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TV Show: Big School ( 2013 )
Set in an urban secondary school, Big School is a comedy about a dysfunctional staff room, unrequited love and interactive white boards.
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TV Show: The Catherine Tate Show ( 2004 )
Perrier Award nominated for her performance in Lee Mack's sketch show at The Edinburgh Festival 2000 and critically acclaimed for her one-woman sketch show at Edinburgh 2001, Catherine Tate now writes and stars in her own sketch show. Catherine's irreverent characters include the rancid pensioner, the overprotective new parents and the randy nurse. The show's theme tune is "In These Shoes?" by Kirsty MacColl.
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TV Show: Wild West ( 2002 )
Wild West was a situation comedy screened from October 2002 until 2004.Strange things happen in St Gweep......The small Cornish town is host to all manner of odd occurrences, in Simon Nye's dark comedy. Dawn French and Catherine Tate star as Mary and Angela - a tempestuous lesbian couple, who will do anything to preserve their village from the hordes of holiday home buyers and thrill-seeking bungee-jumpers. Pretty much all outsiders are a target for suspicion.
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TV Show: Attention Scum ( 2001 )
A 2001 television comedy series created by Simon Munnery and Stewart Lee. It starred Munnery as his "The League Against Tedium" character and contained acerbic stand-up routines atop a transit van and sketches including mainstays such as "24 Hour News" (performed by Johnny Vegas), operatic intermissions by Kombat Opera, and two characters engaged in a duel over their hats.
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TV Show: Barking ( 1998 )
British sketch comedy series with a large cast including Matt Lucas, David Walliams, Catherine Tate, Marcus Brigstocke and Mackenzie Crook 'before they were famous'.
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TV Show: High ( 2021 )
Michaella McCollum tried to smuggle £1.5m of cocaine through Lima airport and failed. This is the story of how a teenager from Northern Ireland ended up a cartel drug mule.
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TV Show: Lie With Me ( 2021 )
Lie With Me is a chilling tale of Anna and her family who move to Australia after infidelity rocks her marriage. They hire a young local nanny who isn't as innocent as she appears, and deadly consequences follow.
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TV Show: Fishing Scotland's Lochs and Rivers ( 2021 )
Fern Britton, Ian Botham, Linford Christie, Les Dennis and Rosemary Shrager embark on a road trip which sees them travelling from East to West, from the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. They take in the picturesque sights, the fascinating history, and land the catch of the day.
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TV Show: Michael Ball's Wonderful Wales ( 2021 )
The singer and broadcaster explores his own heritage while discovering more about Wales's rich history. 
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TV Show: Loose Women ( 1999 )
A long-running daytime panel show presented by women, for women on weekdays in front of a live studio audience. Four panellists from across the entertainment and journalism industries discuss topical issues and showbiz and interview celebrity guests.
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TV Show: Pure ( 2019 )
22 year old Marnie is not OK. She may just seem quiet to others, but the noise inside her head is relentless. For the last 2031 days, she has been assailed by an incessant barrage of graphic x-rated thoughts that intrude, at the most inopportune of moments, on her day to day life. Whether she's sitting exams at university, waiting at a bus stop or passing strangers on a street, her life is interrupted by irrepressible sexual thoughts. Marnie has no idea what's wrong with her - Is she gay? A sex addict?? A pervert??? Why is she plagued by these mental images and what do they mean? Is that who she really is, deep down?Pure is painfully human, sharply observed, and outrageously funny adaptation of Rose Bretécher's acclaimed book. It is a moving, warm and truthful exploration of one young woman's search for herself and her very real struggle with mental illness. It explores what it means to be a young woman today, what it means to discover a whole new world. It's about finding new friends, and most importantly, about falling in love.
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TV Show: Wanderlust ( 2018 )
Wanderlust follows Joy Richards, a therapist trying to find a way to keep her spark with her husband alive after a cycling accident causes them to reassess their relationship.
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TV Show: The Irregulars ( 2021 )
Set in Victorian London, the series follows a gang of troubled street teens who are manipulated into solving crimes for the sinister Doctor Watson and his mysterious business partner, the elusive Sherlock Holmes. As the crimes take on a horrifying supernatural edge and a dark power emerges, it'll be up to the Irregulars to come together to save not only London but the entire world.
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TV Show: Cockroaches ( 2015 )
Cockroaches is a post-apocalyptic romantic-comedy about what happens after a nuclear holocaust. It's about those things that can survive anything: laziness, boredom, ex-boyfriends who are still stupid. And love.
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TV Show: Secret Crush ( 2021 )
Secret Crush is a dating show in which people who have feelings for someone but have never told them take the plunge and confess all. 
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TV Show: Timewasters ( 2017 )
Timewasters is a comedy about a struggling four-piece South London jazz band who travel back in time to the 1920's via a urine-sodden lift in a dilapidated block of flats.Stuck in the past after their ‘time machine' is destroyed, our gang decide to explore, before quickly discovering that being young and black in the Jazz Age is a lot less genteel and a lot more shady than Downton Abbey had led them to believe.Aided and abetted by a pair of oddball twins and some 1920s luminaries, the band are forced to navigate the parties and pitfalls of the Roaring Twenties while searching for a way back home. All the while, not missing the opportunity to introduce the Bright Young Things to some of the twenty-first century's finest tunes.
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TV Show: Taken: Hunting the Sex Traffickers ( 2021 )
The inside story of a secret police investigation into a human trafficking gang. Filmed over three years, in Britain, Brazil and Europe, specialist officers try to take down the gang's elusive leader.
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TV Show: Parade's End ( 2012 )
In the dying days of the Edwardian Empire, Christopher Tietjens enters into a destructive marriage with the beautiful but cruel socialite Sylvia.
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TV Show: Before We Die ( 2021 )
Before We Die follows a detective who faces impossible choices in a murky world where loyalties are tested and lines are blurred.
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TV Show: Irvine Welsh's Crime ( 2021 )
DI Ray Lennox is battling personal demons from drink and drug addiction, and a child murder case he previously worked on. But when he's put onto investigating the disappearance of a schoolgirl, Lennox must try to put his own problems aside in his search for the truth.
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TV Show: Gino's Win Your Wish List ( 2018 )
Gino's Win Your Wish List is a game show where families get a chance to win a host of amazing prizes of their choice by completing in a series of general knowledge rounds and fun-filled, skill based challenges.
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TV Show: Undercover Big Boss ( 2021 )
As Britain reopens following three devastating lockdowns and UK firms face their greatest challenge, a battle to survive, Undercover Big Boss follows a group of chief execs and company bosses as they swap their power suits for overalls and go in disguise to work on their very own shop floors, to see what really goes on behind closed doors.With the gap between multi-millionaire bosses and their struggling workers wider than ever, there will be big emotion, big rewards and some big shocks in store as the bosses get their hands dirty.
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TV Show: Diana's Decades ( 2021 )
Princess Diana's life was as dramatic as it was short-lived. She brought joy to billions. Her death sparked mass hysteria. In July 2021 she would have turned 60. Diana's Decades celebrates her life and achievements and shows how each era of her life encapsulated the spirit of the age and inspired profound social change. We speak to people who either knew her or whose lives crossed paths with Diana's to deliver the most intelligent analysis yet of her life and impact on the final decades of the 20th century.
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TV Show: One Night in the Museum ( 2020 )
With no adults around to supervise them, three groups of children from different primary schools visit some of Britain's greatest museums after hours.
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TV Show: Call the Bailiffs: Time to Pay Up ( 2021 )
Series following the work of enforcement agents as they execute High Court writs on behalf of people desperate to recover money they are owed.
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TV Show: Fleabag ( 2016 )
Meet Fleabag. She's not talking to all of us - she's talking to you. So why don't you pop your top off and come right in?
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TV Show: Scam City: Money, Mayhem and Maseratis ( 2021 )
Mobeen Azhar investigates the story of a 20-year-old medical student who went from handing out cash to strangers to being at the centre of an alleged multi-million-pound scam.
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TV Show: Can't Get You Out of My Head ( 2021 )
We are living through strange days.Across Britain, Europe and America societies have become split and polarised not just in politics but across the whole culture. There is anger at the inequality and the ever growing corruption - and a widespread distrust of the elites.And into this has come the pandemic that has brutally dramatised those divisions.But despite the chaos there is a paralysis - a sense that no one knows how to escape from this.This new series of films by Adam Curtis tell the story of how we got to this place. And why both those in power - and we - find it so difficult to move on.The films trace different forces across the world that have led to now, not just in the West, but in China and Russia as well.It covers a wide range - including the strange roots of modern conspiracy theories, the history of China, opium and opiods, the history of Artificial Intelligence, melancholy over the loss of empire and, love and power. And whether modern culture, despite its radicalism, is really part of the new system of power.And the films are told in a different way - they are an emotional history of what went on inside the heads of all kinds of people.Because in the age of the individual - what you felt and what you wanted and what you dreamed of were going to become the driving force across the world.What was forgotten in that age was that much of what we feel is also formed by the society around us. Above all by the power structures.And now those structures are decaying - everywhere - their weakness and uncertainty makes us feel empty and frightened of the future.That is what is paralysing us - and blocking us from imagining different kinds of societies and a better futureCan't Get You Out of My Head is an epic history that shows how and why that happened. How we made this particular world. And that it was not inevitable.
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TV Show: WPC 56 ( 2013 )
Drama following Gina Dawson, the first WPC to serve in her West Midlands hometown in 1956.
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TV Show: Clocking Off ( 2000 )
Paul Abbott's drama uncovers the lives of staff in a Manchester factory. How much do you know about the person working next to you?
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TV Show: Teachers ( 2001 )
Irreverent comedy drama following the chaotic lives; loves and drinking sessions of a group of hapless teachers. They might be qualified to teach, but they've got a lot to learn...
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TV Show: Fawlty Towers ( 1975 )
Fawlty Towers is set in a fictional hotel in the seaside town of Torquay. The plots centre on tense, rude and put-upon owner Basil Fawlty, his bossy wife Sybil, comparatively normal chambermaid Polly, who is often the peacemaker and voice of reason, and hapless Spanish waiter Manuel, showing their attempts to run the hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding and eccentric guests.
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TV Show: Monty Python's Flying Circus ( 1969 )
And now for something completely different: Monty Python's Flying Circus was simply the most influential comedy program television has ever seen. Five Englishmen, all working under the constraints of conventional TV shows such as The Frost Report (for which the five Englishmen wrote), gathered together with an expatriate American in the spring of 1969 to break the rules. The result, first airing on BBC-1 on October 5, 1969, has influenced countless future men and women in the media and comedy since.
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TV Show: Arena ( 1975 )
Arena is the BBC's multi award-winning arts strand. Founded in 1975, Arena continues to produce gold standard documentaries for the BBC and world service.
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TV Show: Flack ( 2019 )
Flack is set in the fast-paced and cut-throat world of celebrity PR. Equal parts hilarity and heart, it reflects the brutal reality and complexities of modern life where problems can go viral in an instant. It follows Robyn, an American PR executive living in London who must figure out how to make the best of bad situations and somehow manage to get out unscathed.
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TV Show: A Sense of Guilt ( 1990 )
A middle-aged writer returns to London after years abroad. Soon, his headlong pursuit of pleasure upsets the lives of all those around him.
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TV Show: Shoestring ( 1979 )
Shoestring was a BBC television show set in Bristol. It featured a private detective with his own show on Radio West, the local radio station. The programme ran between 30 September 1979 and 21 December 1980, in two series with 21 one-hour-long episodes. Star Trevor Eve decided not to return to the role after two series, as he wanted to diversify into theatre roles, so the same production team changed the format to be based in Jersey and created Bergerac, also about a detective returning to work after a bad period in his life.
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TV Show: Heat of the Sun ( 1998 )
Heat of the Sun is a police drama set in 1930's Kenya. When a former Scotland Yard detective (Trevor Eve) is sent to Nairobi to head a new criminal investigation unit, he encounters a deadly mix of blackmail and murder. As he works to fight crime, the detective must also contend with the colonialist bigotry of the country's expatriate population.
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TV Show: Jamaica Inn ( 1983 )
Mary Yellan has her life changed after shipwreckers murder her father. When her mother dies of a broken heart not long afterward, Mary is forced to go and live with her Aunt Patience at her inn on Bodmin Moor. It's there that she discovers her slightly crazy Uncle Joss is the ringleader of the wreckers and that Jamaica Inn is their headquarters. Mary is determined to bring Joss and his gang to justice and calls upon Joss's brother Jem to help do so. But the respected squire of the nearby Cornish village is, in reality, the leader of the gang of murderous pirates who attack passing ships, kill their crews and steal their cargo.
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TV Show: The Politician's Wife ( 1995 )
The scandal of senior Conservative Minister Duncan Matlock's affair with a former escort service girl jeopardizes his career.
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TV Show: King Gary ( 2020 )
King Gary follows Gary King and love-of-his life, Terri as they bowl through family-life in suburbia. Gary's quest to impress the neighbours and fill dad, Big Gary's big shoes, might be more successful if he wasn't such a drama-queen but there's always a lot of love around in Butterchurn Crescent.
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TV Show: Casualty 24/7 ( 2018 )
Documentary series filmed inside Barnsley casualty department.
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TV Show: Forensics: The Real CSI ( 2019 )
Multiple cameras follow serious crime investigations in real time, revealing the crucial role cutting-edge forensic science now plays in bringing criminals to justice.
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TV Show: Chivalry and Betrayal: The Hundred Years War ( 2013 )
Dr. Janina Ramirez explores the fall-out of the longest and bloodiest divorce in history, when little England dared to take on the superpower of France.
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TV Show: A Year in the Beacons ( 2021 )
Following the course of a year in the national park for the staff of the Glanusk Estate, the Brecon Mountain Rescue Team, and a family of farmers in the foothills of Pen y Fan.
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TV Show: Liverpool Narcos ( 2021 )
In the 1980s, Liverpool became the epicentre of a drugs boom that was to change Britain forever. With unprecedented access to some of the biggest players, this is the story of how drugs went mainstream and dealing became a multi-billion pound business.
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TV Show: Deceit ( 2021 )
Deceit tells the story of a female undercover officer, codename ‘Lizzie James', who is asked to become sexual bait for a suspected killer. The series will explore the high-pressure investigation into the murder of Rachel Nickell in 1992. 
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TV Show: Stephen ( 2021 )
A new drama about the murder of Stephen Lawrence will be set 13 years after the black teenager was killed and will depict his parents' fight for justice.Stephen, which has been commissioned by ITV, will be a three-part sequel to 1999's The Murder Of Stephen Lawrence and will portray events from 2006.It will tell the story of the ongoing struggle by his parents Doreen and Neville Lawrence to achieve justice and how a detective, DCI Clive Driscoll – working closely with the Lawrences – put together an investigation that finally secured the convictions of two of the gang who committed the murder, more than 18 years later.Their son was murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall Road, Eltham, south-east London, on April 22 1993.The original investigation had failed to convict those responsible, and the campaign for justice by the Lawrences led to a public inquiry which branded the Metropolitan Police institutionally racist and brought about sweeping changes in the law and police practices.However, six years on from the inquiry, no progress had been made in the case.
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TV Show: The Saint ( 1962 )
Simon Templar is... The Saint! A gentleman adventurer, Simon travels around the world living the life of a wealthy playboy. He's made his money by taking cash from the unsaintly--criminals--and giving much of it back to their victims while keeping a bit for himself. This modern-day Robin Hood takes on criminals, spies, and conmen of all varieties.
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TV Show: Reilly: Ace of Spies ( 1983 )
A dramatization of the fantastic real-life adventures of the Russian-born British agent Sidney Reilly, who worked for MI6 as Agent ST-1 from 1903 until the mid-1920s. Based on the books by Robin Bruce Lockhart, the son of Reilly's fellow agent Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart.
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TV Show: Room at the Bottom ( 1986 )
Starring James Bolam, Keith Barron and Richard Wilson, Room at the Bottom is John Antrobus's outrageous satire on the bullying, rivalry and corruption rife within the commercial television sector; co-scripted by Antrobus and Steptoe and Son/Hancock's Half Hour's Ray Galton, the series casts Bolam as a luckless light-entertainment producer and Barron as his tyrannical boss.Former drama producer Nesbitt Gunn's recent sacking has turned his life upside down. The offer of a new position in his company's Light Entertainment department fails to entice him, and he barricades himself in his office in protest. When calm reasoning fails to winkle him out – and entreaties from the Chaplain end in accusations of blasphemy – all concerned decide that it's time to wheel in the big guns...
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TV Show: Darklands ( 2019 )
Darklands tells the story of Damien Dunne, a 16-year-old who dreams of becoming a pro mixed martial arts fighter and escaping his troubled neighbourhood. But when his reckless older brother goes missing, Damien is pulled into a dangerous world – and into a fight he never expected.
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TV Show: Jack Dee's HelpDesk ( 2015 )
Jack Dee and a panel of four guest comedians turn agony uncle to help a live studio audience solve their problems and shed light on their dilemmas and issues relating to specific events.
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TV Show: The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family ( 2021 )
An epic three-part series that charts the rise and fall of the Boleyns. A story of love, sex and betrayal, told from the the family's unique perspective.
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TV Show: Yorkshire Firefighters ( 2021 )
Series following West Yorkshire's fire crews as they serve the county's two million inhabitants.
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TV Show: The Fixer ( 2008 )
John Mercer (Andy Buchan) is an assassin for the state - beholden to his sinister master but not the boundaries of the law.Released from prison unexpectedly early, Mercer is introduced to Lenny Douglas, a police officer retired on the grounds of "ill health". He quickly realises his newfound freedom comes at a price. Douglas runs an unofficial operation with a single brief: dealing with untouchable criminals and disorganising crime. Mercer's role is that of hitman.On hand to help Mercer fulfil each hit are Calum, whose main interests are girls, drugs and music, and the sharp tongued but seductive Rose, an ex-copper forced out of the police by scandal. The team are brought together to bring order where the law has failed. But can operating outside the usual parameters of the law – even under the pretext of protecting it - ever be justified?
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TV Show: Lovejoy ( 1986 )
Lovejoy has a keen eye for antiques. The part-time detective scours the murky salerooms, auction halls and stately homes of Britain, always on the lookout for a find.
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TV Show: Queens of Mystery ( 2019 )
Queens of Mystery follows Matilda Stone, a perennially single female detective, and her three aunts, who are well-known crime writers that help her solve whodunit style murders as well as set her up on blind dates. The Amelie-esque style contemporary murder mystery series will feature quirky characters, fast-paced dialogue and darkly comic murders.
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TV Show: Sick Note ( 2017 )
Sick Note is the story of Daniel Glass, a compulsive liar, who's stuck in a failing relationship and a dead-end job under the thumb of his irrepressible boss Kenny West. When he's diagnosed with cancer, everyone starts to treat him better, suddenly giving him a new lust for life. But then he finds out he was misdiagnosed by the most incompetent oncologist on Earth, Dr Ian Glennis. When he decides to keep the new information to himself, the lie spirals out of control and both Daniel and Dr Glennis must attempt to prevent the truth from getting out.
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TV Show: Ice ( 2011 )
It is 2020. Findings by environmental scientist Professor Thom Archer suggest that Halo, the corporate energy company drilling on the Greenland Glacier are causing it to melt. Archer's warnings are ignored, so he heads to the Arctic to find indisputable evidence. Upon arrival, he realizes humankind is under immediate threat, and races home to save his family. The glacier collapses, with devastating consequences. Astonishing weather patterns emerge and plunge the world's temperatures into steep decline.
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TV Show: The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells ( 2016 )
The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells is an anthology of four spooky tales.Ray Winstone is heading a cast of acclaimed actors including Harry Potter star Michael Gambon in four HG Wells stories adapted especially for Sky Arts.The anthology of twisted tales includes The Late Mr Elvesham, The Purple Pileus, The Moth and Devotee of Art, and will form the series The Nightmare World of HG Wells, which is set to air on Sky Arts in January 2016. The broadcast will coincide with the 150th anniversary of Wells' birth.The set-based dramas will feature a mix of well-known faces and rising stars of British theatre and screen including Michael Gambon (Fortitude), Antonia Thomas (Misfits), Luke Treadaway (Unbroken), Shaun Parkes (Notes on a Scandal), Rupert Graves (Sherlock) Brid Brennan (Brooklyn) and Tom Goodman-Hill (Mr Selfridge).They join Winstone, who stars as the enigmatic author.In each of the shorts, Winstone's Wells acts as narrator, guiding the viewer through his nightmare stories, commenting on his characters and overseeing their twisted fates.
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TV Show: Great Expectations ( 2011 )
Lavish adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens novel in which orphan Pip becomes a gentleman when his life is transformed by a mystery benefactor.
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TV Show: Henry VIII ( 2003 )
Wedded bliss didn't come easily to England's most infamous serial husband, Henry VIII. Desperate for a male heir, Henry married then tossed aside a succession of wives that included Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard and finally Catherine Parr. Sexual intrigue and twisted rivalry were the hallmarks of Henry's reign.
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TV Show: Secrets and Words ( 2012 )
Stand-alone dramas on the theme of adult literacy, which affects millions of adults across the UK.
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TV Show: Wallander ( 2008 )
This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in the apparently sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in Skane, southern Sweden. Based on the international best-selling books by Henning Mankell.
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TV Show: Shackleton ( 2002 )
The miniseries Shackleton is ambitious, handsome and chilly - chillier than it needs to be. The dramatization of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 expedition to Antarctica fits too snugly in the stuffy movie tradition of great-man biographies. Yet the four-hour production boasts two awesome assets. As the stubborn, heroic Shackleton, Kenneth Branagh gives a blazing performance that often cuts through the cold. And in a feat of moviemaking magic, the Antarctica scenes look credible and harrowing: The lavish production filmed in Greenland, Iceland and London studios, Shackleton is almost always fascinating to watch even when it falls short dramatically.
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TV Show: Fortunes of War ( 1987 )
British seven part mini series based on the book by Olivia Manning.As the second world war breaks out in 1939, Guy and Harriet Pringle are living in Bucharest, the capital of Romania. As the Germans advance, they have to escape, first to Greece and then on to Egypt - but the war keeps on following them.
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TV Show: Aristocrats ( 1999 )
Based on a true story, Aristocrats draws back the curtain on an 18th century English family near the summit of society, revealing a tapestry of romance, prejudice, infidelity, and revolution.
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TV Show: Ain't Misbehavin' ( 1997 )
Ain't Misbehavin' is a delightful wartime comedy about two very different bandsmen (Eric & Eddie) and their misadventures with gangsters, romance, and black marketeering in Blitz-time London.
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TV Show: Casualty 1909 ( 2009 )
Drama series using case notes, ward reports, autopsy records and diaries to create a portrait of the doctors, nurses and patients of The Royal London Hospital in 1909.
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TV Show: Jane Hall ( 2006 )
Struggling to find a job in her northern home town, Jane is convinced that she is ugly, boring, and completely useless. But after one blazing row with her parents too many, Jane decides to move to London, where she finds sex, adventure, friendship and fun driving a red London bus.
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TV Show: At Home with the Braithwaites ( 2000 )
At Home with the Braithwaites follows a suburban family from Leeds, whose life is turned upside down when the mother of the family wins 38 million pounds on the lottery. 
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TV Show: The Hollow Crown ( 2012 )
The Hollow Crown brings together four filmed adaptations of Shakespeare's History Plays - Richard II, Henry IV parts 1 and 2, and Henry V. Starting in the year 1399, this continuous story of monarchy follows events during sixteen years of dynastic and political power play. Kings, with their families and followers, are threatened by rebellion and conflict. The story takes us from the Royal Court at Westminster to battlefields in England and France. These rich films are woven with the finest of Shakespeare's poetry and are filmed in the architecture and landscape of the period.
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TV Show: Annika ( 2021 )
Annika follows the sharp, witty and enigmatic DI Annika Strandhed as she heads up a new specialist Marine Homicide Unit (MHU) that is tasked with investigating the unexplained, brutal, and seemingly unfathomable murders that wash up in the waterways of Scotland. Throughout the series, Annika makes the audience her confidante by breaking the fourth wall and sharing her wry observations on the case and her life, as she manages her brilliant yet unconventional team, and her equally brilliant yet complex teenage daughter.
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TV Show: The Last Train ( 1999 )
The Last Train was a gripping six part post-apocalyptic drama series. The plot concerns the survivors of a catastrophe (namely the Earth being hit by a giant meteorite) who were cryogenically frozen in a railway carriage, due to the actions of a scientist called Harriet Ambrose. The series follows their adventures in the devastated new world, where everything they had known is now dead and gone. Harriet leads the group and insists they must reach 'Ark' to find help. Other principal characters included mother of two - Jandra, impulsive Ian Hart, bad boy and former criminal Mick Sizer and sensible Roe Germaine.
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TV Show: The Railway Killers ( 2021 )
Documentary about a series of murders of women at railway stations in London in the early 1980s, told through dramatic reconstruction and testimony from police officers and victims' friends.
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TV Show: Exposed: The Church's Darkest Secret ( 2020 )
The story of the individuals who brought Bishop Peter Ball to justice and the cover-up that went to the highest levels of the Church of England.
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TV Show: Plebs ( 2013 )
Rome is traditionally imagined as the home of emperors and senators, generals and gladiators, a dignified theatre of pomp and ceremony. But what about the little guys, the wasters - new to the big city, stuck in office jobs, unable to get the girls? Plebs follows three desperate young men from the suburbs as they try to get laid, hold down jobs and climb the social ladder in the big city - a city that happens to be Ancient Rome.
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TV Show: Cuckoo ( 2012 )
Cuckoo is every parent's worst nightmare - a slacker full of outlandish, New Age ideas.
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TV Show: The Girl Before ( 2021 )
The Girl Before tells the story of Jane, who gets the chance to move into a beautiful, ultra-minimalist house designed by an enigmatic architect. There's just one catch: occupants have to abide by his list of exacting rules. Jane starts to feel the house changing her in unexpected ways, but when she makes the shocking discovery that her predecessor Emma died in the house, she's forced to confront unnerving similarities. As the two women's timelines interweave, Jane begins to question if her fate will be the same as the girl before…
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TV Show: Drop the Dead Donkey ( 1990 )
Classic satirical sitcom set in the studios of Globelink News TV. An unpopular and unprincipled Chief Executive struggles to control a doggedly dysfunctional news team. With precious little success...
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TV Show: Truckers ( 2013 )
Funny, moving and at times painful - Truckers tells stories of real life, ordinary people pushed to extremes. In each episode, one character undertakes a journey and we are along for the ride. In an age when technology would make us seem ever more connected, the series uses the truck driver, alone in his cab, as a way to explore how isolated we can become within modern society and the importance of real human connection. These are powerful, moving stories, but the tone is always joyous and each story is one of redemption.
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TV Show: Wild at Heart ( 2006 )
Wild at Heart catches up with British vet Danny Trevanion and his family as they strive to expand the veterinary practice and co-exist with their neighbours through a drought which grips the region. Danny's wife, Sarah, is busy juggling work and family life, and Lucy-Jo Hudson as daughter Rosie, is keen to prove herself an able vet assistant to her father while romancing bar owner Max.
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TV Show: Coast and Country Auctions ( 2018 )
Coast and Country Auctions is a series looking at the stories behind Britain's most exciting traditional markets and getting under the skin of auction houses that are at the heart of coastal and rural economies.
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TV Show: Sherwood ( 2022 )
Set in the Nottinghamshire mining village, Sherwood sees two shocking and unexpected murders shatter an already fractured community leading to one of the largest manhunts in British history.
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TV Show: Oktober ( 1998 )
Jim Harper, a schoolteacher finds himself drawn into an international conspiracy when a pharmaceutical company eyeball him to be the human guinea pig in a new, state-of-the-art medical trial.
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TV Show: Grafters ( 1998 )
Two brothers, Joe and Trevor Purvis (Robson Green and Stephen Tompkinson) work together to renovate a house for a London couple. The building part is easy, but working together is another story.
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TV Show: Stephen Tompkinson's African Balloon Adventure ( 2009 )
Stephen Tompkinson's African Balloon Adventure is a documentary series which sees Stephen traveling across Africa in a hot air balloon with Robin Batchelor.
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TV Show: Ted and Alice ( 2002 )
Ted is an alien come to earth to find love and where better to begin his search than the Lake District, an area rich in romantic heritage and full of tranquil lakes ideal to hide a spaceship in.Ted is an outcast on his own planet, where the inhabitants have evolved so far that they are hermaphrodites. He is one of the rare single sex aliens condemned to a life in search of contact.Alice works in the local tourist office with her friend Jo. She is the long suffering girlfriend of Barry, the village Bobby, who alternates between dumping his washing on Alices doorstep with disappearing on illicit jaunts with his friends.Alice dreams of a real romance akin to Darcy and Elisabeth and it seems her life is set to change when Ted appears on her doorstep.Worlds collide when Ted and Alice meet, however all is not as it seems in the picturesque lakeside village where sinister activities threaten to tear them apart.
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TV Show: The Gentle Touch ( 1980 )
The trials and tribulations of Maggie Forbes, a widowed single mother and a Detective Inspector with the London police force.
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TV Show: Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible ( 2001 )
Six horror themed spoofs introduced by Steve Coogan as the evil Dr. Terrible. The stories look at vampires, Fu Manchu, mad scientists, a voodoo curse and witchcraft.
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TV Show: Still Open All Hours ( 2013 )
Still Open All Hours is a BBC television sitcom, a sequel to the 1973 series Open All Hours. The show was based around Granville, now running the corner shop with his son Leroy after inheriting the shop from his Uncle Arkwright.
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TV Show: The Goodies ( 1970 )
This British version of The Monkees features three madcap comedians--Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Gordon, and Bill Oddie--who would do "Anything, Anytime, Anywhere" to make money.
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TV Show: Clique ( 2017 )
Psychological thriller exploring the power of friendship between intensely smart, complicated and ambitious young people at University.
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TV Show: The Cleaner ( 2021 )
Paul ‘Wicky' Wickstead, is a state-certified cleaning technician with a very special field of work: as a crime scene cleaner he is responsible for the removal of any signs of death.Wicky works for Shropshire-based cleaning contractors Lausen and is usually found, together with his baby-blue pickup truck, at crime scenes after the police have concluded their detective work.Armed with chemicals, scrubbing brushes and cleaning rags, Wicky removes the gruesome mess at the scene of the crime. When carrying out his duties, he stumbles across the strangest of people: from the victim's relatives, employers, neighbours and acquaintances, to occasionally even the murderers themselves. And because he's a sociable type, he sometimes gossips more than he cleans
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TV Show: Taskmaster ( 2015 )
Greg Davies is the Taskmaster who, with the help of his right-hand man, Alex, sets out to test the wiles, wit and wisdom of five hyper competitive comedians through a series of ingenious challenges. With the chance to be crowned show champion, rivalry amongst the comedians is encouraged, dodgy tactics rewarded and bribes accepted.
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TV Show: Man Down ( 2013 )
Comedy series written by and starring Greg Davies as Dan, a childish idiot whose world is on the brink of collapse.
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TV Show: We Are Klang ( 2009 )
We Are Klang is a comedy series set in the fictional town of Klangbury at the council offices. The series stars Greg, aspirational but hopeless council leader, Steve, as the half-cut Head of Health and Safety, and Marek; "Minister Without Portfolio".
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TV Show: Ask Rhod Gilbert ( 2010 )
Comedy panel show in which comedian Rhod Gilbert and guests field questions from the general public as well as a host of well-known faces.
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TV Show: The Wall ( 2008 )
The Wall was a British comedy television programme produced by Zeppotron for BBC Three which premiered on the channel on 8 April 2008. The programme featured a regular cast of Lucy Montgomery, We Are Klang, Simon Brodkin and Jamie Glassman who performed comedy sketches, interviews and music and were joined each week by celebrity guests. At the heart of the programme was a large video wall on which viewers could rate sketches and make suggestions. The show was named the "Worst British TV Panel Show/Satire of 2008" in The Comedy.co.uk Awards.