Subgenre Sampler
Television > Comedy: 820 Films to Buy & Rent
Robot Chicken (TV Series) (2005)
- Devilish stop–motion animated series jiving an array of random sketch–comedy segments to the tune of pop–cultural parody, rounded…
Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby (TV Series) - Series 1 (2005)
- Dir. Danny Mulheron
Feat. David McPhail, Jason Hoyte, Tandi Wright…
- Gleefully un–PC series stars David McPhail as an aggressively behind the times 'relief teacher' in a small New Zealand secondary school, whose…
Suite Life of Zack and Cody, The (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Dylan Sprouse, Cole Sprouse, Ashley Tisdale…
- Fun kids TV sitcom series from the Disney Channel starring real–life identical twins as two mischievous brothers who live in a hotel with their…
Taming of the Shrew, The (Shakespeare Retold) (2005)
- Dir. David Richards
Feat. Shirley Henderson, Rufus Sewell, Twiggy
- An updated version of Shakespeare's comedy by the makers of THE CANTERBURY TALES (2003) series, has Shirley Henderson play a bitchy and ambitious MP…
Thick of It, The (TV Series) (2005)
- Dir. Armando Iannucci
Feat. Chris Langham, Peter Capaldi, Chris Addison…
- Coruscating political satire examines the bumbling drones who work inside government as they blunder their days away under the watchful eye of the…
Trailer Park Boys - Season 5 (TV Series) (2005)
- Further episodes from this gratifyingly lowbrow mockumentary series, based around the lives of a set of eccentrically vulgar residents of a trailer…
We Can Be Heroes (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Chris Lilley
- Hoisting the tried–and–true "mock–umentary" to new heights, the fiendishly talented Chris Lilley assumes no less than six roles in…
Weeds (TV Series) (2005-2012)
- Feat. Mary-Louise Parker, Elizabeth Perkins, Justin Kirk…
- Tinkering with suburban values and the illusion they help maintain, this wry and caustic comedy of affluence trafficks the drug trade of a widowed…
Best of Spike Milligan, The (2004)
- Dir. Alan J.W. Bell
Feat. Spike Milligan
- BBC compilation of comical highlights from the television career of the famous ex–Goon. Includes skits from 'Q' and 'There's a lot of it About'.
Blackpool (TV Series) (2004)
- Dir. Coky Giedroyc, Julie Ann Robinson
Feat. David Morrissey, Sarah Parish, David Tennant
- Cocky and entertaining mini–series concerns the rise and fall of a Blackpool gambling entrepeneur, played with broad intensity by the excellent…