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- Two sisters contend for the affection of King Henry VIII.
- A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions.
- A mousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he's hiding a terrible secret.
- Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.
- Author P.L. Travers reflects on her childhood after reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.
- A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of the top scientists in the humane livestock handling industry.
- In 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end.
- An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of seventeenth century Amsterdam.
- A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.
- Ex-private dancer Beth aspires to be a Las Vegas cocktail waitress, when she falls in with Dink, a sports gambler. Sparks fly as she proves to be something of a gambling prodigy--much to the ire of Dink's wife, Tulip.
- Story of the relationship between poets Edward James "Ted" Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
- The ultimate nostalgia trip through everything edible in 1960s Britain.
- An American intern at U.K. Vogue helps her friends find love.
- After moving to the French countryside with her husband, the British beauty Gemma Bovery draws the attention of a local baker who finds in the moving couple a resemblance to the heroes of Madame Bovary.
- Five teenagers with different personalities are introduced to one another in a chatroom called "Chelsea Teens!" But one shows its darker side, threatening the others' lives.
- The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.
- A gentle Jamaican woman reunited with her husband in post-World War II London encounters both racism and homesickness as she adjusts to her new life.
- An English lad secretly dates an Asian teen, while a co-worker begins an affair with the girl's older brother.
- In 1980s London, Nazneem, a young Bangladeshi woman, feels her soul is quietly dying in her arranged marriage, until the day hot-headed Karim comes knocking at her door.
- A woman becomes furious when her husband arrives home from the local pub and turns into a rat.
- The lives of reps on the island of Ibiza.
- A teenage girl whose eerie resemblance to a local Welsh beauty queen killed 14 years earlier disturbs one of the men responsibile for her accidental death.
- The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's 71 annual event honoring excellence in film and television.
- A warped retelling of Ovid's most famous myth, Venus and Adonis, and a comic study of society's obsession with image.
- A thirtysomethng woman tries to raise her teenage daughter while also taking care of her mother.
- FATHER is a comedic thriller about family, desperation and loss of innocence. Donal, a fallen priest, is on the run and out of options when he finds himself at the door of an old flame - and face to face with her daughter, Veronica. Just when the two realize that their connection is deeper than either had expected, Veronica's hope and idealism is challenged as Donal is finally confronted by his past.
- Cast and crew members look back on the film adaptation of the novel, "Brick Lane," in this short feature.
- A single father prepares for a job interview while his young son, Clint, prepares sandwiches for their lunch. When he goes for the interview, Clint has to wait in a café next door for his Dad. While there he loses their lunch to a homeless man. Clint's Dad returns from the interview to find his lunch gone and confronts the hungry man with unexpected results.
- Divorced ex-policeman Jackson Brodie works as a private eye on largely mundane cases until, by chance, he meets sisters Amelia and Julia Land. They ask him to look into the disappearance of their little sister Olivia 30 years earlier now that her favourite toy has surfaced in the belongings of their late father. At the same time, agitated lawyer Theo Wynne, impatient at police lack of progress, has him investigate the recent murder of his teen-aged daughter Laura at his office. With reluctant help from ex-colleague Louise, Jackson learns that Laura's teacher Jessup made a pass at her but had an alibi. Her boyfriend Josh, however, recalls that she had another, jealous admirer though Theo refuses to believe it of his little girl. Jackson is then picked up in a bar by Shirley, who asks his help in finding her missing niece Tanya. All these circumstances remind him of the murder of his sister years ago when he was a young boy.
- Jackson finally solves the mystery of Laura's killer whilst Shirley, about to make a wealthy marriage, tells him that she feels guilty because she promised to look after Tanya, the daughter of her sister Michelle who was sent to prison for murdering her husband. Tanya went off the rails on discharge from a care home and Shirley wants to make amends. A meeting with Michelle however paints a different picture and Jackson is convinced that Shirley only wants Tanya found so that she does not ruin the marriage. Fortunately a happy coincidence brings closure for Tanya and Theo whilst the Lands' eldest sister, now a nun, throws light on the fate of Olivia. Jackson, however, is perturbed to learn that his ex-wife is leaving, with their daughter, for a job in New Zealand.
- After seeing the corpse of a woman in the river - which disappears before the police arrive - Jackson intervenes,along with crime writer Martin Canning, when Paul Bradley is the victim of an apparently random road rage attack. At the hospital's request Martin accompanies Paul home on his discharge and gets a shock when he looks in his bag. Meanwhile Jackson learns that the dead girl was Russian and worked for a rather sinister cleaning company. The trail leads to an orthodox church also used by dominatrix Tatiana who was pleasuring dodgy businessman Graham Hatter when he succumbed to a massive heart attack and who strikes up an unlikely friendship with Graham's wife Gloria. After another Russian girl's corpse is found Jackson has reason to believe Martin is in danger and rushes to his house but somebody has been there ahead of him.
- The dead man is not Martin ,who reappears,having been drugged by the mysterious Bradley who then disappeared. Jackson learns that Graham Hatter ran the cleaning company, which is a front for sex-trafficking and approaches Gloria who identifies Smith,the man who attacked Bradley and Jackson as one of Graham's most trusted employees. Gloria introduces Jackson to Tatiana and the two women plan to leave town with Graham's ill-gotten gains. However Smith comes calling and once again Martin proves himself to be a hero whilst Bradley's identity is revealed. Jackson,however,prepares to bid goodbye to his daughter Marlee as she leaves for New Zealand.
- 2011–201357m7.9 (281)TV EpisodeLouise's date with doctor Patrick Carter is interrupted when she has to attend at a train wreck,caused when an elderly woman driver died at the wheel and crashed her car on the line. Jackson had tried to save her and is in turn rescued by Reggie,a young nanny who knew the dead woman and wants him to locate her employer Joanna Hunter,a doctor,who disappeared with her baby son. She is not convinced by Joanna's husband Neil's story that they are staying with an aunt. Using the identity of Andrew Jones,a man whose wallet Reggie picked up from the railway lines in mistake for Jackson's they hire a car and discover that Neil was lying about Joanna's alleged visit to her aunt. Then Jackson is arrested, as Andrew Jones is a wanted man.
- 2011–201358m8.1 (257)TV EpisodeLouise vouches for Jackson,who is released,the real Andrew Jones killing himself,though a sinister link is established between him and an incident from Joanna's girlhood. Through Reggie's brother Billy, Jackson learns that Neil knows more about his family's disappearance than he claims and together Reggie and Jackson track Joanna and her baby down. Jackson's working day is not over, thanks to an obsessive husband in a divorce case.
- Hit by the scandal the hotel loses many of its residents and the band is forced to split up. Stanley and Sarah hide Louis in a house belonging to Stanley's assistant Eric whilst Stanley retrieves his passport from the hotel. He asks Lady Cremone to help but she has no desire to involve herself. However,when she learns that Masterson is offering a huge reward for Stanley's capture she wonders if he is covering for Julian,whom he describes as being like a son to him and who is accompanying him to America. Despite Louis's suspicions of her Pamela chooses to help and ,with Eric and Stanley,they hide out at the jazz club. They are joined by the reformed band. Meanwhile Julian,terrified of leaving London and his sister,hides out with Donaldson who delivers him to Masterson. The three men go to a restaurant where Julian kills himself. Pamela and Stanley join the band and they board a train for a supposed engagement in France,dodging police and immigration officials. Julian's suicide clears Louis who later phones Stanley,now dating Pamela, telling him he has put together a new band in France.
- London,1933:-Panic-stricken jazz band leader Louis Lester asks his friend, music journalist Stanley Mitchell, to help him flee the country. Eighteen months previously Louis and his band are playing in a jazz cellar, but Stanley sees their potential and persuades Nathan Schlesinger to book them at his Imperial Hotel. Whilst older patrons are shocked and walk out the band impresses bright young siblings Pamela and Julian Luscombe, their photographer friend Sarah and music agent Mr Donaldson, the latter negotiating a residency at the hotel and on whose advice Louis engages vocalists Carla and Jessie. He also arranges for the band to play at a garden party for the king's son Prince George where they meet an American millionaire, Mr Masterson, Julian's employer. Some nights later Julian calls Louis in to help him smuggle a young woman out of Masterson's hotel room after something--of which Louis is not told--has gone wrong. Wesley Holt, the band's manager, is deported back to Chicago on possibly trumped up charges but the band itself is in the ascendancy as the Prince of Wales comes to see them at the hotel and expresses his approval.
- With Wesley gone Louis is disappointed at the band's lack of progress,then Mr Donaldson arranges for them to play at a funeral organized by reclusive Lady Cremone,a dedicated jazz fan and former globe-trotter whom Stanley interviews for his magazine. Back in London Pamela is attracted to Stanley's socialist views and Sarah and Louis begin an affair whilst Masterson asks Louis to tell Julian 'not to worry'. Thanks to Lady Cremone the band get a radio spot and a prospective record deal as well as playing a Christmas command performance for the Prince of Wales though star vocalist Jessie is unwell and Carla takes her place. Julian is about to leave for Paris on business for Masterson but Pamela shows concern about his mental state. Soon afterwards Louis sees Julian running down a corridor away from a room in which a badly injured Jessie lies.
- Interviewed by the police about the attack on Jessie Louis tells them that he saw Julian fleeing the scene but Pamela is insistent he was in Paris and asks Stanley to contact him with the news as he was especially fond of Jessie. The band plays at the Imperial's Christmas dinner party but racist Germans walk out in disgust. However Jessie recovers from her coma after a visit from a kindly Donaldson,who has virtually talked her out of it. Lady Cremone throws a New Year party for her village and invites the band to play. Julian returns,claiming to have been in France when Jessie was attacked but Louis passes on his suspicions to Sarah whilst Pamela and Stanley start to date. Interested in learning more about the new electronic music pioneered by a German Stanley arranges a gig at the German embassy and,to get revenge for what happened on Christmas day,smuggles in a reluctant Louis to play for them. They are forced to leave without Stanley gaining his information and encounter Lady Cremone,who tells them that Jessie has had a relapse and died.
- Using Sarah's private photographs Stanley compiles a special edition of 'Music Express' glorifying Jessie's career and Masterson arranges a lavish wake where Louis is puzzled by Julian's passionate oration. Afterwards Masterson announces that he has bought 'Music Express' and intends to make it Europe's leading entertainment magazine with Stanley as editor under Lady Cremone and Sarah as staff photographer. Louis is again questioned by the police,who tell him that two complete strangers gave Julian an alibi for Jessie's murder. However at a function in the hotel for Freemasons Louis discovers that the 'strangers' are actually friends of Julian. Now the chief suspect and mistrustful of Masterson,who is about to leave for America with Julian, Louis accepts Sarah's advice and asks Donaldson to phone for a lawyer for him. However the police arrive instead and,although Sarah tries to assure him that it was coincidence,Louis goes on the run,missing the dinner to launch the new-look magazine.