Brass (TV series) Thorn Street in Summerseat, Bury. Greater Manchester. The series is available on DVD in the United Kingdom. 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
The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town of January; the others were a detective comedy-drama "Republic of Doyle" and a family-oriented situation comedy "18 to Life". The debut of "Death Comes to Town" was watched by approximately 1.054 million viewers (60% in the 25-54 age demographic), higher than both "Republic of Doyle" and "18 to Life". The American cable network Independent Film Channel purchased the US broadcast rights and began broadcasting it on August 20, 2010. In the "Winnipeg Free Press", Brad Oswald reviewed the show cautiously, writing it that is "decidedly different, distinctly weird and definitely-an-acquired-taste kind of great" and that some characters and scenes "are