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John Steed is back! With his new team of Purdey and Gambit, they find themselves facing new and deadly dangers in the bizarre world of espionage.

Ground-breaking and uncompromising police series in which the action features the exploits of Britain's crime-busting elite

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

Long running current events programme shown from a child's point of view.

One of the reasons Doctor Who has survived for so long on our screens is its unique ability to replace the lead actor. With each new regeneration comes a new body, a new personality, a new Doctor. In this article Daniel Tessier reviews each debut story from Hartnell to McCoy.

Quintessentially the epitome of 60s cool, charm and fashion, The Avengers owes as much to British culture as British culture does to it

In the second of two articles Daniel Tessier reviews every debut story for each new Doctor - from Eccleston to Whittaker. Fantastic!

Detective leaves the USA for London hoping to retire, but crime seems to follow him everywhere. Even across the Atlantic.

With the Roman Catholic Church in chaos and Jude Law's Young Pope in a coma, the Cardinals decide to replace him with a British pope, played by John Malkovich

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

The most selfish, greedy, dishonest, devious, lecherous, sadistic, self-serving ultra-right-wing Conservative of them all, plots to achieve his megalomaniacal ambitions.

Dior, Chanel, Balenciaga, Balmain, these people were contemporaries who rebuilt a tattered fashion industry in post-war Europe. This is their story...

In the 23rd century and in the decade before the original Star Trek series, Captain Christopher Pike, a young Spock, and the crew of the USS Enterprise explore new worlds and carry out missions throughout the galaxy on behalf of The Federation

Casting a fresh look on a timeless legend, this exciting, action-packed series focused on the interpersonal dynamics and relationships that define Lois, Clark and Superman. 'The first love triangle with only two people.'

Few television series have transcended their original concept and evolved to actually help shape and define the era in which they flourished. But then of course, there’s precious few series quite like The Avengers.

Had any of the existing companies felt complacent about their future they should have taken heed of Lord Hill's earlier warning that 'all bets were off' on the next franchise round.

When Sydney Newman came to England from his native Canada in 1958, no one could have predicted that he would become one of the most influential programme makers of the 1960's

Hit US domestic sitcom about psychologist Bob Hartley whose interactions with his wife, friends, patients, and colleagues lead to humorous situations.

Sketch show that single-handedly revived political satire on British television in the 1980s. Had it not been for one M. Thatcher, it might never have come to fruition.

Landmark TV series in which real-life cases were dramatized

John Winterson Richards reviews the BBC's eternal, totally-irreverent, often controversial satirical quiz show that leaves no party, personality or action unscathed in the pursuit of laughs.

The incomparable Messrs Corbett and Barker in two all-but-forgotten silent slapstick movies from the seventies and eighties - The Picnic and By the Sea

At the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin this dark odyssey begins in a world where every human appetite can be indulged

Edwardian murder-mystery series in which the first real forensic scientist of detective fiction is put to the test

Harvard-educated lawyer Anthony Petrocelli turns his back on the courtrooms of Manhattan for a quieter legal career in a small Arizona town, but seems to have no trouble running into his share of murderers to defend

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

An author of suspense thrillers gets caught up in real life mysteries.

Fictional romance set in the competitive world of Regency era London's 'ton' during the social season, where the marriageable youth of nobility and gentry are launched into society - season 3 update

Romantic British sitcom starring real life husband and wife John Alderton and Pauline Collins, as C.D. and Clara, reflecting on how they met and fell in love

Tom Morris is an employee of the council whose job it is to maintain the standards of his local park. Unfortunately, his task is not helped by the incompetent people around him, which include two overzealous park officers - Bodie and Doyle

The lives and loves of the depressed north-east following the end of the First World War is expertly realised in James Mitchell's compelling series