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Catastrophe (2015 TV series), the Glossary

Catastrophe is a British television sitcom first broadcast on 19 January 2015 on Channel 4.^[1]

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2010s British sex comedy television series
Television series created by Sharon Horgan
Television shows about casual sex
Television shows about human pregnancy

Alcoholics Anonymous

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a global peer-led mutual aid fellowship begun in the United States dedicated to abstinence-based recovery from alcoholism through its spiritually inclined twelve-step program.

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Amanda Hale

Amanda Hale (born 2 October 1982) is a British actress.

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Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.

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Amazon MGM Studios

Amazon MGM Studios, formerly Amazon Studios, is an American film and television production and distribution studio owned by Amazon launched in 2010.

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Amazon Prime Video

Amazon Prime Video, or simply Prime Video, is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming and rental service of Amazon offered both as a stand-alone service and as part of Amazon's Prime subscription.

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Americans in the United Kingdom

Americans in the United Kingdom or American Britons are emigrants from the United States who are residents or citizens of the United Kingdom.

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Ashley Jensen

Ashley Jensen (born 11 August 1969) is a Scottish actress and narrator.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.

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Bachelor party

A bachelor party (in the United States and in Canada), also known as a stag weekend, stag do or stag party (in the United Kingdom, Commonwealth countries, and Ireland), or a buck's night (in Australia), is a party held for or arranged by a man who is shortly to enter marriage.

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Bachelorette party

A bachelorette party (United States and Canada) or hen night (UK, Ireland and Australia) is a party held for a woman (the bride or bride-to-be) who will soon be married.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, bleak comedy, morbid humor, gallows humor, black humor, or dark humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Breast pump

A breast pump is a mechanical device that lactating women use to extract milk from their breasts.

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British Academy Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance

The British Academy Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance was instituted in 2009.

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British Academy Television Award for Best Scripted Comedy

The British Academy Television Award for Best Scripted Comedy is awarded annually as part of the British Academy Television Awards.

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British Academy Television Awards

The BAFTA TV Awards, or British Academy Television Awards, are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

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British Academy Television Craft Awards

The British Academy Television Craft Awards is an accolade presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), a charitable organisation established in 1947, which: "supports, promotes and develops the art forms of the moving image – film, television and video games – by identifying and rewarding excellence, inspiring practitioners and benefiting the public." Having previously been handed out with the British Academy Television Awards, the awards were established in 2000 as a way to spotlight technical achievements, without being overshadowed by the production categories.

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British sitcom

A British sitcom or a Britcom is a situational comedy programme produced for British television.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Carrie Fisher

Carrie Frances Fisher (October 21, 1956 – December 27, 2016) was an American actress and writer.

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Cerebral palsy

Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of movement disorders that appear in early childhood.

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Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia

Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), also known as cervical dysplasia, is the abnormal growth of cells on the surface of the cervix that could potentially lead to cervical cancer.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation.

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Charity shop

A charity shop (British English), thrift shop or thrift store (American English and Canadian English, also includes for-profit stores such as Savers) or opportunity shop or op-shop (Australian English and New Zealand English) is a retail establishment run by a charitable organization to raise money.

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Cirrhosis

Cirrhosis, also known as liver cirrhosis or hepatic cirrhosis, and end-stage liver disease, is a condition of the liver in which the normal functioning tissue, or parenchyma, is replaced with scar tissue (fibrosis) and regenerative nodules as a result of chronic liver disease.

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Comedy drama

Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau dramedy, is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama.

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Community service is selfless work performed by a person or group of people for the benefit and betterment of their community contributing to a noble cause.

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Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Comedy Series

The Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Comedy Series is one of the award categories presented annually by the Critics' Choice Television Awards (BTJA).

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Daniel Lapaine

Daniel Lapaine (born 15 June 1971) is an Australian stage, film and television actor, living in London.

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Deadline Hollywood

Deadline Hollywood, commonly known as Deadline and also referred to as Deadline.com, is an online news site founded as the news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily by Nikki Finke in 2006.

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Down syndrome

Down syndrome (United States) or Down's syndrome (United Kingdom and other English-speaking nations), also known as trisomy 21, is a genetic disorder caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of chromosome 21.

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Drunk driving

Drunk driving (or drink-driving in British English) is the act of driving under the influence of alcohol.

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Eileen Walsh

Eileen Walsh (born 16 April 1977) is an Irish actress.

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Emergency contraception

Emergency contraception (EC) is a birth control measure, used after sexual intercourse to prevent pregnancy.

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Emmanuelle Bouaziz

Emmanuelle Bouaziz (born 22 May) is a French actress, dancer and singer.

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Fellatio

Fellatio (also known as fellation, and in slang as blowjob, BJ, giving head, or sucking off) is an oral sex act consisting of the stimulation of a male penis by using the mouth.

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Flying glass

Flying glass refers to pieces of broken glass (typically from a window) which become sharp missiles projected by the force which broke the glass, along with any strain energy due to tempering.

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Foster care

Foster care is a system in which a minor has been placed into a ward, group home (residential child care community, treatment center, etc.), or private home of a state-certified caregiver, referred to as a "foster parent", or with a family member approved by the state.

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Frances Tomelty

Frances Tomelty (born 6 October 1948) is a Northern Irish actress whose numerous television credits include Strangers (1978–1979), Testament of Youth (1979), Inspector Morse (1988), Cracker (1993), The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (2006), The White Queen (2013) and Unforgotten (2015).

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Frenemy

"Frenemy" is an oxymoron and a portmanteau of "friend" and "enemy" that refers to "a person with whom one is friendly, despite a fundamental dislike or rivalry" or "a person who combines the characteristics of a friend and an enemy".

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Gay bar

A gay bar is a drinking establishment that caters to an exclusively or predominantly lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ+) clientele; the term gay is used as a broadly inclusive concept for LGBTQ+ communities.

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General practitioner

A general practitioner (GP) or family physician is a doctor who is a consultant in general practice.

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Homeopathy

Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine.

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International Press Academy

The International Press Academy (IPA) is an American association of professional entertainment journalists, representing both domestic and foreign markets in print, television, radio, cable and new media outlets.

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Irish people

Irish people (Muintir na hÉireann or Na hÉireannaigh) are an ethnic group and nation native to the island of Ireland, who share a common ancestry, history and culture.

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Jay Hunt (television executive)

Jacqueline Leigh "Jay" Hunt (born 20 January 1967) is an Australian-born British television executive working as Creative Director, Worldwide Video, Europe for Apple Inc.

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Jonathan Forbes

Jonathan Forbes (born 4 December 1976 in Dublin) is an Irish actor.

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Julie Hesmondhalgh

Julie Claire Hesmondhalgh (born 25 February 1970) is an English actress and narrator.

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Kai Alexander

Kai Alexander (born 7 June 1997) is a British actor.

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Kent

Kent is a county in the South East England region, the closest county to continental Europe.

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KPCC (FM)

KPCC (89.3 FM) – branded LAist 89.3 – is a non-commercial educational radio station licensed to Pasadena, California, primarily serving Greater Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley.

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Lauren Socha

Lauren Marie Socha (born 9 June 1990) is an English actress.

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Mark Bonnar

Richard Mark Bonnar (born 19 November 1968) is a Scottish actor.

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Michaela Watkins

Michaela Watkins (born December 14, 1971) is an American actress and comedian.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Peabody Awards

The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor what are described as the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in all of television, radio, and online media.

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People (magazine)

People is an American weekly magazine that specializes in celebrity news and human-interest stories.

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Primary school

A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary education of children who are 4 to 10 years of age (and in many cases, 11 years of age).

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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series

This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.

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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series

The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series is an annual award presented as part of the Primetime Emmy Awards.

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Prostate massage

Prostate massage is the massage or stimulation of the prostate gland for medical purposes or sexual stimulation.

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Quakers

Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations.

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Register office (United Kingdom)

A register office or The General Register Office, much more commonly but erroneously registry office (except in official use), is a British government office where births, deaths, marriages, civil partnership, stillbirths and adoptions in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are registered.

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Rob Delaney

Rob Delaney (born January 19, 1977) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and activist.

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Romantic comedy

Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and romance fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles.

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Royal Television Society Programme Awards

The Royal Television Society Programme Awards, (often referred to as the RTS Awards) seek to recognise programmes or individuals who have made a positive and material contribution to their genre: either because their content or originality in form has in some way moved the genre forward, or perhaps even created a new genre; or because their quality has set standards which other programme-makers can emulate and learn from.

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Royal Tunbridge Wells

Royal Tunbridge Wells is a town in Kent, England, southeast of central London.

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Rupture of membranes

Rupture of membranes (ROM) or amniorrhexis is a term used during pregnancy to describe a rupture of the amniotic sac.

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Sarah Niles

Sarah Niles is a British film, television and theatre actress.

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Satellite Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy

The Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy is one of the annual Satellite Awards given by the International Press Academy.

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Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy

The Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy is one of the annual Satellite Awards given by the International Press Academy.

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Seeta Indrani

Seeta Indrani (born 20 April 1963) is an English dancer and actress.

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Semen

Semen, also known as seminal fluid, is a bodily fluid that contains spermatozoa.

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Sex comedy

Sex comedy, erotic comedy or more broadly sexual comedy is a genre in which comedy is motivated by sexual situations and love affairs.

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Sharon Horgan

Sharon Lorencia Horgan (born 13 July 1970) is an Irish actress, writer, director, producer, and comedian.

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Shomi

Shomi (pronounced "show me") was a Canadian subscription video on demand service jointly owned by Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications, in operation from 2014 to 2016 (prior to Rogers' acquisition of Shaw in 2023).

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Sitcom

A sitcom (a shortening of situation comedy, or situational comedy) is a genre of comedy centred on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode.

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Skype

Skype is a proprietary telecommunications application operated by Skype Technologies, a division of Microsoft, best known for VoIP-based videotelephony, videoconferencing and voice calls.

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Slice of life

Slice of life is a depiction of mundane experiences in art and entertainment.

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SoHo (New Zealand TV channel)

SoHo is a premium entertainment channel in New Zealand available on Sky Network Television.

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Stalking

Stalking is unwanted and/or repeated surveillance or contact by an individual or group toward another person.

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Television in the United Kingdom

Television broadcasts in the United Kingdom began in 1932, however, regular broadcasts would only begin four years later.

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Television pilot

A television pilot (also known as a pilot or a pilot episode and sometimes marketed as a tele-movie) in United Kingdom and United States television, is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell a show to a television network or other distributor.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophe_(2015_TV_series)

Also known as Catastrophe (sitcom).

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See also

2010s British sex comedy television series

Television series created by Sharon Horgan

Television shows about casual sex

Television shows about human pregnancy

References