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Monday 11th April 2016 |
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Keeping Up Appearances - The Complete Collection
This DVD set contains the complete series of Keeping Up Appearances, in which you can witness Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced Bouquet, don't you know), and her long suffering husband, Richard, impressing and distressing their family and neighbours.
Featuring all 40 episodes from the series in an 8 disc box set, it's a perfect way to catch up on the classic 1990s sitcom before its prequel airs this summer. It's currently available on Amazon for just £15. Buy |
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TV Listings |
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Plebs Monday, ITV2, 10pm
Stylax pursues a romance with Ursula (guest star Michelle Keegan), one of the ladies who guard the city's sacred flame. Meanwhile Grumio finds some mouldy cheese. Guide |
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The Aliens Tuesday, E4, 9pm
With the help of Lilyhot, Lewis realises that he's got to bring the bloody gang war to an end, but in order to do so he realises that a sacrifice must be made. Guide |
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Camping
Tuesday, Sky Atlantic, 10pm & 10:30pm
This new sitcom launches with a double bill. It's focused around three couples on a camping trip together. Created by Julia Davis, expect plenty of black humour. Guide |
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Tonight At The London Palladium Wednesday, ITV, 8pm
Previously Sunday Night At The Palladium, the hit variety show moves to a mid-week slot for its third series. Bradley Walsh hosts, with guests in episode one including Tommy Tiernan. Guide |
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The Almost Impossible Gameshow Wednesday, ITV2, 9pm
A fresh batch of brave contestants pit themselves against The Almost Impossible Gameshow’s incredibly simple yet rather difficult games. See our guide for an interview with the commentators, Irish comics The Rubberbandits. Guide |
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Alan Carr: Chatty Man Thursday, Channel 4, 10pm
Alan is joined by the incredible Eddie Izzard who talks about his amazing marathon endurance challenge for Sport Relief. Also on the show is The Jungle Book's Jon Favreau. Shawn Mendes performs Stitches. Guide |
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Celebrity Juice Thursday, ITV2, 10pm
Joining Keith, Holly and Fearne are regular panellist Gino D'Acampo, adventurer and broadcaster Ben Fogle, First Dates star Fred Sirieix and singer Ella Eyre. Guide |
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Todd Margaret Thursday, FOX, 10:30pm
Remember this sitcom starring David Cross as a US executive out of his depth in the UK? It used to be on More4... well, FOX is now bringing us Series 3. Given how Series 2 ended, it's set in kind of a parallel universe. Guide |
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@elevenish Thursday, ITV2, 10:50pm
Another episode of the topical comedy series driven by the topics and events people have been talking about. To get a clue of what the show will be talking about, check out its Twitter feed. Guide |
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Have I Got News For You Friday, BBC One, 9pm
Tracey Ullman becomes the 100th different guest host of this topical quiz show on Friday. She is joined by Outnumbered co-creator Andy Hamilton and BBC News anchor Clive Myrie. Guide |
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Boomers Friday, BBC One, 9:30pm
Mick (guest star Nigel Planer) returns from his Spanish paradise minus his young Russian wife and has a surprise in store for Joyce. Guide |
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Two Doors Down Friday, BBC Two, 10pm
There's tennis trouble in store for Eric and Colin in the latest episode of this BBC sitcom - and they haven't a sporting chance against Christine. Guide |
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Lookalikes Friday, Channel 4, 10pm
The 'constructed reality comedy show' set around a lookalike agency continues. Agency boss Andy Harmer has 'Robert De Niro' on his books, but De Niro lookalike Roger Kabler is as antagonistic as his celebrity doppelganger. Guide |
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The Graham Norton Show Friday, BBC One, 10:35pm
Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant appear on Graham's sofa to talk about forthcoming British comedy movie Florence Foster Jenkins, about a socialite turned tuneless opera singer. Also on the show: Keeley Hawes, and Eurovision hopefuls Joe and Jake. Guide |
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Michael McIntyre's Big Show Saturday, BBC One, 7pm
Following on from the Christmas special, Michael McIntyre is back with his variety show format, now in weekly installments. This first episode features guests including Romesh Ranganathan. Guide |
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Play To The Whistle Saturday, ITV, 9:20pm
A second series of the ITV panel show focusing on the world of sport. Regulars Holly Willoughby, Bradley Walsh, Frank Lampard, Romesh Ranganathan and Seann Walsh are joined by guests Richard Osman, Tom Daley and Rob Beckett. Guide |
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Duck Quacks Don't Echo Sunday, Sky1, 8pm
Warwick Davis, Josh Widdicombe and Lorraine Kelly are next to put the world's most startling facts to the test as Lee Mack's riotous science-based panel show continues. Guide |
For a complete list of broadcasts, including repeats and radio comedy, see our full schedule. |
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I'll Never Forget What's'isname
PRE-ORDER. A Michael Winner comedy starring Oliver Reed, Orson Welles, Wendy Craig and Marianne Faithfull. Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life and quits his high-flying job in order to return to writing for a small, literary magazine - plus his wife and mistresses! But saying goodbye to his former life is easier said than done. Details |
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Raised By Wolves - Series Two
OUT NOW. Having concluded last week, Channel 4's hit sitcom about a working class, single-parent, home-schooling family in urban Wolverhampton is out now on DVD. Follow the adventures of mother Della and her offspring, starring the fantastic cast of Alexa Davies and Helen Monks, Rebekah Staton and Philip Jackson. Details |
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Last Of The Summer Wine - Series 31 & 32
PRE-ORDER. The final two series of the long-running sitcom come to DVD later this summer. This set also includes the original Comedy Playhouse pilot episode from way back in 1973.
Note that only 31 series were made, and the numbering of this DVD's title owes to an earlier discrepancy. Details |
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British Comedies Of The 1930s - Volume 10
PRE-ORDER. Another two films in the ongoing collection of British comedy films from the 1930s. This volume, out in two weeks, includes 1933's Letting In The Sunshine, in which a window cleaner and his former girlfriend turn detective; and 1939's Lucky To Me, about office colleagues who marry in secret and whose one-night honeymoon looks set to be cut even shorter by events. Details |
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This Week Of Grace / She Shall Have Music
OUT NOW. A separate double-bill of 1930s comedies.
In This Week Of Grace (1933) unemployed Grace Milroy (Gracie Fields) finds work as the housekeeper of a Duchess, and love and happiness in the process. In She Shall Have Music (1935), millionaire Freddie Gates hires an orchestra to play on his yacht, to his son Brian's dismay. But Brian falls for singer Dorothy Drew. Details |
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Comedy Videos |
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Guide Spotlight |
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I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
Celebrating its fourty-fourth birthday today is that most beloved of radio panel shows, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. Originaly deriving from the sketch show I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, the show has to date clocked up a quite incredible 478 episodes over 64 series in four decades since. We've got plenty of information about the show, including broadcast details for every single episode, in our guide, so why not take a look? Guide |
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