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Ten full-cast dramas featuring some of the best known names in British comedy. In these ten witty, dark and disturbing episodes some of Britain’s best comedians come together to perform simultaneously hilarious and unsettling stories that will have you gripped. Sticky situations on ski slopes...

Melvin Levin is a middle-aged man who is dissatisfied with his dull and mediocre life. That is, he was until he received a mysterious death threat in the mail. Terrified at first, Levin soon becomes accustomed to the threat—and then, increasingly, delighted with it, thrilled with his newfound importance as a “threatened man.” But as his obsession with maintaining this identity becomes all-consuming, he risks blinding himself to the twin dangers of the threat itself and—perhaps worse—his own deranged mind.

Maggie und Jupp, hochbetagt und nicht mehr in Bestform, brechen mit ihrem alten Porsche zu einer letzten gemeinsamen Reise auf. Schon das Einsteigen wird zur Herausforderung, und einen Führerschein hat er auch schon lange nicht mehr. Kaum losgefahren, verliert er - ausgerechnet in Amsterdam - seine Maggie, die immer vergesslicher wird. Unversehens wird sie zum ungebetenen Gast in einem Auto, das zwei tollpatschigen Drogendealern gehört. Als wäre das nicht schon schlimm genug, bringt sie auch noch ungewollt einen ganzen Bus voller Schweizer Chorsänger dazu, alle Hemmungen und Hüllen fallen zu lassen.

Wenn dein Date eine Lüge ist, lügt sein Herz dann auch? Lucy ist verschroben, eine graue Maus, und stolz darauf. Warum auch nicht? Die Studentin verdient nebenher als Laborassistentin gutes Geld und keiner kommt ihr dabei in die Quere. Doch als der heißeste Kerl, den sie in ihren 22 Jahren jemals gesehen hat, ausgerechnet mit ihr Essen gehen möchte, verändert sich ihr Weltbild. Schließlich hat es Wochen gedauert, bis sie aufgehört hat zu sabbern, wenn er ins Labor kam. Was will er also ausgerechnet jetzt von ihr? Das Date kann nur schieflaufen. Nun, sie irrt sich.

Lana Matthews ist mit Leib und Seele Bibliothekarin, nach Feierabend verschließt sie aber die Leidenschaft in ihrem Herzen und öffnet es nicht mehr so schnell. Denn die vielen Enttäuschungen haben sie vorsichtig gemacht. Als der Broker und Frauenschwarm Caleb Rice ein Date mit ihr möchte, wird es brenzlig. Er ist alles, was sie nicht will - und doch möchte. Arrogant, selbstbewusst bis zum Anschlag, naja, wer zum Niederknien gut aussieht und dazu noch steinreich ist... Lana sollte Angst vor diesen Gefühlen und Wünschen haben, aber als sie sich darauf einlässt, auf Caleb einlässt, ist es schon zu spät.

Veinte años después de que la publicación de Síbaris lo convirtiese en la estrella más rutilante del firmamento literario, el escritor Víctor Morel no atraviesa un buen momento: incapaz de escribir nada a la altura de las expectativas, lleva demasiado tiempo bloqueado y con una situación económica cada día más delicada. Laura, su mujer, lo anima a aceptar una invitación de la Universidad de la Sorbona, dispuesta, como tantas otras instituciones, a pagar generosamente por una lección magistral del célebre autor, pero la primera aparición pública de Víctor Morel en años acaba en un ataque de pánico y una espantada antes de tiempo.

Tes nas mans a obra de teatro que Domingo Villar deixou rematada e que entregou a Editorial Galaxia para a súa publicaci6n. Tratase dunha peza protagonizada por un escritor que se atopa nun bloqueo creativo dende hai anos. Sobre todo é unha obra moi divertida, como era o seu autor. Así, co fino sentido do humor que Domingo destilaba, desfilan pola escena as filias e as fobias de moitas escritoras e escritores ao Iongo da súa carreira literaria, que teñen que ver cos medos, as inseguridades e as paranoias de quen se dedican a escribir.

Am frühen Morgen sucht Emely Petersen die Praxis ihres Hausarztes auf und findet den Mediziner tot vor seinem Schreibtisch liegend vor. Die Sprechstundenhilfe Frida liegt laut jammernd unter einem umgestürzten Aktenschrank. Schnell sprechen sich die Neuigkeiten in Neuharlingersiel, einem idyllischen Küstenort an der Nordsee, herum. War es ein Einbruch mit tödlichem Ausgang? Was geht in dem benachbarten Schönheitsinstitut Wellnesshuuske vor? Die vier Teeschwestern, alles Damen im reiferen Alter, rufen die „Operation Ananas“ ins Leben und beginnen, der Sache auf den Grund zu gehen.

With the dark comedy and sharp observations of Monica Heisey and Dolly Alderton, a whip-smart and laugh-out-loud funny debut novel about a disgraced, newly divorced journalist demoted to a “clickbait” job at a Manhattan tabloid. The first thing they tell you when you begin your training is...

Zach Post is an editor for It magazine with an impressive history: his father is a famous architect, his mother a socialite, and he has attended Colgate, Berkley, and Liverpool University. Or, at least that's what everyone thinks. When obnoxious new editor Mark Larkin is quickly promoted, Zach's secrets are threatened, and his future no longer seems bright. But he knows what to do-Mark Larkin must be eliminated.

A high school poetry contest that may or may not be linked to the end of the world. The characters in this collection are under attack. A grief-baffled son hopes to save an innocent insect from a toxic genocide, a daughter struggles to accept loss while visiting a community overwhelmed by denial, a sorrow-stricken father recalls his bizarre final conversation with his only child; the individuals in these stories discover how difficult it can be to let go of what’s gone in order to live with what’s left.

Bigboobenstein is the dark and humorous tale of Adelaide De Carlo and her sordid quest for self-acceptance and utopia that involves a botched breast implantation surgery, death and resurrection.

In this rollicking, dark comedy about a failing hospital in Mars, Nebraska, Dr. Wave, a kind and well-meaning outsider, leaps into a year-long fight against an overwhelming bureaucracy upheld by a corrupt administrator who refuses to budge. Wave juggles some of the worst (and silliest) medical cases of his career and struggles to manage a hostile coterie of MDs with a host of defects, the least of which is their ubiquitous lack of Medical Board certifications, while doing his best to stay professional in the face of converging forces that seem hell-bent on undoing his easy solutions.

New mother Dani has a lot going on. She's just moved back to her hometown, where her father was once known as the Garbage King; she's fed up of not being a manicure-sporting, perfectly coiffed Normal Woman; and most of all, she's worried that her seemingly healthy husband, Clark, will drop dead, leaving her and her new baby Lotte destitute. And then Dani discovers The Temple. Ostensibly a yoga center, The Temple and its guardian, Renata, are committed to helping people reach their full potential. And if that sometimes requires sex work, so be it.

It’s winter break at Treemeadow College, and theater professors and spouses Nicky Abbondanza and Noah Oliver, their best friends Martin and Ruben, and their sons, Taavi and Ty, are starring in a television pilot for the Nicky and Noah Mysteries series based on their first caper, Drama Queen. More is shot than footage as cast members drop like giant, flat-screen TVs mounted by an intoxicated carpenter. Once again, our favorite thespians will need to use their drama skills to catch the killer before they get cancelled.

In their lovely old Cotswolds village, Janet and Susan are known to all the other villagers as “the girls”—a fixture. Partners in love and work, co-proprietors of a picturesque shop specializing in the work of local artisans and farmers, they lead an enviable, enviably settled life. So it’s no catastrophe when Sue, the younger of the two, feels the need to take a month to travel on her own, leaving Jan alone to run their stall at the Inland Waterways Rally Craft Fair.

Oh, what fun it is to die! When Austin’s parents drag him and his little sister Fiona to a remote cottage for Christmas, he’s less than thrilled about the forced bonding exercise. But after learning that their holiday getaway was the site of a horrific crime, this family on the rocks will have to fight for their lives against a legendary killer because Candy Cain is slashing through the snow with a very long naughty list.

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