Waking Ned Divine (1998) meets Up in Smoke (1978) in this wacky British comedy about growing marijuana. Grace Trevethan (Brenda Blethyn is a cheerful upper-class housewife and gardening enthusiast who is blithefully unaware of business matters. This all changes when she learns that her husband fell from an airplane without a parachute. Her husband ...
Telecast on American cable television as Sweet Revenge, this wickedly black comedy was produced for British TV under the title The Revengers' Comedies, which was also the name of the Alan Ayckbourn play collection upon which it was based. Late one night on London Bridge, two potential suicides meet. Henry Bell (Sam Neill) is a midlevel executive ...
Based on the children's books by Mick Inkpen, the British cartoon series Kipper was all about a laid-back dog. No matter what the provocation, Kipper (who combined the best elements of child and adult) refused to get his dander up, even though all around him tended to have short fuses. The multi-talented Martin Clunes supplied the voice of the ...
Filmed in London and Wales, this two-part adaptation of the oft-dramatized R.D. Blackmore novel Lorna Doone was praised for its realism, though one or two nitpickers pointed out that the costumes were not all "in period" for 17th century Scotland. This time around, Amelia Warner starred as the titular Lorna, whose romance with young John Ridd ...
Having shifted networks from ITV to BBC, Men Behaving Badly opens its third season with the episode "Lovers," in which Gary (Martin Clunes) hopes to impress girlfriend Dorothy(Caroline Quentin) with his "vast" sexual experience, while Gary's lodger, Tony (Neil Morrissey), prepares to swoop down and claim upstairs neighbor Deborah (Leslie Ash), who ...
The second season of Men Behaving Badly begins with "Gary and Tony," in which apartment owner Gary (Martin Clunes) has finally shed himself of obnoxious and indigent lodger Dermot, only to find that his new roommate, Tony (Neil Morrissey), is no prize either -- nor is Tony any more capable than Dermot of paying his rent on time. Episode two, "Rent ...
A presentation of ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre, Goodbye, Mr. Chips aired on PBS in October 2003. Based on the novel by James Hilton, this adaptation was directed by British filmmaker Stuart Orme. The story follows the life of beloved Latin schoolteacher Mr. Chipping (Martin Clunes). As a young man, he arrives at Brookfield boarding school in the ...
The premise of the British sitcom Men Behaving Badly is swiftly established in the opening episode "Intruders": Apartment owner Gary (Martin Clunes) must put up with loutish lodger Dermot (Harry Enfield) if he wants to meet the monthly mortgage -- for which, alas, Dermot never seems to have the necessary funds. In the five episodes that follow, ...
Tony (Neil Morrissey) arranges his roommate Gary's bachelor party after Gary (Martin Clunes) agrees to marry longtime girlfriend Dorothy (Caroline Quentin) in "Stag Night," the opening salvo of the sixth and final season of Men Behaving Badly. This episode is followed, perhaps inevitably, by "Wedding," with both prospective bride and prospective ...
The possibility that Gary (Martin Clunes) has gotten his girlfriend, Dorothy(Caroline Quentin), pregnant is at the forefront of "Babies," the opening episode of Men Behaving Badly's fourth season. Meanwhile, Gary's roommate, Tony (Neil Morrissey), comes to grief when he tries to spy on upstairs neighbor Deborah (Leslie Ash) in her undies. The ...
Returning home from a European vacation, a newly bearded Tony (Neil Morrissey) is shocked at the tidiness of his apartment in "Hair," the fifth-season opener of Men Behaving Badly. The shock may be doubled when roommate Gary (Martin Clunes) has to tell Tony that he'll have to move out now that Gary's girlfriend, Dorothy (Caroline Quentin), has ...
British screen favorites Timothy Spall and Martin Clunes headline the rollicking survivalist farce Neville's Island, which combines the premises of Deliverance and Robinson Crusoe, wrapped in distinctly English humor. When four white-collared businessmen undertake a team-building exercise, little can they foresee the disaster that will capsize ...
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