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Dinnerladies is a classic BBC sitcom based around the lives of the staff of the canteen at Manchester factory HWD Components. Written by and starring Victoria Wood a Brenda, these eight classic TV episodes are brilliantly funny, where the jokes fly as thick and as fast as granary torpedoes. Along with the day to day feeding the faces of folk, the canteen staff Bren, Twink, Jean (and all the others!) have to contend with the arrival of a royal onsite, a Japanese-themed party complete with costumes and the controversial delivery of new uniforms.

Christmas is being celebrated in style at Purley Hall in Hampshire because renowned actress, Dame Pamela Harcourt is holding a special Jane Austen conference. Everybody's there: Katherine and Warwick, Robyn and Dan, Kay, Adam and Gemma, and Sarah and Mia. Oh, and Mrs. Soames.

Tony Hawkin wasn't really made for the FBI. He rarely hit what he aimed at, forgot his own code name, and had a tendency to panic at the slightest hint of trouble. Now he's gotten himself handcuffed to an attaché case with $2 million inside and stuffed aboard a hijacked DC-10 bound for Scotland, where he's chased through the countryside by the hijackers, Scots patriots, a crazy Cuban colonel, and half the police force. All of them want only two things - the money and Tony's head in a noose.

It's summer and renowned actress, Dame Pamela Harcourt, has organized a treat: the first Purley Hall Jane Austen holiday - to the home of Mr. Darcy no less. With Katherine and Warwick, Robyn, Doris Norris and the rest of the gang, it's going to be a trip to remember.

When Dr. Victoria Jones is left alone in her normally chaotic house, temporarily abandoned by her sleepover-bound children, she finds herself almost deafened by the resounding silence. Victoria remembers silence...vaguely. It has been years, of course, but she and silence used to be very close. Almost family, really.

Vikki Victoria ahnt nichts Gutes, als Ex-Freund und Biker-Anführer Wolf Wolff ihr gesteht, während einer Tierschutz-Intervention ordentlich Mist gebaut, genauer einen Mord begangen zu haben. Daraufhin ist nicht nur er, sondern seine gesamte Switch Blades Crew untergetaucht, quasi spurlos verschwunden. Biker, Gewalt und Tierschutz – das ist auch der perfekte Stoff für Bestsellerautor Lars Kessler. Für seine neue Streaming-Doku engagiert er den 22-jährige Mario , undercover bestimmte Leute zu filmen.

Hugo is a hardboiled private eye writer with wits as sharp as a switchblade. Victoria is a vampiress in denial of her mystic heritage. The duo solve the most outlandish crimes and write novels about their experiences as only private eye writers can. Together, this unlikely pair face off against a mob of crazed coin collectors, a terrorist attack by the international criminal Ibn Etin Salaami, a coven of evil vampigs and hampires (like vampires, but with more oinks and grunts), and more absurd and amazing scenarios than you can shake a vampire bat at. Will they survive?

Vikki Victoria, Anfang 40, lebt als bekannte Künstlerin in der Nähe des Viktualienmarkts in München und ist ihres Lebens froh. Bis eines Morgens zu unchristlicher Zeit (vor 12 Uhr!) ein Anruf von ihrem Ex-Freund Wolf kommt: Der Toni, der Vikki jahrelang Morddrohungen geschickt hat, ist aus dem Gefängnis ausgebrochen. So muss sich die Vikki au-gen-blick-lich in Sicherheit bringen. Doch wohin? Natürlich in die alte Heimat, nach Übertreibling. Mit wehender Perücke und dem Motorradrocker Wolf an ihrer Seite beginnt für sie eine eine absurde Odyssee, bei der Vikki Victoria alle Register ziehen muss, um zu schützen, was sie liebt.