Adapted from Gerald Durrell's bestselling autobiography this much-loved classic tells the story of the naturalist's childhood years spent on the island of Corfu. A new world of freedom and adventure opens up to young Gerald when his somewhat eccentric family decide to leave the grey skies of England behind and start a new life. He soon discovers the wonder of nature in this sun-drenched environment and into the lives of the family come a succession of colourful characters including larger-than-life taxi-driver Spiro who helps them move from one villa to the next.
Fast paced and edgy this mini-series (first shown on BBC3) alternates between the gripping love triangle involving the young Casanova Henriette and her husband Grimani and the swan song of the world's most notorious lothario! Written by Russell T. Davies creator of 'Queer As Folk' and the scribe behind the new 'Doctor Who'.
The hugely successful series starring Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris, Helen George and Linda Bassett returns with more touching and compelling stories from the nurses and nuns of Nonnatus House. In this series Sister Monica Joan goes missing at Christmas time leaving the nuns and nurses distraught. Shelagh rushes to put together a children's choir in time for a BBC broadcast from the church. Elsewhere Trixie, having battled through her issues with alcohol, finds a new purpose in her keep fit classes. And could friendship blossom into something more for vicar Tom Hereward and Barbara? Also includes 2015 Christmas Special.
Series 6: It is now 1962, and the Nonnatus House team are as committed to caring for the people of Poplar as always. However, the social revolution in the outside world is mirrored by change and challenge much closer to home. As they strive to help mothers and families cope with the demands of childbearing, disability, disease and social prejudice, our beloved medics must make choices - and fight battles - of their own. Series six will see them laugh together, cry together, and pull together, supporting each other as never before. Also includes 2016 Christmas Special: The Christmas Special will see Call The Midwife transported to the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Nonnatus House receives an SOS from a tiny mission hospital. Understaffed, underfunded, and with a poor water supply, struggling Hope Clinic is faced with closure. Can our much-loved medics and midwives make a difference to the people whose lives depend upon its work? Far from home and everything familiar, the team are both shaken and exhilarated by the challenges they face - and by the time the mission trip is over, some lives are permanently changed.
A brand new vibrant thrilling and funny eight part drama set in Scotland. Focusing on four ex-cons Ellie Hannah Josie and Shoo as they try to go straight. We follow them as they embark on the final leg of their long-held plan to live out the rest of their lives on a beach in Barbados courtesy of ''3 million stolen from Ellie's violent gangster husband.
Mia is a contract killer with a secret: she's a transgender woman. After a young life where she never quite fitted in, Eddie, an underworld linchpin, took Mia under his wing and created a brilliant assassin.But Mia's life is turned upside down when she receives a letter from her ex, Wendy, who reveals that she's dying from cancer - and that when they were together Mia fathered a son, 11-year-old Ryan. Now Mia is his legal guardian.Travelling to a tiny village in West Yorkshire to see the boy, Mia meets the rest of Wendy's farmhouse clan: 16-year-old Riley, 15-year-old Levi, and 6-year-old Leonie.Hit & Miss follows Mia's attempts to mix her killer instincts with her new maternal ones, in a search for her own identity. A lethal killer at the heart of a troubled family in the middle of nowhere is where the series begins.
When the world's media descend on the remote Scottish island where a Hollywood actress is attempting to get married, a local girl is hired as a decoy bride to put the paparazzi off the scent.
lock stock ...& four stolen hooves (pilot movie): Four mates Bacon Jamie Lee and Moon get on the wrong side of neighbourhood porn king 'Miami Vice' by getting their hands on his shipment of porn and a rare 'erotic timepiece' and then by accidentally stealing his prize racehorse 'Sherbet'. lock stock ...& 200 smoking kalashnikovs: The lads get stung by a scam known as the 'Limehouse Lag'. Meanwhile Miami is doning some problem solving of his own with the aid of
Natalie Dormer (Hunger Games, Game of Thrones, The Tudors) plays the passionate, courageous Seymour, Lady Worsley, who escapes her troubled marriage only to find herself at the centre of a very public trial brought by her powerful husband Sir Richard Worsley, played by Shaun Evans (Endeavour, The Lost Weekend), who seeks compensation from her lover for the affair. As this extraordinary true story unfolds, Lady Worsley takes the brave decision to publicly expose the secrets of her marriage. The scandalous courtroom revelations challenge the hypocrisy of the law that brands a wife the property of her husband, calling into question the whole concept of a woman's 'worth'.
Joachim Jo Saint-Clair, Jean Reno (Leon Ronin) is a veteran detective in Paris elite Criminal Brigade tackling the city's most challenging murder cases. Jo takes the audience behind the scenes of Paris' most iconic locations the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Catacombs, Place Vendome as we follow St-Clair in his relentless pursuit of justice. Brilliant and brutal, St-Clair matches wits with pathological killers to solve a series of shocking murders. Fighting crime alongside Reno are Tom Aust...
Whilst attending the inquest surrounding the death of one his workers property developer Leon Hawthorne meets the deceased man's widow Natalie. Enchanted he sets about tracking her down...
A lethal killer at the heart of a troubled family in the middle of nowhere. From the creator of Shameless and State of Play comes Hit & Miss, starring Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner Chloë Sevigny (Boys Don't Cry, Big Love) as a contract killer with a big secret: she's a transgender woman. Train. Kill. Receive payment. Repeat. This has been the routine for Mia (Sevigny) ever since she was taken under the wing of Eddie (Peter Wight), a long-standing resident of the criminal underworld, and transformed into a sharp-shooting assassin. But Mia's life is turned upside down when she receives a letter from her ex, Wendy, who reveals that Mia has a son, 11-year-old Ryan, and that Mia is now his legal guardian. Hit & Miss follows Mia's attempts to mix her killer instincts with her new maternal ones whilst in a search for her own identity. This set contains all 6 episodes. Exclusive Special Features Interviews with: Chloe Sevigny, Paul Abbott, Sean Conway, Juliet Charlesworth (producer) Q&A at The Mayfair Hotel with Chloe Sevigny, Paul Abbott, Sean Conway, Nicola Shindler. Hosted by Mariella Frostrup
Mia is a contract killer with a secret: she's a transgender woman. After a young life where she never quite fitted in, Eddie, an underworld linchpin, took Mia under his wing and created a brilliant assassin.But Mia's life is turned upside down when she receives a letter from her ex, Wendy, who reveals that she's dying from cancer - and that when they were together Mia fathered a son, 11-year-old Ryan. Now Mia is his legal guardian.Travelling to a tiny village in West Yorkshire to see the boy, Mia meets the rest of Wendy's farmhouse clan: 16-year-old Riley, 15-year-old Levi, and 6-year-old Leonie.Hit & Miss follows Mia's attempts to mix her killer instincts with her new maternal ones, in a search for her own identity. A lethal killer at the heart of a troubled family in the middle of nowhere is where the series begins.
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