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In recent years, our knowledge of what goes on in our Ocean has been transformed. Blue Planet 2 uses cutting-edge breakthroughs in science and technology to explore new worlds, reveals astonishing creatures and extraordinary new animal behaviours. As we journey through our deep seas, coral reefs, open ocean, green seas and coasts we share these extraordinary new discoveries. But we now know that ocean health is under threat. Never has there been a more crucial time to explore our remotest seas, and to examine what the future will hold for our blue planet. Episodes:
Featuring three specials made for Christmas including: 'If They Could See Us Now', 'Strangers On The Shore', and 'Sleepless In Peckham', which finds the Trotters in desperate need of some cash as they face eviction. Meanwhile, an old photograph is uncovered of Freddy the Frog, the Raffles of Peckham, who shares an uncanny likeness with Rodney.
Superspy George Smiley (Alec Guinness) has for some time been in 'retirement' - some say due to his mishandling of the Czech scandal. However, the retiring masterspy finds himself summoned back to the 'Circus' (British secret service) when it transpires that an enemy infiltrator is at work in the department.
All eight episodes of the BBC miniseries starring James Nesbitt and Frances O'Connor. When Tony and Emily Hughes travel to France with their five-year-old son Oliver, their family holiday turns into a nightmare when Oliver disappears into the crowd of a busy French street. As the frantic father loses patience with the police and their lack of motivation to search for Oliver, Tony takes matters into his own hands and begins to form a private investigation.
Christmas time in the Harper household is chaotic... to say the least!
'Ding Dong Merrily' Christmas 2002
'Sixty Feet Under' Christmas 2003
'Glad Tidings We Bring' Christmas 2004
'...And I'll Cry If I Want To' Christmas 2005
The Blue Planet
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Based on author Philip Pullman’s beloved trilogy, Season two of His Dark Materials begins as Lyra embarks upon a journey in a strange and mysterious abandoned city. There she meets Will, a boy from our world who is also running from a troubled past. Lyra and Will learn their destinies are tied to reuniting Will with his father but find their path is constantly thwarted as a war begins to brew around them. Meanwhile, Mrs. Coulter searches for Lyra, determined to bring her home by any means necessary.
More mysteries featuring the charismatic clergyman sleuth, set in the beautiful English countryside. It's now 1955 and Chief Inspector Sullivan and Mrs Devine have grown closer since we saw them last - something that hasn't escaped the notice of Father Brown and Brenda. With a food fayre to die for, a real-life crime at a crime writing festival and a village rivalry that turns deadly, there's plenty for the gang to be busy with. And when his old friend Sister Boniface is implicated in a murder at an arts and craft fair, Father Brown must prove her innocence - before it's too late.
Killing Eve is a story of two women, bound by a mutual obsession and one brutal act: Eve, an MI6 operative, and Villanelle, the beautiful, psychopathic assassin that she has been tasked to find. Season 2 begins 30 seconds after the final episode of the first season, Eve is reeling and Villanelle has disappeared. Eve has no idea if the woman she stabbed is alive or dead, and now both of them are in deep trouble. Eve has to find Villanelle before someone else does, but unfortunately she’s not the only person looking for her. (Golden Globe nominations for: Best TV Series - Drama; Best Actress)
This stunningly ambitious series brings to life the most memorable events in the history of the solar system, by using groundbreaking visual effects to tell the thrilling story of all eight planets. Transporting you to the surface of these dynamic worlds to witness the moments of high drama that shaped each one, The Planets reveals how the latest science allows us to unlock their past lives. It pieces together clues of magnificent lost waterfalls on Mars, the mass planetary migrations as they jostled for position early in their history, and even the distant fate of Saturn as one of its moons awakens to form a beautiful water world.
Complete second series about the maverick judge, played by Martin Shaw, who has made it to the High Court without the help of the old boys' network and who struggles against an overly-bureaucratic system in his search for justice and truth. In this series a call girl is murdered and an Arab Sheikh is in the frame but the government wants it kept quiet; a young man with learning disabilities is charged with murder but there's no evidence; an old lover rekindles her interest in Deed but it's soon apparent that she needs a judge more than a lover and a child's parents go against his wishes and put him through a heart transplant and he dies on the slab. Episodes are: 'Political Expediency', 'Abuse of Power', 'Nobody's Fool' and 'Everyone's Child'.
All six episodes from the fifth and final season of the TV drama starring Matthew Macfadyen as a detective trying to maintain the law on the streets of Whitechapel in the wake of the Jack the Ripper murders. In this final season, former head of Whitechapel's H Division, DI Edmund Reid, Captain Homer Jackson and Long Susan are on the run and living as fugitives but are determined to expose Assistant Commissioner Augustus Dove, who is leading the hunt for the trio, and his cannibalistic brother Nathaniel, and bring them both to justice. Meanwhile, they must also deal with the return of villainous DI Jedediah Shine.
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Planet Earth 2
All 12 feature-length episodes from the first four season of the BBC crime drama starring Kenneth Branagh as the Swedish detective. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team at Ystad police station investigate a number of violent and terrifying murders in the beautiful setting of Skane County, Southern Sweden.
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Thomas Shelby is drawn into a maze of global intrigue in the electrifying third season of Steven Knight’s acclaimed family saga. Approached by a secret organisation on his own wedding day, Tommy finds himself at the centre of an international arms deal that could change the course of history. In a sphere where no one reveals their true intentions until the game is up, Tommy has to contend with a White Russian exile whose brutality knows no bounds, a priest with a killer dog, a beautiful Duchess even more manipulative than him, and a powerful entity at the heart of the British establishment that will stop at nothing to accomplish its reactionary aims. The pressures they inflict upon Tommy are carefully chosen and exquisitely unpleasant.
David Suchet and Peter Capaldi star in this three-part BBC adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel. Adolf Verloc is a Russian spy living as a shopkeeper in Victorian London with his wife, Winnie, and her mentally handicapped brother, Stevie. When Verloc's Russian superiors order him to blow up the Greenwich Observatory in an act of terrorism, Verloc persuades Stevie to assist him. However, Stevie trips and explodes the bomb in Greenwich Park, killing himself and putting Chief Inspector Heat of Scotland Yard on Verloc's trail.
The hugely successful series starring Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris, Helen George and Linda Bassett returns with more touching and compelling stories from the nurses and nuns of Nonnatus House. In this 5th season, Sister Monica Joan goes missing at Christmas time leaving the nuns and nurses distraught. Trixie, having battled through her issues with alcohol, finds a new purpose in her "keep fit" classes. And could friendship blossom into something more for vicar Tom Hereward and Barbara? Meanwhile, a string of babies born with severe and devastating deformities, casts a dark shadow over the entire team at Nonnatus House as they struggle to understand why. Also includes the 2015 Christmas Special.
Welcome back to the beautiful island of Saint Marie for a fifth season of Death in Paradise.... DI Humphrey Goodman and his team set about the tricky task of solving ever more intriguing and puzzling murders. As he continues to embrace his adopted Caribbean home, Humphrey realises that the only thing missing from this paradise is someone to share it with. So he enlists DS Florence Cassell to teach him the art of romance. Meanwhile, Officer JP Hooper finds falling in love happens a little more quickly than he expected. And when an important figure from Dwayne’s past dies in mysterious circumstances, we glimpse a whole new side to Officer Myers as he fights to gain justice for his old friend. Humphrey and the team have their work cut out as they face ever more challenging and thrilling crimes – from a murder on a diving expedition to the death of a model on the catwalk and even a crime where Commissioner Selwyn Patterson is a suspect!
It’s Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers. But when a crashed spaceship calls upon the Doctor for help, he finds himself recruited into River Song’s squad and hurled into a fast and frantic chase across the galaxy. King Hydroflax is furious, and his giant Robot bodyguard is out-of-control and coming for them all! Will Nardole survive? And when will River Song work out who the Doctor is? All will be revealed on a starliner full of galactic super-villains and a destination the Doctor has been avoiding for a very long time.
A powerful portrait of small-town hypocrisy and young love, set in 1950s Britain. Adapted by Sadie Jones from her award-winning debut novel, this is a moving story of love, grief and alienation. Bold, cinematic and ambitious, The Outcast captivates from heartbreaking beginning to electrifying end. The Outcast follows the plight of Lewis who is 10 years old when his mother dies, leaving him with his father, Gilbert whom he barely knows. Gilbert goes on to remarry Alice, while Lewis relies on his friendship with neighbouring children Tamsin and Kit, however the effect of losing his mother soon begins to take its toll.
Special editions of three classic Doctor Who DVD releases. Remastered. Repackaged. Reappraised. With exclusive new special features!
The Tomb of the Cybermen Special Features
The Three Doctors Special Features
The Robots of Death Special Features
On a cold winter's day, orphan Pip has a terrifying encounter with an escaped convict. Pip's innocent act of kindness towards this man is to have far reaching consequences for them both. Meanwhile, Miss Havisham, the reclusive owner of the grand and dilapidated Satis House, has requested Pip's presence as a playmate to her beautiful but cold-hearted daughter, Estella. Then Pip's life is suddenly transformed by the generosity of a secret benefactor. Pip abandons his loving home on the marshes for the life of a London gentleman, hoping to win Estella's hand. But the encounters of his childhood are to haunt him and shape the man he becomes. Sarah Phelps' gripping adaptation brings out the very best of Dickens' masterpiece - part thriller, part mystery, with a powerful love story at its heart.
Two episodes of the classic sci-fi series featuring the Fifth Doctor, Peter Davison, and the shape-changing android Kamelion. In 'The King's Demons' (1983), the renegade Time Lord forces Kamelion (Gerald Flood) to pose as King John in 13th century England. 'Planet of Fire' (1983) sees the Doctor (Davison) and Turlough (Mark Strickson) arriving in Lanzarote on Earth to investigate the transmission of an unusual signal that turns out to be emanating from a mysterious alien artefact.
A selection of BBC plays and observational pieces written by celebrated playwright Alan Bennett. The collection includes: 'A Visit From Miss Prothero', 'Sunset Across the Bay', 'A Day Out', 'A Woman of No Importance', 'Our Winnie', 'An Englishman Abroad', 'Dinner at Noon', 'The Insurance Man', '102 Boulevard Haussman', 'A Question of Attribution' and 'Portrait Or Bust'.
An early adventure for the sixth incarnation of everyone's favourite time traveller. The Doctor (Colin Baker) and Peri arrive in 1985 London shortly after avoiding a collision with Halley's comet, lured by a galactic distress call. They discover that the city's sewers are populated by Cybermen, intent on changing history by preventing the destruction of their home planet, Mondas (see 'Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet'). It transpires that the distress call which attracted the Doctor's attention was sent by none other than former Dalek ally Commander Lytton, but just whose side is he on this time? |
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