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A joke can travel without losing the place it came from. These comedies offer clear character conflicts, physical business or recognisable social rituals, while keeping the language and local...

Starting again rarely means leaving every old responsibility behind. These American, British and Australian shows follow adults revising a career, relationship or way of living while money, family...

The job should create the problems, the jokes and the uneasy alliances. These comedies get useful mileage from customers, deadlines, procedures, scarce resources and colleagues whose ideas of...

A place should do more than fill the gap behind an actor. These Australian and New Zealand shows let distance, local loyalties, work and weather shape the story. There are remote investigations...