Black Books
Black Books on Imdb9 December 2001 (USA)
Comedy
Bernard Black runs his own bookshop even though he doesn't much like people who buy books and hates having customers...
Dylan Moran
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Bill Bailey
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Tamsin Greig
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Rosie Day
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Paul Beech
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BBC One Unveils Fall Schedule, Including "Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars" and New Season Of "Gavin & Stacey"
added by newsBotBBC One announced their fall line up of programs today, which includes the third (and likely final season) of the award-winning comedy series Gavin & Stacey and the latest Doctor Who special starring David Tennant (entitled "The Waters of Mars"). Also on tap for UK viewers this autumn: a slew of other programming that includes a new adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma, starring Romola Garai (Atonement), Jonny Lee Miller (Endgame, Melinda And Melinda), Michael Gambon (Harry Potter, Cranford), Tamsin Greig (Black Books, Green Wing), Robert Bathurst (Cold Feet), and Jodhi May (Einstein And Eddington, The Amazing Mrs Pritchard); the return of Peter Moffat's BAFTA-award winning thriller Criminal Justice, starring Maxine Peake, Matthew Macfadyen, Denis Lawson, Steven Mackintosh, Eddie Marsan, and Sophia Okonedo. Also announced: family drama Framed starring Waking the Dead's Trevor Eve and Torchwood's Eve Myles; period legal drama Garrow's Law; fashion drama Material Girl, starring Being Human's Leonora Crichlow,
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Eiff 09: Review of Wide Open Spaces
added by newsBotYear: 2009
Directors: Tom Hall
Writers: Arthur Mathews
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 3 out of 10
I love Ardal O'Hanlon, his performance as Dougal in the sitcom 'Father Ted', is one of the best things about 90's, UK comedy. I love Ewan Bremner, his performance in Trainspotting as the junkie, Spud, is one of the best things about 90's, UK cinema. Why then would both actors agree to star in something that feels like the aborted pilot of the worlds most depressing buddy-comedy?
Myles (O'Hanlon) and Austin (Bremner) are best friends, who agree to work on Ireland's first, and only, famine themed adventure park. It's being run by a crooked businessman, who in turn is being funded by an eccentric, video-art obsessed, middle-aged vamp, who takes every opportunity to flirt with both him, and the two lads. They share a tin hut, in which a lot of the film is set,
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Graham Linehan Up for BAFTA
added by newsBotGraham Linehan's 'The It Crowd' has received a BAFTA Television Award nomination for Best Situation Comedy. The awards will take place at the Royal Festival Hall on London's South Bank on Sunday April 26th. The sitcom of which Linehan (Father Ted, Black Books) created, stars Irish actor Chris O'Dowd who plays an It technician in a fictitious British corporation. O'Dowd will appear in the soon to be released 'The Boat That Rocked' directed by Richard Curtis (Love Actually) and the upcoming 'Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel'.
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