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 Comedy Channel (UK) The Comedy Channel (UK) The Comedy Channel was a short-lived United Kingdom subscription television channel during the early 1990s. The channel launched on 1 October 1991, soon after the merger of Sky Television plc and British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB). The merged company, British Sky Broadcasting, brought together comedy programming from its existing libraries - Sky having an archive of US imports including "Three's Company", "I Love Lucy", "Green Acres", "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "Seinfeld", and BSB having obtained rights to a number of BBC sitcoms such as "Dad's Army" and "The Goodies". The Comedy Channel existed in the days before