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- StarsJack WhitehallDouglas HodgeStephen GrahamThe series sees Paul Pennyfeather as an inoffensive divinity student at Oxford University in the 1920s, who is wrongly dismissed for indecent exposure having been made the victim of a prank by The Bollinger Club.
- StarsPaul DanoJames NortonLily JamesAs the Russian conflict with Napoleon reaches its peak, five aristocratic families face the possibility of their lives being changed forever.
- CreatorJohn MortonStarsMichael SmileyKerr LoganEileen O'HigginsSet in 1880s Ireland in the Victorian-era heyday of 'postmortem photography,' the six-episode period drama follows a renowned memorial photographer who is drawn into a series of apparent murders that appear to be linked to his work.
- CreatorAbi MorganStarsRomola GaraiBen WhishawDominic WestA behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England that centers on a journalist, a producer, and an anchorman for an investigative news programme.
- StarsDavid TennantCush JumboMatthew McNultyWhen a seemingly perfect and happy family is murdered by someone they knew and trusted, cracks appear on the surface of a supposedly idyllic community.
- CreatorGavin StrawhanRachel LangStarsAaron WardWill HallBlair StrangA wonderful series based on a group of friends who attend a weekly trivia competition. Their lives, their loves, their dramas. The writers who wrote this series are the same writers who created Outrageous Fortune.
- StarsSally PhillipsTom ContiSusie BlakeWhen high-flying businesswoman Jenny Pope is fired for punching a colleague, and, on the same day discovers that her unemployed husband Nick has squandered their life savings on an ill-conceived business scheme they, and their teenage children Sam and Becky, are forced to make a difficult decision. They have no choice but to move from London to the north and live with Jenny's parents Len and Alma. They see it as a temporary measure. But life won't prove to be that simple... Parents is a comedy about three generations of family living under one roof. Len and Alma, who thought they were free of children. Jenny and Nick, who thought they were free of parents. Sam and Becky, who now have to deal with two sets of parents with very different views on bringing up kids. It's a fast paced, laugh out loud comedy about a family at love and war.
- StarsJerome FlynnRobson GreenWarren MitchellWartime comedy about two very different bandsmen (Eddie and Eric) and their misadventures with gangsters, romance, and black-marketing in Blitz-time London.
- StarsAlison SteadmanPhilip JacksonStephanie BeachamA comedy series about three groups of friends coming to terms with retirement.
- StarsSally PhillipsColin SalmonGina BellmanA middle-aged man experiences a mid-life crisis. Unfortunately, this man is King of Great Britain and the Commonwealth.
- CreatorCharlie GarberPhil LloydStarsSacha HorlerPhil LloydKrew BoylanSando is Australia's queen of the discount furniture package deal. She's built her empire on being a down-to-earth larrikin and is something of a national treasure - to all but her family.
- StarsPeter KayLucy SpeedLaurie KynastonA TV show showing the ups and downs of the well-known TV actor and presenter Danny Baker and his friends during childhood.
- StarsAnne ReidMaureen LipmanMorag SillerTwo middle-age crazy English widows become best friends via letters, over many misadventure-filled years. Having met under a table at a wedding, when both were drunk with merriment, misunderstanding comes naturally to them.
- CreatorDavid NobbsStarsMartin ClunesFay RipleyLucy LiemannThis "finely balanced black comedy" (Guardian, UK) follows a midlevel corporate drone who finds himself in the throes of a midlife crisis.
- StarsRichard CoyleCharles DanceDavid SuchetA con artist is conned into taking the job as Postmaster General in the Ankh-Morpork Post Office.
- DirectorRiccardo PellizzeriStarsSimon O'ConnorTodd LasanceGeraldine BrophyA melodramatic black comedy presenting the true story of Alfred Benning's murder of his wife, Betty, in 1970s Wellington. The film follows a passive-aggressive man (Simon O'Conner) spiraling toward psychosis as his emotionally abusive wife (Geraldine Brophy) threatens to cast his beloved dog out of the house.
- StarsIan MeadowsPatrick BrammallDanny AdcockA bumbling Australian extended family somehow finds a way to keep it together over the years with love as the underlying thread.
- CreatorSusan CoyneBob MartinMark McKinneyStarsPaul GrossMartha BurnsStephen OuimetteIn the fictional town of New Burbage, legendary theatrical madman Geoffrey Tennant returns to the New Burbage Theatre Festival, the site of his greatest triumph and most humiliating failure, to assume the artistic directorship after the sudden death of his mentor, Oliver Welles. When Geoffrey arrives he finds that Oliver is still there, in spirit anyway, and with his guidance (and often in spite of it) Geoffrey attempts to reconcile with his past while wrestling the festival back from the marketing department. Despite a bitter leading lady, a clueless leading man, and a scheming general manager, he manages to stage a remarkable production of Hamlet -- the play that drove him mad.
- StarsSimon CallowBill PatersonAnita DobsonA comedy series adapted from the comic-strip of the same name appearing in "The Oldie" magazine. Simon Callow stars as rebellious pensioner Henry Palmer.
- CreatorMark BussellJustin SbresniStarsBen MillerSarah AlexanderAlison SteadmanMel and Howard's wedding is one week away. Howard experiences a series of humiliating disasters in the week leading up to the ceremony.
- StarsPhilip JacksonRebekah StatonHelen MonksA large family is raised by an unconventional single mother on a council estate in Wolverhampton, England.
- StarsAnthony HeadEve MylesNigel BettsFollows the lives of a couple and their families who have a 26 year age gap.
- CreatorAmy HubermanRebecca O'FlanaganStarsAmy HubermanPaul ReidHannah James-ScottA woman finds herself thrust into the limelight when she gets a job filling in for Ireland's most-beloved vlogger, Flora the Happy Hunter.
- StarsAdrian HolmesJared KeesoMylène Dinh-RobicThe day to day of two unwilling patrol officers affected by troubled pasts.
- CreatorDaley PearsonStarsBarry CrockerToby TruslovePatrick BrammallHapless city cop Toby Banks is demoted to night duty in the sleepy beachside village of Coolum, only to find himself investigating strange late night phone calls that reveal the bizarre truth of the town.
- CreatorClaire TonkinRick MaierStarsLucy LawlessEbony VagulansRawiri JobeMy Life is Murder follows the adventures of fearless private investigator Alexa Crowe, who solves the most baffling crimes as well as coping with the frustrations of everyday life.
- CreatorJulian UnthankStarsMartin TrenamanJulie GrahamSarah WoodwardThree crime-writing sisters and their 28-year old niece use their extensive knowledge of crime to solve whodunit style murders in the picturesque English village of Wildemarsh.