The 1980's
The maestro of the comedy sketch Paul Whitehouse continues his celebration of the genre in all its glory down the decades. This time, we're into the 1980s, when the turbulence of the new decade was reflected by a new wave of alternative comedians bursting onto our screens.
Oxbridge loomed large over many of the decade's big hitters, not least in the biting satire of Not The Nine O'Clock News – though for every savage slice of ultra-topical wit, like the racist copper sketch with Griff Rhys-Jones and Rowan Atkinson, there was always room for daftness in a poor quality gorilla suit….
The Footlights also gave us the genius of Fry & Laurie, whose early sketch comedy still stands up among the best work of their glittering careers. But elsewhere, newer, regional voices were also emerging, with the razor-sharp northern humour of Victoria Wood, the distinctly Scottish flavour of Naked Video (which gave us Gregor Fisher's iconic Rab C Nesbitt character) – and the long overdue arrival of more black talent on our screens, most notably courtesy of the young, trailblazing Lenny Henry.
Trailer
Recently Updated Shows
The Terminal List
Based on the best-selling novel by Jack Carr, The Terminal List follows James Reece after his entire platoon of Navy SEALs is ambushed during a high-stakes covert mission. Reece returns home to his family with conflicting memories of the event and questions about his culpability. However, as new evidence comes to light, Reece discovers dark forces working against him, endangering not only his life but the lives of those he loves.
Daredevil: Born Again
Matt Murdock finds himself on a collision course with Wilson Fisk when their past identities begin to emerge.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
On Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, John Oliver presents a satirical look at the week in news, politics and current events.
The Gilded Age
The American Gilded Age was a period of immense economic change, of huge fortunes made and lost, and the rise of disparity between old money and new.
Against this backdrop of change, the story begins in 1882 — introducing young Marian Brook, the orphaned daughter of a Union general, who moves into the New York City home of her thoroughly old money aunts Agnes van Rhijn and Ada Brook. Accompanied by Peggy Scott, an accomplished African-American woman, Marian inadvertently becomes enmeshed in a social war between one of her aunts, a scion of the old money set, and her stupendously rich neighbors, a ruthless railroad tycoon and his ambitious wife, George and Bertha Russell.
In this exciting new world that is on the brink of the modern age, will Marian follow the established rules of society, or forge her own path?