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In the near future, civilization has broken down to the barest fragment of recognizable life.

Matt Owen delves into the world of acclaimed writer and director Neill Blomkamp's independent film company, which focuses on creating short sci-fi films that tackle a range of subjects, all presented in Blomkamp's distinctive, gritty storytelling style

After the 1485 Battle of Bosworth Field, a brave and kindly King Richard III returns victorious, only to be accidentally killed by Edmund Plantagenet. The first series of the classic historical comedy about the venomous but luckless Blackadder was almost its last.

Lord Edmund Blackadder, great grandson to the original, is a Tudor courtier attempting to win the favour of Queen Elizabeth l while avoiding execution by decapitation.

In the Regency era, Mr E. Blackadder serves as butler to the foppish numskull Prince George.

Stuck in the middle of World War I, Captain Edmund Blackadder does his best to escape the banality of the war.

A parody of Charles Dickens, a time machine based on Leonardo da Vinci's original plans, and some random dips into history. Daniel Tessier rather cunningly rounds up the whole Blackadder saga.

All the clocks have stopped. Rob and Helen's parents have vanished. Two mysterious strangers arrive unannounced and tell the children they are their only hope of escaping from the ghosts that have invaded their isolated country house. And then there's that nursery rhyme...

When the ghost of a World War One soldier begins to haunt an old railway station, Sapphire and Steel suspect the location is a recruitment ground for the dead. But what do the forces of darkness want with these lost souls?

The time agents receive a puzzling assignment at an apartment block where time is poised to attack. The occupants look like two normal 1980s residents...but they are not all they seem.