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The Sarah Jane Adventures

The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007)

The Sarah Jane Adventures

Doctor Who spin-off starring Elisabeth Sladen as the Timelord's former travelling companion, Sarah Jane Smith, an investigative journalist who with the help of her adopted son, his friends, and an intelligent supercomputer, combats evil alien forces

The Outlaws

The Outlaws - Season 2 (2022)

The Outlaws

The gang is confronted with the consequences of keeping the stolen drugs money and make a promise to pay it back - or else, one of them will pay with their life...

Rainbow City

Rainbow City (1967)

Rainbow City

Ground-breaking BBC series which was the first British TV drama to feature a black actor in the lead role

Borgen

Borgen (2011)

Borgen

Danish political drama about a prime minister's rise to power

Marking Time

Marking Time (1961)

Marking Time

A 'lost' ITV play starring Coronation Street's William Roache as a soldier stationed in Germany who gets a local girl pregnant

Empire Road

Empire Road (1978)

Empire Road

Depicting the lives of the African-Caribbean, East Indian and South Asian residents of a racially diverse street in the city of Birmingham, Empire Road was the first British television series to be written, acted and directed predominantly by artists of colour

Hunter's Walk

Hunter's Walk (1973)

Hunter's Walk

Untypical 1970s police drama set in a small provincial town. More 'Dixon of Dock Green' than 'The Sweeney'

Succession

Succession (2018)

Succession

The Roy family control the biggest media and entertainment company in the world, but the family begins to disintegrate when their patriarch refuses to name a successor

Hinge and Bracket - Dear Ladies

Dear Ladies (1983)

Hinge and Bracket - Dear Ladies

Quirky sitcom centred around two cultured ladies, Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket who reside together in the genteel and picturesque village of Stackton Tressel

Stressed Eric

Stressed Eric (1998)

Stressed Eric

British made adult animated series which revolves around a middle class 40-year-old divorcee who is permanently stressed due to family and work - in fact all aspects of life cause him stress

It's Marty tv show

It's Marty (1968)

It's Marty tv show

Marty Feldman's series of madcap sketches only burned brightly for two series but won him the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for the Best Light Entertainment Series, and a BAFTA for Best Script

Mare of Easttown

Mare of Easttown (2021)

Mare of Easttown

Award winning American Crime drama starring Kate Winslet as Mare, a detective sergeant in the small community of Easttown, Pennsylvania. Mare has been unable to solve the case of a missing young girl for a year. Then another girl is found murdered...

Stranger Things

Stranger Things (2018)

Stranger Things

Exciting, heartbreaking, and sometimes scary, Netflix's 'Stranger Things' pays homage to vintage 1980s film and television - Think 'ET', 'The Goonies', 'Back to the Future' and 'Gremlins' and you're on the right track. But best of all - is the music

The Short Stories of Conan Doyle

The Short Stories of Conan Doyle (1967)

The Short Stories of Conan Doyle

13-part anthology series featuring Conan Doyle's non-Sherlock Holmes stories encompassing many genres, including comedy, romance, crime, medicine, and the supernatural.

Ten Percent

Ten Percent (2022)

Ten Percent

In a London talent agency, a scramble is on to keep star clients happy and the business afloat after the sudden death of its founder. But does this British version of the acclaimed French series 'Dix Pour Cent' have what it takes to keep its viewers happy?

Campion

Campion (1989)

Campion

Margery Allingham's 1930s private detective, Albert Campion, has had several versions on BBC television. Here's a rundown on each of them...

The Middle US sitcom

The Middle (2009)

The Middle US sitcom

US sitcom set round the daily mishaps of a married woman and her semi-dysfunctional family and their attempts to survive life in general in the town of Orson, Indiana

Educating Marmalade

Educating Marmalade (1982)

Educating Marmalade

1980s children's sitcom written by Andrew Davies which revolves round Marmalade Atkins - 'The Worst Girl in the World'

Harry O TV series

Harry O (1973)

Harry O TV series

David Janssen as an embittered and revenge-seeking ex-cop who has been pensioned out of the service following an injury, turns private investigator, in the popular actor's final long-running TV series

Carnival Row

Carnival Row (2019)

Carnival Row

Dark, adult-orientated fantasy series in which a human detective and an immigrant fairy rekindle a dangerous affair, in a dangerous Victorian England fantasy world of murder and monsters

Killing Eve

Killing Eve (2018)

Killing Eve

British spy thriller in which a spy hunts down an assassin. But while the hunter becomes obsessed with the hunted, the hunted becomes obsessed with the hunter