One Foot in the Grave is a BBC television sitcom series The series features the exploits of Victor Meldrew and his long-suffering wife, Margaret. The programmes invariably deal with Meldrew's battle against the problems he creates for himself. Living in a typical household in an unnamed English suburb, Victor takes involuntary early retirement. His various efforts to keep himself busy, while encountering various misfortunes and misunderstandings are the themes of the sitcom. The series was largely filmed on location in Walkford, near New Milton in Hampshire, although several clues show that the series may have been set in Hampshire – possibly Winchester. Despite its traditional production, the series supplants its domestic sitcom setting with elements of black humour and surrealism.
Le quotidien d'une famille anglaise, excentrique et drôle. Le père, Ben Harper, est un dentiste misanthrope, et son épouse, Susan, travaille comme guide touristique. Étourdie et optimiste, elle aimerait bien contrôler la vie de ses enfants. L'aîné, Nick, 19 ans, a pris une année sabbatique pour... se vautrer sur le canapé du salon ; sa soeur Janey ne pense qu'aux garçons et au shopping ; surdoué, Michael, le petit dernier, enchaîne les relations amoureuses. Sans oublier Brigitte, l'assistante plutôt fofolle de Ben...
Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father and son played by Wilfred Brambell and Harry H. Corbett who deal in selling used items. They live on Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London. Four series were broadcast by the BBC from 1962 to 1965, followed by a second run from 1970 to 1974. Its theme tune, "Old Ned", was composed by Ron Grainer. The series was voted 15th in a 2004 BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom. It was remade in the US as Sanford and Son, in Sweden as Albert & Herbert and in the Netherlands as Stiefbeen en zoon. In 1972 a movie adaptation of the series, Steptoe and Son, was released in cinemas, with a second Steptoe and Son Ride Again in 1973.
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.
A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.
The big-collared comic gives his own spin on TV clips from recent programmes, plus contributions from a set of regular characters
Une parodie de séries médicales à succès telles que Grey's Anatomy ou Urgences.
Dans cette série classique revisitée, une mère se retrouve seule pour élever deux ados, "aidée" par sa propre mère aux méthodes d'éducation d'un autre temps. Remake latino d'Au fil des jours.
La série se déroule dans le célèbre bâtiment new yorkais du 30 Rockefeller Plaza, et relate les vies professionnelles et personnelles des différents personnages travaillant, pour la plupart, pour TGS (The Girlie Show), une émission de télévision fictive, sur la chaîne de télévision américaine NBC. L'équilibre de l'émission est chamboulé par l'arrivée de Tracy Jordan, une ancienne star excentrique d'Hollywood, ainsi que le nouveau directeur de NBC, Jack Donaghy.
30-year-old single Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis to start a new life after a romantic break-up. There she reacquaints with Phyllis who rents her a room, and meets her upstairs neighbor and new best friend Rhoda. Mary unexpectedly lands a job as associate producer at the TV station WJM, where she works alongside her bristly boss, Lou; the comical newswriter, Murray; and the newscast's often-incompetent anchor, Ted.
Un ex-champion de base-ball veuf, l'italo-américain Tony Micelli, souhaite quitter Brooklyn pour offrir à sa fille Samantha un cadre de vie plus agréable. Il devient alors homme à tout faire dans une famille aisée du Connecticut, constituée d'Angela Bower, une riche femme d'affaires séparée de son mari, son fils Jonathan et sa mère Mona Robinson, un peu nymphomane.
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.
Oubliez les sportifs, les stars de cinéma, les politiciens... Les parents sont les vrais héros ! Et de ce point de vue, Frankie est même une super-héroïne ! Avec son mari et ses 3 enfants, elle vit à Jasper, en Indiana, depuis toujours. Cette petite famille fait partie de la majorité : la classe moyenne.
Adaptée de la série britannique One Foot in the Grave, elle suit les (més)aventures du grincheux Hilton Lucas, un habitant du Queens, qui vient de perdre son travail d'agent d'aéroport au grand dam de sa femme Ruth.
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.
Présentateur d'une émission de téléachat sur le bricolage, Tim Taylor est en fait un piètre bricoleur. Pourtant, l'« homme outil », comme il se surnomme, adore modifier et améliorer les choses qui l'entourent, ce qui l'entraîne souvent à l'hôpital…
Installée à New York, dans le quartier de Brownstone, la famille Huxtable vit un quotidien pour le moins agité. Au sommet de l’arbre généalogique, Heathcliff et Claire veillent, dans la bonne humeur, à l’éducation de leurs enfants. Le gynécologue-obstétricien et l’avocate en ont eu cinq : Sondra (20 ans), Denise (16 ans), Theodore (14 ans), Vanessa (8 ans) et l’espiègle Rudy (5 ans). Les crises d’adolescents succèdent aux problèmes scolaires, les petits tracas du quotidien aux maux de cœur...
Following the lives of three 20-somethings sharing a flat in Battersea. They're young, bright and sexy - so why aren't they having a good time ? Join Matthew (the agoraphobic, self-obsessed, macho man); Martin (the wimpish, sex-starved underdog) and Mandy (the gorgeous blonde, who always ends up with the wrong men), in this outrageously funny flat-share comedy that is anything but politically correct.
Mr. Bean doit faire face à des situations inattendues. Il a également un certain don pour rendre compliquées certaines choses pourtant simples.
This English follows the East End working-class Garnett family, headed by patriarch Alf, a reactionary working-class man who wields racist and anti-Socialist views. His long-suffering wife Else manages to keep things in control... for the most part. Their progressive daughter Rita lives with them, as does her Irish husband Mike, who, with an array of liberal worldviews, often quarrels with his father-in-law. It inspired the American show "All In The Family" and several other international variations on the same theme.
