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Sheila Sabatini is a brilliant surgeon, but her sharp tongue gets her into trouble with fellow consultant surgeons, mainly because she likes to unearth their lazy and hypocritical behaviour at every opportunity

Elizabeth Gaskell’s charming tale of a fictional Cheshire town and its eccentric characters has been adapted for TV three times by the BBC. In this review, we take a look at all three productions

A middle-class couple go camping in Dorset, but peace and quiet elude them in Mike Leigh's masterpiece on the comedic potential inherent in human behaviour

Dennis Potter's extraordinary and groundbreaking drama concerns a group of seven-year-olds playing in the Forest of Dean one summer afternoon in 1943 - the most striking feature of the play is that all the children are played by adult actors

A gothic fantasy based on the first two novels by Mervyn Peake that follows the life of Titus Groan, the heir of an ancient and decaying castle who faces threats and challenges, not least of all from an ambitious murderer

A nine-part series telling the story of Ancient Rome, based on three plays by Shakespeare

When a maverick academic attends a conference in Moscow about the newly opened Soviet Archives he uncovers a secret which could change the face of Russian history forever. A riveting British TV series that will keep you on the edge of your seat

American legal drama based on the books of Michael Connelly in which a defence attorney in Los Angeles works out of a chauffeur-driven Lincoln Navigator

Danish crime drama revolving around an elite mobile task force which is dispatched across Denmark to solve challenging cases

Children’s television series hosted by the incomparable Ray Alan, a master ventriloquist who breathed so much life into his dummies that you’d swear blind they were living creatures

Part of the Star Wars franchise and a spin-off from the series The Mandalorian. After the fall of the Galactic Empire, former Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy...

Multi-award-winning British crime drama starring Sarah Lancashire as a resilient and determined police sergeant who tries to uphold the law whilst facing down her own demons

Classic hit US sitcom about a couple who give up their sophisticated New York lifestyle to run a dilapidated rural farm

Adapted from the manga of the same name, 'One Piece' is a fantasy adventure live-action series which has won praise for its performances, writing and visual effects

American political drama television film starring Robert Duvall as the Soviet leader, telling the story of Joseph Stalin's rise to power until his death

Live-action puppet television series, based on Mary Tourtel's much-loved character Rupert Bear, produced by ATV and featuring one of the most enduring theme tunes of all time

Classic British children’s comedy featuring a group of ghosts who work for a company that hire them out for various tasks, such as haunting, entertaining, or helping people

In a poverty-stricken Welsh mining town in the 1920s, a nurse has to fight for respect and recognition

Kamala, a superhero fan with a vivid imagination, feels like she doesn't fit in at school and sometimes even at home, that is, until she gets superpowers like the heroes she admires

3 Primetime Emmy Award-winning biopic of Peter I, Czar of Russia, from childhood in 1682 to the Great Northern War against Sweden during the 1700s

Award-winning teenage drama set in the children's ward of a bustling metropolitan hospital. The show expertly portrays the ups and downs of life in an environment filled with illness and uncertainty

Australian preschool series that has won fans around the world with short but packed stories that emphasise learning through play, understanding responsibility and accepting differences

A senior police officer puts together a team of retired officers; eccentric misfits who have been re-employed to solve a series of previously unsolved cases

Sketch-based award-winning British comedy show starring former teachers Gareth Hale and Norman Pace - their most iconic creations being the stone-faced dim-witted bouncers known as The Two Rons

British dramedy loosely based on three autobiographical books about a family's four years on the Greek island of Corfu following the death of their beloved husband and father

Basil Brush, the mischievous puppet raconteur, best known for his catchphrase “Boom Boom!!!”, was a British television success whose fame reached the other side of the world where he was equally loved in Australia and New Zealand

An all-star cast lead in the classic story of two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the uprising of 1745, when Bonnie Prince Charlie lands in Scotland and the last Jacobite rebellion breaks out

American comedy-drama concerning a usually law-abiding woman who is convicted of transporting drug money to an ex-girlfriend. Sentenced to a year and a half behind bars she has to face the reality of how life-changing prison can really be

In order to save his falsely accused brother from a death sentence, a brilliant structural engineer commits an armed robbery which results in him being sentenced to the same prison. His aim - to break his brother out...