Emma Banville, a human rights lawyer known for defending lost causes, sets out to prove the innocence of Kevin Russell, who was convicted for the murder of a school girl 14 years earlier.
Brand new BBC Drama starring Hugh Laurie, written by David Hare. Roadkill is a four-part fictional thriller about a self-made, forceful and charismatic politician called Peter Laurence. Peter s public and private life seems to be falling apart - or rather is being picked apart by his enemies. As the personal revelations spiral, he is shamelessly untroubled by guilt or remorse, expertly walking a high wire between glory and catastrophe as he seeks to further his own agenda whilst others plot to bring him down. However events show just how hard it is, for both an individual and a country, to leave the past behind. With enemies so close to home, can Peter Laurence ever out-run his own secrets to win the ultimate prize?
After a hugely successful first series the compelling gangster crime drama returns for a second series. Set in the lawless streets of post-war Birmingham Thomas Shelby and his family run the most feared and powerful local gang the Peaky Blinders. Boasting a distinguished cast that includes Cillian Murphy Sam Neill Helen McCrory and new cast members will include Tom Hardy (The Dark Night Rises) Charlotte Riley (Edge of Tomorrow) and Noah Taylor (Game of Thrones).
When Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy, Dunkirk) receives a mysterious letter on Christmas Eve, he realises that his entire family is in danger of annihilation. As the enemy closes in, Tommy flees his country house and heads to the only safe place he knows Co-starring Helen McCrory (Skyfall), Paul Anderson (The Revenant), Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones), Adrien Brody (The Grand Budapest Hotel) and Tom Hardy (Mad Max: Fury Road), Steven Knight's beloved crime saga makes a triumphant return to the streets of Birmingham in its most sensational and action-packed chapter yet.
Barristers. They are young, educated, soft on the inside, hard where it counts. Don’t let the wigs fool you, when you stand alone in court, when your life is on the line, these are the people you want between you and the jury. The North Square chambers are finding their feet, fighting for a large piece of the criminal justice business in Leeds. Working for his barristers – or maybe the other way around – is their manipulative chief clerk. Ruthless, obsessive, with a razor sharp mind and a cosh-like sensibility, Peter McLeish loves the business and the business loves him. Featuring a powerhouse cast including Phil Davis, Rupert Penry-Jones, Helen McCrory, and Kevin McKidd, North Square, first broadcast on Channel 4 in 2000, is a gripping legal drama that takes you into a closed world steeped in tradition and blows it wide open Special Features: Picture Gallery Cast Filmographies Subtitles
England 1941. With London in the midst of the blitz two teachers evacuate a group of schoolchildren to the abandoned Eel Marsh House. Seeking safety from the bombs in the remote coastal location the group instead find themselves facing a far deadlier and terrifying evil when their arrival awakens the Woman in Black.
Peaky Blinders is an epic gangster drama set in the lawless streets of post-war Birmingham on the cusp of the 1920s. Cillian Murphy (28 Days Later, Inception) stars as Thomas Shelby, the controller one of the city's most feared and successful criminal organisations, the Peaky Blinders, known for their practice of sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps. But Shelby's ambitions go beyond running the streets. Crime pays, but business pays better. Featuring a specular cast that includes Sam Neill (Jurassic Park), Helen McCrory (Skyfall, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows), Paul Anderson (Legend), Annabelle Wallis (Annabelle), Charlotte Riley (Edge of Tomorrow), Noah Taylor (Game of Thrones) and Tom Hardy (The Revenant, Mad Max).
Daniel Craig is back as James Bond 007 in SKYFALL, the 23rd instalment of the longest-running film franchise in history. In SKYFALL, Bond's loyalty to M (JUDI DENCH) is tested as her past returns to haunt her. 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost. When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong and agents around the world are exposed, MI6 is attacked forcing M to relocate the agency. These events cause her authority and position to be challenged by Mallory (RALPH FIENNES), the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee. With MI6 now compromised from both inside and out, M is left with one ally she can trust: Bond. 007 takes to the shadows aided only by field agent, Eve (NAOMIE HARRIS) following a trail to the mysterious Silva (JAVIER BARDEM), whose lethal and hidden motives have yet to reveal themselves.
Peaky Blinders is an epic gangster drama set in the lawless streets of post-war Birmingham on the cusp of the 1920s. Britain in 1919 is a tumultuous mix of despair and hedonism a nation cleaned out by the extravagances of the Great War. Returning soldiers newly-minted revolutionaries and criminal gangs all fight for survival in an industrial landscape gripped by economic upheaval. Thomas Shelby and his family run the most feared and powerful local gang the Peaky Blinders. Named for their practice of sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps they make money from illegal betting protection and the black market. But Tommy’s ambitions go beyond running the streets and when a crate of guns goes missing from an arms factory he recognises an opportunity to move up in the world. Crime pays but business pays better. As rival gangs Communist revolutionaries and IRA Fenians descend on Small Heath in pursuit of the weapons; Winston Churchill dispatches a ruthless police chief from Belfast to impose order on an increasingly lawless city and recover the guns. Peaky Blinders is a dazzling picture of England taken directly from the pages of our secret history. They will now burst into life in a vibrant evocation of a hedonistic age. The Shelbys will be a family to be reckoned with.
Thomas Shelby (Cillian Murphy) is drawn into a maze of global intrigue in the electrifying third series 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.
Irresistible BBC drama featuring Richard Gere in his first major television role for 30 years. From bestselling author and Emmy-nominated writer Tom Rob Smith. Max (Richard Gere) owns one of the world's most influential media empires. Information is his trade: he holds dark secrets on everyone, and uses his power ruthlessly. His son Caden (Billy Howle) is editor of Max's mouthpiece, The National newspaper. But Caden is crumbling under the pressure of his father's expectation, numbing his pain with cocaine and intense anonymous sex. When Caden's excess causes a massive stroke, he's left like a helpless child. For Kathryn (Helen McCrory) Max's estranged wife this is a chance to reconnect with the sensitive boy Max ripped away from her. As Max and Kathryn fight for the soul of their son, another fight is about to begin, a fight for the heart of the nation. Because Caden knows secrets that could bring Max's empire crashing down. And Caden's silence can't be bought. Starring: Richard Gere (Chicago, Pretty Woman); Helen McCrory (Peaky Blinders, Harry Potter); Billy Howle (The Witness for the Prosecution); Sarah Lancashire (Happy Valley); Sinéad Cusack (Call the Midwife); Paul Ready (Motherland); Pippa Bennett-Warner (Harlots); Danny Sapani (Black Panther); Joseph Mawle (Game of Thrones) Created & Written By: Tom Rob Smith (London Spy; The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story) Bonus Features: Introducing Motherfatherson Creating Motherfatherson Becoming Caden London
Peaky Blinders is an epic gangster drama set in the lawless streets of post-war Birmingham on the cusp of the 1920s. Thomas Shelby controls the Peaky Blinders one of the city's most feared and successful criminal organisations but his ambitions go beyond running the streets. Crime pays business pays better.
Woman in Black - Based on the classic ghost story the Woman in Black tells the tale of Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) a lawyer who is forced to leave his young son and travel to a remote village to attend to the affairs of the recently deceased owner of Eel Marsh House. Working alone in the old mansion Kipps begins to uncover the town's tragic and tortured secrets and his fears escalate when he discovers that local children have been disappearing under mysterious circumstances. When those closest to him become threatened by the vengeful Woman in Black Kipps must find a way to break the cycle of terror. Woman in Black: Angel of Death - England 1941. With London in the midst of the blitz two teachers evacuate a group of schoolchildren to the abandoned Eel Marsh House. Seeking safety from the bombs in the remote coastal location the group instead find themselves facing a far deadlier and terrifying evil when their arrival awakens the Woman in Black.
One of the better BBC costume dramas of recent years, 2003's Charles II: The Power and the Passion depends very strongly on its central performance. Fortunately, Rufus Sewell is admirable throughout as the saturnine, witty monarch who has retained popular fondness down the centuries in spite of his conscientious adherence to the bad and losing cause of absolute monarchy. Adrian Hodge's intelligent script dramatises the issue in quick sound bites--many politicians accepted the Restoration to avoid chaos and were determined to bring Charles to heel, whereas he was determined to defend the position for which his father had been martyred. If that meant handing the throne to his Catholic brother in default of a legitimate son of his own, so be it. The four hour-long episodes cover the Restoration, the Plague and the Fire of London, the secret treaties with France and the Popish Plot, as well as giving us a fair bit of Charles's moderately happy marriage to Catherine (Shirley Henderson in the most hideously accurate historical hairdos ever) and his affairs with various mistresses. Among a number of fine supporting performances, Rupert Graves stands out as Buckingham, the friend who betrayed Charles. This sort of costume drama only ever works if the acting is as good as it is here. On the DVD: Charles II on disc comes with a making-of documentary and a commentary on the first episode from writer Adrian Hodge and the director and producer. It also includes an extended documentary on Charles's back story--his education, his attempt to fight Cromwell's forces, his period on the run in England and his long exile--in which a number of eminent historians, including Richard Holmes and Ronald Hutton, talk about how he became the king he was. --Roz Kaveney
After a hugely successful first series the compelling gangster crime drama returns for a second series. Set in the lawless streets of post-war Birmingham Thomas Shelby and his family run the most feared and powerful local gang the Peaky Blinders. Boasting a distinguished cast that includes Cillian Murphy Sam Neill Helen McCrory and new cast members will include Tom Hardy (The Dark Night Rises) Charlotte Riley (Edge of Tomorrow) and Noah Taylor (Game of Thrones).
FROM THE WRITERS OF THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN AND PSYCHOVILLE Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith follow up the multi-award-winning Psychoville with an anthology of tales of the genuinely unexpected. What goes on behind closed doors on the street where you live? Be invited into six very different No 9s, where the ordinary and mundane rub shoulders with the extraordinary and macabre. Starring alongside Steve Pemberton (Psychoville, The League of Gentlemen, Benidorm) and Reece Shearsmith (Psychoville, The League of Gentlemen, The Widower) is a myriad of talent including Helen McCrory (Skyfall, Peaky Blinders), Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace), Luke Pasqualino (The Musketeers), Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd), Oona Chaplin (The Crimson Field, Game of Thrones), Julia Davis (Hunderby), Anna Chancellor (The Hour, Pramface), Anne Reid (Last Tango in Halifax), Tamsin Grieg (Friday Night Dinner, Episodes), Julian Rhind-Tutt (Green Wing, A Touch of Cloth), Ben Willbond (The Thick of It, Horrible Histories), Edinburgh Comedy Award-winner Tim Key and many more. EXTRAS: Inside Inside No.9, Photo Gallery
Frankie (Helen McCrory Skyfall) is in her forties ambitious and successful. She works in the aerospace industry designing surveillance drones for the military. She's never married and is completely in control of every part of her life. Her closest relationship is with her father who worked as an engineer on Concorde. But her life changes forever when she embarks on a passionate affair with Kahil a French/Algerian aerospace student twenty years younger than her. One day she arrives at work and is detained by the security services: Kahil is a person of interest to MI5. Her well-ordered life starts to unravel in a welter of suspicion and prejudice as Frankie no longer knows whether to follow her passion or listen to the doubts that increasingly overwhelm her.
In winter 1962, young cockney photographer David Bailey is given an important assignment by British Vogue to do a fashion shoot in New York. He sticks his neck out, and insists on using the then-unknown model Jean Shrimpton. Who happens to be his girlfriend...In a freezing winter week in Manhattan, they behave very badly, fall in love, drive their fashion editor Lady Clare Rendlesham to tears, make startling photographs, and help invent the sixties.We'll Take Manhattan is the story of that wild week, of their love affair, and of how two young people with no such intention happened to change the world of fashion forever.
A female landscape-gardener is awarded the esteemed assignment to construct the grand gardens at Versailles a gilt-edged position which thrusts her to the very centre of the court of King Louis XIV. Can she overcome the challenges of this new and complex world and the ghosts of her own past tragedy to secure a future with the man she loves?
Following the death of Diana the 'People's Princess', the Queen (Helen Mirren) and her family remain hidden behind tradition and the closed doors of Balmoral Castle. Whilst the heartbroken public becomes disillusioned with their Queen's absence, an increasingly popular Prime Minister, Tony Blair, must battle to convince the monarchy that its desire for privacy could lead to its ultimate downfall. With an outstanding performance from Helen Mirren, The Queen is Director Stephen Frears' engrossing, intimate and intelligently witty portrait of our monarchy's darkest days in the week following one of the nation's greatest tragedies. Special Features: Making of Documentary Feature commentary by Director Stephen Frears and writer Peter Morgan Production Photography Gallery Feature Audio Description
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