diaries Of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001 is the seventh book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series.
Monday January 3, 2000:
"So how do I greet the new Millennium? In despair. I'm a single parent, I live with my mother...I have a bald spot the size of a...
All eight episodes of the sketch-based comedy show, written by and starring Dan Gaster, Will Ing and Ben Silburn.
Tasty, piquant and distinctly different, The Curried Goat Show is a comedic happening brought to you by the warped minds of writer/performers Gaster (The Thick Of It), Ing (Insert Name Here)...