Joanna Lumley stars as a brittle scheming soap diva in this hilarious sitcom following the lives of the cast of a daytime medical drama and the production team battling to make the show on a shoestring. Jealousy insecurity egotism and mental instability: the off-screen melodrama of Dr Willoughby is revealed in all its ugliness in this complete series now available for the first time in home-video format! After five successful years the Dr Willoughby actors are wont to confuse reality and fiction. Can Donna Sinclair star of the show really heal the sick and perform open-heart surgery? Some of the viewers think she can. Is she really as saintly and composed as her character? Not quite. To put it mildly she's a highly strung prima donna an implacable control freak and a monstrous megalomaniac. Which cast members will be axed by the producers - or by Donna? Who do the studio execs want to bring in - and why? And will producer Emma ever get off the show?
This incredible epic follows the tragic yet inspirational life of Ariana Von Gotthard (Nastassja Kinski) a woman who gains strength and courage as a young girl coming of age in pre-war Germany. As the daughter of an upper-class Berlin family Ariana watches her family and her country torn apart at the hands of impending war. Aware of the dangerous political climate her father helps Ariana's brother to escape to Switzerland. He returns to rescue Ariana but he is killed as a traitor. Unsure of her father and brothers fate Ariana is now truly alone. She seeks comfort in the arms of a German soldier but the harsh war claims him as yet another victim. Pregnant with his child Ariana realizes she has nothing left from her past but her late mother's signet ring. She decides to flee to America to start her life again...
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