Six months after Jack the Ripper's reign of terror in East London, Detective Inspector Edmund Reid and the H Division fight to keep law and order on the chaotic streets of Whitechapel. However, a troubled yet and determined Detective Reid struggles to come to terms with a tragedy from the past and soon gets drawn into the seedy criminal underworld of Victorian London, where each new murder elicits fear that the Ripper may be back.
Set in Valco, a fictional supermarket in the north-west of England, Trollied is an eight-part sitcom that puts a comic twist on one of our most familiar surroundings. Acting deputy manager Julie struggles to assert her authority and fails at almost every attempt to make a good impression on store manager Gavin. She also has something of a crush on Gavin, who manages to rebuff her clumsily executed flirtations - that is, if he's aware of them at all.
Historian Simon Schama joins forces with National Portrait Gallery curators to create five new displays exploring the development, character and meanings of British portraiture. Staged throughout the Gallery, portraits from across the Collection will be displayed for the first time by theme rather than chronology, taking a long view of the history of portraits in each room. Each display will comprise a cross-period selection in various media, exploring one of the following themes: Power, Love, Fame, People and Self. Simon Schama's The Face of Britain will broadcast on BBC Two in September coincide with the broadcast of a new five-part TV series on BBC Two and the publication of an accompanying book by Viking/Penguin Random House this autumn.
All the episodes from Bill Oddie's How To Watch Wildlife series.
Stephen Fry explores linguistic achievements and how our skills for the spoken word have developed in a new five-part BBC series.In Planet Word, Stephen dissects language in all its guises with his inimitable mixture of learning, love of lexicon and humour. He analyses how we use and abuse language and asks whether we are near to beginning to understand the complexities of its DNA.From the time when man first mastered speech to the cyber world of modern times with its html codes and texting, Planet Word takes viewers on a journey across the globe to discover just how far humans have come when it comes to the written and spoken word.
All 15 episodes from the fifth season of the American crime drama starring Timothy Hutton. Former insurance investigator Nathan Ford (Hutton) leads a team of professional criminals - cyber-geek Alec Hardison (Aldis Hodge), martial arts expert Eliot Spencer (Christian Kane), acrobatic cat burglar Parker (Beth Riesgraf), and charismatic con artist and actress Sophie Devereaux (Gina Bellman) - in a quest for revenge against people and companies who misuse their power.
Fugitive Raymond Red Reddington (James Spader) surrenders to the FBI and offers to help them capture some of the world's most dangerous criminals but only if he's teamed with rookie Elizabeth Liz Keen (Megan Boone). As they pursue the Blacklisters, he draws Liz into a shadowy conspiracy that envelops her past, present and future endangering her life and career as Liz is forced to go on the run and resolve the mystery of her lost childhood.
The inspirational Timothy West and Prunella Scales continue their waterway adventures embarking on spectacular canal journeys across Britain and abroad. In this fifth series, Pru and Tim embark on remarkable canal journeys, sharing a passion that they've enjoyed for decades. From the Norfolk Broads to Kerela, India; this series of Great Canal Journeys is truly international. Their adventures also take them to Portugal & France. Features: Includes the episodes (on 2-disc DVD): The Norfolk Broads Marne-Rhine Canal Rio Douro Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal Kerela Assam Includes subtitles for the Hard of Hearing
Mr. Pickles is an original animated series set in the small, old-fashioned world of Old Town that is slowly being taken over by the modern world. The series centers on the lives of the Goodman family and their innocent six-year-old son Tommy, whose best friend is the family's lovable Border Collie, Mr. Pickles. The two roam around Old Town together getting into classic adventures. Unbeknownst to Tommy and everyone else, except Tommy's Grandpa, Mr. Pickles has an evil streak and frequently wanders off to kill, mutilate and hump his deserving victims. But the one thing everybody knows about the sweet and adorable dog is that he loves pickles and he gets one every time he's a good boy. Episodes from Season 1 Tommy's Big Job, Father's Day Pie, Foul Ball, The Cheeseman, Dead Man's Curve, Loose Tooth, Grandpa's Night Out, Coma, Where Is Mr Pickles, The Liar
This provocative and riveting four-part drama tells the story of Sugar (Romola Garai Atonement, Emma) an alluring, intelligent young prostitute who yearns for a better life away from the brothel she is attached to, run by the contemptible Mrs Castaway (Gillian Anderson Bleak House, The X Files). However, things change for her when she meets wealthy businessman William Rackham (Chris O'Dowd The IT Crowd). Sugar is a thrilling antidote to William, who is saddled with a pious brother, Henry (Mark Gatiss Sherlock, Doctor Who), and fragile wife, Agnes (Amanda Hale Any Human Heart, Bright Star) who regularly endures visits from the invasive physician Doctor Curlew (Richard E Grant Gosford Park, Withnail & I). William ensconces Sugar as his mistress and she soon grows accustomed to her new life. Yet unbeknownst to William, Sugar begins to hatch a plan which sets a series of events in motion that will change their lives forever... SPECIAL FEATURES: BBC Points of View behind-the-scenes interviews with Romola Garai and Chris O'Dowd. In depth interviews with key production crew members Deleted scenes
If someone called you a 'Googlewhack' what would you do? You might reasonably ask them what it meant but you wouldn't probably end up playing table tennis with a 9 year old boy in a Boston basement. You probably wouldn't wind up in Los Angeles with three snakes on your head either. It is highly unlikely that you'd end up in a car with a gun toting dot-com millionaire en-route to Mexico to buy coke (cola) and drugs (prescription). But then you're not Dave Gorman are you? Dave was meant to be writing a novel a big grown-up piece of fiction. He's failed. But he's had a Googlewhack adventure instead. So now he'd like to tell you all about it in a show that will prove once again that in his world at least truth is really stronger than fiction. It wasn't meant to be a show and yet it's an exhiliarating story that just has to be told about one man a search engine and some of the strangest people in the world.
First Among Equals: The Complete Series (3 Discs)
Hard Sun is a pre-apocalyptic crime series set in contemporary London. Charlie Hicks (Jim Sturgess) and Elaine Renko (Agyness Deyn) are detectives who, while investigating a murder in the inner city, stumble upon proof that the world faces certain destruction in five years. It's a terrifying reality that the British government is urgently trying to suppress. Hicks and Renko find themselves pursued by ruthless Security Service operatives, who are trying to kill them in order to keep secret the truth about the mysterious cosmic event. The pair must use every bit of their ingenuity to protect themselves and those they love.
Boardwalk Empire - Season 1When Alcohol Was Outlawed. Outlaws Became Kings. From Terence Winter Emmy Award-winning writer of 'The Sopranos ' and Academy Award Winning Director Martin Scorsese 'Boardwalk Empire' is set in Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition when the sale of alcohol became illegal throughout the United States. The Great War is over Wall Street is about to boom and everything is for sale even the World Series. It is a time of change when women are getting the vote broadcast radio is introduced and young people rule the world. On the beach in southern New Jersey sits Atlantic City a spectacular resort known as The World's Playground a place where rules don't apply. Massive hotels line its famous Boardwalk along with nightclubs amusement piers and entertainment to rival Broadway. For a few dollars a working man can get away and live like a king -- legally or illegally. The undisputed ruler of Atlantic City is the town's Treasurer Enoch Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) a political fixer and backroom dealer who is equal parts politician and gangster and equally comfortable in either role. Because of its strategic location on the seaboard the town is a hub of activity for rum-runners minutes from Philadelphia hours from New York City and less than a day's drive from Chicago. And Nucky Thompson takes full advantage. Boardwalk Empire - Season 2Atlantic City 1921. In a city whose fortunes have soared in the wake of Prohibition Nucky Thompson is paying a steep price for wielding ultimate power in the world's playground. Steve Buscemi returns as Nucky in Season 2 of this hit HBO drama series that follows the continued rise of organized crime at the dawn of Prohibition. Though the 1920 election he successfully rigged is over Nucky finds himself the target of a federal investigation for vote tampering - and an insurrection by those he counted among his closest allies. All the while top mobsters like Arnold Rothstein Lucky Luciano Meyer Lansky and Al Capone wait in the wings looking for the chance to grab a bigger piece of Nucky's pie. Michael Pitt Kelly Macdonald and Michael Shannon co-star. Boardwalk Empire - Season 3Atlantic City 1922: The Roaring '20s are about to begin in earnest and despite a booming economy alcohol is scarce and gangster violence is heating up. Amidst this backdrop Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) whose marriage to Margaret has become a sham after she signed away his highway windfall to the church faces the challenge of mending old relationships. Nucky also encounters new competition from a hair-trigger gangster who builds a strategic bulkhead between New York and Atlantic City in an effort to siphon off Nucky's alcohol business. The conflict brings out the best and worst in Nucky as new and familiar faces undergo compelling metamorphoses within the third season of this Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning series.
The Spa is no ordinary health club. Staffed by an array of improbable, intimidating and entertaining characters, it's an experience not to be missed. In charge of the daily routine is manageress Alison Crabbe (BAFTA and Comedy Award-Winning Rebecca Front), a formidable woman who barely attempts to conceal her dislike for her team - or indeed, The Spa's customers. Alison has a vision for The Spa - a vision that she feels would be much easier to achieve were it not for the irritating presence of unfit pensioners, scatty receptionists and new age therapists. In reality, it's Alison herself who's the main barrier to The Spa's success, but somehow she manages to get away with it. Probably thanks to the rest of her staff being either equally incompetent or too wrapped up in their own worlds to notice. Special Features: Staff Diaries
A controversial police procedural from the late 1980s, this ratings-winning drama charts the progress of seven trainee CID officers learning the ropes in some of London's toughest areas. Ian Hogg gives a career best performance as the tough, irascible Alan Rockliffe an old-school supervisor whose job it is to sort the wheat from the chaff. Featuring guest appearances from Lonnie Donegan, Norman Beaton, Pauline Quirke, Kevin Lloyd, John Michie and John Woodvine, this set contains both hard-hitting series of Rockliffe's Babies, complete and uncut. It's a busy week for the young plain-clothes Crime Squad PCs. A mixed bunch, with decidedly mixed abilities, they're thrown in at the deep end with a hooded prowler, an armed robbery and a mugging on the notorious Dragon Estate. They need to think fast, but if anyone can sharpen their instincts it's surely the quick-tempered DS Rockliffe.
Season 3 chronicles the DEA's hunt for the Cali Cartel leaders after Escobar's death in 1993. With Escobar out of the way, business for the Cali Cartel is booming, with new markets in the United States and elsewhere.
Written by Kay Mellor and starring Hermione Norris, Katherine Parkinson, Jill Halfpenny, Christine Bottomley, Will Mellor and Tara Fitzgerald, IN THE CLUB portrays six very different women all of whom share one thing in common... they're pregnant. Having been told they would never be able to conceive, Diane and Rick are expecting their miracle' baby. However a spiralling financial crisis leads Rick to take drastic measures to provide for his fast growing family. Jasmin is struggling with chronic morning sickness and feels as though an alien has taken over her body. Roanna is battling with her ex-husband over their divorce settlement but is very happy and in love with her much younger partner Simon. Kim lives with her partner Susie and Susie's son, Jude, and writes a pregnancy blog. When a young girl calling herself Fifteen and Frightened' contacts Kim via her blog, she feels she needs to help her. Some of these women will find their dreams come true, some risk losing theirs but all will discover that nothing's easy when you're IN THE CLUB.
Comedy series about three friends struggling to find jobs that don't suck, a half-decent place to live and boyfriends they actually like
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