Executive Stress is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1986 to 1988. Produced by Thames Television, it first aired on 20 October 1986. After three series, the last episode aired on 27 December 1988. Written by George Layton, Executive Stress stars Penelope Keith as Caroline Fairchild, a middle-aged woman who decides to go back to work. Her husband, Donald, is played by Geoffrey Palmer in the first series. However, Palmer was unable to return for the second series, so Peter Bowles played Donald in the last two series. Keith and Bowles had previously appeared in together in To the Manor Born.
Tor Varhaug is back after an almost perpetual leave of absence from the Planning and Building Services. Now he has taken the step further and got a new job at NAV. Here he tries everything to do as little as possible, but his boss Linda is a master of delegation and give a whole bunch of new tasks to our anti-hero.
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From 1959 to 1961, the lives of five telephone operators in Derby.
Sharp knives and even sharper tongues! Meet Britain's finest, most short-fused chef, Gareth Balckstock.
Trying to get Guo Xiao Mei - an heiress, fujoshi and magazine editor to join his gym, Gu Zhi pretends to be gay in order to fulfill her wishes. With her sharp fujoshi eyes, Xiao Mei immediately pairs him up with the gym's really hot boss, Qin Nan. Wanting to have a front row seat to their real-life 'romance', Xiao Mei agrees to sign up for a 5-year VIP Diamond membership. Ofcourse, to actually keep her from withdrawing her gym membership and/or buying up the whole gym, she's going to need proof of their relationship, isn't she?
Yumi is a 30-year old, ordinary woman who struggles with expressing her feelings. Told from the perspective of the many brain cells in her head, she experiences growth in both her love life, her career, and finds happiness in the small joys of everyday life.
As soon as graduation, in order to be able to confess smoothly, intern Su Ran Ran worked hard to join the game company where Xu Qi Heng’s love object is located, but unexpectedly clashed with the company’s founder, Zhuang Xu, on the first day of employment. When evaluating the game, the two unexpectedly exchanged souls. In the face of Su Ran Ran’s confession, Zhuang Xu agreed with the mentality of writing a man, and Xu Qi Heng, who only regarded Su Ran Ran as his sister, was very distressed. In order to minimize the damage, the two had to make mistakes. But in the day and night with Su Ran Ran, both of them had a wonderful chemical reaction with this girl. At the same time, Su Ran Ran gradually became aware of the strangeness. After the truth was revealed, where would the three people’s feelings go.
No Job for a Lady is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 7 February 1990 to 10 February 1992. Starring Penelope Keith, it was written by Alex Shearer, and directed and produced by John Howard Davies. It was made by Thames Television for ITV.
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.
A live-action workplace comedy about Gary, an associate demon, as he attempts to capture souls on earth in order to climb the corporate ladder of the underworld. Gary hopes to advance in Hell, but he may be too stupid, lazy and kind-hearted to realize his dreams of promotion. Meanwhile, Gary's intern Claude is more talented, more devious and will do whatever it takes to impress Satan.
After the Rain: Wish in a Pocket, the live-action spin-off web miniseries based on the live-action film of Jun Mayuzuki's After the Rain manga, on Wednesday. The new miniseries focuses on the relationship between the characters Takashi Yoshizawa and Yui Nishida, who are supporting characters in the original story. The series maintains the same cast as the film. Hiroki Kazama is directing the series.
Seven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to Germany to work on a site in Dusseldorf. We follow their trials and tribulations of working away from home and away from the women they left behind.
Gye Sook Ja, a recruiting team leader of an enormous game company. She is gifted with extraordinary memories and computation abilities, but she tries to quantify everything in the world and is regarded as “cold-blooded” among the people around her. Lee Hae Joon, a successful lawyer working with international children’s rights. He tries to help Gye Sook Ja overcome the pain and trauma of her past.
A workplace comedy about the hard of hearing manager of a second-hand sporting goods store, and the team of "hard-working" employees he leads.
The workplace comedy's story follows a 26-year-old office worker named Momose. He recently changed jobs after his previous boss harassed him. He's worried his new boss will also use power harassment to make his life miserable. Momose is trying to hide his anxious stomach when he first meets his new boss Shirasaki, however he's surprised to find his new boss is such a natural airhead that he eliminates all of Momose's anxiety.
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.
The misadventures of hapless cafe owner René Artois and his escapades with the Resistance in occupied France.
Surgical spirit is a British situation-comedy television series starring Nichola McAuliffe and Duncan Preston that was broadcast from 14 April 1989 through to 7 July 1995. It was written by Annie Bruce, Raymond Dixon, Graeme Garden, Peter Learmouth, Paul McKenzie and Annie Wood. It was made for the ITV network by Humphrey Barclay Productions for Granada Television.
Hi-de-Hi! is a British sitcom set in Maplins, a fictional holiday camp, during 1959 and 1960, and was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, who also wrote Dad's Army and It Ain't Half Hot Mum amongst others. It aired on the BBC from 1980 to 1988. The series revolved around the lives of the camp's management and entertainers, most of them struggling actors or has-beens. The inspiration was the experience of writers Perry and Croft: after being demobilised from the army, Perry was a Redcoat at Butlin's, Pwllheli during the holiday season. The series gained large audiences and won a BAFTA as Best Comedy Series in 1984. In 2004, it came 40th in Britain's Best Sitcom and in a 2008 poll on Channel 4, 'Hi-de-Hi!" was voted the 35th most popular comedy catchphrase.