The Office Special, Summer Nights of Comedy, Deep Impact
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The Office Special
Thursday 15th & Friday 16th, 11pm
 
 
For the first time on UKTV Gold, here's your chance to catch up with the hilarious, strangely moving and completely unmissable conclusion to the global phenomenon that's taken its place alongside the likes of Fawlty Towers as the definitive comedy of its time...The Office Special! which premieres on Thursday 15th & Friday 16th at 11pm.

It's three years since the cameras stopped rolling, and the BBC documentary team has now returned to Wernham Hogg to catch up with the staff, past and present, of the most famous paper merchants in Slough. Gareth is now an infuriating office manager and Tim, unsurprisingly, is close to breaking point. Last seen asking Dawn out - again - Tim now believes he's reconciled himself with the past: "I had feelings for Dawn, obviously... and I really wish I hadn't done what I did, but it's all cool."

David Brent, meanwhile, has blown his redundancy money on releasing a single and now earns a crust selling cleaning products door-to-door and making z-list celebrity appearances. He's also taken to turning up at his old workplace unannounced, much to the annoyance of his nemesis, the suave, handsome, yet strangely loathsome Neil. Putting aside her dreams of being an illustrator, Dawn has moved to Florida with fiancé Lee, but the couple are being flown over by the filmmakers for Wernham-Hogg's end-of-year office party. And what a party it turns out to be. Even Brent gets lucky and as for Slough's very own Romeo and Juliet... well, you'll just have to wait and see.
 
   
 
 
     
 
Summer Nights of Comedy
From Monday 19th, 9pm
 
 
UKTV's Gold Summer Nights Of Comedy season continues throughout July with a brand-new line up of the best comedies on the box beginning Monday 19th, from 9pm! Spearheaded by The Office and followed by great episodes of Only Fools and Horses, The Royle Family, Men Behaving Badly and Ab Fab.

Only Fools And Horses, 9pm - Take a trip back in time to 1981, when mobile phones were the size of bricks, wine bars were the place to hang out and a cockney wideboy by the name of Del Trotter made his debut attempting to flog one-legged turkeys from the back of his Reliant Robin.

Del's confident he's on to a winner at last with Trigger's consignment of Olde English vinyl briefcases. How can his brother Rodney even think of abandoning the high-flying world of trading for a real job? Doesn't the plonker know that Only Fools And Horses work?

The Royle Family, 9.40pm - With their bums superglued to the sofa and their eyes to the box, the nation's other first family take up residence on our screens this week, beginning with the series that first introduced an unsuspecting public to Manchester's finest. Comfortably ensconced in their sitting room, Jim and Barbara Royle, daughter Denise and long-suffering son Antony address some of life's big issues, namely whose turn it is to go to the offie, the joys of Wagon Wheels and the merits of Family Fortunes (Jim on Les Dennis: "If you put his brains in a bloody hazelnut, they'd still rattle"). Meanwhile, as Denise and her fiancé Dave prepare to tie the knot, there's plenty of tension afoot in the Royle household.

Men Behaving Badly, 10.20pm - Boys will be boys. But so too, unfortunately, will the adult version. Yes, those Men Behaving Badly are back, leaving a trail of lager cans, pizza boxes and unmentionable residues in their wake. This week, Gary's worried he hasn't shagged enough birds, Debs is so depressed that even Tony's cheese impressions can't raise a smile, and Tony himself is forced to reconsider his professional options when he loses his job in the pub ("I could be an escort." "What, a car?" asks Gary).

Absolutely Fabulous - series 5, 11pm - Sweetie, would you believe it, but those darling people at UKTV Gold are airing the very latest outing of the divine Ab Fab. Edina is now a CPR (Celebrity PR), not-so-ably assisted by PA Bubble (or CRPA), with a wealth of high-profile clients - among them an ex-Spice Girl. Patsy, meanwhile, has ditched the world of glossy magazines for the even glossier world of celeb stylists and has somehow bagged herself a top Hollywood starlet to work with. After months away travelling, Saffy returns with some earth-shattering news. But how will Eddy feel about becoming a grandmother? And does Lacroix do a kids' range?
 
   
 
 
     
 
Deep Impact
Saturday 24th July at 9pm
 
 

If comedy's not your thing tune into Deep Impact, Saturday 24th July at 9pm. Elijah Wood, Tea Leoni, Robert Duvall and Morgan Freeman star in this spectacular production that will have you counting your lucky stars! What would you do if you knew that in a handful of days a comet the size of Texas would collide with Earth and wipe out all of mankind? While most of us would probably head straight for the pub, the cast of Mimi Leder's (The Peacemaker) dazzling Doomsday movie, prefer to reassess their relationships and their attitudes to life, death, careers and families.