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Brothers Henry and Vincent have a love/hate relationship. They team up with their wives Laura and Vonny to organise a surprise party for their mum. How hard can it be to keep the entire family happy? Enter Colette, a sister with a grudge, who is determined to keep a feud bubbling. Will she crash the party and wreck the surprise?
Billy Connolly returns to Glasgow’s famous Kings Theatre, where his journey into comedy first began, to talk life, death and laughter, in a no holds barred encounter with BBC Arts editor Will Gompertz.
It is a conversation that looks back on the Big Yin’s past and ahead to the future, covering all elements of his unusually packed existence - how he got started, his approach to comedy, his Scottish roots, and how Parkinson's disease is the latest thing he is having to laugh at.
Comedy about a group of addicts who come together for a weekly session. This is not AA, but an expensive post-rehab therapy treatment founded in America by the charismatic Adam Derekson.
The AD Group method promises sobriety and personal growth. Our addicts may not be the best candidates for personal transformation - amidst their posturing, lies and secret affairs, each member gets their turn to be insufferable. Take away the alcohol, drugs, pills and gambling, and what they really need is each other. At this session, Rob (Grant O’Rourke) has some big news to tell the group.
Steph (Sally Reid) is the group’s convener, and doesn’t want the meeting to turn into “a Rob evening, again!”. Nell (Lucianne McEvoy) veers between worrying about her kids home alone, waiting for their father to arrive, and telling everyone about the cosmetic surgery she has planned with all the money she has saved from not drinking for a whole year.
There’s a new guy at the group - Tony (Bhav Joshi). Who is Tony? What’s his problem and is his story for real? What is Rob’s big news and why is Steph so on edge?
A family comedy about Tracey Daly who struggles with the chaos of her daily routine.Mother and expert multi-tasker Tracey, wrangles her three children, Katlyn, Liam and Lucy and shift-working husband Joe through the morning rush-around, while simultaneously getting the house ready for an impending visit from her ‘impossible-to-please’ mother.Tracey needs the house to be in order but with Liam and Lucy fighting over the TV again, Katlyn straightening her hair in a dangerous fashion and Joe planning a secret boys’ night out – Tracey’s day is certainly going to be a tough one to control.
Comedy following the adventures of farmer Jim MacDonald on his mixed farm in rural Perthshire, Scotland. A proud, traditional man, who cares deeply about what he does, Jim struggles and is often wounded, but he is never beaten.
By Jim’s side is his hard-to-please mother, who often delivers blistering home truths, and his intensely loyal farmhand, Donnie, who is optimistic beyond naïve and would rather die than let Jim down.
Alongside the struggles against the elements – and each other - Jim is also unlucky in love and would like nothing more than to meet a partner to help him run the place.
This half-hour special collects five of the finest BBC iPlayer shorts. In Bull, Jim puts his bull out to mate before worrying about his own love life and the new vet, while in Sheep, Jim is in crisis mode as his best sheep, Bessie, goes missing. In Fence, Jim then gets involved in a bitter turf war with his neighbour over a fence, while in Dog, Jim suffers heartbreaking news and doubts he can ever replace his best friend, Mitch. And in Machines, the baler breaks down and Mother is on the warpath as it could put her big birthday night out in jeopardy.
Sixty-two-year-old Anita is divorced with two grown up children and no stork on the horizon threatening to bring grandchildren. Her daughter Joanne can’t have children and her son Aiden has zero interest. After hearing about an Indian woman in her seventies who gave birth to a healthy baby, Anita starts to wonder. What if she were to do the same thing?
After a recent break-up, Alma tries to get her life back on track. But with no job, no qualifications and a rebellious streak a mile wide, it is not going to be easy. Meanwhile, her heroin-addicted mum has been sectioned for arson, and her vampish grandma Joan wants nothing to do with it.
A bitingly funny and unflinching take on class, sexuality, mental health and substance abuse, celebrating women dealing with the hand they were dealt while doggedly pursing their dreams.
Peter Sellers was one of the twentieth century's most astonishing actors. His meteoric rise to fame - from his beginnings with Spike Milligan on BBC Radio's The Goon Show in the 1950s to his multiple Oscar nominations and status as Stanley Kubrick's favourite actor - is equalled only by the endless complexities of his personal life - the multiple marriages, the chronic health problems, the petulant fits of rage, the deep insecurity, the unwise career choices and the long decline in his later years.
This film explores the life of this peerless actor and comedian, featuring interviews with family, friends, colleagues and critics, many of whom have never spoken out before. The film charts Sellers's formative years backstage as part of his parents' itinerant music hall revue group, his wartime service in India and Burma and his journey to global superstardom, where tales of his life backstage with the likes of Sophia Loren, Orson Welles and Alec Guinness were often more unbelievable than the roles they were playing out before the cameras. This is the story of the man who could play any role, apart from one - himself.
With contributions from family members, including second wife Britt Ekland and his daughters Sarah and Victoria, as well as former friends and girlfriends such as Sinead Cusack, Nanette Newman and Janette Scott, the film explores the life of Sellers with candour and affection. Colleagues like director Joe McGrath and actor Simon Williams recall tales of Sellers's extravagant behaviour onset, and famous fans like Michael Palin, Steve Coogan and Hanif Kureishi reveal why they hold Sellers in such high esteem.
This is a film about family and how Sellers's mercurial temperament has affected the generation that followed. His two surviving children Sarah and Victoria recall the challenges of growing up alongside his tempestuous mood swings, while his grandson Will explores the troubled legacy his grandfather left behind.
Jason Manford returns with a stand-up show about how it feels to grow up working class only to find that over the years part of you has become middle class. Delivered with Jason’s amiable charm and captivating wit, this is a show not to be missed.
Jack spends a socially distanced Father's Day with his dad, Michael. He visits Michael the lockdown way, by setting up for the day on the road outside Michael’s front door. The two of them will spend some quality time, looking at some old family photos and awkward home video footage, and telling some classic Whitehall tales.
Rhys Thomas interviews the Gary and Martin Kemp about their lives and careers following Spandau Ballet's 40th anniversary celebrations. As well as looking back at their musical history, the film reveals Gary and Martin's other passions. Martin attempts to launch new film franchise, The Hardest British Bastards of the Galaxy, and Gary has his own vegan meat-substitute, Wonge.
An opportunity to see Dara O Briain’s globetrotting Voice of Reason live show, filmed exclusively for the BBC at London’s world-famous Eventim Apollo.
Dara is one of the most recognisable faces on British TV as host of long-running satirical show Mock the Week, Stargazing Live, Robot Wars and Blockbusters. With Voice of Reason, he goes back to his day job as a world-class stand-up comedian. The show presents Dara in full flight as one of the most intelligent, fast-talking and downright funny live performers working today.
In this show, Dara deals with the problems with virtual reality, having too much technology at home, how to deal with missing members of the front row and how to deal with reports of your own demise.
The epic tour that was performed across the globe, including sold-out shows in Ireland, British Isles, Norway, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, Estonia, Russia, Dubai, Australia and for the first time, New Zealand.
Some of Scotland’s funniest minds delve deep into BBC Scotland’s archives to bring us a hilariously unique reimagining of Scottish history and culture. The theme is holidays, and featured comedians include Janey Godley, Jim Smith, Stephen Buchanan, Jamie Macdonald, Marjolein Robertson and more.
Miranda Hart, expert in the art of homemade mischief, leads three celebrity teams through hilarious, outrageous challenges, bringing out their silly sides and competitive spirit. Robbie Williams, Jermaine Jenas and Shirley Ballas team up with their family and friends to compete in a Christmas games night like no other, and all from the comfort of their own homes.
Presenter Bradley Walsh
Participant Jimmy Carr
Participant Emilia Fox
Participant Danny Jones
Participant Amir Khan
Participant Sue Perkins
Participant Anita Rani
2020 has been an absolute nightmare for the Jessop family. To boost family morale, they decide they are going to have a summer holiday after all, even if it is in Margate in October.
