The planet hurtles towards nuclear obliteration because the major powers are either warmongering or in the hands of lunatics (Peter Cook plays the quite insane British Prime Minister). A kidnap attempt on one of the Royal family pushes fingers closer to the red buttons, and the inept, over zealous SAS rescue attempt only helps the cause of the oncoming apocalypse.

When the USA satellites photograph many flying saucers coming to Earth, the American president has a meeting with his advisors. His science advisor convinces him that since Martians would be a developed culture, they would be peaceful by nature, despite the warnings of his military advisors.

Soon, the authorities and civilians prepare a welcoming committee for the aliens. But they're about to discover that they've made a fatal misjudment.

Finale of the BBC sitcom written by and starring Miranda Hart. In the last two episodes Miranda is forced to choose between the proposals of Gary (Tom Ellis) and Mike (Bohdan Poraj) and subsequently plan a wedding. But faced with mounting pressure from her mother (Patricia Hodge) and best friend Stevie (Sarah Hadland) she might just choose to reject both of her potential suitors. Gary Barlow, Liza Tarbuck and Heather Small are amongst the guest stars.

John Roberts directs this romantic comedy following a pair of sisters who head to Cuba to scatter the ashes of their deceased father. Rosa (Eva Birthistle), a committed socialist, is determined to rescue the memory of her father from the fate her stepmother has planned: using his ashes to make a golf trophy. In tribute to her father's glamorous past as a revolutionary who once visited Cuba, she steals the ashes and heads to the Caribbean island in the company of her more materialistic sister Ailie (Charity Wakefield) and their friend Conway (Bryan Dick). They come face-to-face with both the good and bad of the island in the form of conman Ernesto (Christopher Simpson) and protective tour guide Tomas (Carlos Acosta). How will the experience change them?

A daughter tries to reunite her warring family in this food-centred comedy set in Leicester's 'Little India'. After falling out in spectacular fashion, brothers Raja (Harish Patel) and Jagi (Kulvinder Ghir), who both happen to be chefs, decide to divide up the family recipe book and open rival restaurants across the street from one another. With one brother concentrating on starters and the other on main courses, the rivalry continues unabated for the next 20 years. But when Raja's daughter Shalini (Amara Karan) decides to plan her wedding to fiancé Mark (Tom Mison), she sees it as an ideal opportunity for her father and uncle to finally bury the hatchet by having them both cook on her big day.

When Johnny Cammareri (Danny Aiello) goes to visit his dying mother in Sicily, he asks his long-term girlfriend Loretta (Cher) to contact his estranged brother Ronny (Nicolas Cage) and invite him to their upcoming wedding. Ronny, a hot-headed baker, turns out to be everything his brother is not, and soon he and his prospective sister-in-law are embarking on a passionate affair. Oscars were won by Cher, supporting actress Olympia Dukakis, and writer John Patrick Shanley.

Bernadette (Terence Stamp) is a middle-aged transsexual mourning the recent death of her lover. She embarks on a cabaret tour with two transvestite friends, Mitzi (Hugo Weaving) and Felicia (Guy Pearce) and together they set out for a professional engagement in Alice Springs in a gaudily painted bus they christen Priscilla. Along the way they encounter various macho characters - one of whom, Bob (Bill Hunter), begins to form a romantic attachment to Bernadette.

Comedy drama starring Steve Carell as Cal, a divorcee who is struggling to find success in the dating world. Until recently Cal was happily married - or so he thought. When his wife, Emily (Julianne Moore), files for a divorce, he is thrown into the unfamiliar territory of single life. Drowning his sorrows at a local pub, Cal meets a 30-something bachelor, Jacob (Ryan Gosling), who gives him advice and helps him work on his appearance. While women start to get interested in Cal, his son, Robbie (Jonah Bobo), falls for his babysitter (Analeigh Tipton), and Jacob meets a girl (Emma Stone) who isn't fooled by his charms. Marisa Tomei and Kevin Bacon also star.

Romantic comedy starring David Tennant as an idealistic Brit who follows an aspiring actress to LA in a search for love. Richard (Tennant) is the undertaker of a small town in England but resents the mundane nature of his life and dreams of gaining success as a writer. He meets Barbara (Vinessa Shaw), an American waitress with ambitions of becoming an actress, and the two embark on a brief affair. Though Barbara soon returns to LA, she has awakened Richard's romantic side and he follows her to America without warning. Featuring cameo appearances from Johnny Depp and Jerzy Skolimowski, the LA section of the movie follows Richard as he attempts to win Barbara over and realise his ambitions of becoming a screenwriter in the unforgiving environs of Hollywood.

Independent black comedy about a stand up comic whose life takes an unexpected twist. Although his professional life is on the up, Scottish comedian Joey Fisk (Stephen McCole)'s home life is not looking so rosy, with his drink and drug habits starting to cause rifts within his family. One day while taking a sauna he meets an old friend, Frank (Malcolm Shields), from his younger days when they were both in borstal. After offending Frank by joking about their reunion at one of his gigs, Joey takes Frank out for a night on the town, resulting in Joey being evicted by his landlord for threatening behaviour. With nowhere to go, Joey accepts Frank's offer of a place to stay, but soon finds himself involved in some very illegal activity...

Jack And The Beanstalk
This classic fairy tale gets the Abbott and Costello treatment, as the zany duo take on a babysitting job. Jack starts reading 'Jack and the beanstalk' to a youngster he is looking after but can't pronounce the big words. The boy soon takes over the reading duties. Jack soon falls asleep and is transported to a magical world. Jack trades his cow to the village butcher for five magic beans, and plants them in his yard at home, awaking the next day to find a giant beanstalk reaching into the skies. Jack and the Butcher climb the beanstalk in search of the hen that lays the golden eggs, and the talking harp, but along the way have to rescue the Prince and Princess from the evil giant.

Africa Screams
The celebrated comedy double act Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are on peak form in this crazy foray into the jungle. Transported from the city to the African jungle, our unlikely heroes lead an expedition in search of hidden diamonds. When bookseller Buzz cons Diana into thinking fellow bookseller Stanley knows a great deal about Africa, they are abducted and ordered by Diana to lead her and her henchmen to an African tribe. Giant apes, a cannibal tribe and an over amorous orang-utan pack more laughs into this 1949 classic.

In black & white.

Hapless family man Paul Matthews finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams.

But when his nighttime appearances take a nightmarish turn, Paul is forced to navigate his newfound stardom, in this wickedly entertaining comedy from writer-director Kristoffer Borgli and producer Ari Aster.

Yasss, Queen! Your favorite witty ensemble - Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally - reprise their infamous roles as Will, Grace, Jack and Karen for Season Two of of the revived Will & Grace.

This season they return with new looks, new loves, and new guest stars. The legendary James Burrows, director of every original Will & Grace episode, returns with a slew of razor-sharp jabs and dirty martinis.

Every episode of the US comedy series about Ryan (Elijah Wood), a depressed ex-lawyer who receives life advice from his neighbour's dog. Whereas everyone around him sees a normal dog, to Ryan, 'Wilfred' (Jason Gann) is a crudely free-thinking, pot-smoking Australian in a dog suit. With Ryan low in self-confidence and contemplating suicide, Wilfred takes on the job of showing his new-found friend how to get the best from life, by dispensing his morally dubious, yet strikingly honest advice, whenever the urge takes him. Season 1 episodes are: 'Happiness', 'Trust', 'Fear', 'Acceptance', 'Respect', 'Conscience', 'Pride', 'Anger', 'Compassion', 'Isolation', 'Doubt', 'Sacrifice' and 'Identity'. Season 2 episodes are: 'Progress', 'Letting Go', 'Dignity', 'Guilt', 'Now', 'Control', 'Avoidance', 'Truth', 'Service', 'Honesty', 'Questions', 'Resentment' and 'Secrets'. Season 3 episodes are: 'Uncertainty', 'Comfort', 'Suspicion', 'Sincerity', 'Shame', 'Delusion', 'Intuition', 'Perspective', 'Confrontation', 'Distance', 'Stagnation', 'Heroism' and 'Regrets'. Season 4 episodes are: 'Amends', 'Consequences', 'Loyalty', 'Answers', 'Forward', 'Patterns', 'Responsibility', 'Courage', 'Resistance' and 'Happiness'.

Welsh comedian, Max Boyce on stage at the Sydney Opera House in October 2003 (during the rugby World Cup).

A triple bill of the 'Look Who's Talking' films. In 'Look Who's Talking' (1989), Mollie (Kirstie Alley) is pregnant by Albert (George Segal), a married man who won't leave his wife. When her contractions start, she leaps into a taxi, driven by James (John Travolta) who accompanies her not only to the hospital but into the delivery room. Mollie gives birth to a healthy boy, Mikey (voice of Bruce Willis), and soon James is baby-sitting for her while she goes in search of a suitable father. The sequel, 'Look Who's Talking Too' (1990), picks up where the first film left off, with James and Mollie having another baby. Meanwhile, Mikey deals with growing up, the intrusion of a new baby sister Julie (voice of Roseanne Barr) and that daunting rite of passage - toilet training. In 'Look Who's Talking Now' (1993), Mollie is fired from her job, and takes a position in a toy department as a Christmas elf and James lands a job as a private pilot for the vampy socialite Samantha (Lysette Anthony). When the local street dog Rocks (voice of Danny DeVito) is taken home for son Mikey (David Gallagher), Samantha also turns up with her pampered poodle Daphne (voice of Diane Keaton) who Julie (Tabitha Lupien) instantly takes to. The dogs take an instant dislike to each other, but the parents are too tied up with their own problems to notice. When Mollie discovers that Samantha has whisked her husband off for a secret rendezvous on Christmas Eve, she determines to intercept them with kids and dogs in tow.

Spanish sci-fi comedy written and directed by Nacho Vigalondo.

After a one-night stand he doesn't remember, Julio wakes up in the apartment of Julia, who likewise can't remember what happened between them. Faced with an awkward situation already, their morning is made even worse when they realise that an alien invasion is happening outside and that much of the city has been evacuated.

Told to stay indoors while the extraterrestrial threat is dealt with, any hope of a relationship forming between the two is jeopardised with the arrival of Julia's jealous boyfriend Carlos...

In 1965 The BBC harnessed the talents of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore for a new show Not Only But Also. Building scripts from improvised recordings (although ad-libs and corpsing remained irresistible features of the final recordings), the young partnership created their own style of comedy including the memorable Dagenham Dialogues of the cloth-capped Pete and Dud, and Peter Cook's magnificent old duffer Sir Arthur Greeb-Strebling. The series continued until 1970 and remains a seminal landmark in TV comedy.

Director Mike Leigh takes a satirical look at middle-class values in the 70s. Upwardly mobile couple Beverley and Laurence host an informal drinks evening when their neighbour's teenage daughter, Abigail, throws a party. Tensions arise as bored, bitchy housewife Beverley (Alison Steadman) flirts with her new neighbour, patronises his wife, embarasses Abigail's mother Sue and drives her over-stressed husband to the point of no return.

Charles Dickens' famous 'Christmas Carol' story told in the celebrated 'Blackadder' style. Ebeneezer Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) is the loveliest, kindest man in all of Christendom, until the Ghost of Christmas (Robbie Coltrane) pays him a visit and shows him the wicked ways of his ancestors. Among the many miscreants encountered in this parade of festive infamy, we meet Blackadder II, who plays a Christmas death warrant trick on Lord Melchett, and butler Edmund Blackadder, who attempts to con Prince George into giving him all his Christmas presents.

All 125 episodes of Matt Groening's futuristic animated comedy. The show follows 20th-century slacker Philip J. Fry (voice of Billy West) in his adventures as a 31st-century interstellar delivery boy along with cyclopean Captain Leela (Katey Sagal) and Bender the boozy robot (John DiMaggio). Season 1 episodes are: 'Space Pilot 3000', 'The Series Has Landed', 'I, Roommate', 'Love's Labours Lost in Space', 'Fear of a Bot Planet', 'A Fishful of Dollars', 'My Three Suns', 'A Big Piece of Garbage', 'Hell Is Other Robots', 'A Flight to Remember', 'Mars University', 'When Aliens Attack' and 'Fry and the Slurm Factory'. Season 2 episodes are: 'I Second That Emotion', 'Brannigan, Begin Again', 'A Head in the Polls', 'Xmas Story', 'Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?', 'The Lesser of Two Evils', 'Put Your Head On My Shoulders', 'Raging Bender', 'A Bicyclops Built for Two', 'A Clone of My Own', 'How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back', 'The Deep South', 'Bender Gets Made', 'Mother's Day', 'The Problem With Popplers', 'Anthology of Interest I', 'War Is the H-Word', 'The Honking' and 'The Cryonic Woman'. Season 3 episodes are: 'Amazon Women in the Mood', 'Parasites Lost', 'A Tale of Two Santas', 'The Luck of the Fryrish', 'The Bird-Bot of Ice-Catraz', 'Bendless Love', 'The Day the Earth Stood Stupid', 'That's Lobstertainment!', 'The Cyber House Rules', 'Where the Buggalo Roam', 'Insane in the Mainframe', 'The Route of All Evil', 'Bendin' in the Wind', 'Time Keeps On Slipping', 'I Dated a Robot', 'A Leela of Her Own', 'A Pharoah to Remember', 'Anthology of Interest II', 'Roswell That Ends Well', 'Godfellas', 'Futurestock' and 'The 30 Percent Iron Chef'. Season 4 episodes are: 'Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch', 'Leela's Homeworld', 'Love and Rocket', 'Less Than Hero', 'A Taste of Freedom', 'Bender Should Not Be Allowed On TV', 'Jurassic Bark', 'Crimes of the Hot', 'Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles', 'The Why of Fry', 'Where No Fan Has Gone Before', 'The Sting', 'Bend Her', 'Obsoletely Fabulous', 'The Farnsworth Parabox', 'Three Hundred Big Boys', 'Spanish Fry' and 'The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings'. Season 5 episodes are: 'Rebirth', 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela', 'Attack of the Killer App', 'Proposition Infinity', 'The Duh-Vinci Code', 'Lethal Inspection', 'The Late Philip J. Fry', 'That Darn Katz!', 'A Clockwork Origin', 'The Prisoner of Benda', 'Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences', 'The Mutants Are Revolting' and 'The Futurama Holiday Spectacular'. Season 6 episodes are: 'The Silence of the Clamps', 'Mobius Dick', 'Law and Oracle', 'Benderama', 'The Tip of the Zoidberg', 'Ghost in the Machines', 'Neutopia', 'Yo Leela Leela', 'Fry Am the Egg Man', 'All the Presidents' Heads', 'Cold Warriors', 'Overclockwise' and 'Reincarnation'. Season 7 episodes are: 'The Bots and the Bees', 'A Farewell to Arms', 'Decision 3012', 'The Thief of Baghead', 'Zapp Dingbat', 'The Butterjunk Effect', 'The Six Million Dollar Mon', 'Fun On a Bun', 'Free Will Hunting', 'Near-Death Wish', '31st Century Fox', 'Viva Mars Vegas' and 'Naturama'. Season 8 episodes are: 'Forty Percent Leadbelly', '2-D Blacktop', 'T.: The Terrestrial', 'Fry and Leela's Big Fling', 'The Inhuman Torch', 'Saturday Morning Fun Pit', 'Calculon 2.0', 'Assie Come Home', 'Leela and the Genestalk', 'Game of Tones', 'Murder of the Planet Express', 'Stench and Stenchibility' and 'Meanwhile'.

Comedy following the Jones brothers, celebrity Harry (Michael Sheen) and lawyer Ben (Jason Hughes). Harry takes Ben to Donegal - the place they last vacationed together, back when they were young and happy - for Ben's stag night. While there, however, the discovery of an old flame (Angeline Ball) leads them both into a world of trouble.

Wes Anderson's comic Indian road-movie, set on a train, follows three brothers on a road-to-nowhere as they try to bond with one another after the death of their father. Trying to rekindle their sibling affections, Francis (Owen Wilson), Peter (Adrien Brody), and Jack (Jason Schwartzman) Whitman travel across India to meet up with their mother (Anjelica Huston), who has forsaken western life to become a nun in the Himalayas. Along the way, the hapless brothers fall victim to a range of mishaps, involving, among other things, pepper spray and an unhealthy fondness for pharmaceuticals, as their well-intentioned trip spirals out of control.

All nine series of the popular US sitcom about a beleaguered courier driver and his family. Doug and Carrie Heffernan are a young Queens couple who should be sitting pretty. Doug (Kevin James) is a courier driver with a cheeky, playful nature who, given a choice, almost always chooses what's most likely to rile his wife's fiery temper. Carrie (Leah Remini) is a legal assistant, vivacious, wise, and, on the face of it, way too good for Doug - a fact that informs much of the comedy here. In the first flush of their married life together, however, Carrie's parents' house burns down. Her mum dies, and dad Arthur needs a place to stay. Arthur (Jerry Stiller) is an oddball, hilariously volatile old man who never says anything that isn't in anger or indignation. An ensemble of Doug's quirky friends, who constantly dispense advice he takes to heart but which is utterly, disastrously wrong, round out the cast in this long-running family comedy.

Updated version of the Dickens' classic with Bill Murray as Frank, a network TV president and modern day Scrooge who is always looking out for number one. One night, as Christmas approaches, he is visited by three zany ghosts including ex-New York Doll David Johansen as the Ghost of Christmas Past and Carol Kane as a violent Ghost of Christmas Present; whilst jazz great Miles Davis appears in a cameo role as a street musician.