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Twisted tales run wild in this mind-bending anthology series that reveals humanity's worst traits, greatest innovations and more.
Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.
All Nikki and Jason want is a baby—the one thing they can't have. So they decide to adopt. With their dysfunctional friends, screwball families, and chaotic lives, will the adoption panel agree that they're ready to be parents?
Cuckoo is every parent's worst nightmare - a slacker full of outlandish, New Age ideas. Ken is the over-protective father of a girl who's impulsively married an American hippie on her gap year.
Brian Weaver, an online data marketing assistant (even he doesn't know what that is), finds himself abruptly transported to a parallel world, a place of bizarre creatures, magical forces and psychopathic fairies.
Follow the misadventures of 11-year-old Joe Connolly and his three best friends in their first year at O’Malley Middle School.
Funny Valentines is a comedy collection of nine original short films exclusive to BBC iPlayer, written and starring many of Britain's finest comedians. Each comedian was invited to create a short Funny Valentine to bring their unique take on the international day of love.
Each week, through their own selfishness and idiocy, we see Hannah and Dan — the worst brother and sister in the world — spectacularly wreck the lives of those around them — old friends, love interests, family members, and the unlucky individuals who just happen to cross their paths.
Two people who are seemingly ‘just good friends’ spend the day together.
Explores the stresses and strains of trying to do the right thing when you're a millennial with a comparatively easy life and a sense of entitlement. Simple things go wrong as Tom's attempts to be decent and generous end up tying himself, his friends and anyone he encounters in disastrous knots. From the Uber driver he's desperate to get a five star rating from to the lazy Deliveroo guy who refuses to go that extra step to the awkward encounter with the boiler repair man and his disastrous attempt at Netflix and chill.
Tom and Suze, two nineteen-year-olds both dreaming of the future, have sex when nuclear war strikes. Unfortunately, they then survive. Awkward. Cockroaches is a post-apocalyptic comedy about one family trying to survive in a wasteland of cannibals, perverts and one insufferable-ex. Our heroes struggle with boredom, fear and the ethics of cooking with their own body fluids.
Cook, now aged 21, is living in Manchester, and works as a drug peddler for Louie, a wealthy nightclub owner and drug baron. Having spent years on the run after killing John Foster, Cook sleeps in his car, and routinely has sex with Emma, his friend-with-benefits.
Set in a sleepy English seaside town, this is a comedy about a not-quite-grown-up who finds himself accidentally catapulted into the thick of a very grown-up situation.
Political comedy set on the campaign buses of the main parties as they battle their way through the chaos of the election campaign.
A young couple try to navigate their sex life after the birth of their baby.
A struggling disabled actress gets a job advising a film star how to be disabled for his latest role.
On the day of her wedding, Leah is possessed by a dybbuk – the spirit of her former lover who died after learning of her engagement to another man. Set in the vanished, mystically religious world of 19th-century Eastern European Hasidism, S. Ansky’s The Dybbuk is a complex and meticulously crafted tragedy in which two lovers, betrothed before birth and denied earthly communion, are ultimately bound together for all eternity. This semi-staged reading took take place at the Almeida, as part of Six Artists in Search of a Play.
