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
Drama UK Drama UK Drama UK functions was an advocate for vocational drama training in the UK, as well as providing accreditation for vocational drama courses. from 2012 to 2016. Drama UK was formed by the merger of the two main organizations in the United Kingdom responsible for Drama Training (Conference of Drama Schools) and accreditation (National Council for Drama Training) of officially recongnised courses on 31 July 2012. The accreditation body dissolved in 2016 after a period of instability in which several high-profile schools quit the organisation . In June 2017 Drama UK was replaced by the Federation of Drama Schools.