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The Sharp End was a 1991 British television comedy drama starring Gwen Taylor, James Cosmo and Philip Martin Brown. It was written by Roy Clarke and directed by Brian Parker and David Penn, and ran for eight episodes on BBC1 from 12 April 1991. Taylor took the leading role of Celia Forrest, a recent widow who had decided to take on the running of her late husband's Debt Collection Agency. However, her decision to do this was much to the displeasure of her more ruthless business rival, who tried everything in his power to close her business down. James Cosmo also starred as Carmichael, an illiterate hermit who was hired by Forrest as her assistant. He spent much of the series riding around on a pushbike with a tape recorder on which Forrest would record instructions of his tasks for the day. The duo managed to keep the company running, but the series was less successful, and was cancelled after one season.

Bang Bang - It's Reeves and Mortimer continues the anarchic and surreal blend of offbeat comedy that has made the duo so popular. The series is arguably a continuation of The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, although a number of new characters were added. There's also a spoof fly-on-the-wall documentary about Baron's Night Club – a clear precursor to Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights . The high-voiced Stott brothers--who appeared in Vic Reeves Big Night Out --return to terrorise celebrities. The show capitalised on the duo's success with the spoof game show Shooting Stars and brought in a darker edge to their humour.

Driven Crazy is an Australian children's television series, based on the short stories by author Paul Jennings. It first aired in 1998, and was the second television series based on his works.

Drawn by French animator Picha, here are 26 episodes of the hilarious animal Olympics antics. These are parodies of Olympic events, based vaguely on behaviours in the animal kingdom, such as egg laying and rolling (chickens), slop slurping (pigs) and kangaroo boxing.

The story of an outlandish love affair between an impressionable English woman and a Soviet man obsessed with food.

Catherina de Soldi is a rich woman and owner of one of the most important supermarket chains in Chile. But despite having everything in life, there is something that she still cannot achieve: finding a wife for his son.

Multilul is a satirical take on the advertising and media world by the Dutch absurdist comedy show Jiskefet. It aired in late 1998 on the VPRO network. It follows the staff of a pretentious marketing agency (Creative Advertising, Media and Communication Consultant Agency) as they brainstorm absurd campaigns. The series mocks corporate jargon, pseudo-creative processes, and industry narcissism.

Babes in the Wood is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1998 to 1999. Starring Karl Howman and Denise van Outen, Babes in the Wood was written by Geoff Deane, Paul Alexander, Simon Braithwaite, Ian Searle and Fleur Costello.

Chucklewood Critters is an American line of television specials and an animated TV series created by former Hanna-Barbera animators, Bill Hutten and Tony Love, which centered on two woodland animals: Buttons, a young bear cub, and Rusty, a fox cub. It started as a Christmas special in 1983 called The Christmas Tree Train, followed by eight more holiday/seasonal specials. In 1997 it was developed into a series entitled The New Chucklewood Critters, which ran for two seasons.

Down to Earth is a British television situation comedy, aired in 1995 on BBC One. It was devised by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey and starred Richard Briers, who also featured in Esmonde and Larbey's earlier series The Good Life and Ever Decreasing Circles. One series consisting of seven episodes was produced.

Villa Arzilla is an Italian television series.

At night Mary is a party girl and by day she works at the New York Public Library with her godmother.

A short stories about two brothers whose parents own a car shop.

Agent Z And The Penguin From Mars was a 1996 Children's BBC sitcom, based on the book of the same name by Mark Haddon. The six episode series followed the exploits of Ben Simpson, played by Duncan Barton, and his friends Barney, played by Andrew McKay, and Jenks, played by Reggie Yates, who together formed the "Crane Grove Gang", named after the street where they lived. This was a society dedicated to playing ingenious practical jokes in an initiative called "Agent Z".

The series takes place exclusively at Restaurang Ollonet, a neighborhood pub somewhere in Stockholm. It revolves around the innkeeper Bettan and her three regulars.

Another day in the life of Dante and Randal, from Kevin Smith's indie film.

The series centred on partners Bill Ruskin and Donny Walsh who were followed by hand-held cameras as they worked in Vista Valley, California.

Professione fantasma is an Italian television series.

Teen Bata Teen was aired in 1995 on PTV Home and it starred Adeel Hashmi, Faisal Qureshi, Ali Tahir, Mira Hashmi, Wajiha Tahir and Fatima. The sitcom became very popular and was also named as the first television sitcom aired in Pakistan.

Children's comedy adventure series with Grotbags, the wicked witch, and her puppet lodgers.

Hilfe, meine Familie spinnt is a German television series.

Bumatih is a miserly, greedy father, lover of interests. His main concern is access to money in any way. Bumatih’s family and those around him are affected by his bad nature. We see some of his family support him and others who want to be freed from him, in addition to some social problems that occur between Bumatih, his neighbors, his only sister and her husband.

ComicView is an American stand-up comedy show that aired on BET on Tuesdays and Fridays from September 1992 to December 2008. The show has been the launching pad for such comedians as Dante, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, Sommore, and Rodney Perry.

Maxine Chandler (Anne Bancroft) is a fading Hollywood star who is living in a suite at the Savoy Hotel while she's working in London. She employs a young cockney woman, Freddie Latham (Charlotte Coleman) as her personal assistant. Freddie is an outspoken woman who doesn't hesitate to let Max know about her obvious shortcomings. Max's agent, Malcolm Parkes (Richard Pearson) often echoes Freddie's opinions, though usually much more quietly.

The story of Suleiman deals with the single 40-year-old man who lives with his misery mother and controls him and refuses his marriage so that his wife does not have children to inherit him, and the attempts of her speaking relative Umm Faisal to convince her to marry her son fail, until the speech decides to challenge Um Suleiman and cooperate with her relative, the widow Taiba, in order to marry her to Suleiman with trick.

Peter und Paul is a German television series.

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The story of Awad, the stingy trader who collects money while his family lives in deprivation, which forces his children to work to escape their father's stinginess. The daughter marries a rich older man, and her two brothers try to achieve their dreams away from their father.

The Footy Show is an Australian Logie Award-winning sports variety television programme covering professional rugby league in Australia. It is shown on the Nine Network and is currently presented by former rugby league footballers Paul Vautin and Darryl Brohman and Australian former test cricketer Michael Slater. Having aired on Thursday nights since 1994, the programme is largely entertainment-based, with some football-related content included, such as previews of the weekend's fixtures and interviews with players.

Casa dolce casa is an Italian television series.

Lily Strasberg, the boulevard actress, who triumphed in L’Œuf de Pâques as Joséphine, closes the season with her 457th performance. She decides to go down to the South to rest and comfort Charles, her ex-brother-in-law, director of a small company that performs outdated operettas that no longer attract many people.