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People like us [videorecording (DVD)] : the complete series.

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distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas : distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video, c2009.

Documentary television programs -- Parodies, imitations, etc.

[videorecording (DVD)] :

2 videodiscs (ca. 346 min.) : Dolby digital stereo. sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Contains all 12 episodes from the entire series, originally broadcast on BBC television between 1999 and 2001, on 2 discs.

Aspect ratio: 16:9 enhanced.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Season 1. Episode 1. The managing director -- Episode 2. The estate agent -- Episode 3. The police officer -- Episode 4. The solicitor -- Episode 5. The photographer -- Epiosde 6. The head teacher -- Season 2. Episode 1. The vicar -- Episode 2. The mother -- Episode 3. The journalist -- Episode 4. The actor -- Episode 5. The bank manager -- Episode 6. The airline pilot.

British Broadcasting Corporation ; BBC Worldwide Ltd. ; produced and co-directed by Paul Schlesinger ; written and directed by John Morton.

Chris Langham, Bill Nighy, David Tennant, Jessica Hynes and Sarah Alexander.

"Before The Office there was People Like Us, twelve fly on the wall mockumentaries chronicling the embarrassments, misstatements, and general unsightliness of workplace life. BBC interviewer Roy Mallard travels the country to talk to ordinary folk and get under the skin of what it's really like to be one of Britain's unsung professionals. Mallard has little or no skill as an interviewer: he is over-earnest, and after most of his voiceovers, you realize there's something slightly odd about what he's said. He's hopelessly inept, staggeringly gauche and linguistically challenged. Utterly insensitive to nuance or atmosphere, he is constantly caught off guard by his interviewees who take his questions too literally. Slowly but relentlessly, he gets caught up in some distracting human mini-drama that skews the entire episode, whether because of a dysfunctional slide projector, an unintelligible Japanese translator or an estate agent with an unconsummated passion for a colleague. He's apt to talk nonsense and is so obviously unattractive there's a running joke that nobody can believe he's married."--Container.

Television comedies.

Parody television programs.

Documentary-style television programs

Television programs -- Great Britain.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Morton, John, writer, director.

Langham, Chris.

Nighy, Bill, 1949-

Tennant, David, 1971-

Hynes, Jessica, 1972-

Alexander, Sarah, 1971-

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