The Secret Life of Components

Jonathan Meades gives a personal perspective of British history.

It Takes Two is the Australian version of UK series Just the Two of Us, which ran for three seasons from 2006 until 2008.

A spoiled executive climbs his way back up the corporate ladder, one humiliating temp job at a time.

The series revolves around the lives of three sisters, with the eldest sister taking on the role of the family's breadwinner. Despite her achievements, she faces judgment for remaining unmarried at the age of 35. On the other hand, the protagonist maintains her belief that someday she will meet her Mr. Right.

The adventures of a young pilot in a war torn country. Shin Kazama was duped into singing a three-year contract at Area 88, a secluded mercenary air force base. Determined to earn $1.5 million to buy his way out of the obligation and return home, killing becomes second nature to Shin as he quickly rises to the top rank at Area 88. He begins to question whether he is still fighting for survival, or like his fellow mercenaries, for the sheer excitement and camaraderie of battle.

The elderly criminal authority Semyon Timofeevich Babushkin, about whose thieving talent legends were made up at the time, has not left prison for the last 35 years, preferring it to freedom, where he has no friends or relatives left.

The People's Choice is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from 1955 to 1958, primarily sponsored by The Borden Company. It stars Jackie Cooper as Socrates "Sock" Miller, an ex-Marine and a young politician in fictitious New City, California. Sock has a basset hound named "Cleo", whose thoughts, as she balefully observes Sock's dilemmas, are recorded on the soundtrack for the viewers' amusement. Cleo's real name was Bernadette. Much of Cleo's dialog consists of wisecracks. The popularity of the basset hound breed increased markedly with the run of the show. During the last season of The People's Choice, Croft began her eight-year role as Clara Randolph on ABC's The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. The versatile Croft had also been a semi-regular on Our Miss Brooks and I Love Lucy and a regular on The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy.

A group of young adults, Sebastian, Cecilie, Kevin, Jakob and Fridtjof, leads a show where they create and star in their own comedy sketches and music videos. Together they are "Kollektivet".