From acclaimed writer Andrew Davies comes this enchanting new adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel about love and marriage. Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor sensitive to social convention struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment even from those closest to her. Will the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love?
All ten episodes of the acclaimed historical hospital drama. Featuring true cases characters and events taken from the London Hospital records nurse's ward diaries and intimate memoirs these gritty medical series show the lives - and forbidden romances - of pioneering doctors and nurses a hundred years ago. Run with a will of iron by formidable Matron Eva Luckes the hospital in London's poverty-stricken East End deals with anything from infectious diseases like syphilis pneumonia and tuberculosis to shocking injuries of the times such as self-abortion injuries victims of anarchist bombings and an East End gang member wounded in a shooting. For the volunteer nurses and doctors - including Nurse Russell Dr Culpin Nurse Bennett Dr Walton and the surgeons Hurry Fenwick and cocaine-addicted Dr Dean - work is tough and relentless. Relationships between staff might be strictly forbidden but romance continues to blossom away from the Matron's gaze. In a time of great change the hospital constantly faces up to the future. Pioneering radiographers work with the perilous x-ray equipment chloroform is scandalously introduced as an anaesthetic and the use of revolutionary new electro-mechanical devices are instigated. Equally gritty and heart-warming these series bring the Edwardian hospital compellingly to life - illuminating the dramas and romances of a fascinating medical era.
The Great is a satirical, comedic drama - based on the occasional historical fact - about the rise of Catherine the Great from outsider to the longest reigning female ruler in Russia's history. An idealistic romantic young girl, she arrives from Prussia for an arranged marriage to the mercurial Emperor Peter hoping for love and sunshine, and finds instead a dangerous, depraved, backward world that she resolves to change. All she has to do is kill her husband, beat the church, baffle the military and get the court onside. The series stars Elle Fanning as Catherine, Nicholas Hoult, Phoebe Fox, Adam Godley, Gwilym Lee, Charity Wakefield, Douglas Hodge, Belinda Bromilow and Sacha Dhawan. Features: Bold and the Brash: Inside The Great Palatial Panache: The Style of The Great Gag Reel
In The Return of Doctor Mysterio, the Doctor joins forces with a masked Superhero for an epic New York adventure. With brain-swapping aliens poised to attack, the Doctor and Nardole link up with an investigative reporter and a mysterious figure known only as The Ghost. Can the Doctor save Manhattan? And what will be revealed when we see behind the mask? BONUS FEATURES: THE DOCTOR: A NEW KIND OF HERO DOCTOR WHO EXTRA: THE RETURN OF DOCTOR MYSTERIO
In The Return of Doctor Mysterio, the Doctor joins forces with a masked Superhero for an epic New York adventure. With brain-swapping aliens poised to attack, the Doctor and Nardole link up with an investigative reporter and a mysterious figure known only as The Ghost. Can the Doctor save Manhattan? And what will be revealed when we see behind the mask? BONUS FEATURES: THE DOCTOR: A NEW KIND OF HERO DOCTOR WHO EXTRA: THE RETURN OF DOCTOR MYSTERIO
Rapunzel: Failing Eastern European tennis star Jimmy Stojkovic is forced by his father to play as a woman to pay off the family's debts to a criminal gang. At the British Open Championship ""Martina"" becomes bosom buddies with the reigning champion the beautiful Rapunzel whose mother keeps her locked away from the attentions of men. Cinderella: Professor H Michael Prince an arrogant anthropologist has discovered an ancient phallic symbol which he believes proves that men are the driving force behind human evolution. University cleaner Cindy Mellor is determined to overturn Prince's theory and capture an important academic post. The Empress's New Clothes: Michaela is a soap star hell bent on stealing the fashion limelight and making red carpet roadkill out of her co-star and main rival. Her naive young friend Shannon thinks she has found the team to deliver just the right outfit. Billy Goat: Boy band 'Billy Goat' are the hottest thing in a small town. Only one thing stands between them fame and fortune: their manager. Grettongrat is a troll with macabre methods and he has the band locked in a watertight contract. To make the big time they must escape his clutches.
A pilot battles to save his family and the planet after an experiment for unlimited energy goes wrong.
John Roberts directs this romantic comedy following a pair of sisters who head to Cuba to scatter the ashes of their deceased father. Rosa (Eva Birthistle), a committed socialist, is determined to rescue the memory of her father from the fate her stepmother has planned: using his ashes to make a golf trophy. In tribute to her father's glamorous past as a revolutionary who once visited Cuba, she steals the ashes and heads to the Caribbean island in the company of her more materialistic sister ...
A young man is stalked by a serial killer who supposedly died decades ago.
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