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
Boom Town (2013 TV series) in studios or contracted outside set locations, mostly in Southwest London. Outside the UK, "Boom Town" will be distributed by ITV Studios Global Entertainment, which showcased the series at MIPTV Media Market in Cannes, France, in April 2013. After commissioning a pilot in 2012, a year before its transmission, Paul Jensen, writing for "Chortle", called "Boom Town" "the last straw" for his time of watching BBC Three. In its own review of episode 1, "Chortle" compared the programme to Channel 4's failed similar comedy project "Kookyville", which, after the pilot was slated by critics, was not commissioned for a full