William Shakespeare's repute spans the world the beauty of his language, his profound insight into human nature and the complexity and integrity of his characters, confirming him as the greatest ever playwright. In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare's plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought acclaimed performances from some of the finest actors. This collection includes 5 of the hugely popular tragedies: HAMLET KING LEAR MACBETH OTHELLO ROMEO AND JULIET
Some things change and some things change forever. With his wife and unborn baby in the UK, Danny Trevanion and DuPlessis struggle to survive in a world without Leopard's Den. Working for the demanding Ed Lynch at the Big Five Animal Park is a big step down - but they're about to take a big step up.The corrupt developer Christian Peeters has disappeared - and only Danny and DuPlessis know that he may have been murdered - because they've hidden the body! But when an opportunity to buy Leopard's Den and Mara comes up, they find themselves in an unlikely partnership with the Big Five's Ed Lynch.Nothing goes smoothly or as expected, and with Danny's impending fatherhood calling him halfway around the world, and new threats to Leopard's Den from Ed Lynch's manipulative wife, the struggle is as great as ever to ensure the integrity of the Trevanions isn't compromised no matter how hard life proves when you're Wild at Heart.
Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook. In a series of four epic journeys, Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country to see how the railways changed us, and what of Bradshaw's Britain remains. This 4 DVD set features 20 episodes covering 4 different journeys: Manchester to Chesterfield London to Leeds Southampton to Wolverhampton Norwich to Chichester On his first journey of this series, Michael Portillo goes from Manchester, birthplace of George Bradshaw the publisher of this trusted guide, to Chesterfield, burial place of George Stephenson, the father of the railway. For the second journey Michael is guided by his Bradshaw's from London's Euston station to Leeds. He finds out what happened to the once proud Euston Arch and then alights at Cheddington, scene of the Great Train Robbery. On the third journey of the series, Michael begins at Southampton where he learns to set tables aboard the luxury liner Queen Elizabeth before she sets sail. He finishes in Wolverhampton where he hears Queen Victoria made an emotional visit which signalled the end of her exile from public life after mourning her husband, Prince Albert. The final journey takes Michael from one cathedral city, Norwich and a painful encounter with a polecat, through to another cathedral city, Chichester, from where he heads for a taste of life in the fast lane at Goodwood.
Yorkshire, 1874. Penniless following the death of her husband, Annie Quaintain and her two children are turfed out of their village home and forced to start a new life in Jericho, a remote shanty town in the expansive and rugged Yorkshire dales. Jericho is home to a community of navvies and pioneers, prostitutes and vagabonds who will live and die in the shadow of the viaduct they've been brought together to build. Rough and rustic, yet with a wild west, carnival-like atmosphere, it's a place where people with secrets can hide, and where love can flourish against all odds. Set against a visually striking frontier landscape, this epic, eight-part drama series follows the creation of a community from nothing and the human stories and heroic struggles of survival that emerge.
In 1963 fifteen men pulled off “The Great Train Robbery ” netting today’s equivalent of £45 million. This incredible film features Gordon Goody one of the main instigators behind the crime for the first time ever revealing the identity of the missing mastermind behind Britain’s most famous heist – the elusive and mysterious “Ulsterman”.
Parenthood follows four grown siblings of the far-from-perfect Braverman clan as they try to balance kids and careers, dreams and commitments, and romance or a total lack thereof.
WELCOME TO WENTWORTH PRISON, WHERE YOU KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE AND YOUR ENEMIES CLOSER. Tough, gritty and totally compelling, this hard-edged re-imagining of the iconic Prisoner: Cell Block H is unmissable drama. This 16-disc set contains all four hard-hitting seasons complete and uncut! SEASON ONE It is Bea Smith's first day at Wentworth Correctional Facility. Instantly thrown into a strange new world of female prisoners and violent power struggles, can she cope with separation from the outside world? SEASON TWO While Bea is secured in solitary, Franky has risen to Top Dog unopposed. The arrival of new governor Joan Ferguson changes all that: she intends to restore order at any cost! SEASON THREE With Bea now serving life without parole, her position as Top Dog seems unassailable but Ferguson is willing to sacrifice anything in her desire to break Bea. SEASON FOUR Returning to Wentworth's rebuilt H Block four months after the fire, Bea finds that the power base has shifted and that there's a new contender for Top Dog. SEASON FIVE Governor Bennett is increasingly forced to rely on her deputy, Jake, unaware that he is under Ferguson's control. A recovering Allie seeks vengeance against Ferguson. SPECIAL FEATURES: OVER FIVE HOURS OF BONUS FEATURES INCLUDING CAST AND CREW INTERVIEWS, BEHIND THE SCENES AND MUCH MUCH MORE.
It's summer and as part of Rose’s ‘coming out’ she is to be presented at Buckingham Palace. The family are in London preparing Grantham House for the busy social program. Not one to miss such a grand occasion Martha Levinson arrives from New York with Cora’s recently disgraced brother Harold. Both outspoken and larger-than-life they make quite an impression amongst certain members of London's high society. When the Crawleys are implicated in a scandal that threatens to engulf the monarchy Robert will go to great lengths to protect the royal family and his own.
Get ready for more mortal madness as the gang are back in toon, in the complete ninth series! Only this time, there's a bit of a twist Vicky will officially be crowned Queen of the house! Her house. Her rules. Will James, Holly, Marnie and Charlotte be able to find their role in the pecking order? Will Gaz and Scott be left as court jesters and will Aaron and Kyle woo anyone other than the girls in the house? Not forgetting the ultimate royal question, who will survive the wrath of Queen V? God save the Geordies!
Seven eclectic and seemingly unconnected characters' lives start to intersect in the most unexpected ways as news breaks that a comet is on an unavoidable collision course towards Earth and will hit in just 34 days! Some of them are destined to make it to a bunker deep beneath the suburbs of Slough and, as a result, will become the hugely unlikely (and, frankly, somewhat unsuitable) future of mankind. Starring Rob Lowe (Parks and Recreation), Jenna Fischer (The Office), Megan Mullally (Will & Grace) and Mathew Baynton (The Wrong Mans).
From the coastal lowlands to the mountainous hinterland, Aberystwyth is the setting for this brand new 4 part drama series, as seen on S4C and the BBC. Into this remote corner of West Wales steps DCI Tom Mathias (Richard Harrington), a brilliant but troubled man, solving crimes in a town full of secrets as dark and destructive as his own. Blood, soil and belonging this is Hinterland. This edition contains the hybrid version of Hinterland (English with small snippets of Welsh). Special Features: Locations characters Interviews Design
BBC One's adaptation of JK Rowling's best-selling novel The Casual Vacancy centres on the fictional and seemingly idyllic English village of Pagford. Behind the pretty facade, however, lies secrecy and scandal with a community at war. Chaos ensues in the town after the death of beloved Parish Councillor Barry Fairbrother, as the residents fight for the empty seat left on the council in the biggest battle the village has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations? Major themes in this small screen version of Rowling's novel concern families, death, grief, poverty, addiction, prostitution, rape, village politics, allegiances and enmities. Starring Michael Gambon, Rory Kinnear and Keeley Hawes.
Series 1 Sherlock Holmes can tell a software designer by his tie and an airline pilot by his thumb. He has a unique analytical brain and, unlike anyone else in the world, he staves off boredom by solving crimes. When a chance encounter brings soldier John Watson into Sherlock's life, it's apparent the two men couldn't be more different, but Sherlock's intellect coupled with John's pragmatism soon forge an unbreakable alliance. Series 2 Sherlock and Watson return… Embroiled in the complex plans of the dangerous and desirable Irene Adler, Sherlock needs every one of his remarkable skills to survive, and an invitation to the wilds of Dartmoor brings our terrified heroes face to face with the supernatural. Meanwhile Sherlock’s nemesis, Moriarty, is out there in the shadows and is determined to bring Sherlock down – whatever the cost. Special Features: Pilot – Sherlock – A study in pink Unlocking Sherlock – The Making Of
The complete explosive and action-packed first two seasons. If you were ever stranded in the wilderness there are few people who'd be handier to have with you than Bear Grylls. A former SAS man and survival expert Bear Grylls' adventures have seen him travel all over the world to prove himself as the 'ultimate survivor'. You name it he's tackled it taking on extreme survival dares in some of the world's most hostile environments. In Series 1 and 2 of Born Survivor Bear travels to the four corners of the Earth and has to stay alive when faced with the toughest of conditions. Along the way he skydives over Mount Everest wades through the swamps of Florida's everglades and drags himself across the killer Sahara. Armed with a few supplies and the clothes on his back see how Bear claws his way back to civilisation while demonstrating incredible survival techniques.
Marta Dusseldorp leads the cast of this sweeping romantic drama set in 1950s rural Australia, following the lives of nurse, Sarah Adams and the Blighs, a wealthy and complicated family, living in Inverness, New South Wales. We pick up our story four years after we left it. It's 1958 and dark clouds are forming over Ash Park. The family are vulnerable to the malicious intentions of Sir Richard Bennett and his entanglement in their financial affairs makes their hold on Ash park precarious and tenuous. Could Regina be their only hope of salvation, or is she playing a double game against them? This DVD contains all 12 episodes of the fifth series.
IT'S A WRAP. It's the beginning of the end for charming Miami forensics expert Dexter Morgan (Golden Globe� Winner Michael C. Hall) as all 12 season eight episodes bring to rest the critically acclaimed hit series. He's spent his days solving crimes and his nights committing them, but never before has Dexter had to deal with a more abhorrent and deranged enemy than he does now: himself. Six months after the stunning murder of Lt. LaGuerta, Dexter's estranged sister Debra (Jennifer Carpenter)...
A quarter century after revolutionizing television, Twin Peaks returns. Expanding the world you thought you knew, this limited event series takes you places wonderful, strange and farther out. This Blu-ray collection includes all 18 parts of the Showtime series, plus a wealth of exclusive, behind-the-scenes special features that will show you what's behind the red curtain and the making of this extraordinary television event. Features: Series Promos Twin Peaks: Phenomenon (Featurettes) Comic-Con 2017: Twin Peaks Panel A Very Lovely Dream: One Week in Twin Peaks Richard Beymer Films Rancho Rosa Logos Behind-the-Scenes Photo Gallery The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair Tell It Martin Two Blue Balls The Number of Completion Bad Binoculars See You On The Other Side Dear Friend Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers A Bloody Finger In Your Mouth The Polish Accountant A Pot of Boiling Oil
Harry Clayton is back. Still wearing the bracelet given to him by Eve (Sienna Guillory), Harry refuses to use his new found power' to assist him in any way, mindful of the possible dire consequences. With London bright and bold as the cinematic backdrop, each week Harry and the Murder Investigation Squad are called upon to solve particularly puzzling murder cases across the capital. Teamed with his partner, DS Suri Chohan (Amara Karan) and having been accepted back into the fold by his boss, Detective Superintendent Winter (Steven Mackintosh), Harry continues his struggle to come to terms with his gambling addiction while proving to both his wife Anna (Eve Best) and his daughter that he can stay straight, fly right and win back their trust. Harry's meeting with the enigmatic and alluring Isabella Augustin (Thekla Reuten) throws everything he thought he knew about the bracelet into turmoil. She enters his life with a seemingly identical bracelet on her wrist. As Harry's will is tested, his state of mind begins to fray as the stakes rise and the race against evil draws ever closer.
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