Brass (TV series) Brass (TV series) Brass was a British television comedy-drama, made by Granada Television for ITV and eventually Channel 4. "Brass" is northern English slang for "money" as well as for "effrontery". The series was set primarily in Utterley, a fictional Lancashire mining town in the 1930s, "Brass" satirized working-class period dramas of the 1970s, most significantly "When the Boat Comes In". Unusually for ITV comedies of the time, "Brass" eschewed a laugh track and utilized a dry sense of humour based in part on convoluted wordplay and subtle commentary on popular culture. The series also parodied the 1977 Granada TV
Federation of Drama Schools following the abolition of Drama UK the former accreditation body dissolved in 2016 after a period of instability in which several high-profile schools quit the organisation . Unlike its predecessor, the membership body will not provide independent accreditation for schools, but all members commit to adhering to a set of ‘guiding hallmarks’. Federation of Drama Schools The Federation of Drama Schools functions to facilitate vocational drama training in the UK. It was formed in June 2017. Formal organisations involved with drama training in the UK was first established with the Conference of Drama Schools (CDS) in 1969. This was followed