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Funny woman / directed by Oliver Parker ; written by Morwenna Banks, Nick Hornby ; produced by Paul Schlessinger, Ross Williams.

Arlington, VA : PBS, [2024]

2 videodiscs (280 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

It's the height of the swinging 60s and Barbara Parker has just been crowned Miss Blackpool but there's got to be more to life than being a beauty queen in a seaside town, right? She wants to be someone. The bright lights of London are calling, and our determined hero sets off to find out who that someone is. The London she encounters is not as quite as swinging as the one she'd read about and seen on TV. However, after a series of setbacks, Barbara finds herself in unfamiliar territory--an audition for a TV comedy show. Barbara's uncompromising northern wit proves to be the X-factor that the show has been missing. She gets the part and becomes part of a groundbreaking new sitcom. Being a woman in a largely male environment has its own challenges, but as Barbara "finds her funny" she re-defines the prevailing attitude to funny women--and in the process, reinvents herself.

Rating: TV 14.

Women television personalities -- Drama.

Youth -- Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Drama.

Popular culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Drama.

Television comedies.

Historical television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Fiction television programs.

Parker, Oliver, television director.

Schlessinger, Paul, television producer.

Williams, Ross, television producer.

Banks, Morwenna, screenwriter, actor.

Hornby, Nick, screenwriter.

Arterton, Gemma, actor.

Threlfall, David, actor.

Everett, Rupert, actor.

Ali, Arsher, 1984- actor.

Bateman, Tom, 1989- actor.

Bill, Leo, actor.

Ashitey, Clare-Hope, 1987- actor.

Davies, Alexa, 1995- actor.

Cavaliero, Rosie, actor.

Petrie, Alistair, author.

Television adaptation of (work): Hornby, Nick. Funny girl.

PBS Distribution (Firm), publisher.

Title from sell sheet.

Based on the novel Funny girl by Nick Hornby.

Originally broadcast as single episodes of a television program in 2023.

Wide screen.

Gemma Arterton, David Threlfall, Rupert Everett, Arsher Ali, Tom Bateman, Matthew Beard, Leo Bill, Clare-Hope Ashitey, Alexa Davies, Rosie Cavaliero, Alistair Petrie, Morwenna Banks.

DVD; region 1, NTSC; wide screen; Dolby digital 5.1 stereo.

English subtitiles.

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