Meera Syal

Meera Syal

Born: June 27, 1961
in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Meera Syal MBE (born Feeroza Syal on 27 June 1961) is a British comedienne, writer, playwright, singer, journalist, producer and actress. She rose to prominence as one of the team that created Goodness Gracious Me and became one of the UK's best-known Indian personalities portraying Sanjeev's grandmother, Ummi, in The Kumars at No. 42.

She was awarded the MBE in the New Year's Honours List of 1997 and in 2003 was listed in The Observer as one of the fifty funniest acts in British comedy.

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The Canterville Ghost
Title: The Canterville Ghost
Character: Lucretia Otis (voice)
Released: September 22, 2023
Type: Movie
An American family moves in to the Canterville Chase, a London mansion that has been haunted by ghost Sir Simon De Canterville for 300 years.
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Title: Mrs Sidhu Investigates
Character: Mrs. Sidhu
Released: September 18, 2023
Type: TV
Mrs. Sidhu is a high-end caterer with a taste for crime. Recently widowed, she juggles her new catering business with encouraging her wayward son Tez to find his passion, all while serving up justice to those who believe they are above the law. Her forays into sleuthing see her form an unofficial partnership with long-suffering divorcee DCI Burton who reluctantly accepts that together they're an unbeatable crime-fighting duo, much to the bemusement of his partner, DS Mint.
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The Smeds and the Smoos
Title: The Smeds and the Smoos
Character: Aunt Smed (voice)
Released: February 24, 2023
Type: Movie
In this animated intergalactic adventure, the red Smeds and the blue Smoos must learn to overcome their differences and work together to find young Janet and Bill – who eloped to escape their families’ long standing rivalries.
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The Almond and the Seahorse
Title: The Almond and the Seahorse
Character: Dr. Falmer
Released: December 16, 2022
Type: Movie
For Gwen, it's always 1999. The face in the mirror is unfamiliar and her partner isn't recognizable to her despite waking up together every day. Joe's past is coming undone and his partner, Sarah, fears she will be forgotten. A doctor refuses to give up on them, determined not to let them unravel.
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Title: The Devil's Hour
Character: Dr Ruby Bennett
Released: October 28, 2022
Type: TV
Lucy wakes every night at exactly 3:33am. Nothing in her life has made sense for a long time. But the answers are out there, somewhere, at the end of a trail of brutal murders.
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Title: The Devil's Hour
Character: Dr. Ruby Bennett
Released: October 28, 2022
Type: TV
Lucy wakes every night at exactly 3:33am. Nothing in her life has made sense for a long time. But the answers are out there, somewhere, at the end of a trail of brutal murders.
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Title: The Sandman
Character: Ric the Vic
Released: August 5, 2022
Type: TV
After years of imprisonment, Morpheus — the King of Dreams — embarks on a journey across worlds to find what was stolen from him and restore his power.
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Title: Roar
Character: Anu
Released: April 15, 2022
Type: TV
Featuring an all-star cast, this genre-bending anthology series weaves together eight darkly comedic feminist fables that take unexpected approaches to subjects like gender roles, autonomy, and identity.
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Title: The Wheel of Time
Character: Verin Mathwin
Released: November 18, 2021
Type: TV
Follow Moiraine, a member of the shadowy and influential all-female organization called the “Aes Sedai” as she embarks on a dangerous, world-spanning journey with five young men and women. Moiraine believes one of them might be the reincarnation of an incredibly powerful individual, whom prophecies say will either save humanity or destroy it.
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Title: Beena and Amrit
Character: Amrit
Released: November 8, 2021
Type: TV
Beena is young, spirited and fancy free. She's just finished a degree in politics and the world is her oyster, until she is unexpectedly forced to move back to the valleys to look after her irresponsible 40-something mother, Amrit.
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Spin
Title: Spin
Character: Asha
Released: September 18, 2021
Type: Movie
Rhea lives with her tight-knit multigenerational family. After her mother’s death, she has been her father’s emotional rock, and her life revolves around her family’s restaurant, her eclectic group of friends, and her after-school coding club. Everything changes when she falls for aspiring DJ Max and a long lost passion for music is reignited. Rhea discovers that she has a natural gift for creating beats and producing music that blends her Indian heritage, but must find the courage to follow her true inner talent.
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Title: Diana's Decades
Character: Narrator
Released: July 8, 2021
Type: TV
Princess Diana was an icon who both captured and transformed the spirit of the times. Following how this thoroughly modern princess emerged from the bra-burning spirit of the 1970s and helped transform not just the Royal Family, but Britain itself.
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Dragon Rider
Title: Dragon Rider
Character: Subisha Gulab (voice)
Released: October 15, 2020
Type: Movie
An unlikely trio of heroes – a dragon, a boy and a forest brownie – embark on an epic adventure to find the “Rim of Heaven” - the mythological safe haven for all dragons.
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Title: Kate & Koji
Character: Dr Ayesha Radwan
Released: March 18, 2020
Type: TV
Kate runs an old-fashioned café in a seaside town, and develops a strong, if sometimes volatile, friendship with asylum-seeking African doctor Koji. Although from different worlds, Kate and Koji are similar in ways they do not see for themselves.
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Yesterday
Title: Yesterday
Character: Sheila Malik
Released: June 26, 2019
Type: Movie
Jack Malik is a struggling singer-songwriter in an English seaside town whose dreams of fame are rapidly fading, despite the fierce devotion and support of his childhood best friend, Ellie. After a freak bus accident during a mysterious global blackout, Jack wakes up to discover that he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles.
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Nativity Rocks!
Title: Nativity Rocks!
Character: Nina
Released: November 23, 2018
Type: Movie
The staff and students at St. Bernadette's Primary School audition for a coveted place in a spectacular rock musical competition.
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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Title: The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Character: Cook
Released: October 26, 2018
Type: Movie
When Clara’s mother leaves her a mysterious gift, she embarks on a journey to four secret realms—where she discovers her greatest strength could change the world.
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Patrick
Title: Patrick
Character: Miss Phillips
Released: June 29, 2018
Type: Movie
A woman's chaotic life becomes more complicated when she inherits her grandmother's dog.
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To Provide All People
Title: To Provide All People
Character: District Nurse
Released: June 28, 2018
Type: Movie
To mark the 70th anniversary of the birth of the NHS, acclaimed poet Owen Sheers takes us on a journey that weaves the extraordinary story of the birthing of Nye Bevan's vision of free healthcare for all people with personal stories of the NHS in British society today.
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The Homestay
Title: The Homestay
Character: Meera
Released: May 13, 2018
Type: Movie
A sheltered Indian couple visits their son in the U.S. for the first time and bungles their apartment rental, ending up in close quarters with their hosts, a gay couple and their dogs.
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Title: The Split
Character: Goldie
Released: April 24, 2018
Type: TV
The Defoes, a family of female divorce lawyers, are forced to face their past following the return of their estranged father after a 30 year absence.
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Paddington 2
Title: Paddington 2
Character: Prosecutor
Released: November 9, 2017
Type: Movie
Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.
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Title: Richard Osman's House of Games
Character: Self - Contestant
Released: September 4, 2017
Type: TV
Each week a group of four famous faces go toe to toe in testing their general knowledge skills in a variety of entertaining games.
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Brexit Shorts: Just a T-shirt
Title: Brexit Shorts: Just a T-shirt
Character: Priri
Released: June 21, 2017
Type: Movie
Priti, a British-born Indian woman in the West Midlands, reports a violent incident in the street.
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Title: We Have Been Watching
Character: Self
Released: January 4, 2017
Type: TV
This series features some of Britain's best-loved comedians and funniest comedy actors gathering together for a jolly night in front of the telly, watching clips from classic sitcoms and sketch shows both old and new.
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Title: Walliams & Friend
Character: Various
Released: November 28, 2016
Type: TV
Comedy series in which David Walliams is joined by a different guest in each episode for a variety of sketches, alongside a talented supporting cast.
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Doctor Strange
Title: Doctor Strange
Character: Dr. Patel
Released: October 25, 2016
Type: Movie
After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Character: Presenter
Released: September 11, 2016
Type: Movie
A recording of the final night of Emma Rice's transgressive and flamboyant production of Shakespeare's comedy at the Globe in London. Four runaway lovers find themselves smack bang in the middle of a dispute between the King and Queen of the fairies, and, as if that wasn’t enough, a troupe of amateur actors are trying to rehearse a play. Between these unlikely groups flies Puck, armed only with a wicked sense of humour and a love potion capable of making anyone fall for the first person they set eyes upon. What could possibly go wrong?
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Title: John Bishop: In Conversation With...
Character: Herself
Released: September 1, 2016
Type: TV
A three series talk show. With the host in conversation with people whom he admires.
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Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
Title: Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
Character: Nurse
Released: July 7, 2016
Type: Movie
Live theatre presentation of Shakespeare's classic play about two teenagers from warring families whose love affair ends in tragedy.
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
Title: Alice Through the Looking Glass
Character: Nobody (voice)
Released: May 25, 2016
Type: Movie
Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.
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Title: Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
Released: November 6, 2015
Type: TV
The cover version has always been a staple of the pop charts. Yet it's often been viewed as the poor relation of writing your own songs. This film challenges and overturns that misconception by celebrating an exciting, underrated musical form that has the power to make or break an artist's career. Whether as tribute, reinterpretation or as an act of subversion, the extraordinary alchemy involved in covering a record can create a new, defining version - in some cases, even more original than the original.
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Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
Title: Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
Character: Narrator
Released: November 6, 2015
Type: Movie
Through ten carefully chosen cover versions that whisk us from the British Invasion to a noughties X Factor final, this film journeys over five decades to track how artists as varied as The Moody Blues, Soft Cell, Puff Daddy and Alexandra Burke have scored number 1s with their retake on someone else's song. Each of the ten classic cover versions has its own particular tale, tied not only into its musical and cultural context but also the personal testimony of the artists, producers and songwriters whose lives were changed in the process.
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Absolutely Anything
Title: Absolutely Anything
Character: Fiona
Released: June 26, 2015
Type: Movie
Eccentric aliens give a man the power to do anything he wants to determine if Earth is worth saving.
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Amar Akbar & Tony
Title: Amar Akbar & Tony
Character: Honey
Released: April 17, 2015
Type: Movie
Amar, Akbar & Tony follows the lives and loves of three childhood friends through twists and turns as the characters face sudden and unforeseen changes to their idealistic and trouble-free young lives. With hilarious and sometimes tragic consequences, the brotherly bond shared by the trio is forced to come to terms with some unexpected challenges. Interracial marriage, near fatal accidents and stints in prison will test old friendships and family values. A coming of age comedy drama showing the absurdities of life can also be the most amusing.
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National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Title: National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Character: Zehrunisa Husain
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
India is surging with global ambition. But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport lies a makeshift slum, full of people with plans of their own. Zehrunisa and her son Abdul aim to recycle enough rubbish to fund a proper house. Sunil, twelve and stunted, wants to eat until he’s as tall as Kalu the thief. Asha seeks to steal government anti-poverty funds to turn herself into a ‘first-class person’, while her daughter Manju intends to become the slum’s first female graduate. But their schemes are fragile; global recession threatens the garbage trade, and another slum-dweller is about to make an accusation that will destroy herself and shatter the neighbourhood.
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The Boy in the Dress
Title: The Boy in the Dress
Character: Jaspreet
Released: December 26, 2014
Type: Movie
Dennis feels different - an ordinary boy in an ordinary house in an ordinary street, playing football with his mates and living with his dad and brother, but frustrated by the boring grey world he inhabits. Life has never really been the same since his mum left. However, transformation can happen in the most unexpected places. Aided by Lisa, the coolest girl in the school, Dennis creates a whole new persona and puts it to the ultimate test - but can a boy wear a dress, and what will the headmaster, his dad and his friends on the football team think if they find out?
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Title: Original Comedy Shorts
Released: June 1, 2014
Type: TV
A series of six comedy shorts, in which each episode is 'taken over' by a different high profile comedian. The result is an exclusive, eclectic and hilarious mix of comedy genres, tastes and styles.
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Title: Duck Quacks Don't Echo
Released: February 7, 2014
Type: TV
Lee Mack wrangles a team of scientists and celebrity guests to find the truth behind the trivia on this bizarrely educational panel show.
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Title: The Musketeers
Character: Theresa
Released: January 19, 2014
Type: TV
Set in 17th century Paris, musketeers Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan are members of an elite band of soldiers who fight for what is just. They are heroes in the truest and most abiding sense – men that can be trusted and believed in to do the right thing, regardless of personal risk.
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Title: The Kumars
Character: Sushil 'Ummi' Kumar
Released: January 15, 2014
Type: TV
Having suffered hard during the economic downturn, The Kumars are now living in a flat in Hounslow behind the shop that Ashwin now runs. Sanjeev is divorced from his wife of nearly two years and Ashwin has manged to get a sponsorship deal that has allowed him to resurrect the family's talk show, which takes place in the living room of their flat.
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Much Ado About Nothing
Title: Much Ado About Nothing
Character: Beatrice
Released: June 1, 2012
Type: Movie
Iqbal Khan's vibrant and colourful production transposed Shakespeare's vivacious and sometimes unsettling comedy of love and deceit to an Indian setting.
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All in Good Time
Title: All in Good Time
Character: Lopa
Released: May 11, 2012
Type: Movie
East is East writer Ayub Khan-Din returns with another funny, tender-hearted portrait of family strife. Based on his popular play Rafta, Rafta (itself inspired by Bill Naughtons 1960s classic All in Good Time), the film is set in Bolton where Atul and Vina are celebrating their marriage. However, a honeymoon spent with his parents was not part of their plans. Thoughtless patriarch Eeshwar seems determined to emasculate and embarrass his son. As the weeks pass, consummating their union becomes an impossibility that threatens the couples entire future. A breezy mixture of heartbreak and hilarity, All in Good Time also offers peerless performances from original stage stars Harish Patel and Meera Syal.
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Title: Little Crackers
Character: Herself
Released: December 19, 2010
Type: TV
Little Crackers is a series of Christmas short films featuring stars of British and Irish comedy.
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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Title: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Character: Dia's Mother
Released: September 22, 2010
Type: Movie
Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to follow the advice of a psychic. Sally, the daughter of Alfie and Helena, is unhappy in her marriage and develops a crush on her boss, while her husband, Roy, falls for a woman engaged to be married.
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Desert Flower
Title: Desert Flower
Character: Pushpa Patel
Released: September 24, 2009
Type: Movie
The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation.
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Mad Sad & Bad
Title: Mad Sad & Bad
Character: Rashmi
Released: July 31, 2009
Type: Movie
HARDEEP, RASHMI and ATUL are brothers and sisters. Which means they can say anything they like to each other, no matter how honest. Mad, Sad and Bad is a 90-minute comedy about mixed race relationships set in Luton. It's about mid-thirties siblings and friends whose personal lives are continuously messed up by their own selfish needs. Mad, Sad and Bad explores our contemporary metropolitan neuroses through the intersecting lives of these siblings and their friends. The narrative slips from one character to the next as they escape and attack each other. all reluctant members of the same dysfunctional family. Written by Ed Barratt
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Title: Horrible Histories
Character: Storyteller
Released: April 16, 2009
Type: TV
Based on the best-selling children's books and liberally splattered with guts, blood and poo, a group of British comedians offer an anarchic and unconventional take on some of history's most gruesome and funny moments, with topics including the Stone Age, the Middle Ages, the Egyptians and the Romans, among others.
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Title: Beautiful People
Character: Aunty Hayley
Released: October 2, 2008
Type: TV
Beautiful People is a British comedy drama television series based on the memoirs of Barneys creative director Simon Doonan. The series takes place in Reading, Berkshire, in 1997, where thirteen-year-old Simon Doonan and his best friend Kylie dream of escaping their dreary suburban surroundings and moving to cosmopolitan London "to live amongst the beautiful people." The first episode aired on BBC Two on 2 October 2008 and recorded overnight ratings of 1.5 million viewers and positive critical reaction. Episodes are self-contained, but do follow a loose story arc throughout the course of each series. The second and final series finished airing on 18 December 2009.
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Title: When Were We Funniest?
Released: February 28, 2008
Type: TV
When Were We Funniest? is a Gold documentary series broadcast in 2008.
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Title: The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Character: Self
Released: September 3, 2007
Type: TV
The Alan Titchmarsh Show is a British daytime chat show presented by Alan Titchmarsh. It was first broadcast on ITV on 3 September 2007 and currently airs on weekday afternoons. The show's main focus is the "Best of British" theme with many of the shows' segments focusing on fashion, health, nature, cookery and animals.
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Title: Jekyll
Character: Miranda
Released: June 16, 2007
Type: TV
Tom Jackman is learning to cope with his alter ego, the dark and mysterious Hyde, who threatens his life and family. They also have to live in the same body while on the run from a mysterious organization that is hunting them.
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Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
Title: Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
Character: Satvinder’s mother
Released: June 15, 2007
Type: Movie
London, an overcrowded cafe, one table to share. Two strangers tell each other “how I met my fiancé” stories to kill time. Rikki met his fiance Anaida at the Ritz in Paris and Alvira met her prince charming Steve at Madame Tussauds
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Title: Kingdom
Character: Head Teacher
Released: April 22, 2007
Type: TV
Kingdom is a British television series produced by Parallel Film and Television Productions for the ITV network. It was created by Simon Wheeler and stars Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk solicitor who is coping with family, colleagues, and the strange locals who come to him for legal assistance. The series also starred Hermione Norris, Celia Imrie, Karl Davies, Phyllida Law and Tony Slattery. The first series of six one-hour episodes was aired in 2007 and averaged six million viewers per week. Despite a mid-series ratings dip, the executive chairman of ITV praised the programme and ordered a second series, which was filmed in 2007 and broadcast in January and February 2008. Filming on the third series ran from July to September 2008 for broadcast from 7 June 2009. Stephen Fry announced on his blog in October 2009 that ITV was cancelling the series, which was later confirmed by the channel, which said that given tighter budgets, more expensive productions were being cut.
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Title: The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
Released: October 3, 2006
Type: TV
Supermarket manager Ros Pritchard decides to stand for election and her steady gains of support gives rise to thoughts of becoming Prime Minister.
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Title: The One Show
Character: Self
Released: August 14, 2006
Type: TV
A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One and BBC One HD. The programme is currently hosted by Alex Jones and Matt Baker from Monday-Thursday, with Chris Evans appearing instead of Baker on Fridays and relief presenters appearing when required.
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Title: The One Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: August 14, 2006
Type: TV
A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One and BBC One HD. The programme is currently hosted by Alex Jones and Matt Baker from Monday-Thursday, with Chris Evans appearing instead of Baker on Fridays and relief presenters appearing when required.
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Scoop
Title: Scoop
Character: Joe's Co-Passenger
Released: July 27, 2006
Type: Movie
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
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The Children's Party at the Palace
Title: The Children's Party at the Palace
Character: Mary (The BFG)
Released: June 25, 2006
Type: Movie
To celebrate her 80th birthday, the Queen is holding a children's party in the grounds of Buckingham Palace. She has invited many classic characters from British children's literature. But when the baddies, led by Cruella de Vil, discover that they have not been invited, they steal the Queen's handbag containing her spectacles and the text of her speech; without it, the Queen will not be able to make a speech at the party. Can the goodies find the handbag in time?
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Title: School's Out
Released: April 19, 2006
Type: TV
School's Out was a BBC television series hosted by Danny Wallace. Based on the premise of school subjects, celebrity contestants are asked questions they would have been asked at school.
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Title: Nigella
Character: Self
Released: July 4, 2005
Type: TV
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Title: 8 Out of 10 Cats
Character: Self
Released: June 3, 2005
Type: TV
8 Out of 10 Cats is a British television comedy panel game produced by Zeppotron for Channel 4. It was first broadcast on 3 June 2005. The show is based on statistics and opinion polls, and draws on polls produced by a variety of organizations and new polls commissioned for the programme, carried out by company Harris Poll. The show's title is derived from a well-known advertising tagline for Whiskas cat food, which originally claimed that "8 out of 10 cats prefer Whiskas".
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Title: Monkey Trousers
Released: May 20, 2005
Type: TV
Monkey Trousers was a short-lived comedy series on ITV in 2005, featuring Alistair McGowan, John Thomson, Ronni Ancona, Mackenzie Crook, Griff Rhys Jones, Neil Morrissey, Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer, Marc Wootton and Steve Coogan. It was directed by David Kerr and produced by Bob Mortimer and Vic Reeves' production company, Pett Productions. It succeeded The All Star Comedy Show, which was written by Reeves and Mortimer, and produced by Coogan. Sketches of the show included the moronic, yet fearless 'Croc Botherer', Roy the eerie, lonely toy-shopkeeper, Alistair the hopeless estate agent, who replies to every question with "I don't know", the swearing chef, and the 'Geordie Astronauts'. A DVD of the series was released on 4 July 2005.
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Title: Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee
Released: May 10, 2005
Type: TV
Meera Syal stars in this poignant story of friendship, betrayal and cross-cultural conflict based on her hit novel. Three childhood friends, now in their 30s, find themselves at a crossroads & struggling to come to terms with shocking revelations.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Nasreen Chaudhry
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: TV
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
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Title: Who Do You Think You Are?
Character: Self
Released: October 12, 2004
Type: TV
A British genealogy documentary series in which celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from their past.
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Title: Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind
Released: April 23, 2004
Type: TV
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Title: QI
Character: Self
Released: September 11, 2003
Type: TV
Comedy quiz show full of quirky facts, in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are 'quite interesting'.
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Title: Murder Investigation Team
Character: DCI Anita Wishart
Released: May 3, 2003
Type: TV
Murder Investigation Team is a British police procedural drama series produced by the ITV network as a spin-off from the long-running series, The Bill. The series is based around the cases of a Murder Investigation Team, who are linked to the Sun Hill borough of London, as featured in The Bill.
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Anita and Me
Title: Anita and Me
Character: Auntie Shaila
Released: November 22, 2002
Type: Movie
Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who've come to England to give her a better life. This idyllic existence is upset by the arrival in the village of Anita Rutter and her dysfunctional family.
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Bitches & Beauty Queens: The Making of Miss India
Title: Bitches & Beauty Queens: The Making of Miss India
Character: Narrator
Released: July 25, 2002
Type: Movie
A British-made documentary about the highly competitive world of beauty pageants in India, culminating with the top prize: Miss India. Following the efforts of several of the contestants, as well as others involved in the behind-the-scenes work of getting everyone ready, the film examines what drives the women toward this particular goal.
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Title: All About Me
Character: Rupinder
Released: March 8, 2002
Type: TV
All About Me is a British television sitcom starring Jasper Carrott about a multicultural family living in Birmingham. It was broadcast on BBC One from 2002 to 2004. All About Me was created by Steve Knight, who also wrote many of the early episodes.
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Title: The Jury
Released: February 17, 2002
Type: TV
The Jury is a British television serial broadcast in 2002. The series was the first ever to be allowed to film inside the historic Old Bailey courthouse.
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Title: Johnny Vaughan Tonight
Character: Self
Released: January 7, 2002
Type: TV
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Title: The Kumars at No. 42
Released: November 12, 2001
Type: TV
The Kumars at No. 42 is a British comedy show. It won an International Emmy in 2002 and 2003. It ran for seven series totalling 53 episodes.
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Title: Bedtime
Character: Ruby
Released: August 28, 2001
Type: TV
Bedtime was a British comedy-drama written and directed by Andy Hamilton and broadcast by the BBC. It ran for three series for a total of fifteen episodes between August 2001 and December 2003. The first two series had six episodes each and the third series had three episodes. Series 1 and 2 were released on DVD.
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Title: In Deep
Character: Marta Drusic
Released: February 19, 2001
Type: TV
Lying, cheating, thieving—they’re the best undercover cops in the business. Liam Ketman (Nick Berry, Heartbeat) and Garth O'Hanlon (Stephen Tompkinson, Wild at Heart) take on false identities to infiltrate society’s underbelly and stop crime at its core. As they put their lives on the line, Liam tries desperately to hold his marriage together, while Gareth keeps his personal life a mystery.
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Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime
Title: Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime
Character: High Priestess
Released: December 25, 2000
Type: Movie
A televised pantomime of Aladdin with characters played by well-known celebrities.
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Title: Fat Friends
Released: October 12, 2000
Type: TV
Fat Friends was an ITV drama, following a group of overweight people, their laughter and pain and addresses the absurdities of dieting in our modern age. The drama looks at people and how they relate to one another and use body weight as an excuse for all sorts of failings in their relationships, or not living their lives to the full. Four of the cast, Ruth Jones, James Corden, Sheridan Smith and Alison Steadman, went on to appear in Gavin & Stacey.
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Forgive and Forget
Title: Forgive and Forget
Character: Judith Adams
Released: June 12, 2000
Type: Movie
David O'Neil, a plasterer and mature student Theo have been best mates for fourteen years and are practically inseparable. However, their friendship has become strained as Theo is about to move in with his long-term girlfriend, photographer Hannah. A raging jealousy awakes in David and he starts scheming to break up the loving couple using Hannah's insecurities against them. When the couple eventually separate David is in a quandary about his next move and is forced to confront his long-hidden homosexuality and feelings towards Theo. Eventually, David decides to reveal his sexual orientation and deep love for Theo very publicly by arranging for them both to appear as guests on Judith Adams' talk-show, "forgive and forget", with tragic consequences for their friendship and David's family.
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Title: The Strangerers
Released: February 15, 2000
Type: TV
The Strangerers is a British television comedy drama science fiction series written by Rob Grant and was broadcast on Sky One between 15 February and 11 April 2000. A single series was made with a total of 9 episodes. The show ended on a cliffhanger. It has not been released on DVD, nor repeated since its original run.
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Title: It's Only TV But I Like It
Character: Self
Released: June 3, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: Bad Girls
Character: Janan Hamad
Released: June 1, 1999
Type: TV
Bad Girls is a British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1 June 1999 to 20 December 2006 and starred Simone Lahbib, Mandana Jones, Debra Stephenson, Linda Henry, Jack Ellis and many more throughout the eight-year run. The series was broadcast in 17 countries and was produced by Shed Productions, the company which later produced Footballers' Wives and Waterloo Road. It is set in the fictional women's prison of Larkhall, and features a mixture of serious and light storylines focusing on the prisoners and staff of G Wing. From 2010, the UK broadcast rights were bought by CBS Drama, and is repeated regularly – as of September 2012, the channel is re-running the series again in a late-night time slot.
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Girls' Night
Title: Girls' Night
Character: Carmen
Released: June 26, 1998
Type: Movie
Two British best friends and in-laws Dawn and Jackie work together at a factory. When Dawn is diagnosed with a brain tumor Jackie shares $100,000 she's got from her secret lover with Dawn to fulfil her dream - a visit to Las Vegas. They buy two tickets and fly there...
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Title: Holding On
Released: September 8, 1997
Type: TV
The interaction between a diverse range of characters—including a bulimic restaurant critic and a highly strung tax inspector—in modern-day London.
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Title: Ruby
Character: Self
Released: May 12, 1997
Type: TV
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Title: Keeping Mum
Character: Tina Beare
Released: April 17, 1997
Type: TV
Sitcom about an elderly woman who's starting to find her memory wandering while being watched over by her son and his wife.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Clara Myerscough
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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A Night in with the Girls
Title: A Night in with the Girls
Released: March 15, 1997
Type: Movie
Traces the role of women in British television, from 1946 to 1997.
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Crossing the Floor
Title: Crossing the Floor
Character: Reporter
Released: October 5, 1996
Type: Movie
Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservative minister "crosses the floor" to join the opposition Labour Party, at a time when the Conservative Party has a majority in Parliament of just one seat. Sequel to A Very Open Prison.
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Title: Goodness Gracious Me
Released: July 5, 1996
Type: TV
Goodness Gracious Me is a BBC English language sketch comedy show originally aired on BBC Radio 4 from 1996 to 1998 and later televised on BBC Two from 1998 to 2001. The ensemble cast were four British Indian actors, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Syal and Nina Wadia. The show explored the conflict and integration between traditional Indian culture and modern British life. Some sketches reversed the roles to view the British from an Indian perspective, and others poked fun at Indian stereotypes. In the television series most of the white characters were played by Dave Lamb and Fiona Allen; in the radio series those parts were played by the cast themselves. The show's title and theme tune is a bhangra rearrangement of a hit comedy song of the same name. The original was performed by Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren reprising their characters from the 1960 film The Millionairess. The show's original working title was "Peter Sellers is Dead", but was changed because the cast generally liked Peter Sellers. In her 1996 novel Anita and Me, Syal had referred to British parodies of Asian speech as "a goodness-gracious-me accent". One of the more famous sketches featured the cast "going out for an English" after a few lassis. They mispronounce the waiter's name, order the blandest thing on the menu and ask for twenty-four plates of chips. The sketch parodies often-drunk English people "going out for an Indian", ordering chicken phall and too many papadums. This sketch was voted the 6th Greatest Comedy Sketch on a Channel 4 list show.
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Beautiful Thing
Title: Beautiful Thing
Character: Miss Chauhan
Released: June 21, 1996
Type: Movie
Set during a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, three teenagers edge towards adulthood.
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Title: Hamish Macbeth
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: March 26, 1995
Type: TV
Hamish Macbeth is a comedy-drama series made by BBC Scotland and first aired in 1995. It is loosely based on a series of mystery novels by M. C. Beaton. The series concerns a local police officer, Constable Hamish Macbeth in the fictitious town of Lochdubh on the west coast of Scotland. The titular character was played by Robert Carlyle. It ran for three series from 1995 to 1997, with the first two series having six episodes and the third having eight.
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It's Not Unusual
Title: It's Not Unusual
Character: Shushila
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A taxi driver is driven to distraction by her love of Tom Jones.
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Title: Room 101
Character: Self
Released: July 4, 1994
Type: TV
Fast-moving game show meets talk show, which sees Frank Skinner refereeing three celebrities each week as they compete to banish their top peeve or worst nightmare to the depths of Room 101.
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A Nice Arrangement
Title: A Nice Arrangement
Character: Sita
Released: June 11, 1994
Type: Movie
Documents an Indian-English family's attempt to give their Briticized daughter a traditional Indian arranged marriage, with as much photography as possible.
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O Mary This London
Title: O Mary This London
Character: Ranting woman
Released: March 30, 1994
Type: Movie
Three young Dubliners go to London in search of fun, fortune and, in the case of 17-year-old Mary Kelly, an abortion. Homeless and jobless, their adventures quickly turn sour.
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Memsahib Rita
Title: Memsahib Rita
Character: Unumma
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Using a blend of magic realism and realist drama, Memsahib Rita looks at the physical and emotional violence of racism. Shanti is haunted by both the racist taunts of nationalist white youths and the memory of her white mother.
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Title: GMTV
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: TV
GMTV is the name of the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor/licensee, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 to 3 September 2010. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of ITV plc in November 2009. Shortly after, ITV plc announced the programme would end. The final edition of GMTV was broadcast on 3 September 2010.
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Title: Absolutely Fabulous
Released: November 12, 1992
Type: TV
Set in the world of fashion and PR, immature fun-loving mother Edina Monsoon and her best friend Patsy drive Eddie's sensible daughter, Saffron, up the wall with their constant drug abuse and outrageous selfishness. Numerous in-jokes and heavy doses of cruel humour have made this series a cult hit in the UK and abroad.
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My Sister-Wife
Title: My Sister-Wife
Character: Farah Khan
Released: February 23, 1992
Type: Movie
Farah is an independent young British woman who manages to reconcile her modern lifestyle with her Pakistani heritage. As a Muslim in love with a married man, she can become his second wife - especially as his first marriage to Maryam seems to exist in name only. But with all three under one roof, Farah becomes increasingly insecure.
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Title: The Real McCoy
Released: May 10, 1991
Type: TV
The Real McCoy was a BBC Television comedy show that ran from 1991 to 1996, featuring an array of black and Asian comedy stars performing material aimed at an across-the-board black audience. UK comedy stars that featured in the series included: the comedy double-act of Curtis and Ishmael, Collette Johnson, Llewella Gideon, British Asian standup Meera Syal, Perry Benson, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Leo Chester, Felix Dexter, Robbie Gee, Kulvinder Ghir, Judith Jacob, Rudi Lickwood, Eddie Nestor, Marcus Powell, Junior Simpson and Curtis Walker and Jo Martin. The producer of the first two series, Charlie Hanson, was the co-founder of the Black Theatre Co-operative and had produced No Problem! and Desmond's before creating The Real McCoy. He was working with Curtis and Ishmael on the 291 Club at the Hackney Empire and suggested making a television version, but instead, the BBC opted for a totally new sketch series, launching The Real McCoy. In spite of its popularity it has yet to be released on DVD.
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Title: Have I Got News for You
Character: Herself
Released: September 28, 1990
Type: TV
Hilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories from the last week or so, that leaves no party, personality or action unscathed in pursuit of laughs.
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Title: Drop the Dead Donkey
Released: August 9, 1990
Type: TV
Drop the Dead Donkey is a situation comedy that first aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom between 1990 and 1998. It is set in the offices of “GlobeLink News”, a fictional TV news company. Recorded close to transmission, it made use of contemporary news events to give the programme a greater sense of realism. It was created by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin. The series had an ensemble cast, making stars of Haydn Gwynne, Stephen Tompkinson and Neil Pearson. The series began with the acquisition of GlobeLink by media mogul Sir Roysten Merchant, an allusion to either Robert Maxwell or Rupert Murdoch. Indeed, Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin note on their DVDs that it was fortunate for their libel lawyers that the two men shared the same initials. The series is mostly based on the on-going battle between the staff of GlobeLink, led by editor George Dent, as they try to maintain the company as a serious news organisation, and Sir Roysten’s right-hand man Gus Hedges, trying to make the show more sensationalist and suppress stories that might harm Sir Roysten’s business empire. The show was awarded the Best Comedy Award at the 1994 BAFTA Awards. At the British Comedy Awards the show won Best New TV Comedy in 1990, Best Channel 4 Comedy in 1991, and Best Channel 4 Sitcom in 1994.
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Title: This Morning
Character: Self
Released: October 3, 1988
Type: TV
This Morning features a variety of news, as well as show business, fashion, beauty, lifestyle, home and garden, food, tech, live phone-ins, and competitions.
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Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Title: Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Character: Rani
Released: October 30, 1987
Type: Movie
Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody - except each other! Things become interesting when Sammy's father, Rafi, who is a former Indian government minister, comes to London for a visit. Sammy, Rosie, and Rafi try to find meaning through their lives and loves.
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Title: The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Character: Matron
Released: August 2, 1987
Type: TV
The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.
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Handsworth Songs
Title: Handsworth Songs
Character: Voice Over
Released: May 8, 1986
Type: Movie
The Black Audio Film Collective’s acclaimed essay film, 'Handsworth Songs', examines the 1985 race riots in Handsworth and London. Interweaving archival photographs, newsreel clips, and home movie footage, the film is both an exploration of documentary aesthetics and a broad meditation social and cultural oppression through Britain’s intertwined narratives of racism and economic decline.
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Title: The Bill
Released: October 16, 1984
Type: TV
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
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Majdhar
Title: Majdhar
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Cultural identity, women’s independence and the pressure to conform to British norms are the subjects of this bold and acute feature, which explores both British-Asian experience and the plight of recent immigrants. Rita Wolf (My Beautiful Laundrette), plays Majdhar, a Pakistani woman who transforms herself in London after her husband leaves her for another woman. While Majdhar feels her way towards confident self-determination, husband Afzal is torn between his heritage and his Western aspirations.
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Title: Natural World
Character: Narrator
Released: October 30, 1983
Type: TV
Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.
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Title: Taggart
Released: September 6, 1983
Type: TV
Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme.The series revolves around a group of detectives initially in the Maryhill CID of Strathclyde Police, though various storylines have happened in other parts of the Greater Glasgow area, and as of the most recent series the team have operated out of the fictional John Street police station across the street from the City Chambers.
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Title: An Audience with...
Character: Self
Released: January 8, 1978
Type: TV
An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television, in which a host, usually a singer or comedian, performs for an invited audience of celebrity guests, interspersed with questions from the audience, in a light hearted revue/tribute style.
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Flavia de Luce
Title: Flavia de Luce
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The adventures of 11-year-old Flavia de Luce, who is both an amateur detective and a master poisoner. When she discovers a dead body in her family’s decaying British manor house and her father is accused of the murder, Flavia launches her own investigation to uncover family secrets and bring the true murderer to justice.