Projects in genres: Comedy

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When Rob is set up to lose his advertising job in a London marketing firm, he decides that he has nothing to lose – and makes the pitch of his career.

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A sexually-frustrated, but god-fearing, young British Muslim resorts to an Islamic 'pleasure marriage' to satisfy his desires - and ends up getting a sleazy Imam to marry him to a prostitute - for one hour.

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Jack is an actor who stars in poor quality porn films. One day on set, whilst struggling to work with a particularly uninterested and uninspiring co-star, he has an epiphany and is confronted by a vision of how very different his life could be.

For the first time in his life he takes stock of his surroundings and decides it is time to reassess his values and direction. In a grand gesture he leaves the studio - and the porn industry - behind for good, only fate has different ideas.

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A 'Bollywood' legend comes to London to tread the boards in Shakespeare, but first he must find a leading lady to match his charm and sexual dynamism. He brings with him his (not so) faithful sidekick Ramyou Balti and his spiritual advisor the 'honourable guru Baboo' to help him with the auditions.

However Popo Gigi's eloquence and magnetism is such that his rendition of Shakespeare makes the actresses melt in paroxysms of sexual ecstasy, forgetting to act, instead divesting themselves of their clothes.

Ramyou's zeal to take over Popo's position leads to a madcap chase through London culminating in a yoga showdown for the title.

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Book titles spell out declarations of love from a shy young woman to a gorgeous reader in the rare books room of the British Library.
 
Watch on BBC Film Network.

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Eleanor wants to change her life. She needs to. It's evident in her bank balance, haircut and love life.

Followed by a ferocious documentary film crew, she aims to capture the story of her attempted life change, to make sense of it, and emerge as a new person, a new character.

Her mission gets somewhat messy when a Turkish playboy, an estate agent with motherly guilt and an old friend from University crash into her new life, and the film depicting it, messing both of them up.

A story about persona and identity, life in a big city and individualism, the film examines relationship between one’s character, and the 'character' one portrays, playing with the inevitable tension between life and storytelling.

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The heroes of Reptile Day - that day when all the reptiles' heads exploded - have chosen to live a quiet life, but can they keep it that way? Reptile Day is a comedy sci-fi thriller which looks back to Méliès, putting actors into a cartoon world, drawn by comic-book genius, D'Israeli.
 

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Charles has one last carpet to sell, but it's old and it's worn and it has an annoying habit of lifting up at one corner.

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Actor Gary gets his big break in a feature film but things just couldn't seem to get any worse. Gary is playing the part of Nathan, an gangster with a conscience determined to cut his ties with the underworld fraternity but he just can't seem to find the right emotion to nail the scene.

The director's method of working is too unconventional and the cold hearted crew are wilting rapidly as the takes roll on.

Will poor Gary finally hit his mark or will he slide into obscurity and remain in television for the remainder of his career?

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Behind-the-scenes of a movie snog.

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Flow 24-7 a fledging commercial radio station organises a blind date competition for a wedding to rescue crashing ratings. A cheque for a £100,000 awaits the daring couple who agree to court over the airwaves, get married blindfolded and agree to stay married once the blindfolds come off. The applications are flooding in but for all the wrong reasons.

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It is the summer of '66, and England is about to be consumed by World Cup Fever. For 12 year-old Bernie though, the biggest day of his life is looming: his Bar Mitzvah, and the day he becomes a man. Bernie's family, however, are increasingly distracted by the threat of losing their business and their errant older son's bad behaviour, so much so that the scale of Bernie’s Bar Mitzvah diminishes daily. Worst of all the Cup Final is scheduled to take place on the same day and when England makes it through the qualifying rounds, Bernie’s longed-for Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a complete disaster.