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US sitcom Show about a who mother struggles with everyday family problems - starring Valerie Harper and a young Jason Bateman

It's the summer of 1922 and the small village of Clochmerle - nestled in the Beaujolais region of France, is a happy little enclave that has avoided modernity and impropriety in a timeless atmosphere of calm and culture - until now...

Can ten days in a boutique health-and-wellness resort, that promises healing and transformation, really change you forever? Nine stressed city dwellers are about to find out...

A self-absorbed middle-class couple are preparing to take early retirement in the south of France. But when their estranged son and his wife are killed, they are forced to return to Britain to become guardians to their three troublesome grandchildren

Multi-award-winning police action/adventure series that broke new ground by having its central buddy characters, rather than being the standard team of uninspired Starsky and Hutch clones, female officers doing a tough and dangerous job as well - if not better - than any of their male counterparts.

Much maligned children's magazine series which, despite its critics, ran for 22 years

It is the height of the Cold War and the position of France as a major colonial power is in crisis. Faced with the independence of Algeria, French society is also changing, with a rising counterculture exemplified by new music, new fashions, growing feminism and New Wave cinema

Gabe Kotter returns to his old high school as a teacher and is put in charge of a class full of unruly, wisecracking, underachieving and incorrigible students called the Sweathogs. This US sitcom launched the successful acting career of John Travolta

With a light-hearted tone compared to most political shows, the BBC's award winning current affairs programme which ran from 2003 to 2019 was often described as "punchy, irreverent, and satirical"

An unattractive girl becomes the personal assistant to the owner of a high fashion magazine...

US anthology series by the production company owned by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, that gave rise to 'The Twilight Zone' and 'The Untouchables'

An FBI taskforce is assigned to find people who have gone missing without trace

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...

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

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

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

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...

"A proper grown up comedy for and about mostly grown up people"

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

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

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'

At a top Paris talent firm, agents scramble to keep their star clients happy and their business afloat...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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