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
Drama (UK TV channel) 190. In September 2014, UKTV blamed the channel for their 7% profits fall. In September 2018, Drama and Really were added to Virgin Media Ireland. The channel is positioned as a home for British dramas from the last 40 years. The channel features such shows as "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet", "The Cinder Path", "Cranford", "Lark Rise to Candleford", "Pride & Prejudice", "Sharpe" and "Tipping the Velvet". Drama (UK TV channel) Drama is a British digital television channel broadcasting drama (and, to a lesser extent, comedy) programming in the United Kingdom and Ireland as part of the UKTV network of channels. The