The Wainthropp Detective Agency is bustling. Hetty Wainthropp gets the really tough jobs that require a head and a heart. Her uncanny ability to blend in with her surroundings brings her into contact with people from all walks of life from marauding hooligans to high sociery brides.
Based on the shocking true story of the former Soviet Union's most notorious serial killer this riveting haunting film explores the mind of a true monster; a man who mutilated and devoured more than 50 children. For years Andrei Evilenko (Malcolm McDowell) eluded the obsessive Detective Lesiev (Marton Csokas) and the psychiatric profiler Aron Richter (Ronald Pickup). Spurred on by his rabid fury at the gradual crumbling of his precious Soviet Union Evilenko is a man who will liv
Unwilling to take on the burdens of retirement Hetty Wainthropp (Routledge) decides that she has a natural gift for detection and sets up in business as a private detective ably assisted by husband Robert (Benfield) and her teenage sidekick Geoffrey (Monaghan). Racing to crime scenes on public transport using her bus pass Hetty proves that she can match her wits with the best of them whether the case is a mysterious death a missing son or an alleged suicide. Nine disc set containing all four series of this hugely popular BBC title based on the novels by David Cook.
Det. Superintendent Jane Tennison's (Helen Mirren) relationship with psychologist Patrick Schofield (Stuart Wilson) has developed into a promisingly happy affair. When a series of murders take place which resemble those investigated in the first Prime Suspect she is faced with a possible miscarriage of justice and promptly suspended. Are they copy-cat crimes or is George Marlow (Tim Woodward) innocent as he always insisted? Prevented from working possibly betrayed by her lover and haunted by the past Tennison is forced to re-examine her most fundamental beliefs about her life and work.
Tough yet emotionally vulnerable the newly-promoted Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) returns to old territory at London's Southampton Row to work on a case involving the disappearance of a young child. The investigation leads her to Chris Hughes (Robert Glenister) a serial child sex offender who has recently been released from a custodial treatment centre. As the investigation reaches its climax a badly bungled arrest attempt results in a tense siege situation. With police marksmen in a position and concern mounting for the safety of the three hostages D.S. Tennsion moves in to take control.
In the first Prime Suspect, Helen Mirren's ballsy woman Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennyson battled the boys club and their sexist barbs to prove herself in a chauvinist department. In Prime Suspect 2, she's assigned to head a racially charged murder investigation in a largely African/Caribbean neighbourhood. It's politics as usual in the image-conscious organization, so the superintendent adds to the team black Detective Robert Oswalde (Colin Salma), a sharp but hot-headed investigator who has just broken off an affair with Tennyson. Now Tennyson grapples with her own conflicted feelings while fighting political and public-relations battles both in the media and within the police system itself in the midst of investigating the labyrinthine case. Between the scant clues left to sift, a prime suspect on the verge of death himself and divisions in her own team that result in a devastating death, Tennyson soon begins to suspect she's been hung out to dry by the department. Screenwriter Allan Cubitt dives into the murky waters of volatile racial and social relations to create an even more complex and compelling mystery in Tennyson's second appearance and Mirren rises to the challenge to explore the contradictions of an uncompromising cop in a compromising position. --Sean Axmaker
Det. Superintendent Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) finds herself investigating a bizarre death in a very different part of London an affluent commuter suburb. When the manager of the local country club is found dead in his home neighbours are quick to blame youngsters from the rundown housing estate nearby and the local police are happy to go along with that view. With her personnel resources at full stretch D.S. Tennison is forced to engage in political games with the community while pulling together a difficult team and leading a problematic investigation.
After saving the life of Sir Arthur Wellesley Sgt Richard Sharpe is rewarded with the field commission of Lieutenant. His first mission is to go behind enemy lines to Casa Antiga to locate a missing agent James Rothschild who carries a banker's draft for badly needed funds for the British army. Sharpe is given command of the 95th Rifles under Capt Murray but soon finds that they are an undisciplined bunch and neither Murray nor the men of the Rifles are prepared to accept Sharpe's command as 'proper' officers are not raised from the ranks. After Captain Murray is killed in a surprise French attack Sharpe is left in sole command. Two Spanish allies Major Blas Vivar and Comandante Teresa offer to lead Sharpe to Casa Antiga and he reluctantly agrees. At Casa Antiga there is no sign of Rothschild and Sharpe becomes increasingly suspicious of his Spanish companions...only to discover that the real mission is to transport a holy relic of Spain to Torrecastro to inspire an uprising against the French.
A compelling drama about scandal celebrity and sex - written by and starring Kay Mellor. Part-time lap dancer Sharon Harrison goes on a rare night out with the girls but when she claims that she's been drugged and raped by none other than Jamie Gillam the famous Castlefield football player he readily admits to having consensual sex but denies rape. When Sharon suddenly drops her case against Jamie Maxine Norris becomes suspicious and confides in her aunt determined to find out
Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison's return to London's Southampton Row is complicated by personal upheaval and an investigation into the disappearance of a child...
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