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4-part epic and romantic drama about the power, politics, and passions of the legendary monarch. Oscar winner Dame Helen Mirren stars as one of the greatest rulers in history, the legendary mother of the Russian Empire, Catherine The Great, in this lavishly realised limited series with incredible creative credentials.
Years of peace have passed since the battles of last season, but as we rejoin Uhtred (Alexander Dreymon), he faces his greatest enemies, and suffers immeasurable loss, on his quest towards fulfilling his destiny. Now stationed at a northern port town, Uhtred has been entrusted with protecting the king’s illegitimate son, Aethelstan. But following a horrific attack on his family, an old enemy threatens the life he has built. Meanwhile, King Edward (Timothy Innes) is still forging ahead with his ambitions to unite the SaxonKingdoms to fulfil his late father’s dream, threatening the long-standing peace between Danes and Saxons. However, the treacherous Lord Aethelhelm (Adrian Schiller) has ambitions of his own, for his grandson Aelfweard – Edward’s other son – to rule. As these plans lead to bloodshed and heartbreak, Uhtred finds his own fate may well be tied to the future of the nation… Destiny Is All!
Continuing the story begun in David Milch’s critically acclaimed, Emmy-winning HBO series, the feature-length presentation is written by Milch and features original cast members from the series. 1876, the Black Hills of South Dakota. The indelible characters of the series are reunited after ten years to celebrate South Dakota’s statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wounds are reopened, as all are left to navigate the inevitable changes that modernity and time have wrought. Returning cast members for the Deadwood movie include: Ian McShane (Al Swearengen), Timothy Olyphant (Seth Bullock), Molly Parker (Alma Ellsworth), Paula Malcomson (Trixie), John Hawkes (Sol Star), Anna Gunn (Martha Bullock), Dayton Callie (Charlie Utter), Brad Dourif (Doc Cochran), Robin Weigert (“Calamity” Jane Canary), William Sanderson (E.B. Farnum), Kim Dickens (Joanie Stubbs) and Gerald McRaney (George Hearst). The film will also feature new cast member Jade Pettyjohn (Caroline). During its three-season, 36-episode run on from 2004 to 2006, the Deadwood series was nominated for 28 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning eight, including Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series (Walter Hill), and also received a Golden Globe Award for Best Performer by an Actor in a Television Series: Drama (Ian McShane).
A sumptuous and darkly comic costume drama about three upper-class young women and their quest for romance just before World War II.
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?
Ambitions threaten the Saxon kingdoms Alfred had once dreamed of uniting. In the wake of his father’s death, the new King, Edward (Timothy Innes), is intent on isolating Wessex and strengthening his reinforcements against possible Dane incursions. Alliances are beginning to fracture as Lord Aethelred (Toby Regbo) of Mercia makes ambitious plans to establish himself as a rival to Wessex. When Northumbria also faces hostility, Uhtred (Alexander Dreymon) believes the timing is right to take back his ancestral home. Fate shifts in a different direction; news comes that Mercia is in turmoil, and Uhtred’s affection for Aethelflaed (Millie Brady) drives him back into the politics that threaten to break out into war. Just as it seems as if peace can be found between the Saxons, a new and unprecedented Dane enemy takes them by surprise. Uhtred begins to realise that his destiny is tied to Alfred’s dream and he becomes determined to resolve Saxon struggles before the possibility of a united England slips from their grasp forever.
Opening with the funeral of Winston Churchill in January 1965, season nine continues with Nonnatus House entering a bold and innovative era. As the tower blocks multiply, and a new East End rises from the ashes of the old, society becomes more prosperous, but more complex. Our familiar team of medics and midwives face unexpected challenges as the population shifts, rules change, and old diseases come back to haunt them. Meanwhile, their own experiences are fuelled by love, loss, and doubt - and the very fabric of their lives is jeopardised when Nonnatus itself comes under threat of demolition.
Includes the 90 minute Christmas special:
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 37 episodes from all five 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. Following the notorious killings committed by Jack the Ripper, H Division's Detective Inspector Edmund Reid, aided by the hard-boiled Sergeant Bennett Drake and American forensics expert Captain Homer Jackson, has his hands full trying to keep the streets safe from others only too willing to fill the void.
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Season 4 Black Sails was filmed at Cape Town Film Studios in Cape Town, South Africa, with local production company Film Afrika.
Upon returning to Cornwall after fighting in the American War of Independence, Poldark must rebuild his life following the death of his father with his estate in ruins and his childhood sweetheart Elizabeth engaged to his cousin Francis, after hearing premature reports of his death. With the help of his new maid Demelza, 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.
The complete series of the BBC drama based on the historical novels by Philippa Gregory. Set during the Wars of the Roses, a dynastic struggle for power that dominated the latter part of the 15th century and threatened to tear England apart, the series follows the fortunes of three women who are determined to have their say in the politics of their age, Elizabeth Woodville (Rebecca Ferguson), Margaret Beaufort (Amanda Hale) and Anne Neville (Faye Marsay). With even King Edward IV (Max Irons) and his manipulative advisor Lord Warwick (James Frain) subject to the ploys of the women, who will prevail in the struggle for power?
Philadelphia Gordon, shipwrecked in 1890s Australia, is taken in by her Uncle Charles and Aunt Hester. Stopping off in the port of Echuca, Philadelphia meets the charismatic Brenton Edwards, who acquaints her with the pleasures of boating along the Murray River.
Emma Woodhouse (Kate Beckinsale) is beautiful, rich, clever and rules over her father, Mr Woodhouse. She tries to influence the love-lives of their circle of friends in the small village of Highbury, with comic and disastrous results. Emma has no shortage of would-be suitors herself. The amorous vicar, Mr Elton, competes for her love with the dashing Frank Churchill and the outspoken and down-to-earth Mr George Knightley all compete for her love. Emma largely ignores their advances, preferring to concentrate on finding a match for her new friend Harriet Smith than face up to her own desires.
Pleasure has its price. Following the murder of Sir George Howard and Justice Cunliffe, turmoil plagues London's most infamous Madams - bitter enemies, Margaret Wells and Lydia Quigley. Their war for control of the city's bawdy houses intensifies and when Margaret’s daughter, Charlotte, places herself in the home of Lydia Quigley, their toxic and deep-seated rivalry is taken to a dangerous new level. The arrival of the alluring and wealthy socialite Lady Isabella Fitz William on the scene may be Charlotte's lifeline, but her poise and position in society covers a dark, scandalous past. It's all pleasure and pain in Season 2 of Harlots.
All the episodes from the second season of the British fantasy drama set in AD43.
Versailles, 1667. Louis XIV in a Machiavellian political move in his 28th year decides to make the nobility submit to his will by imposing a move of the court from Paris to Versailles, his father's former hunting lodge. Trapped by their king's invitation, the nobles of Paris gradually come to see the castle as a gilded prison and soon even his most humble courtiers begin to show their viciousness and danger threatens the kingdom, even so far as the court of Versailles into which a deadly poison seeps. Louis has created a new and dangerous civilisation where those around him will do anything to get to the Sun. They dream of ascending the social ladder to a world of wealth and power. Morality is waning, as sexual infidelity, drugs and gambling occupy the idle hours of those who live by the grace of the King, and the poison spreads. All around the Sun King, Versailles is crumbling faster than it is being built.
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.
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.
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’, ranging in age from 11 to 21, 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.
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.
A new adaptation of one of Jane Austen's most admired novels - the story of a woman who gets a second chance. Anne (Sally Hawkins) fell deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth (Rupert Penry-Jones) at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne's family were against the match and persuaded her to break off the engagement. Eight years later, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She never stopped loving Frederick and when he returns from sea having made his fortune and reputation, she can only watch as every eligible young woman in the district falls at his feet. Can Frederick forgive Anne for listening to her family instead of her heart?
Starting in 1848, the third season of the lavish drama will depict a turbulent and uncertain time for both Europe and the monarchy. With revolutions on the continent and the Chartist movement reaching its peak in London, Victoria is under pressure from the government to leave London for her own safety.
All six episodes of the ITV drama about a group of Women's Institute members living in a rural Cheshire village during the Second World War. Following the outbreak of war, the Great Paxford WI faces a crisis of their own when their president Joyce Cameron declares the group should be suspended for the duration of the conflict. When Joyce resigns and takes many members with her the remaining women decide to set up their own opposing faction. But Joyce soon returns to contest the new leadership battle with Frances Barden. With the group in turmoil, its members face more conflicts of a personal nature as the impact of the war begins to affect the relationships of Great Paxford. |
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