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The Wrong Door: Best Bits

22/02/2009

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BBC Three - The Wrong Door, Best Bits

Highlights from the sketch show set in a parallel universe.

Highlights from the sketch show set in a parallel universe, in which celebrity cameos, unimaginable locations and impossible visual effects herald a new world of comic possibility.

Highlights from the sketch show set in a parallel universe, in which a mix of celebrity cameos, unimaginable locations and impossible visual effects heralds a brave new world of comic possibility. Superheroes, wizards, dinosaurs and monsters casually go about their business amongst the daily irritations of explosions, disasters, battles, chases and driving lessons.

A multi-platform service for 16-34s, featuring comedy, entertainment and factual content.

The BBC’s multi-platform service for 16 to 34s, innovating with breakthrough comedy, stand-out entertainment, brave documentary and intellectual factual content.

Sketch show set in a parallel universe, in which a mix of celebrity cameos, unimaginable locations and impossible visual effects heralds a brave new world of comic possibility.

Off-beat sketch show seemingly set in a parallel universe, where special effects are a part of everyday life.

Stargate

24/08/2002

BBC One - Stargate

A portal discovered in Egypt provides a gateway to a distant planet.

Rousing sci-fi adventure with Kurt Russell about a portal that provides a gateway to a distant world, and the crack team of explorers that ventures through it, meeting the evil Ra.

Rousing sci-fi adventure about a portal that provides a gateway to a distant world. A crack team of military explorers, including a bumbling Egyptologist, embark on a galaxy-jumping quest to discover what lies beyond the 'stargate'. Differences within the group pale into insignificance as the team confront the challenges before them, and they must work together if they are to defeat the evil Ra and find their way home.

BBC One

Eventful sci-fi adventure. An Egyptologist is asked to join a US Government project - but the top brass suspects that a structure discovered by archaelogists could be a teleportation device.  
Director Roland Emmerich (1994, PG)

Being Human

Comedy-drama series about housemates who are actually a werewolf, a vampire and a ghost

Comedy-drama series about three twenty-something housemates trying to live normal lives, despite struggling with unusual afflictions - one is a werewolf, one is a vampire and the other is a ghost.

Being Human: Series 1

Being Human: Series 1: Episode 5

Episode 5

Series 1

BBC Three - Being Human, Series 1, Episode 5

Mitchell has turned his back on humanity and is back with the vampires.

Comedy-drama series about housemates who are actually a werewolf, a vampire and a ghost. Mitchell has turned his back on humanity and is back with the vampires.

Comedy-drama series about three twenty-something housemates trying to live normal lives, despite struggling with unusual afflictions - one is a werewolf, one is a vampire and the other is a ghost. 

Mitchell has turned his back on humanity and is back with the vampires - have George and Annie lost their friend forever? Elsewhere, Annie has her mind set on revenge.

A werewolf, a vampire and ghost struggle to live a normal life in the face of dark forces.

Housemates Mitchell, George and Annie share more than the washing up - they are all supernatural creatures struggling to live a normal life in the face of dark forces.

New. 5/6. Mitchell is drawn back into the vampire fold after the end of his friendship with Bernie. Annie enlists 
George's help in avenging Owen, but must fight her own demons first. See panel.  
Showing in HD on the BBC HD channel at 
11.05pm   
Any episode, after it is first broadcast, is available to watch for the duration of the entire series at www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer

Family Guy

Subversive animated comedy about the everyday trials and tribulations of the Griffins

Subversive animated comedy about the everyday trials and tribulations of the Griffin household

Family Guy: Series 3

Family Guy: Series 3: Episode 21: Viewer Mail No 1

Episode 21

Episode 21: Viewer Mail No 1

Series 3

Viewer Mail No 1

BBC Three - Family Guy, Series 3, Viewer Mail No 1

Peter loses his bones, the Griffins gain superpowers and Peter appears as Little Rascals.

Animated comedy. Three stories inspired by viewers' letters: Peter loses his bones, the Griffins gain superpowers, and Peter and friends appear as Little Rascals.

Three stories inspired by viewers' letters: Peter loses his bones, the Griffins gain superpowers, and Peter and his friends appear as Little Rascals.

More subversive animated comedy from the Griffin family

Subversive animated comedy about the everyday trials and tribulations of the Griffin family

Series three. Peter loses his bones, and the Griffins gain super powers.  
10.25 Series four. Peter and Lois go on a second honeymoon.

Family Guy: Series 4

Family Guy: Series 4: Episode 1: North by North Quahog

Episode 1

Episode 1: North by North Quahog

Series 4

North by North Quahog

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Peter and Lois decide to go on a second honeymoon to spice up their marriage.

Animated comedy series about family life. Peter and Lois go on a second honeymoon to spice up their marriage, while Brian stays home to take care of the kids.

Animated comedy series about family life. Peter and Lois decide to go on a second honeymoon to spice up their marriage while Brian is left at home to take care of the kids. When Peter crashes the car, he decides to pose as Mel Gibson to stay in his fancy hotel suite, where they find a hidden room.

Fourth series of the subversive animated comedy

Undercover Princes

Undercover Princes: Episode 3

Episode 3

BBC Three - Undercover Princes, Episode 3

Prince Manvendra declares that he has fallen in love with a very unlikely suspect.

Three bachelor princes come to the UK in search of love, but must keep their identities secret. Prince Manvendra declares that he has fallen in love with a very unlikely suspect.

Three bona fide bachelor princes from across the globe come to the UK in search of true love. However, to ensure that the people they meet will love them for themselves and not just their wealth and status they are going undercover, living and working as ordinary people for the first time in their lives.

The three princes must share a terraced house in Brighton without their trusty servants and must try to cope on their own, as well as taking an 'ordinary' job. They also hit the singles scene as they trawl the bars and clubs, join internet dating sites and even try their hand at speed dating in their bid to find a partner amongst 'commoners'.

Crown Prince Manvendra is from one of India's richest royal families and, in 2006, he shocked the world by becoming the first Indian royal to come out as gay. Will Brighton prove the perfect place for him to find his lifelong partner?

His Royal Highness Prince Africa Zulu is from Zululand, South Africa. At 30, he should now have taken a wife, but having been burnt by love before it will take him a while to find his Mrs Right. How will this traditional prince cope with the liberal Brighton culture? 

His Royal Highness Prince Remigius of Jaffna, Sri Lanka is looking for a queen to continue the royal line. But for a man raised in accordance to a strict protocol, only an aristocrat will do. 

At the end of their time in the UK, the princes surprise their chosen ones by revealing their true identity and whisk them back to their kingdoms. 

Prince Manvendra declares that he has fallen in love with the most unlikely of suspects, Prince Remigius looks set to defy royal protocol and announce he has fallen for a commoner and, from having no-one at all to date, Prince Africa Zulu finds himself with two women to choose from.

Three bachelor princes come to the UK in search of love, keeping their identities secret.

The Undercover Princes

3/4. The royal housemates prepare to reveal their identities.

Grownups

Adult sitcom about the trials and tribulations of being a 20-something

Grownups: Series 3

Grownups: Series 3: Episode 6: No Win, No Fee

Episode 6

Episode 6: No Win, No Fee

No Win, No Fee

BBC Three - Grownups, Series 3, No Win, No Fee

Grant maims pensioners in his bid to drum up business for his law firm.

Twentysomething sitcom. Michelle and Jenny's girlie night out ends in disaster. Grant maims pensioners in his bid to drum up business for his law firm.

Adult sitcom about the trials and tribulations of a group of twentysomethings. 

Michelle and Jenny's girlie night out ends in disaster. Grant maims pensioners in his bid to drum up business for his law firm. Alex comes face to face with his fear of little people and runs through a sheet glass window, yet again. Chris discovers he's a daddy and has been for the past sixteen years.

6/8; series three. Michelle and Jenny's girls' night out ends in disaster. 
For cast see page 80

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Naked

Naked: Episode 4: Nurses

Episode 4

Episode 4: Nurses

Nurses

BBC Three - Naked, Nurses

Five nurses spend four days gaining the confidence to perform a burlesque show.

Psychologist Emma Kenny and image consultant Jonathan Phang challenge five nurses to spend four days gaining the self-confidence to perform a burlesque striptease show in Soho.

Psychologist Emma Kenny and image consultant Jonathan Phang launch a radical self-confidence building course, as a group of professionals undertake a series of challenges designed to help their self-esteem at work and at home. 

Five nurses are chosen to perform a burlesque striptease show in Soho. During the four-day preparation course, they have to speak in front of the Oxford Union, throw themselves out of a plane at 13,000 feet and confront relationships that are holding them back.

A group of professionals take a series of challenges designed to help their self-esteem

A group of professionals take a series of challenges designed to help their self-esteem.

Born Survivors

Documentary series examining the reality of life for young people in Britain today

Born Survivors: Series 2

Born Survivors: Series 2: Episode 2: My 22 Stone Dad and Skinny Me

Episode 2

Episode 2: My 22 Stone Dad and Skinny Me

Series 2

My 22 Stone Dad and Skinny Me

BBC Three - Born Survivors, Series 2, My 22 Stone Dad and Skinny Me

How teenager Emma's eating disorder is in part linked to her obese father's condition.

Documentary showing how seven-stone teenager Emma's eating disorder is linked to her clinically-obese father Grant's condition, and her attempts to get to her goal weight.

Documentary looking at how seven-stone teenager Emma's eating disorder is linked to her clinically-obese father Grant's condition. Discovering that his own weight was at the root of his daughter's illness was devastating for Grant, but fortunately, living in Lancaster means Emma can be referred to EDN (Eating Disorders Network), the area's only eating disorders charity. Over the course of six months, the programme follows Emma as she attempts to get to her goal weight of eight and a half stone.

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