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
Svalbard in fiction "Fortitude" (2015) is a murder mystery set in a fictional version of Svalbard. It consists of 21 episodes over 2 seasons. The series was actually filmed in Reyðarfjörður, Eastern Iceland and the UK. Horror "found footage" podcast The White Vault takes place in Svalbard at the fictional Outpost Fristed (Norwegian for "sanctuary"), a mining outpost for Sidja Group, where a team is sent to repair an equipment malfunction. Svalbard in fiction Novelists, screenwriters and filmmakers have set their works in Svalbard, an archipelago in the Arctic which constitutes the northernmost part of Norway. Fictional works about Svalbard often make reference