Set in and among the alleys galleries and flesh-houses of 19th-century industrial London Desperate Romantics follows the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood a vagabond group of English painters poets and critics. A relationship drama from the perspective of this iconoclastic group of dysfunctional male romantics the series follows their lives and relationships as they shamelessly scheme and strive to find fame fortune and success as well as love and sex along the way.
WPC 56 transports us back to the atmospheric world of the 1950's where from the war-torn past, a future full of energy and opportunity beckons. Nowhere is this more apparent than at Brinford police station where the new WPC Gina Dawson (Jennie Jaques) and her successor, Annie Taylor (Claudia Jessie), face the trials of being the first female officers to serve in their Midlands home town. Set against a heady background of Rock n'Roll juke joints and beauty pageants and an underworld of shady boxing clubs, brothels and nightclubs, WPC 56 follows the 2 young officers as they rise to take on serious crime and confront the prejudices of the age at every turn.
TRUTH: A group of university friends celebrate the end of term with the party to end all parties. Drink, drugs and sex flow in equal measure as everyone lets loose. As the party winds down, the focus shifts to a seemingly innocuous game of Truth or Dare. The party's socially awkward geek - Felix - has a crush on one of the most popular girls there, and this truth is brutally exposed to everyone, and he leaves the party humiliated.DARE: A year later the five friends are reunited when they are invited to Felix's birthday party at a grand stately home. They soon realise that they are the only people attending, and that this is going to be a very different party from their last one. In a bid for vengeance all are forced to play a sickening and gruesome game of Truth or Dare, where a Dare may well equal death. Sex, lies and murder are all unravelled as the game hurls the group toward the final, fatal twist.
Set in 1956 the drama follows WPC 56 Gina Dawson (Jennie Jacques) through the trials of being the first female officer to serve in her Midlands home town. On her first day she’s packed into a broom cupboard tasked with making the tea and told not to distract the men... But the team has some serious crime to deal with. A child’s skeleton has been found and a woman attacked on her way home. Stung and humiliated by her colleagues Dawson sets out to prove her worth...
Gina and the men have their hands full with teenage runaways Teddy Boys and petty criminals. However the lines of the law become blurred when the hunt for a killer draws our team into the criminal underworld of shady boxing clubs brothels and night clubs all run by an ‘untouchable’ gangster. And the unwanted attention of a senior officer pushes Gina to cross a line which could mean the end of her career.
Series 1 Set in 1956 the drama follows WPC 56 Gina Dawson (Jennie Jacques) through the trials of being the first female officer to serve in her Midlands home town. On her first day she’s packed into a broom cupboard tasked with making the tea and told not to distract the men... But the team has some serious crime to deal with. A child’s skeleton has been found and a woman attacked on her way home. Stung and humiliated by her colleagues Dawson sets out to prove her worth... Series 2 Gina and the men have their hands full with teenage runaways Teddy Boys and petty criminals. However the lines of the law become blurred when the hunt for a killer draws our team into the criminal underworld of shady boxing clubs brothels and night clubs all run by an ‘untouchable’ gangster. And the unwanted attention of a senior officer pushes Gina to cross a line which could mean the end of her career.
Cherry Tree Lane
TRUTH: A group of university friends celebrate the end of term with the party to end all parties. Drink, drugs and sex flow in equal measure as everyone lets loose. As the party winds down, the focus shifts to a seemingly innocuous game of Truth or Dare. The party's socially awkward geek - Felix - has a crush on one of the most popular girls there, and this truth is brutally exposed to everyone, and he leaves the party humiliated.DARE: A year later the five friends are reunited when they are invited to Felix's birthday party at a grand stately home. They soon realise that they are the only people attending, and that this is going to be a very different party from their last one. In a bid for vengeance all are forced to play a sickening and gruesome game of Truth or Dare, where a Dare may well equal death. Sex, lies and murder are all unravelled as the game hurls the group toward the final, fatal twist.
Set in London 2015, where gang culture has now increased and gang warfare dominates the capital, this action-packed retro thriller tells the story of how one gang sets out on a daring journey to exact brutal revenge after the death of one of their own. This is a must for see for fans of the likes of Kidulthood and Adulthood. Starring Michael Socha (This is England ’86) and Kaya Scodelario (Skins).
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