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All the episodes from the period drama starring Aidan Turner as Captain Ross Poldark. After spending three years fighting in the American War of Independence, Poldark must rebuild his life in the small Cornish copper mining town he calls home. However, when he finds his father dead, his estate in ruins and his childhood sweetheart Elizabeth (Heida Reed) engaged to his cousin, the life he once knew seems to no longer exist. With the help of his new maid Demelza (Eleanor Tomlinson), Ross attempts to navigate the hostile, poverty-stricken locals and the region's wealthy and influential businessmen to reopen his family's disused copper mine, Wheal Leisure.
A sumptuous and darkly comic costume drama about three upper-class young women and their quest for romance just before World War II.
As Jane Austen approaches her forties, her success as a writer is assured and her witty and sharply observed romantic novels are widely admired. To her niece, Fanny Knight - a young, pretty girl desperate to fall in love - Jane is a favourite aunt who offers the wisdom and knowledge to help her in her own search for a happy marriage. Yet, when asked by Fanny to help her vet potential husbands, Jane's usual confident composure is threatened. Surely the woman so capable of writing love on the page must have experienced love herself, so why did she never marry? Protected by her wit, Jane has presented a front as dazzling as many of her novels young heroines, but as she reflects on her own romantic encounters and affairs, we are drawn into the passions, suitors and choices of her life - the cruel flirting, the proposals spurned and the love that seemed to arrive too late. As she recalls missed opportunities, the doubts arise. Did she make the right choice for herself and her family? Could the great romantic expert have been mistaken? And, could her principles about love and marriage possibly have been ill-judged?
Versailles, 1672-1678. The Franco-Dutch war wages on, Louis XIV confronts his bitter rival, Guillaume d'Orange. But danger threatens the kingdom, even so far as the court of Versailles into which a deadly poison seeps. Louis has completed the first stage of his plan: to build the most beautiful palace in Europe far away from Paris, locking the nobility inside it and exercising absolute control. But the King has created a new and dangerous civilisation where courtiers are ready to do anything to get to the Sun. Behind a veneer of etiquette, they dream of ascending the social ladder to a world of wealth and power. Morality is waning, the poison spreads... Versailles is crumbling faster than it is being built. Blinded by his affection for Madame de Montespan, Louis is deaf to the Church's injunctions. The greatest enemy standing before him is no longer the nobility, nor is it Guillaume d'Orange. The palace that he himself designed could become his worst enemy. Wavering between mysticism and obscurity, diving into the dark side of power, will the king's downward spiral yet see his return to the light?
BBC miniseries depicting the lives of soldiers on the battlefields of the First World War. The series follows the Fourth Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, as they engage the German Army in the Belgian city of Mons on the first day of combat, the 18th Battalion from Manchester who battle the Germans at the Somme and a crew of tank fighters who prepare for the Battle of Amiens. The episodes are: 'First Day', 'Pals' and 'War Machine'.
Another three two-part episodes from the ITV drama series based on the crime novels by Peter Robinson. Stephen Tompkinson stars as the tenacious and stubborn Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, who unravels a string of disturbing murder mysteries aided by his feisty and ambitious young assistant, DS Annie Cabbot (Andrea Lowe). In 'Strange Affair', Banks, assisted by icy DI Helen Morton (Caroline Katz) while Annie is on maternity leave, investigates the murder of a woman found shot dead in her car. In 'Dry Bones That Dream', Banks is called in to investigate the death of a mild-mannered accountant, Keith Rothwell (Dominic Mafham), who appears to be the victim of a contract killing. Finally, in 'Innocent Graves', the strangling of a wealthy financier's 16-year-old daughter unearths a complex web of lies and secrets for Banks to solve.
The world welcomes a new century and with it the promise of a hopeful future, but the past casts a long shadow over Cornwall. After the devastation in Season 4, Ross Poldark resolves to put Westminster behind him and spend more time with the people he loves. However, when an old friend emerges with a plea for help, Ross is compelled to challenge the establishment again, drawing the Poldarks into greater danger than ever before. As the Enyses rally to join the cause, Demelza must contend with dangers closer to home and George courts corrupt powers whose influence spans the Empire.
All eight episodes from season 14 of the crime drama set in the picturesque county of Midsomer. In this season, a new detective, DCI John Barnaby, arrives in Midsomer to try and get to grips with the murder cases that arise in the area. Like his predecessor, Barnaby will need the help of his assistant, DS Ben Jones, to get to the bottom of the cases.
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1986 BBC adaptation of the novel by Jane Austen. When Fanny Price (Sylvestra Le Touzel) is sent to live with her rich aunt and cousins by her debt-ridden mother, she struggles to adjust to her new aristocratic lifestyle. Her 'superior' relatives constantly ignore her, and only her cousin, Edmund (Nicholas Farrell), shows Fanny any interest. However, Fanny's charm and wit win her many potential suitors, and before long she has to decide whether she wishes to wed for love or status.
The entire first and second series of the cult TV show. In the first season, a group of builders from England go over to Germany to work on a site by day, and do their bit for European harmony and understanding by night. Whilst in the second season, the likeable Geordies along with boring Barry from Wolverhampton and Londoner Wayne, find themselves in the exotic location of Marbella, following the success of their trip to Germany.
A warm, funny, feel-good series about a family’s adventures on a gorgeous Greek island when they uproot from their English home in the hope of a better life. Based on Gerald Durrell’s much-loved Corfu trilogy of novels, The Durrells sees impoverished but sparky widow Louisa Durrell make the radical decision to seek out a new destiny for her family when her options in late 1930s England seem to be limited to struggling on or marrying a wealthy but dreary older man. Concerned that the lives of her four ‘children’, are heading down the wrong track, she relocates her reluctant brood to a dilapidated house in the Greek sun. This beautifully-shot series follows the family as they adjust to their new life, face a whole new set of challenges and meet new friends, rivals, lovers – and animals.
Emma Woodhouse, beautiful, clever, and rich, has very little to concern her. When her governess marries advantageously, Emma congratulates herself on her great success as a matchmaker. So, when she meets the pretty, naive, and socially inferior Harriet, Emma is ready to practise her skills again - ignoring warnings of the harm she could cause from friend and neighbour, Mr Knightley. As she sets about meddling with the affairs of the village of Highbury, Emma carves a trail of confusion, disappointment and disaster that risks Harriet’s happiness, and much to her surprise, her own happiness too. This fresh, funny, and perceptive adaptation by Sandy Welch, acclaimed writer of North and South, Jane Eyre, and Our Mutual Friend, brings Jane Austen’s comic masterpiece about village life, love, and self awareness to life with a stellar cast. As our heroine embarks on a journey that challenges her naivety and her social preconceptions it leads her to realise that she has become so focused on the lives of others that she has failed to see what’s in front of her own eyes..
Epic adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel. During World War Two, Charles Rider (Jeremy Irons) is stationed at the now deserted stately home, Brideshead Manor, formerly the residence of the Flyte family. He recalls how, as a Cambridge undergraduate, he first visited Brideshead after befriending Lord Sebastian Flyte (Anthony Andrews). Charles then became caught up with the Flytes and their problems, most notably Sebastian's burgeoning alcoholism.
All 24 episodes from the eleventh season of the American crime drama series in which the detectives of the Special Victims Unit investigate the sexually orientated crimes of New York. The episodes are: 'Unstable', 'Sugar', 'Solitary', 'Hammered', 'Hardwired', 'Spooked', 'Users', 'Turmoil', 'Perverted', 'Anchor', 'Quickie', 'Shadow', 'P.C.', 'Savior', 'Confidential', 'Witness', 'Disabled', 'Bedtime', 'Conned', 'Beef', 'Torch', 'Ace', 'Wannabe' and 'Shattered'.
All episodes from the first eight seasons of the American crime drama following mystery writer Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion). When a copycat murder inspired by the plot of one of his novels takes place, Castle is called in by the NYPD to provide insight on the case. When he proves useful, he is given a permanent job on the investigative team, working alongside Detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic). Season 1 episodes are: 'Flowers for Your Grave', 'Nanny McDead', 'Hedge Fund Homeboys', 'Hell Hath No Fury', 'A Chill Goes Through Her Veins', 'Always Buy Retail', 'Home Is Where the Heart Stops', 'Ghosts', 'Little Girl Lost' and 'A Death in the Family'. Season 2 episodes are: 'Deep in Death', 'The Double Down', 'Inventing the Girl', 'Fool Me Once...', 'When the Bough Breaks', 'Vampire Weekend', 'Famous Last Words', 'Kill the Messenger', 'Love Me Dead', 'One Man's Treasure', 'The Fifth Bullet', 'A Rose for Everafter', 'Sucker Punch', 'The Third Man', 'Suicide Squeeze', 'The Mistress Always Spanks Twice', 'Tick, Tick, Tick...', 'Boom!', 'Wrapped Up in Death', 'The Late Shaft', 'Den of Thieves', 'Food to Die For', 'Overkill' and 'A Deadly Game'. Season 3 episodes are: 'A Deadly Affair', 'He's Dead, She's Dead', 'Under the Gun', 'Punked', 'Anatomy of a Murder', '3XK', 'Almost Famous', 'Murder Most Fowl', 'Close Encounters of the Murderous Kind', 'Last Call', 'Nikki Heat', 'Poof! You're Dead', 'Knockdown', 'Lucky Stiff', 'The Final Nail', 'Setup', 'Countdown', 'One Life to Lose', 'Law and Murder', 'Slice of Death', 'The Dead Pool', 'To Love and Die in L.A.', 'Pretty Dead' and 'Knockout'. Season 4 episodes are: 'Rise', 'Heroes and Villains', 'Head Case', 'Kick the Ballistics', 'Eye of the Beholder', 'Demons', 'Cops and Robbers', 'Heartbreak Hotel', 'Kill Shot', 'Cuffed', 'Till Death Do Us Part', 'Dial M for Mayor', 'An Embarrassment of Bitches', 'The Blue Butterfly', 'Pandora', 'Linchpin', 'Once Upon a Crime', 'A Dance With Death', '47 Seconds', 'The Limey', 'Headhunters', 'Undead Again' and 'Always'. Season 5 episodes are: 'After the Storm', 'Cloudy With a Chance of Murder', 'Secret's Safe With Me', 'Murder, He Wrote', 'Probable Cause', 'The Final Frontier', 'Swan Song', 'After Hours', 'Secret Santa', 'Significant Others', 'Under the Influence', 'Death Gone Crazy', 'Recoil', 'Reality Star Struck', 'Target', 'Hunt', 'Scared to Death', 'The Wild Rover', 'The Lives of Others', 'The Fast and the Furriest', 'The Squab and the Quail', 'Still', 'The Human Factor' and 'Watershed'. Season 6 episodes are: 'Valkyrie', 'Dreamworld', 'Need to Know', 'Number One Fan', 'Time Will Tell', 'Get a Clue', 'Like Father, Like Daughter', 'A Murder Is Forever', 'Disciple', 'The Good, the Bad and the Baby', 'Under Fire', 'Deep Cover', 'Limelight', 'Dressed to Kill', 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', 'Room 147', 'In the Belly of the Beast', 'The Way of the Ninja', 'The Greater Good', 'That '70s Show', 'Law and Boarder', 'Veritas' and 'For Better Or Worse'. Season 7 episodes are: 'Driven', 'Montreal', 'Clear and Present Danger', 'Child's Play', 'Meme Is Murder', 'The Time of Our Lives', 'Once Upon a Time in the West', 'Kill Switch', 'Last Action Hero', 'Bad Santa', 'Castle, P.I.', 'Private Eye Caramba!', 'I, Witness', 'Resurrection', 'Reckoning', 'The Wrong Stuff', 'Hong Kong Hustle', 'At Close Range', 'Habeas Corpse', 'Sleeper', 'In Plane Sight', 'Dead from New York' and 'Hollander's Woods'. Season 8 episodes are: 'XY', 'XX', 'PhDead', 'What Lies Beneath', 'The Nose', 'Cool Boys', 'The Last Seduction', 'Mr. and Mrs. Castle', 'Tone Death', 'Witness for the Prosecution', 'Dead Red', 'The Blame Game', 'And Justice for All', 'G.D.S', 'Fidelis Ad Mortem', 'Heartbreaker', 'Death Wish', 'Backstabber', 'Dead Again', 'Much Ado About Murder', 'Hell to Pay' and 'Crossfire'.
Bill Paterson and Peter Capaldi star in this BBC adaptation of the Iain Banks novel. Seven years after Rory McHoan disappeared without a trace en route to visit his brother Kenneth, Rory's nephew Prentice decides to find out what really happened to him. He attempts to decipher Rory's inaccessible computer disks, but must make various discoveries about himself and his family first.
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.
Based on supposedly true events, The Monocled Mutineer is the story of dashing rogue and master of disguise, Percy Toplis. Written by Alan Bleasdale, this BAFTA-winning series provoked intense political controversy on its broadcast in 1986 and, after an initial repeat has not been shown since on British television. Private Toplis was already a chancer and a rebel, thanks to his tough childhood, when he arrived at the Etaples training camp in northern France in June 1917. But it was there, on the eve of the Battle of Passchendaele, as the soldiers were put through a brutal training regime, that Toplis instigated a mutiny which would shake the British authorities to the core. Now a marked man, relying on his talent for impersonating the officer class, Toplis escapes to England where he falls in love with a young widow, but as the most wanted man in Britain, his struggle for freedom becomes increasingly desperate...
The complete seven seasons of the original mystery and suspense series hosted by the master of suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock. Each 30-minute episode includes opening and closing monologues by Hitchcock who explains some aspect of the day's story in his inimitably dry, humorous monotone.
All 15 episodes from the first season of the '70s Western TV series following the adventures of outlaws Kid Curry (Ben Murphy) and Hannibal Heyes (Pete Duel) as they try to go straight with the help of the local governor. Having to stay out of trouble to achieve amnesty, the two men change identity to avoid detection but can't seem to kick the habit. The episodes are: 'Alias Smith and Jones', 'The McCreedy Bust', 'Exit from Wickenburg', 'Wrong Train to Brimstone', 'The Girl in Boxcar #3', 'The Great Shell Game', 'Return to Devil's Hole', 'A Fistful of Diamonds', 'Stagecoach Seven', 'The Man Who Murdered Himself', 'The Root of It All', 'The Fifth Victim', 'Journey from San Juan', 'Never Trust an Honest Man' and 'The Legacy of Charlie O'Rourke'.
All 13 episodes from the medical drama series set in a state-of-the-art major trauma unit. Lennie James stars as locum trauma consultant Greg Boyle who races to save the lives of critically ill patients in the most life-threatening hour after they are admitted into his care, with each episode following one such case in real time. With every second counting Greg and his team, which includes his ex Fiona Lomas (Catherine Walker), make life-altering decisions to try and preserve every life they can. Among their critical patients is a cyclist involved in a serious collision, a severley beaten man, a woman with a gunshot wound and a patient who jumped from the hospital building.
The complete collection of Alan Bennett's twelve monologues, which tell the bittersweet tales of 'ordinary, uneventful, desperate lives'. Patricia Routledge stars in 'A Lady of Letters', Maggie Smith in 'Bed Among the Lentils', Stephanie Cole in 'Soldiering On', Julie Walters in 'Her Big Chance', Thora Hird in 'A Cream Cracker Under the Settee', Patricia Routledge in 'Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet', Eileen Atkins in 'The Hand of God', David Haig in 'Playing Sandwiches', Julie Walters in 'The Outside Dog', Penelope Wilton in 'Nights in the Gardens of Spain' and Thora Hird in 'Waiting for the Telegram'.
Fictionalised biography of Professor Stephen Hawking starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the young Stephen Hawking who, as a bright and ambitious 21 year-old PhD student at Cambridge University, is diagnosed with the debilitating motor neurone disease and given two years to live. The drama tells how, against the odds, he goes on to achieve scientific success and worldwide acclaim.
Ray Winstone brings history's most beguiling monarch to life in this story of Henry VIII revealing the destruction Henry often left in his wake during his extraordinary 38 year reign. From the moment Henry Tudor casts aside his faithful wife Katherine of Aragon for the bewitching and determined Anne Boleyn (Helena Bonham-Carter), he sets himself on course for a series of disastrous marriages. |
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