The Gaffer

A sitcom set in a small pub in Manchester, “The Grapes”, where daily life is bound up in the issues of love, loneliness, and blocked urinals. Regular drinkers Joe and Duffy pass the time with landlord Ken and his police officer cronies.

Set in Valco, a fictional budget supermarket in the north west of England, Trollied finds the funny in one of our most familiar surroundings and focuses on the types of characters we all recognise: bored checkout staff, ineffectual managers and a range of customers, from the irate to the downright bizarre.

Sharp knives and even sharper tongues! Meet Britain's finest, most short-fused chef, Gareth Balckstock.

Le quotidien d'un groupe d'employés de bureau dans une fabrique de papier en Pennsylvanie. Michael Scott, le responsable régional, pense être le mec le plus drôle du bureau. Il ne se doute pas que ses employés le tolèrent uniquement parce que c'est lui qui signe les chèques. S'efforçant de paraître cool et apprécié de tous, Michael est en fait perçu comme étant pathétique…

David Brent dirige à sa façon une usine de papier, la Wernham-Hogg Paper Company, à Slough. Ses plaisanteries tombent à plat. Ses ambitions d'être un bon patron se soldent par de tristes ratages et ses employés s'adaptent à son incompétence en développant entre eux les relations d'amitié, voire d'amour, de mépris et d'indifférence propres au monde du travail.

Roy et Moss travaillent au service informatique de la société Reynholm Industries, grande et obscure entreprise londonienne. Relégués dans le sous-sol du bâtiment, leur vie va être chamboulée par l'arrivé de leur nouvelle responsable, Jen, qui ne connaît manifestement rien à l'informatique.

Dinnerladies is a BBC sitcom written by and starring Victoria Wood that chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a canteen in the north of England. Bren tries to maintain a semblance of order in amongst the chaos, while dealing with the canteen supervisor, slightly sex-obsessed cancer sufferer Tony. Dolly and Jean are the bickering menopausal older women, always at odds but best friends beneath it all. Then there's thick-as-two-short-planks Anita, and the terminally uninterested Twinkle, more concerned with having a good time than anything else. Making up the motley crew are military man handyman Stan, all rules and regulations, and ditzy Philippa, who never seems to get anything right.

Open All Hours is a British television sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke, starring Ronnie Barker as penny-pinching corner-shopkeeper Albert Arkwright, and David Jason as his nephew and assistant Granville. The programme originated as a 1973 episode of Barker’s comedy anthology Seven of One, and later ran for 26 episodes; the first series broadcast on BBC2, the remaining three series broadcast on BBC1.

Still Open All Hours is a sitcom set in a grocer's shop. It is a sequel to the series Open All Hours, written by original series writer Roy Clarke and featuring several of the permanent cast members of the original series

On the Buses is a British comedy series created by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, broadcast in the United Kingdom from 1969 to 1973. The writers' previous successes with The Rag Trade and Meet the Wife were for the BBC, but the corporation rejected On the Buses, not seeing much comedy potential in a bus depot as a setting. The comedy partnership turned to a friend, Frank Muir, Head of Entertainment at London Weekend Television, who loved the idea; the show was accepted and despite a poor critical reception became a hit with viewers.

PhoneShop is a British sitcom that was first broadcast on Channel 4 as a television pilot on 13 November 2009, as part of the channel's Comedy Showcase season of comedy pilots. It was then followed by a six-episode series that was commissioned on E4 and broadcasting began on 7 October 2010.

Les drôles de mésaventures des employés d'un grand magasin. Des débutants aux yeux qui brillent aux vétérans ayant déjà tout vécu, en passant par les employés d'été paumés et les managers déterminés, ils affrontent "en famille" les soucis du quotidien inhérents à la gestion d'une grande surface.

Claude Casey moved up in the secretarial world of television news, from temp to the anchor's desk. After her boss hires her full time, Claude realizes she may be in over her head in this world of assistants fighting to get ahead. But Claude is determined to prove that though she may not be perfect, she's not going down without a fight.

When a Cincinnati radio station switches from sedate music to top-40 rock 'n' roll, its staff of oddball characters is forced to switch gears quickly. New programming director Andy Travis brings in a new DJ named Venus Flytrap to work with the station's burned-out veteran, Dr. Johnny Fever. Neurotic newsman Les Nessman, eager beaver Bailey Quarters, sleazy salesman Herb Tarlek, blonde bombshell Jennifer Marlowe, who serves as the station's ultra-capable receptionist, and station manager Arthur Carlson, whose domineering mother owns WKRP, round out the eccentric bunch.

The Brittas Empire is a British sitcom created and originally written by Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen. Chris Barrie plays Gordon Brittas, the well-meaning but incompetent manager of Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre. The show ran for seven series and 53 episodes — including two Christmas specials — from 1991 to 1997 on BBC1. Norriss and Fegen wrote the first five series, after which they left the show. The Brittas Empire enjoyed a long and successful run throughout the 1990s, and gained itself large mainstream audiences. In 2004 the show came 47th on the BBC's Britain's Best Sitcom poll, and all series have been released on DVD. The creators Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen often combine farce with either surreal or dramatic elements in episodes. For example in the first series, the leisure centre prepares for a royal visit, only for the doors to seal, the boiler room to flood and a visitor to become electrocuted. Unlike the traditional sitcom, deaths were quite common in The Brittas Empire.

Dans l'Angleterre des années 1980, Vincent Swan, un vendeur arrogant, et son équipe dénuée de scrupules sont prêts au pire pour refourguer leur marchandise.

Des hautes plaines écossaises aux terres du Pays de Galles en passant par les cités londoniennes, la série dresse un portrait au vitriol du Royaume-Uni et de ses habitants. Le tout à travers de nombreux personnages plus excentriques les uns que les autres, interprétés par Matt Lucas et David Walliams, les créateurs de la série.

Archie Bunker's Place is an American sitcom originally broadcast on the CBS network, conceived in 1979 as a spin-off and continuation of All in the Family. While not as popular as its predecessor, the show maintained a large enough audience to last for four seasons, until its cancellation in 1983. In its first season, the show performed so well that it knocked Mork & Mindy out of its new Sunday night time slot.

Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their fellow townsfolk and thinking up adventures not usually favored by the elderly. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse in 1973. The show ran for 295 episodes until 2010. It is the longest running comedy Britain has produced and the longest running sitcom in the world.

Suite de "Twenty Twelve", alors que Ian Fletcher prend le poste de 'responsable des valeurs' à la BBC. Sa tâche consiste à clarifier, définir ou redéfinir l'objectif principal de la BBC dans toutes ses fonctions et à la positionner avec confiance pour l'avenir, en particulier pour la renégociation de la redevance et le renouvellement de la charte en 2016 et 2017 respectivement.