Ian McShane stars as lovable rogue antiques dealer Lovejoy in 3 episodes: 'National Wealth' 'Sugar And Spice' and 'Raise The Hispanic'.
Tommy Cooper's comedy was timeless a true original who was everyone's favourite clown. Wearing his trademark Fez he delighted millions with bungled magic tricks and hilarious sketeches.
Join the party in Beverly Hills 90210! Watch as the down-to-earth Walsh twins Brandon and Brenda (Jason Priestley and Shannen Doherty) navigate the treacherous halls of West Beverly High.
Worshipped By His People - Feared By His Enemies - Betrayed By His Friends Julius Caesar is the epic story of the legendary leader who single handedly changed the course of Greco-Roman history and earned his place in history as one of the greatest politicians generals and orators to have ever lived. From his early years in Rome through his assent to power and prominence this lavish international production reveals the conspiracy and intrigue lurking behind the Emperor's mas
A classic tale of undying love... A fresh and new interpretation of Mary Shelley's classic gothic novel a chilling tale of one man's soulless desire to surpass the boundaries of mortal humankind. The crew of a weather-beaten ship stranded in the icy North Sea rescue a man close to death: Victor Frankenstein. He recounts his own story of a young scientist possessed of an obsessive thirst for knowledge who has challenged the very foundations of nature by creating a sentient cr
A hairdresser (Drescher) is sent to the land of Slovetzia to tutor three children. Thinking that she's been hired as a beautician she has no idea that her boss the widowed autocrat Boris Pochenko (Dalton) thinks she's a science teacher...
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
Botham On The Fly follows Ian Botham and guest as they fly-fish famous rivers in the UK and Scotland. Each episode follows Ian and a guest over a weekend fishing as they gently and humoursly compete to see who gets the biggest and the most fish. This will be full of natural banter and exchanges of Tall Tales (from both the riverbank and interesting anecdotes from their lives). Each programme will be filmed in two neighbouring begins at sunrise and ends with a celebrator
During the Wimsey family retreat in Yorkshire Captain Cathcart the fiancee of Lord Peter's (Ian Carmichael) sister Mary Winsey receives an unwelcomed letter causing him to flee Riddlesdale Lodge in the middle of the night. But he is not the only one with departure plans. One Wimsey plans to escape in the early hours of the morning until she finds a body in the garden.
An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.
Grab a front row seat as Gillan powers through a selection of the greatest hits of Gillan and Deep Purple. Tracklisting: Gut Reaction; Demon's Eye; Living For The City; No More Cane On The Brazos; I Thought No; When A Blind Man Cries and many more.
A look at the background of one of the most famous names in motorcycle history including a trip to the Sammy Miller Motorcycle Museum and the National Motorcycle Museum with a look at every significant Norton from the past ninety years. Leading motorcycle journalist Alan Cathcart track tests the Formula 750 Nortons of the 1970s including the actual 1973 TT winning machine and also features Geoff Duke Steve Hislop engineers designers and executives who played key roles in the
Ian Gordon takes us to El Bajo an underwater seamount in Mexico's Sea of Cortez to witness the legendary Scalloped Hammerhead school reunion. But before this amazing spectacle is revealed Ian Gordon and his crew must overcome storms poor water visibility and difficult diving conditions. Later they brave dangerous depths extreme cold and technically difficult diving conditions to get up close and personal with the mysterious and rarely seen Prickly shark.
The best post-punk music in Europe was electronic and for five years the best electronic music came from Sheffield. 'Made In Sheffield' documents the evolution of Human League Cabaret Voltaire Heaven 17 and ABC who emerged from Sheffield's musical scene in the late 1970s. Their dream was to destroy rock music: the result was the creation of some of the most influential sounds in pop. Rare archive footage soundtrack and exclusive interviews with the famous almost famous and not fa
Arsenal: Legends Boxset (Henry / Bergkamp / Wright) (3 Discs)
News reporter Nicky Wells is shocked when she discovers her former fiance who apparently committed suicide just before their wedding is alive and living in Barcelona. This discovery could cost Nicky her life.... Based on the novel by Barbara Taylor Bradford.
Between heroic spells as the Saint and James Bond, Roger Moore was teamed with Tony Curtis in The Persuaders, a derivative but fun series about a couple of millionaire dilettante adventurers who swan around the world competing for the attention of beautiful women and getting involved in perplexing mysteries. Moore is Lord Brett Sinclair, an upper crust Brit of impeccable breeding, while Curtis is Danny Wilde, an up-from-the-streets self-made man whose trademark is a pair of brown gloves. The allegedly tasteful Brett and the crasser Danny both model a succession of garish early 70s fashions while their pursuits of duplicitous crumpet usually wind up with the women getting away and the heroes stuck with each other. Given all that, this may well be the most blatantly homoerotic of all the buddy television pairings (see the eponymous stars of Starsky and Hutch, Regan and Carter in The Sweeney, Bodie and Doyle of The Professionals) that ran ove! r the screen in the 70s, in which the male leads sublimated their feelings for each other by pulling out their guns and shooting at baddies. --Kim Newman
A cross-cultural oddity, Tale of a Vampire feels like a 1970s British horror movie retranslated from the Japanese and mounted as a vehicle for Julian Sands. Director-writer Shimako Sato takes a gloom-haunted approach to the undead, allegedly influenced by the necrophile romanticism of Edgar Allan Poe (it claims to be based on Poe's poem "Annabel Lee") but also draws on the popular blood-sucking posiness of Anne Rice's bestselling novels. Alex (Sands), is a style-conscious vampire whose white shirts are always immaculate although he spends most of his nights messily pouring gore over his face. Living in a spartan docklands pad, Alex haunts a library of long-forgotten lore where he sets his cap at a young woman (Suzanna Hamilton) who may be the reincarnation of his lost love. Unfortunately, a hat-wearing rival vampire (Kenneth Cranham) has been nurturing a grudge against Alex for lifetimes and sticks his oar in, complicating the relationship between vampire and willing victim, setting up for a big stake-shoving climax. For all its vampire feuds and dodgily S&M-flavoured blood-drinking scenes, this is somewhat staid and solemn, with few locations and a low budget abstraction reminiscent of those old episodes of The Avengers where they could only afford to build a corner of a set and there wasn't any money left to hire actors. While Sands, with aptly vampirish poise, and Cranham, with a sinister Southern accent, are interesting and poised antagonists, making the most of Sato's allusive dialogue, heroine Hamilton lets the side down with an awkward performance that hardly suggests anyone worth giving up immortality for. Cranham's character is supposed to be Poe himself, oddly transformed from his historical stature: he seems to have put on a bit of weight since his death in 1849, but Cranham's sly nasty way of ordering gruesome nouvelle cuisine and tormenting a harmless crackpot is aptly Poeish. The slow-paced film takes a long time to confirm what is obvious from the outset (even from the title) and then shudders to a halt with all the characters' fates left vague. However, it has a unique and disturbing atmosphere--the few familiar vampire images of a bloody Sands are outweighed by weirder moments like Cranham's presentation of a pale Hamilton, tied to a bed with red ribbons, as an offering to his nemesis--that makes it more insidiously memorable than many of its higher-budgeted, splashier cousins. On the DVD: A no-frills (no trailer, no cast notes, no nothing), full-screen presentation, which sometimes cramps Sato's careful compositions, this also has a mixed blessing transfer which lends a mouldy or rusty fuzz to some of the blacks in the many night scenes. There is, however, a nice animated menu. --Kim Newman
Three episodes featuring the roguish antique's dealer. Episodes include: 'Just Deserts' 'The Italian Venus' and 'Bin Diving'.
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