Aïe, l'été commence mal! Jess, qui devait passer les vacances avec son chéri, est embarquée par sa mère pour une tournée des châteaux d'Angleterre! L'enfer. Les textos, c'est bien, mais quand on est rongée par la jalousie, quelle torture ! Quant à son père, Jess se fait une joie de le revoir à l'issue du voyage, mais pourquoi semble-t-il si mal à l'aise ? Ça sent la révélation du siècle... Une nouvelle tranche de vie de Jess Jordan, l'héroïne qui transforme les tracas de l'adolescence en é...

'... one of the funniest, slyest, most naughtily inventive and brilliantly performed shows on the air' - Gillian Reynolds, The Daily Telegraph'A gloriously silly show' - The LadyMiriam Margolyes, Alison Steadman and Nigel Planer star in Sue Limb's wickedly funny comedy parodying the arty and adulterous adventures of the Bloomsbury Group, who dominated the English cultural scene in the early 20th Century.The series follows the fortunes of Vera Sackc...

Jess et Fred vont donner un gala au profit d'une œuvre de charité. Ils viennent de recevoir les tickets, conçus par Jess. Mais tout reste à faire ! Pas de panique, ils n'ont plus qu'à... trouver un groupe de musique qui accepterait de se produire le soir de la Saint-Valentin, avoir de quoi nourrir cent personnes, et accorder leurs violons pour leur numéro de présentation – la spécialité des deux comiques en herbe. Mais Fred ne cesse de se défiler et ne semble pas s'investir dans l'organisa...

Sisters Alison and Maud are joint landladies of the Abbeyfield Guest House, dispensing hospitality to a variety of demanding clients while also looking after their irascible, bedridden father downstairs in the granny flat. Dreamy ornithologist Alison has just moved back from Bloomsbury, while Maud ran a 3000-acre farm in Africa - but neither sibling is really up to the task of managing a B&B, and chaos generally ensues.In these two series, Alison has the hots for their accountant, ...

Life was tragic enough before this spring started. With a distinct lack of boobage and an arse so big that birds of prey could nest within its shadows, Jess Jordan is saddled with the Goddess Flora for a best friend, a Britney Spears look-alike so gorgeous that one grain of her divine dandruff could make the blind see again. Jess knows that her soul mate is Ben Jones, a divine mixture of Leonardo diCaprio, Prince William, and Brad Pitt who oozes mystery and charisma. But the campaign to ge...

An everyday story of sheep, sin and scholarship under the shadow of the Long MyndWritten by Sue Limb (Gloomsbury, Skeletons in the Cupboard), this pastoral sitcom follows six months in the life of the Jones family, who live on a small farm in rural Wales.We join them in September - the start of the farming year - as daughter Megan, a brainy 'plain Jane', sets her sights on Mr Bootle - only to find he's really just interested in birdwatching. Decemb...

Autumn, 1646. The English Civil War is raging, and there’s trouble ahead for Sir John and Lady Anne Firebasket. There’s a Roundhead platoon camping out in the barn, a perplexed priest hiding behind the panelling and, unbeknown to the Firebaskets, their scullery maid Mercy is actually a disguised aristocrat (and Royalist spy) named Melissa Fortescue-Bottomley.While Mercy steels herself to carry out a deadly mission, pious steward Tobias Thynne rails against the Devi...

Just when things were going so well.Jess had the perfect summer planned: She and Fred, lounging in the park, gazing into one another’s eyes and engaging in witty repartee. It was going to be so romantic. And then her maddening mum stepped in: She suddenly announced a two-week “road trip” to Cornwall to visit Jess’s dad, something Jess might have enjoyed, actually, were it not for the monstrously bad timing. Not only will this force Jess and Fred apart for two whole weeks, it will a...

It's never fun when a great summer comes to an end.Particularly when one argues with one’s adorable, but grossly insensitive, boyfriend the night before school starts. It’s such a terrible fight, Jess doesn’t know—are they broken up? Should she apologize? Too bad Jess is spending all her time in detention and can’t talk to Fred to figure it out. A sadistic new English teacher has decided Jess needs an attitude adjustment, and Jess can’t seem to stop making terrible mistakes. When s...

A BBC Radio 4 parody of the lives of the Romantic poets by Sue Limb, writer of the hit comedy Gloomsbury.An everyday story of towering genius, set in and around the Lakeland retreat of William and Dorothy Wordsmith. The Wordsmiths have not long settled in their sublime cottage, when they are visited by the inebriate Samuel Tailor Cholericke and the lascivious Lord Biro, followed by numerous other romantically-inclined writers and leech-pedlars who arrive at the door of Vol...

Jess Jordan is barely 15. Fred is her often-aggravating best guy friend; her father is a lonely bachelor; Flora is her gorgeous best friend, a constant liability; and Ben Jones is barely a twinkle in her eye. Into this innocent scene are dropped 30 or so helpless French exchange students. Jess and her mother are assigned to house Eduoard, a shy, awkward, and painfully English-deprived boy Jess’s age. To counter what Jess fears is Eduoard’s growing crush on her, Jess convinces her friend Fr...

Meet best friends Zoe and Chloe, a mischievous duo with a knack for trouble that leads them on one hilarious adventure after another.Zoe and Chloe just have to go to the Earthquake Ball, a school event aimed at raising funds for earthquake victims. Initially reluctant to attend, Zoe is persuaded by Chloe, who is eager for the social experience. Not to mention everything that will be happening at the Ball: the broken hearts! The music! The jealousy! The fights!...