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That Was The Week That Was

That Was The Week That Was (USA) (1964)

That Was The Week That Was

Famed for its mocking irreverence and savage lampooning of 'The Establishment' it wasn't long before the British satire show TW3 made its way across the Atlantic. But in election year, one of the presidential frontrunners did everything he could to scupper the series...

Barbarians TV series 2020

Barbarians (2020)

Barbarians TV series 2020

Fictional account of events during the Roman Empire's occupation of Germania and one of the most decisive battles of world history

The Outlaws 2021 tv series

The Outlaws (2021)

The Outlaws 2021 tv series

Seven strangers from different walks of life are forced together to complete a community payback sentence in Bristol

Sweet Tooth

Sweet Tooth (2021)

Sweet Tooth

Ten years ago 'The Great Crumble' wreaked havoc on the world and led to the mysterious emergence of hybrid babies born part human, part animal. Unsure if hybrids are the cause or result of the virus, many humans fear and hunt them

The Third Man TV series 1959

The Third Man (1959)

The Third Man TV series 1959

Resurrected from the 1949 movie, Harry Lime is now an international businessman with organizations in most of the world's capitals. But shady deals, and equally shady characters are never far away...

Last Tango in Halifax

Last Tango in Halifax (2012)

Last Tango in Halifax

Alan and Celia, both widowed and in their seventies, rekindle a passionate relationship that fate stole from them over sixty years ago

Medici the Magnificent

Medici the Magnificent (2019)

Medici the Magnificent

20 years after the events depicted in 'Medici: Masters of Florence,' Lorenzo - Piero's son, takes over as head of the family in order to avoid the fall of Florence

Detective TV series 1964 & 1968

Detective (1964)

Detective TV series 1964 & 1968

BBC anthology series in which each week a different famous literary detective is brought to the screen. The series spawned several long-running series including 'Cluff,' 'Father Brown,' and 'Sherlock Holmes'

Vikingane/Norsemen

Vikingane / Norsemen (2016)

Vikingane/Norsemen

Norwegian comedy series about the daily challenges of a group of Vikings living in the village of Norheim around the year 790. The power struggles, sibling rivalry, gender equality, betrayal and friendship...

Paul Temple (1979)

A successful writer of detective novels, living a wealthy life, is also a part-time private eye in this television version of a successful radio series

Afterlife

After Life (2019)

Afterlife

Struggling to come to terms with his wife's death, a writer for a newspaper casts aside his nice-guy image and adopts a gruff new persona in an effort to push away those trying to help

My Octopus Teacher

My Octopus Teacher (2020)

My Octopus Teacher

A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000)

Curb Your Enthusiasm

HBO's hit comedy series about a Hollywood writer who seems to have the idyllic life in California but who is never far away from misfortune, misunderstanding and confrontation

The Queen's Gambit

The Queen's Gambit (2020)

The Queen's Gambit

American coming-of-age period drama which follows the life of an orphan chess prodigy during her quest to become an elite chess player, while struggling with emotional problems, drugs and alcohol dependency

Breaking Dad

Breaking Dad (2019)

Breaking Dad

Coming of age road trip to the USA. With viewing figures of 5 million an episode, the series became Britain's highest rating celebrity travelogue in nearly 10 years

Warrior Nun

Warrior Nun (2020)

Warrior Nun

When an orphaned teen wakes up in a morgue she discovers that a divine artefact has been embedded in her back. The powers it gives her means that she is now the Halo-Bearer for a secret sect of demon-hunting nuns

Holding the Fort

Holding the Fort (1980)

Holding the Fort

Sitcom starring Peter Davison and Patricia Hodge in which to maintain a reasonable standard of living a wife works in the Army while her husband brings up baby.

The Trap Door animated series 1984

The Trap Door (1984)

The Trap Door animated series 1984

Enter a world inhabited solely by monsters of every imaginable shape and size. Below the trap door there is always something in the dark, waiting to come out...Don't open that trapdoor. You're a fool if you dare!

Mayans M.C.

Mayans M.C. (2018)

Mayans M.C.

The next chapter in the 'Sons of Anarchy' saga: Blood runs thicker than water in the cartel-run borderlands between Mexico and the US

What We Do in the Shadows

What We Do in the Shadows (2019)

What We Do in the Shadows

Hilarious mockumentary comedy horror series which follows three vampires, who've lived together for over 100 years, on Staten Island, New York

Squid Game

Squid Game (2021)

Squid Game

Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games. It's a game to the death!

Odd Man Out tv series 1977

Odd Man Out (1977)

Odd Man Out tv series 1977

British sitcom starring John Inman as a chip-shop owner who sells up his thriving business to take on an ailing seaside rock factory with his half-sister

Beasts 1976

Beasts (1976)

Beasts 1976

Laden with suspense, drama and a thick vein of black humour Beasts presented stories of civilised man in conflict with the primal, animal side of existence.

No Job for a Lady tv series

No Job for a Lady (1990)

No Job for a Lady tv series

Jean Price is the idealistic, newly-elected Labour Party Member of Parliament - trapped in a man's world, a place where bureaucracy and blather cheerfully co-exist...

Snowfall tv series

Snowfall (2017)

Snowfall tv series

In Los Angeles at the beginning of the 1980s a new drug, which will change the game for ever, is about to hit the streets. A storm is coming and it's name is crack...

Tony Hancock

Hancock (1963)

Tony Hancock

When Tony Hancock left the BBC for ITV his was one of the most watched shows on British television. By the end of this ITV series his career was in shreds...

Daughters of Albion

Daughters of Albion (1979)

Daughters of Albion

"Look...I've got you for one night. I want you..." When the girls from town meet the young men from university at an all-night party, anything can happen.