This is a BBC drama/mystery series which has been running since 2019.
It's watchable but it does seem to have 'daytime TV' written all over it.

five words - 11/3/8/7/13. I think there's a hyphen/dash after the third word

picture 4 - change the first letter to 'H'
picture 7 - a synonym
picture 8 - for those who speak British!
picture 9 - for those who speak American!

A US comedy from the year 2000. It had a good cast - there were some very big 'a-list' names in it - and was quite funny.

Unfortunately, almost inevitably I suppose, it produced a sequel ('xxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx 2') which I count among 'the worst 10 films it has ever been my misfortune to waste my time watching'.

two words - 4/12

picture 5 - first name
picture 6 - you need the full title (it's very short) of the novel or the film that spawned this monstrosity.

The word 'irony' doesn't do it justice.
Hypocrisy comes closer.

First of all, let me congratulate Emma Raducanu on a magnificent victory in the US Ladies' Open tennis Championship. A great achievement.
We can be sure that the British tabloids will devote their front pages to this young lady for the next few weeks. The Queen will send her telegrams and give her medals and no doubt the Abominable Johnson will claim that it couldn't possibly have happened under a Labour Government.

There is one slight niggle in my mind however - Ms Raducanu was born in Canada to a Chinese mother and a Romanian father. She came with her family to England when  she was two years old.
How come she's British?

Apologies for my blunder yesterday. Groucho Marx did indeed play Rufus T. Firefly but in 'Duck Soup', not 'Night at the Opera'.

 

A two-part rebus.
For Part I, take your pick - this was both a 1935 US comedy or a 1975 album by one of the biggest rock bands of all time

Part II however has no choice - the name of the leading character in the movie, played py one of the funniest men of all time.

Part I -  five words - 1/5/2/3/5
Part II - three words - 5/1/7

Fairly easy today- a 1928 case for the Belgian with the moustache and his 'little grey cells'

six words - 3/7/2/3/4/5

picture 4 - the letters in the even places
picture 6 - cut the last letter

I know spiffing, but it's very British;
You'd expect to see it in, for example, public school stories featuring Billy Bunter and those of his ilk.

'Wizard, chaps! Spiffing japes. Cripes! *Cavy. you fellows, Old Squelch is on the prowl.'

I don't think anyone ever spoke like that, at least not in the real world, but it's certainly to be found in P.G.Wodehouse and other novels satirizing upper-class twitteries.

*'cavy, spelled various ways; supposedly schoolboy slang for 'Watch out! Be careful! Take care', from Latin 'cavere'
It survives in the phrase 'caveat emptor ' - 'Let the buyer beware'