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Doctor At Sea: The Complete Series
The popular Doctor sitcom franchise continued with this 1974 series, taking two of the most popular characters, Dick Stuart-Clark (Geoffrey Davies) and Duncan Waring (Robin Nedwell), from the familiar (yet stale by now) surroundings of St. Swithin’s Hospital and out to sea.
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Peak Practice: The Complete Fourth Series
Peak Practice was well in its stride by this fourth series. Kevin Whately had moved on and the ever capable Simon Sheppard was left as the main lead in what was one of ITV’s biggest ratings winners of the late 1990s.
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An Audience With Dudley Moore
Dudley Moore was one of the UK’s finest comedians. His long-running partnership with Peter Cook cemented them in comic history and raised the bar for their contemporaries at home and abroad.
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Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs
When Fox originally cancelled Matt Groening’s Futurama, there was much uproar amongst fans, who promptly waged an online war with the company and, as is the custom in these web-savvy days, eventually got it back on our screens via a petition and bulk-buying of DVD boxsets.
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The Inbetweeners: Series 1
Billed as E4’s first sitcom, it comes as something of a surprise that The Inbetweeners doesn’t go the same way as the bulk of other terrestrial channels’ made-for-digital excursions: i.e. very bad.
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Hustle: Season 4
The return of Hustle to the BBC schedules is nothing much to cheer. Lacking the dramatic thrust of Spooks and the vitality of classier American imports, Hustle very much wears its tired Britishness television credentials on its sleeve.
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Peep Show: Series 5
British TV comedy has been in the doldrums since the glory days of Partridge, Pegg and Brass Eye in the 90s. With very little of note apart from the over-rated Mighty Boosh and Green Wing, Peep Show's continued brilliance marks it out as one of, if not the best, British shows so far this century.
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Tommy Cooper: Just Like That!
The phrase 'comic legend' can be bandied about all too easily, but few really do warrant that accolade. Tommy Cooper, however, was one of them.
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John Pilger: Reporting The World
John Pilger is one of the UK's most well-known and respected journalists, authors and documentary makers. His approach is a factual one and as such he seems to be able to find a way behind the façade of his subject and get to the heart of the matter.
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40: The Complete Series
Before the vacillating interests of Skins, writer Bryan Elsley first came to prominence with this three-part drama that was first screened on Channel 4 in March 2003.
