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"Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, the late night live comedy show that airs each Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she's long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career success, and a close relationship with her stepfather to round out a satisfying life. But when Sally's friend and fellow writer Danny Horst begins dating Annabel, a glamorous actress who guest-hosted the...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
Britain's longest-running sitcom returns to the picturesque village of Holmfirth in Yorkshire, marking its 30th anniversary. Our ageing delinquents wend their merry way through the Dales, gleefully filling their time with half-baked schemes and schoolboy pranks.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
DI Richard Poole is still trapped on the stunning Caribbean island paradise of Saint-Marie as this light-hearted detective drama returns. The sun, sea and sand still continue to irritate him, just as he irritates his long-suffering colleagues. Alongside the beautiful Sergeant Camille Bordey, he takes on a baffling array of murder cases, from pirate curses to nuns killed in locked rooms - even solving cases with a hurricane bearing down on them. Most...
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Series
Publisher
Nudged Children's Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
From the world's favorite author, David Walliams—ten cautionary tales and a delightfully dreadful cast of characters! Are you ready to meet the World's Worst Children? Five beastly boys and five gruesome girls! Also featuring a special appearance from fan-favorite Raj! From Number One bestselling author David Walliams comes this collection of wickedly funny, deliciously mischievous tales.
5) Degrassi
Publisher
WildBrain
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
DEGRASSI: The Next Generation, a dramatic sequel from the producer of the award-winning Degrassi series of the 1980s-- Kids of Degrassi Street, Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High. Degrassi: The Next Generation continues the core spirit of the previous Degrassi series. It tells its youthful viewers: you are not alone. It talks directly to its young audience, exploring their dilemmas from their point of view. It’s a brave new world as Degrassi:...
6) The Job Lot
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Comedy set in a West Midlands job centre. Neurotic manager Trish runs the Brownall Job Centre aided by a mixed-bag of staff, including reluctant and truculant Karl, the less-than-helpful Angela and two uniquely skilled security guards, all facing the challenges of dealing with customers who don't always appreciate their efforts.
7) Upstart Crow
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
David Mitchell stars as William Shakespeare in a rip-roaring comedy tribute to the Bard. Written by Ben Elton, this fictional account of his early career follows Shakespeare as he starts to make a name for himself in London, while also trying to be a husband and father for his family in Stratford-upon-Avon.
8) RUMOURS
Publisher
Decal Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (circa 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A genre-hopping political satire/horror comedy starring Cate Blanchett, Rumours follows leaders of the world's wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit as they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.
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English
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Audrey Hepburn's portrays of a modern-day princess, rebelling against royal obligations, exploring Rome on her own. She meets an American newspaperman (Gregory Peck) who, seeking an exclusive story, pretends ignorance of her true identity. But his plan falters as they fall in love. Audrey Hepburn won an **Academy Award,** a **BAFTA Award** and a **Golden Globe** for her performance. Nominated for a Golden Lion at the **Venice International Film Festival.**...
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English
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Confined to a nursing home and about to turn 100, Allan Karlsson, who has a larger-than-life back story as an explosives expert, climbs out of the window in his slippers and embarks on an unforgettable adventure involving thugs, a murderous elephant and a very friendly hot dog stand operator.
11) Four lions
Publisher
Alamo Drafthouse Films
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A whip-smart, laugh-out-loud comedy that takes aim at the war on terror. Follow five clueless buffoons as they plan to strike a blow on their own turf, showing that while terrorism is supposed to be about ideology, it can also be about idiots.
"One of the funniest movies of the year."--Associated Press
"Brilliantly incendiary."--Time Magazine
"...shockingly hilarious..."--A.O. Scott
12) The farewell
Language
English
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Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a minefield of family expectations and proprieties, she finds...
13) My Hero
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
George Sunday lives in London with the love of his life, Nurse Janet Dawkins. Their busy lives are overshadowed by one unique yet significant element - George is Thermoman, a superhero. The humour and strains of their relationship (she doesn't understand that Thermoman's tights must not go in the washing machine; he doesn't realise that you don't French-kiss your girlfriend's mother - a light peck will do) make for captivating viewing.
14) Magic Mike
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The hot headliner in an all-male revue, Magic Mike has been rocking the stage at Club Xquisite for years, with his original style and over-the-top dance moves. Just as another summer heats up, an intriguing new woman enters his life, causing Mike to think twice about his future as a dancer.
"Tatum is just mesmerizing..."--Associated Press
"...Soderbergh and cast tell a realistic, vivid story."--Roger Ebert
"It's one of the year's best surprises..."--Newsday...
15) The jerk
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, has invented some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.
16) Humpday
Author
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
It's been a decade since Ben (Duplass) and Andrew (Leonard) were the bad boys of their college campus. Ben has settled down and found a job, wife, and home. Andrew took the alternate route as a vagabond artist, skipping the globe from Chiapas to Cambodia. When Andrew shows up unannounced on Ben's doorstep, they easily fall back into their old dynamic of macho one-upmanship. Late into the night at a wild party, the two find themselves locked in a mutual...
17) Uneasy Money
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Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
A penniless English lord, an inheritance up for grabs, and a beautiful beekeeper get into a hornet's nest of trouble in this classic romantic comedy.
Bill Chalmers may hold the title of Lord Dawlish, but he's too broke to marry his fiancée, who insists he become rich before they wed. So he heads to New York to make his fortune-only to have someone else's dropped in his lap. It seems an American millionaire whom Bill once helped with golf has left...
18) The Thick of It
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
Award-winning comedian Armando Iannucci directs this dark political satire, set in the corridors of British government. An ensemble of the best British comic actors improvise around scripts based on inside knowledge and leaked revelations of the workings of Westminster. The team at the Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship find themselves in a world dominated by internal politics, power and the media, where they have no choice but to do as...
19) The Librarians
Publisher
Electric Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
With magic returned to the world, the Librarians are needed now more then ever. Jacob Stone, Eezekiel Jones and Cassandra Cillian have taken on the role of full-time Librarians, and together with their guardian, Eve Baird, long-time Librarian, Flynn Carsen and their caretaker, Jenkins, they will face all the challenges that this new age of magic is bringing to the world. An ancient spell has brought some of the greatest fictional villains off the...
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"Sophie Honeywell always wondered if Thomas Gordon was the one she let get away. He was the perfect boyfriend, but on the day he was to propose, she broke his heart. A year later he married his travel agent, while Sophie has been mortifyingly single ever since. Now Thomas is back in her life because Sophie has unexpectedly inherited his aunt Connie's house on Scribbly Gum Island--home of the famously unsolved Munro Baby mystery" -- publisher website...
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