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Canary is a heartwarming tale about a small bakery in the beautiful coastal town of Cornwall. The bakery, run by a young couple named Lily and Jack, is a staple in the community, known for its delicious pastries and friendly atmosphere. However, when a large chain bakery moves in next door and threatens to put the couple out of business, Lily and Jack must fight to save their beloved bakery
A coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler.
Lily's taken a job at a summer camp that has a reality show being shot on the grounds. Could this be the big break for fame she's always wanted? And will Lily's shot for stardom stay on track?
A black comedy, based on the accounts of a day in the life of the Rev. Dr. Skipton in his asylum in 1860. Dr, Arthur Uwins, arriving to be interviewed for a job, is introduced to treatments - all based on documented evidence - ranging from the bizarre to the barbaric.
46-year-old Reginald Iolanthe Perrin is suffering a midlife crisis and tries to escape his dreary life.
Sonny and Roman, two best friends, experience a run-in with karma at their local skatepark.
Charthurst Green, Kent, 1966. Pauline Cox accompanies Mike Robins to a village cricket match in which he is playing, but becomes bored and wanders away. She fetches up at the local railway station, where she is first entertained to tea by the garrulous, hunchbacked station master, then upset by the intrusion of the latter's assistant Ewen, who proceeds to kill a rabbit in her presence. Making her way back to the match, Pauline is waylaid by the simple-minded Ewen as she crosses an apple orchard; when his advances become violent, she tries to fight him off and he strangles her. The station master helps in covering up the murder, burying the corpse in the orchard.
The third instalment in the Tonbridge School Movember Saga of 2025. At 2.55 AM, while the entire Tonbridge community sleeps, boys across two boarding houses are suddenly woken and interviewed on the spot – dragged into a surreal late-night confrontation with their own thoughts. This is a truly bizarre and original exploration of mental health and masculinity within the school community.
When airline pilot and part-time piano teacher Ian Crawford is ordered to take a week off work, a question comes back to haunt him. Why did his wife Barbara ask him for a divorce? With time on his hands he battles with his anger towards his boss Geoff and his need to know. His wandering takes him to a local library where another mystery emerges. Together with barmaid Evelyn-Jane, fellow pilots Paul and Roddy and Frank the vicar, is drawn deeper in search of answers until finally he has to make a choice.
Molly Cowper is a wilful 80-year-old widow who firmly believes the world is there for her convenience. Her mild-mannered son Geoffrey does his best to help her keep her independence, but Molly keeps trampling on people.
A creative documentary about becoming a parent... and how to reconceive yourself. Fiction director Josh Appignanesi turns the camera on himself and his wife as they undergo the ordeal of becoming parents in the era of man-children and assisted reproduction. Faced with fatherhood, Josh spirals comically into an envious career funk. But life-threatening complications emerge- the couple are tested to the brink, confronting shattering losses. It's a portrait of our generation going through a revolution in reproduction- forced to find new ways to think about ourselves as creative beings. We hear from Slavoj Žižek, John Berger, Darian Leader (20,000 Days) and Zadie Smith. Universal yet still taboo, it's a film for everyone who has children, wants them, or still feels like a child themselves.
Joan finds herself cold, miserable, and lonely once again. Follow her as she embarks on a self-pitying mission to cheer herself up.
In this charming animation, lovingly drawn ink-to-paper over 4 years, a man is driven to insanity by the constant barking of the dog next door. As things come to a head, the warring neighbours find out whose bark is worse than their bite.
Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.
Tracy Beaker's 13th birthday and as a suprise Cam wants to foster Tracy again. Tracy is delighted. An unexpected visitor turns up at the Dumping Ground, Tracy's real mum.
Two flatmates struggling to pay the rent are persuaded to join an escort agency. What seems at first like a perfect solution, soon takes a messy turn for the worst when they, and their clients, all start falling in love with each other!
An angel finds that she needs money to fulfill her mission on Earth. Her only solution to this problem is to pawn her harp.
A comedy film directed by and starring Tom Walls.
Carl and Katie are the kind of people that never normally meet, but they're also the kind of people that retreat to the toilets when they need to sort themselves out. But some muddles need more than a big mirror and the smell of cleanliness, sometimes they need a nose bleed.
Satirical play in which businessmen want to destroy Westminster Abbey to make way for a bypass.
In 1913 the British government, hearing that the Germans are planning World War I, ask top agent Whinfrey to intervene, but instead he decides to go on holiday to Cornish fishing village Torpoint. Here he believes he has stumbled upon a smuggling ring, but in fact they are Germans who are masquerading as locals in an advance invasion party. The British arrive and arrest them, believing that Whinfrey deliberately planned everything - though it is apparent that he did not.
Two London tailors horse around, wind up robbed, go to Rome and disrupt the Vatican.
With a distinctive style of storytelling, Dave has emerged as one of the most unique, original and exciting comedy minds that the UK has produced. Not only is he one of the biggest contemporary comedians and sharpest raconteurs but he is also a hugely successful author.
From polar bear raves to AI sea shanties and the collapse of the teaspoon industry, Bill Bailey leads a magical, musical mystery tour of the human mind in his 2025 stand-up show at Edinburgh Playhouse.
Rock star Roddy Usher is confined to an insane asylum after murdering his wife. There, he is given various shock treatments by Nurse Smith and Dr Calahari, resulting in a series of bizarre and nightmarish adventures.
Why does a guide dog pursue a caretaker, and what do reindeer think of Santa? Why do hamsters dread chemistry sets, and what do mice think of mince pies? Christmas is for all animals not just for dogs!
Foul-mouthed mother-from-hell Karen Matthews is fed up being a nobody, until she hatches a cunning plan for a shot at the big time. Henpecked common-law husband Craig Meehan seems to have an unhealthy obsession with his laptop. Borderline special needs uncle Michael Donovan just wants a bit of company and a couple of quid for some baccy. Stereotypical Yorkshire copper D.I. Radgitt faces a race against time to unravel the web of lies and find the missing girl, Shannon Matthews, aged 9. This is Shannon Matthews: The Musical, an irreverent, potty-mouthed, black comedy romp through one of the most bizarre news stories of this century. The production has been brought out from under the bed base by Yorkshire’s own Tuppence Ha’penny Theatre Company.
You really can do ANYTHING with your phone! Entry in the Four4 Very Short Horror Film Competition, 2013.
The rapid rise and violent fall of rock band Stack of Corpses whose attempt to jump start their career by stealing another singer’s song ends up with bloody and unexpected consequences. Told through 6 chapters of the band's life.
The Robinsons are two respectable middle class parents living with their children in a suburban house in Acacia Avenue. Preferring to holiday every year in Bognor, they are pressed into booking a cruise for their annual vacation and thereby leaving their teenage children free run of their house. As the youngsters enjoy their newfound freedom and discover the angst of teenage life, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson begin to have second thoughts about their cruise and decide to return home early.
Those corn flakes are looking sketchy. Entry in the Four4 Very Short Horror Film Competition, 2013.
Magpie wins a duck which proves to be alive and no use for the Sunday dinner. The kids invent a device which makes the duck seem to talk.
A couch potato stumbles upon a televised badminton match and becomes instantly obsessed - not with the sport, but with the prize money. Convinced he can cash in, he launches into his new-found 'career'.
Old Mother Riley falls into money so goes to Paris, where she is mistaken for a spy.
Outstanding comedian and musician Dudley Moore regales his spellbound audience in typical fashion with his hilarious edition of the long-running An Audience With series. Backed by a full orchestra - and interrupted by both Peter Cook and the Dagenham Girl Pipers - Dudley entertains his audience of celebrities (including Stanley Baxter, Martin Shaw, Clive James, Lulu and Rolf Harris) and duets with singer-songwriter Christopher Cross on the award-winning 'Arthur's Theme'.
On the same day a burglar wants to kill you and your ex wants to make up - and for the life of it, you can't decide which is worse.
Can a drinking, gambling, all-round hedonist ever consider herself to be morally good? Can an avid consumer of cheap airfares, pop culture and cheap clothes ever be good to the planet? Can a bubbly, affable, happy comedienne ever be really good at delivering stand-up that affects other people?
The owner of a professional help agency poses as a poet at a wealthy patron's ball and prevents a necklace from being stolen by thieves.
Art has a rabbit, Ern a guinea pig and Abe, a mouse. They're off to astound the world of the Fancy with a triple triumph... but what about the Entwhistles!
After successfully rebuilding his empire, Max Bavington has one last shot at British societal success. He politely borrows a girl, praying she will complete one final test to hopefully, save Poshington once and for all. But be warned, the nightmare may just have begun.
From UK Filmmaker Andrew Senior comes The Evolved: Part 1, the first chapter in a twisted splatterpunk comedy epic that’s like Guy Ritchie’s Snatch by way of Peter Jackson’s Meet the Feebles and BBC’s “The Young Ones”! Detective Danny Glover, Scarborough Police’s premiere dog-napping-ring buster and general fat bastard, arrives in London to help the clinically psychotic Detective Sonny Boy with a little problem; Who is butchering London’s dogs? The answer seems obvious at first, it must be Burger Priest, the Pope’s neo-nazi clown-chef fast food empire! The detectives embark on a covert mission to uncover Burger Priest’s dark secret, but even they are unprepared for the true horror and depth of the fast food franchise’s depravity. Assisted by Feety, a heroin-addicted fetus, and Ellen Mellon, a New York reporter who also happens to be an animated ventriloquist’s doll, they must reveal the Pope’s evil plan and shut down Burger Priest for good!
Hay plays Professor Benjamin Tibbetts, representative of the Teaching & Welfare Institution for the Reformation of Pagans (otherwise known as T.W.I.R.P for short), and dedicated to spreading education amongst the natives of colonial Africa. As he arrives (still trying to learn the native language via recordings), Professor Tibbetts is tricked into sneaking a gin still into the country by a local prince. Later, Tibbetts makes his way to Kombooli High, where his students wear Eton collars alongside their native garb and Tibbetts finds himself sporting a mortarboard and safari shorts due to the heat. When the Commissioner falls ill with a dose of malaria, Tibbetts is forced to take over his duties, which include collecting the taxes. Upriver, he finds an old paddlesteamer operated by Harbottle (Moore Marriott) and Albert (Graham Moffatt) and the threesome rescue a baby from death by sacrifice.
In the lockdown of January 2021, Richard Herring went to his GP to find out why his right testicle seemed to be growing bigger. It turned out that he had testicular cancer and one month later he was lying in hospital waiting to have his murderous gonad removed. Would he survive? (No spoilers!) For a comedian who had done a whole show about male genitalia (Talking Cock) and written a book about toxic masculinity (The Problem With Men), this seemed like a cruel twist of fate. But because he’s a comedian, he was able to get a book and a stand-up tour out of it all. And now he’s got a DVD too! Recorded at the Gordon Craig Theatre in Stevenage (just 1.9 miles from where Richard’s knacker was excised) by the fabulous gofasterstripe.com crew. Featuring a special appearance by Right Bollock and with extras including one of the first live performances of this material, the full audio podcast series and a commentary track from a mystery celebrity.
Five comedy sketches by Steve Burge & Tony Way.
Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in dustbins. Together they live in a room with two windows, but there may be nothing at all outside.
It's Ashley's birthday and she wants to tick learning to drive off her bucket list. Falling for her driving instructor is an added bonus.
As beautifully touching as it is funny and bold, Things I Know To Be True tells the story of a family and marriage through the eyes of four grown siblings struggling to define themselves beyond their parents’ love and expectations. Parents Bob and Fran have worked their fingers to the bone and with their four children grown and ready to fly the nest it might be time to relax and enjoy the roses. But the changing seasons bring home some shattering truths. Featuring Frantic Assembly’s celebrated physicality, and co-directed by Frantic Assembly’s Tony and Olivier Award nominated Artistic Director Scott Graham and State Theatre Company’s Artistic Director Geordie Brookman, Things I Know To Be True is a complex and intense study of the mechanics of a family that is both poetic and brutally frank.
A comedy sitcom show based around a Sunday league football team and the drama surrounding it. Pilot episode follows Tony one of the younger players and his current love interest. The rest of the team come up with a plan for a healthy break-up. Brought to you from the award winning production team. Filmed on Netflix approved Sony FX9 camera's. Looking for a tv/ streaming service series pickup.
A disillusioned diner waitress decides to take matters into her own hands with rude customers and deal with them how she's always been told - kill them with kindness.
After receiving rave reviews in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, Bill Bailey brings ‘Qualmpeddler’ to the Hammersmith Apollo London. A brilliant mix of stand-up, stories, music and old-fashioned wit distilled from his own extraordinary experiences and reactions to the modern world, he looks at Cut-Price Shark Diving, The Hiding Skills of Dentists, A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance & Internet Shopping, Mandarin Ambiguity, Religious Dubstep, and Fashioning Replacement Hamsters. All in all, vintage Bill Bailey with trademark musical mash-ups, multi-lingual riffs, films, songs, philosophizing and silliness on a grand scale…plus one amazing owl. “Qualmpeddler is... part rock-concert, part political discourse, part philosophical enquiry... masterfully constructed... the thinking person’s comedian...” - Herald Sun, Melbourne.
Lockipedia is a brand new stand-up show from the brilliant Sean Lock. Lockipedia lets the audience choose what show they get. Lockipedia is what Sean 'knows' about stuff. Lockipedia can only be accessed live & on DVD. Lockipedia is funny & not to be missed! Team captain of Channel 4's '8 Out Of 10 Cats' and one of the UK's most highly acclaimed and original comedians, Sean Lock is finally back on the road in 2010 with his highly anticipated new tour - Lockipedia. The new show will be Sean Lock at his best and will be recorded for DVD later in the year and released in November, a must-have for all fans.
A sincere young woman straightens out a wild and irresponsible ladies man
A brass band goes to London to take part in a competition.
Nick is at his therapist's office, breaking down his troubles in life so far. He's struggling with self-loathing, disconnection and anxiety, and he attributes it all to his lack of a nose.
Only shown at live events, Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes is made from unseen sketches and outtakes from seminal British TV series Brass Eye.
Anand, his pretty cousin and their sick uncle are stranded in Amsterdam where they receive an offer to take them to England.
Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the staff. Hay, assisted by Claude Hulbert and Charles Hawtrey, has to unravel the mystery before he becomes the next victim.
An obsessive man's moustache envy compels him to undertake a bizarre ritual with a mysterious voodoo priestess.
Anthony has recently lost his wife and has become withdrawn from life. Concerned for her father’s well being, Flora decides to hire Isabella, a vibrant and compassionate woman in her twenties, to be his caregiver.