Kamikawa Ryohei is a 35-year-old man who works in a foreign company and lives a happy family life with his wife and son. On the day he decides to switch careers and submit his resignation, his wife runs away from home, leaving his hands full taking care of the home and bringing up their son. Saeki Shinichiro is a 61-year-old man who decides to live alone when he loses his wife to illness not long after he reached the mandatory retirement age.
Jul i Skomakergata is a Norwegian TV-show produced in 1979. It is a televised advent calendar, meaning it is broadcast from December 1 to December 24. It has been broadcast several times in Norway by NRK and is one of the most treasured programs in Norwegian television history. The story revolves around shoe repairer Jens Petrus Andersen, played by Henki Kolstad, and his shop. He is visited by friends and townspeople who need their shoes repaired before Christmas. A part of the show consists of showing a clip from Sandmännchen which tells children about the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child.
In 2006, the Norwegian comedian Zahid Ali created an advent calendar show called Jul i Tøyengata, a parody of Jul i Skomakergata which shows a multicultural street in Oslo and deals with problems such as racism and cultural clashes.
Three women who shared a terrible secret twenty years ago during school years are reunited after they find themselves living in the same apartment complex. They now lead different lives but share the same problem with their husbands who are cheaters. Now, these three housewives, all betrayed by their husbands, bond together to revenge. Through the characters' proactive approach in trying to resolve their marital problems, this show will give the female viewers a cathartic relief.
In the magical setting of an enchanted island, what of all things but the infamous ship Titanic happens to wind up in a nearby cove? And who do we find on the premises, but our friends from the «Legend of Titanic» saga?! The gang’s all here: Elizabeth, Don Juan, the mice (Ronnie and Top Connors), a clever dog called Smile, Chantilly (Smile's sweetheart) — and then there’s Tentacles, the 7-year-old child octopus who had previously saved the ship’s crew. Unfortunately, the baddies Maltravers and his assistant Geoffrey are here as well! Fantasy Island is an animation that takes us on a thrilling ride from the kingdom of Atlantis all the way to an island unlike any other. During the show, new characters are added to the series like Francis the ghost, Ulla the cloud, Smile and Chantilly's puppies and Elizabeth and Don Juan's long lost family,even their new son and daughter.
Carolina is married to a man who commits fraud and blames her, causing her to run away from home with her son. The only solution Carolina can think of at the time is to go see her twin sister, Celeste, who is a nun. The only option she offers is for them to switch places and for Carolina to go to the place where they can't find her, a town called Monteverde.
Eggheads is a BBC quiz show which pits a team of five "Eggheads" against a series of teams of five "challengers" who in each episode attempt to beat the Eggheads through a series of rounds.
The program was first broadcast in 2003, and co-presented by Dermot Murnaghan and Jeremy Vine. For the 2008 series, Jeremy Vine was brought in to present on nights when Murnaghan was hosting the spinoff series Are You an Egghead?. This happened again from October 2009 while Murnaghan presented the second series of the spinoff show. Since the spin-off show finished, Jeremy Vine has continued to host the second half of each series, which broadcasts 52 weeks a year. Episodes generally air weekdays.