Plot: When media mogul Sir Roysten Merchant buys Globelink News, life at the TV station changes forever. Staffers struggle to help editor George Dent maintain the standards of a serious news business, while Gus Hedges, Sir Royston's right-hand man, tries to make the stories as sensational as possible - and...
Plot: Set in the same universe as `Doctor Foster', and by the hands of the same creator Bartlett, `Life' follows the lives and woes of the residents of a Manchester house divided into four different flats. Gemma Foster's neighbour, Emma, portrayed by `The Crown's Victoria Hamilton, now goes by the name of...
Plot: When someone goes to jail, it's not just the imprisoned person who suffers, it's also the person's family who must deal with life without their husband, father, son or whatever the relationship is. This drama focuses on women and children who are dealing with family members who have been imprisoned...
Plot: `Ballot Monkeys', created by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin, is a dark satire based on the general election. The political sitcom follows the canvassing of four main parties - Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat and UKIP - as they travel around the UK with their campaign buses. Tackling the latest...
Plot: The EU referendum is at the centre of this satirical comedy. The comedy series takes a look at people on both sides of the referendum. It follows the staff at the pro-Europe Unity Unit, including a veteran `survivor' of Tory party politics and a PA who is immune to being fired because she is the daughter...
Plot: A satirical drama recounting hypothetical war crimes proceedings brought against former Prime Minister Tony Blair by an international tribunal, following his departure from 10 Downing Street.
Plot: Based on an award-winning play ("The Audience") by showrunner Peter Morgan, this lavish, Netflix-original drama chronicles the life of Queen Elizabeth II from the 1940s to modern times. The series begins with an inside look at the early reign of the queen, who ascended the throne at age 25 after the...
Plot: South London parents Pete and Sue Brockman struggle to get through the day raising three rambunctious children in this British comedy series that earns high marks for its improvisational dialogue and frequent celebration of life's more mundane moments. Eldest son Jake suffers growing pains and is constantly...
Plot: Warriors: The Prophecies Begin is the first story arc in the Warriors juvenile fantasy novel series about feral cats. The arc comprises six novels which were published from 2003 to 2004: Into the Wild, Fire and Ice, Forest of Secrets, Rising Storm, A Dangerous Path, and The Darkest Hour. Wikipedia
Plot: John Hurt stars in the 2004 miniseries as Alan Clark, the flamboyant, outspoken and controversial Conservative MP. The six-part programme focuses on the merry, and sometimes malicious, diaries that Clark penned during his political career from 1983 to his death in 1999. Said Hurt in 2003: "My reason...
Plot: John Herrick was the Captain of the tug "Cheryl Ann" in Los Angeles harbor. His family consisted of wife May, Police Detective son Jim, and the crew of the tug, his son Carl, Tip, and Willie. Carl was engaged to Terry. The stories revolved around the family and various criminals encountered around the...
Plot: Anyone for Denis? is a British video-taped television version of the stage play of the same name broadcast by the ITV network on 28 December 1982. The original play, first performed at the Whitehall Theatre in 1981, was written by satirist John Wells. Wikipedia
Plot: British painter Henry Breasley (Laurence Olivier) has retired to a chateau in France with a pair of much younger women, Mouse (Greta Scacchi) and Freak (Toyah Willcox). But his comfortable arrangement with them is interrupted by the intrusion of dashing art critic David Williams (Roger Rees) ; he's...
Plot: A circle of friends from Coventry tries to stick together and carve out a niche of their own in London. Together they go through the trials and tribulations of love, jobs, and general everyday life.
Plot: The Falklands Play is a dramatic account of the political events leading up to, and including, the 1982 Falklands War. The play was written by Ian Curteis, an experienced writer who had started his television career in drama, but had increasingly come to specialise in dramatic reconstructions of history...
Plot: Thatcher: The Final Days is a 1991 British television film about the events surrounding the final few days of Margaret Thatcher's time as Prime Minister. It was written by Richard Maher, directed by Tim Sullivan and starred Sylvia Syms in the role of Thatcher. Wikipedia