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Language
English
Description
"Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, the late night live comedy show that airs each Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she's long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career success, and a close relationship with her stepfather to round out a satisfying life. But when Sally's friend and fellow writer Danny Horst begins dating Annabel, a glamorous actress who guest-hosted the...
2) W1A
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Hugh Bonneville returns as beleaguered BBC head of values Ian Fletcher, trying his best to set a steady course for one of the nation's great institutions as stormy weather looms and others on deck around him continue to try to prise his hands off the wheel and steer it in other directions. In this series the stakes are higher than ever for everyone as the BBC attempts to navigate its way past the potentially perilous rocks of Charter Renewal. Did...
3) Youngers
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Youngers is the journey of two young boys, Yemi and Jay, in their quest to break into the music industry. Yemi, 16, has just received straight A's in his GSCE's. He is destined for great things - but his love of music keeps pulling him in. Jay, a school dropout who didn't even attend his school exams is his best friend. The boys are opposites in every way apart from their love of music. The boys decide to enter a competition in a local club for upcoming...
5) Big School
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
David Walliams and Catherine Tate return in this comedy set in an urban secondary school. It may be the start of a new year at Greybridge, but the teaching staff are as dysfunctional as ever. Miss Postern and Mr Church's relationship has taken a downward turn after a misunderstanding over a date; the woefully under-qualified Mr Gunn is now teaching geography; and Mr Barber's got a new job as the school caretaker. This year the teachers are joined...
6) Up the Women
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The welcome return of the hilarious suffragette sitcom, written by and starring Jessica Hynes. Under Margaret's passionate leadership, the hapless women of the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle Politely Requests Women Suffrage are back in the Church Hall cooking up more schemes to attract attention to the worthy cause. The series is full of special guest stars, laugh out loud jokes, japes and plenty of physical comedy. It's a heart-warming celebration...
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After falling off the roof at a New Year's party, Owen decides that it's time to make some wholesale changes in his life. Over the next year, he quits drinking, re-enters his estranged son's life, reignites old friendships, falls in love… and soon finds that sometimes in life, you just need a little change.
8) Big Shot
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 1
Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Big Shot, book 16 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, Greg Heffley and sports just donât mix.
After a disastrous field day competition at school, Greg decides that when it comes to his athletic career, heâs officially retired. But after his mom urges him to give sports one more chance, he reluctantly agrees to sign up for basketball.
Tryouts are a mess, and...
After a disastrous field day competition at school, Greg decides that when it comes to his athletic career, heâs officially retired. But after his mom urges him to give sports one more chance, he reluctantly agrees to sign up for basketball.
Tryouts are a mess, and...
10) Mr. Sloane
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Bittersweet comedy-drama about a buttoned-down man in crisis. It's December 1969 and Jeremy Sloane is at the end of his rope - literally. He's been sacked from his accounting job, his wife Janet has left him to "find herself," and he is beginning to despair of his lot in life. Most evenings are now spent down the pub, drowning his sorrows with childhood mates Ross, Reggie and Beans. But with a potential job opportunity on the horizon and the phone...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
David Jason returns for a fourth series of the much loved sitcom. Starting with a Christmas episode Granville must use some of his craftiest wiles to persuade some of his most important customers not to travel over Christmas. Times may have changed, but some of the regular customers haven't, including former nurse Gladys Emmanuel and the Black Widow. Assisting Granville is his son Leroy, a young buck who has more female admirers than Granville ever...
13) Back: S1
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An acerbic comedy starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. Stephen is finally taking over his father's pub, and he has a tough act to follow. His dad, Laurie, is a local hero. At least he was, until he died. When the charismatic Andrew turns up at Laurie's funeral, Stephen's life and family are turned upside down. Andrew claims the short time he spent fostered by Stephen's family was the happiest of his life. But to Stephen, Andrew is just a mysterious...
14) Fords on Water
Publisher
British Film Institute
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
Story of two unemployed youths, Eddie and Winston. Eddie is white, Winston is black. Through coincidence their lives become entangled, and they embark on a series of adventures.
15) Billionaire Boy
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A stellar cast including David Walliams, Catherine Tate and John Thomson, star in this adaptation of David Walliams' book. Billionaire Boy is the story of Len, who makes a billion from inventing a new toilet roll called 'Bumfresh', and his 12 year-old son Joe. Len quickly sets about spending his money, buying a huge mansion, sending Joe to a private school and hiring a celebrity butler in the form of Warwick Davis. But Joe hates his new school and...
18) Adult Beginners
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A young, hipster entrepreneur (Nick Kroll) crashes and burns on the eve of his company’s big launch forcing him to seek support from his estranged sister and her family.
19) Mr. Stink
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Mr Stink stank. He also stunk. He was the stinkiest stinker who ever lived. Daydreaming schoolgirl Chloe is unhappy at home and has no friends at her new school. So she befriends a stinky tramp and his dog in the local park, and in uncovering Mr Stink's sad past she ends up on a journey that takes her to Number 10 Downing Street and eventually brings her dysfunctional family back together again.
20) Church People
Publisher
Brainstorm Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A comedy about youth pastor Guy Sides and his mission to re-focus on the Gospel, while simultaneously trying to stop church leadership from performing a potentially blasphemous Easter stunt.
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