Hughie Green

The story of one of the UK's most successful and ruthless TV personalities.

Narrator Hughie Green tells "jokes" over clips of old silent films. Including greats such as Fatty Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, the Keystone Cops and more.

Set during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic War, Mr Midshipman Easy has just joined the Royal Navy. He is very keen to do well but luckily he has an understanding captain to pull him out of the various adventures he seems to get involved in.

Lorsque le tuteur privé Thomas Arnold (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) devient directeur de Rugby, une école préparatoire pour garçons en Angleterre, il met en place une politique de punition stricte pour indiscipline et vol. Arnold trouve un allié en Tom Brown (Jimmy Lydon), un nouvel étudiant qui est victime de bizutage et d'abus de la part d'un groupe de garçons plus âgés et est poussé par ses amis à se taire à ce sujet. Marre, il mène ses camarades de classe dans une rébellion clandestine contre leurs bourreaux. Mais certaines règles tacites s'appliquent toujours à l'école et Brown perd son statut de héros lorsqu'il est accusé d'avoir enfreint le code du silence du rugby.

En 1939, la petite ville anglaise de Penny Green voit sa population basculer dans un profonde émoi, car Mark Sabre, auteur de livres scolaires, se comporte de manière peu recommandable. Trahi par celle qu'il aimait, il a récemment épousé Mabel. Idéaliste et rêveur, Mark s'ennuie ferme auprès de sa femme. Cette dernière est en effet beaucoup plus terre-à-terre que lui. À quelques jours de la déclaration de guerre qui va faire basculer le pays dans la Seconde Guerre mondiale, son premier amour, Nona, revient au village avec son mari, Tony. Mabel est sûre qu'elle n'a rien à craindre de la « revenante ». Mark, de son côté, a entamé une liaison avec une jeune fille enceinte, ce qui scandalise le village...

A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.

Three unlikely people set up a pirate radio station in this musical comedy.

For decades Hughie Green was a living legend of British TV, and one of the most powerful men in the business – hosting the star-making mega-hit show ‘Opportunity Knocks’ and changing the lives of countless ordinary people overnight. But it was his final act – a jaw-dropping surprise from beyond the grave – that would change everything.

A doctor fathers 837 brilliant sons through an artificial insemination program, and every woman wants a donation.

TV Movie documentary exploring the secret life of Hughie Green.

TFI Friday was an entertainment show broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2000. The show was produced by Ginger Productions, written by Danny Baker and hosted by Chris Evans, for the first 5 series. The final series was hosted by a number of guest presenters. It was broadcast on Fridays at 6pm from 9 February 1996 to 22 December 2000, with a repeat later that night. The title officially stood for "Thank Four It's Friday", but was widely understood to mean "Thank Fuck It's Friday" and was a reference to the popular phrase "Thank God it's Friday". The show's theme tune was Ron Grainer's theme from Man in a Suitcase, in keeping with Evans's frequent use of 1960s television themes in his work.

Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.

A radio, and later television, talent show originally hosted by Hughie Green, with a late-1980s revival hosted by Bob Monkhouse, and later by previous winner Les Dawson.