Series from 2010
This star-studded series of comedies and farces celebrates the life and work of renowned Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. Chekhov has entered the pan…
A frustrated family man, exhausted from running constant and countless errands for friends and family, visits his good friend to let off steam and hopefully garner some much needed sympathy. But his rant only serves to see him leaving with more problems than he actually arrived with. Starring Johnny Vegas and Mackenzie Crook.
A rude and boorish landowner calls on a widow to collect on an IOU owed to him by her late husband. When the grieving widow is unable to pay him, he simply refuses to leave - and the passionate, fiery altercation they embark on leads them to agree to fight a duel to the death with pistols. Starring Julia Davis, Reece Shearsmith and Julian Barratt.
In 'The Proposal', nervous hypochondriac visits his neighbour to ask for her hand in marriage. But his romantic endeavours are scuppered when the couple, and also her father, find themselves in a circle of petty arguments, disagreements...and an unstoppable bout of one-upmanship. Starring Mathew Horne, Philip Jackson and Sheridan Smith. In 'The Dangers Of Tobacco', a brow-beaten husband of a domineering wife delivers, at her command, a lecture on the harmful effects of smoking tobacco. But as he struggles to stick to the intended subject matter of his speech, we learn of his regrets, yearnings...and of his miserable life ‘under the thumb’. Starring Steve Coogan.
