Reviews

Oz

HBO's first one-hour drama series was set in an experimental prison where the intention was to rehabilitate the inmates during their period of incarceration - however, the different factions end up constantly at war with one another

Ozark

When Marty Byrde's business partner is caught skimming money off a drug cartel's profits, it's Marty and his family who have to pay off the debt. Everyone else has been murdered...

P G Wodehouse's The World of Wooster

Tales of British dilettante Bertie Wooster, a man of infinitely wealthy means, and his 'gentleman's gentleman', Jeeves.

Pachinko

Based on the New York Times bestseller, this sweeping saga chronicles the hopes and dreams of a Korean family across four generations as they leave their homeland in an indomitable quest to survive and thrive

Paddington

Paddington Bear leaves deepest darkest Peru for adventures in England with the Brown family.

The Pallisers

Lavish BBC costume drama based on Anthony Trollope's novels.

Palm Royale

Ten-part comedy-drama set in 1969. Outsider Maxine Dellacorte-Simmons strives to attain a place in the high society of Palm Beach through the town's most exclusive country club, in the process learning what she will and won't do to achieve this

Panorama

In its early days Panorama tended to be a mixture of the arts, human-interest and scientific or medical studies. A BBC chief felt that the show should leave current affairs to other programmes.

The Paper Lads

Set in Newcastle Upon Tyne, The Paper Lads centres around the lives of young boys on a paper round who often make the news as well as deliver it

Para Handy - Master Mariner

Comedy centred round the crew of a small cargo boat based in Scotland.

The Paradise Club

Two contrasting brothers, one a gangland boss and the other an ex-priest, are thrown together for the first time in eight years upon the death of their notorious gangster mother.

Pardon My Genie

When a young shop assistant casually tries to polish an old watering can he releases a genie who is as rusty as the can he lives in; he’s four thousand years old, and his magic doesn’t always work as well as it should.

Pardon The Expression

British sitcom which was a spin-off from Coronation Street.

199 Park Lane

A glamorous 1960s BBC soap set in an elite London apartment block, 199 Park Lane explored wealth, class and social ambition through scandal and intrigue — but despite style and strong ratings, it proved short-lived

Parkin's Patch

Yorkshire Television's police series was an understated, honest portrayal of a rural constable at a time when police procedurals were often less about chase scenes, and more about community. This 26-episode gem deserves a second look

Parkinson

The most loved interviewer in Britain, Michael Parkinson interviewed the last of Hollywood's golden greats from James Cagney to James Stewart. He introduced us to Billy Connolly and laughed along with the best of British. He crossed swords with Muhammad Ali and was attacked by "that bloody Bird."

Parks and Recreation

Amy Poehler gives an award-winning performance as mid-level bureaucrat Leslie Knope in this US mockumentary about public officials striving to make their Indiana town a better place.

The Partridge Family

Family of musicians take to the road following a hit record.

Party of Five

Multi-award nominated and winning American drama series about the Salinger family - five youngsters who are trying to deal with the tragic loss of both parents in a car accident

The Passenger

David Walker makes a fateful decision on a lonely road: he stops to offer a lift to a young hitch-hiker. What begins as a moment of kindness spirals into catastrophe when she vanishes, only to be found murdered, with evidence cruelly designed to implicate Walker

The Passing Show

Music and music-hall acts from the Edwardian era in a drama setting

Pathfinders in Space | Pathfinders to Mars | Pathfinders to Venus

A rocket takes off for space but soon becomes involved in intrigue and terror.

Patience

When a man dies after apparently setting himself on fire in a suspected suicide, an autistic archivist identifies an interesting link to other cases, bringing her unique talent to the attention of the murder team

Paul Temple

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

Peace with Terror

Frederick James Parsons is fanatical, dedicated, sincere; with his willing but slow-witted accomplice, Harry Warblow, he has planned a crime so sensational that it will surely call world-wide attention to his aims.

Peaky Blinders

Stylish, epic gangster saga centring on a gang led by fierce boss Tommy Shelby. Beginning on the lawless streets of 1920s Birmingham, Tommy sets about creating an empire for himself and his family, and stop anyone who gets in their way

Pebble Mill at One

Broadcast from the heart of the Midlands, Pebble Mill at One was the comforting hum of British life. It carved out space for informal, magazine-style broadcasting that influenced everything from This Morning to The One Show

Pennies from Heaven

Dennis Potter's remarkably innovative series about a sheet music salesman whose imagination often bursts into full song, building musical numbers around the greatest frustrations in his life.

Penny Dreadful

Dark, mysterious and suspenseful, featuring the most terrifying characters from classic horror literature, Penny Dreadful goes to the darkest corners of Victorian London with blood-curdling results.

The Perfect Couple

Nicole Kidman is a guest at a wedding weekend in Nantucket that gets disrupted when one of the guests turns up dead. Everyone is a suspect!