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Now a fully licensed MI5 agent under the eccentric eye of The Examiner (Robert Lindsay), Tim (Darren Boyd) is still raw from the disappointment of Caitlin's fiance turning up unexpectedly and so he sets about trying to sabotage their relationship with the help of best friend Chris.

Meanwhile, Marcus (Jude Wright) starts a new school term only to discover that his status as top dog is under threat from new boy Nick. And the family has to deal with a new therapist, Owen (Miles Jupp), whose unorthodox methods give Philip (Mark Heap) cause for concern when he realises that Owen is trying to seduce Judith (Dolly Wells).

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Tim (Darren Boyd) is a single father trying to win back the respect and affections of his precocious nine year old son, Marcus. In the hope of proving that he is not a complete loser, Tim quits his dead-end job but his life changes forever when he is accidentally recruited as a trainee spy for MI5.

Supervising Tim at work is irrepressible MI5 boss, The Examiner (Robert Lindsay), who teaches the recruits his own unorthodox approach to the espionage game. Adding to the chaos of Tim's life are his acidic ex-wife Judith, her enthusiastic new boyfriend Philip, their obsessive family therapist and his anti-social best friend Chris. And is there romance on the cards with fellow agent Caitlin?

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One of television's greatest ever comedy series returns with PIV1 Jim Hacker, Sir Humphrey Appleby and Bernard Woolley facing some very familiar modern dilemmas...

The Rt. Hon Jim Hacker is back in office as PM, 'assisted' by the unintelligibly loquacious Cabinet Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby and the uncomfortably fence-sitting Principal Private Secretary, Bernard Woolley. Fortunately for Jim, he has one ally: his new Policy Unit Head, Claire Sutton. The seminal political satire is back with a new cast and a 21st Century setting, but thankfully in all its hilarious bureaucratic, duplicitous, double-thinking, Machiavellian glory!

Episodes Comprise:
1. Crisis at the Summit
2. The Poisoned Chalice
3. Gentlemen's Agreement
4. A Diplomatic Dilemma
5. Scot Free
6. A Tsar Is Born

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When a US marine is mortally wounded fighting a vicious alien horde, he finds himself the subject of a scientific experiment. Now, living as a new breed of warrior, he is transported to Mars and becomes embroiled in a bitter war between two alien races.

But, as the battle rages on, he discovers a dark secret behind the conflict and must choose which side deserves his allegiance.

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Based on a novel by Kotaro Isaka, 'Fish Story' weaves together several seemingly separate story-lines taking place at different points in time over a 37-year span to explain how a little-known punk rock song can save the world.

From 1975 when ill-fated Japanese punk band Gekirin (Wrath) write their final song, 'Fish Story'...to 1982 where rumours of hidden messages in the song surface...to 2009 where a boat is taken over by terrorists and finally to 2012 where a huge comet threatens to destroy the Earth, and a punk rock song seems to offer mankind their only hope?

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Whilst on a flying mission, two Air Force pilots are blinded by a mysterious ball of light, which causes them to crash into a mountain. One of the pilots, Alex, manages tn escape. No one will believe his unusual story, including the Air Force Inquiry Committee.

When a jet crashes in the same spot as Alex's plane did, he must lead an investigation to uncover the truth about this strange phenomenon. But he soon learns more than he ever expected to, when he realises that the objects are trying to communicate with the people of Earth.

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Double bill of British thrillers.

Crow Hollow (1952)
Ann, a newlywed, moves into her husband's gloomy ancestral home, shared with his three eccentric aunts. When a maid mysteriously dies, Ann realizes her own life may be in danger.
Castle Sinister (1948)

During the War, a British agent travels to the remote Glennye Castle in the wilds of Scotland to investigate a mysterious murder by a masked phantom. Who or what is the phantom? And how are the Germans involved?

A spectacular open-air gala concert at the Semper Oper, Dresden, featuring well-loved operatic and orchestral works by popular composers.

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A unique E.J. Fancy triple bill.

Those familiar with the work of Edwin John Fancey (1902-1980) will know that EJ could take some free stock footage, use up and coming young talent at "commercial" rates like Michael Winner, The Goons and promote his daughter Adrienne Scott's acting talents then craft together a short featurette that qualified in the cinemas for the "Eady" money. None of the films will ever be recorded as greats but are testament to EJ's ability to produce a low budget film that is a part of British film history.

London Entertains (1951)
Documentary Tour conducted by Eamonn Andrews around the Battersea Festival to a BBC Studio to hear The Goons of radio fame, a night club and to the Windmill Theatre. Many of Britain's 'new' post-war radio favourites pop in and out of this undisciplined documentary featuring two girls from Finishing School (Christina Forrest, Pamela Bygrave) who start an escort agency in London.
Climb Up the Wall (1960)
Musical and variety show introduced by Jack Jackson.
Calling All Cars (1954)
Comedy documentary, pivoting on the Dover Harbour Car terminal.

A French fugitive (Jean-Louis Trintignant) heads to Canada where he ends up joining forces with a criminal gang who are plotting a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned when the crime lords daughter they plan to kidnap accidently dies.

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Based on the novel by Labour MP Chris Mullin, and adapted for the screen by Alan Plater (Fortunes of War), 'A Very British Coup' imagines what might have happened if a Left-Wing Labour MP had become Prime Minister of the UK at the end of the 1980s.

Radical Leftist Harry Perkins (Ray McAnally), an unassuming working class politician from Sheffield, stands for open and honest government. Despite a landslide victory for Labour, Perkins is fighting for his seat from day one as the right-wing establishment and its American allies scheme to plot his downfall. Adultery, blackmail and conspiracies abound, Perkins remains committed to his socialist agenda. But when politics gets dirty, can he play the game and win?

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In this superbly funny and deeply human series from Carla Lane, 'Solo' finds Felicity Kendal in the role of Gemma Palmer, a passionate and confused thirty year old.

On discovering that her live-in boyfriend Danny (Stephen Moore) has been having an affair with her best friend, she throws him out and decides to live life on her own, independent and free. But keeping Danny out of her life and staying unfettered turns out to be much harder than she expected. Series One follows Gemma's struggle to shake Danny loose from her life and her heart where he's more difficult to dislodge. Meanwhile, in the room upstairs two flatmates, Bernadette and Josie, debate dating, romance, love and marriage. In Series Two, a fully freed-up Gemma finds herself back in the dating world and making friends with a new neighbour, Sebastian, whose close friendship and reckless love life runs on parallel - and occasionally bumping - lines. With Gemma's mother always on hand to dispense guidance, support and tales of her own love life, Solo uncovers the many surprising layers of dependence that independence brings.

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Murder Most English contains four terrific tales of detective sleuthing based on the Flaxborough novels of Colin Watson.

Starring Anton Rodgers as Detective Inspector Purbright and Christopher Timothy as Detective Sergeant Love, the series was filmed in 1977 and is a glowing tribute to an England long-gone of heavy tweed jackets, dial telephones, typewriter ribbons and old-fashioned investigation and deduction. Told over 7 episodes: Hopjoy Was Here, Lonelyheart 4122, The Flaxborough Crab and Coffin Scarcely Used tell tales of mysterious murders, dire disappearances and conniving conspiracy that are designed to keep the local investigators at bay, but their layers of intrigue simply draw the detectives in deeper. One surprising and prescient tale considers the effects of an early variation on Viagra that sets the small town astir in some most unexpected ways. But whatever the crime and whoever the culprit, one thing you can be sure of is a case or two of Murder Most English.

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Filmed live at Carnegie Hall, this theatrical spectacular has many of Broadway's leading ladies take the spotlight to perform memorable numbers from hit shows.

Tracklisting:
1. Overture
2. The Beauty That Drives a Man Mad - Tony Roberts and Robert Morse - Sugar

3. Julie Andrews, Robert Morse and Tony Roberts - Welcome
4. Julie Andrews - Monologue
5. Nowadays / Hot Honey Rag - Karen Ziemba & Bebe Neuwirth - Chicago
6. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - Marin Mazzie - Pal Joey
7. Man of La Mancha - Linda Eder - Man of La Mancha
8. Look for the Silver Lining / Tomorrow - Andrew McArdle - Annie
9. And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going - Jennifer Holliday - Dreamgirls
10. Nothing - Priscilla Lopez - A Chorus Line
11. Everybody's Girl - Debra Monk -Steel Pier
12. Ain't Misbehavin' - Nell Carter - Ain't Mesbehavin'
13. Mean to Me - Nell Carter (featuring Luther Henderson) - Ain't Misbehavin'
14. Fifty Percent - Dorothy Loudon - Ballroom
15. Liza Minelli - A Few Words
16. Some People - Liza Minelli - Gypsy
17. Love Changes Everything - Audra McDonald - Aspects of Love
18. Unexpected Song - Marin Mazzie - Song & Dance
19. I Don't Know How To Love Him - Judy Kuhn - Jesus Christ Superstar
20. Julie Andrews - Introduction
21. Falling in Love with Love - Rebecca Luker - The Boys From Syracuse
22. Life Upon the Wicked Stage - Anna Kendricks and the Kit Kat Girls from "Cabaret"
23. Down with Love - Audra McDonald - Hooray For What?
24. Could I Leave You? - Dee Hoty - Follies
25. I Wanna Be a Rockette - Karen Ziemba and the Rockers - Kicks
26. I Can Cook Too - Lea DeLaria - On The Town
27. Adelaide's Lament - Faith Prince - Guys & Dolls
28. The Ladies Who Lunch - Elaine Stritch - Company
29. Julie Andrews - Closing
30. One (Finale) / End Credits - Ensemble - A Chorus Line

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The death of Suggs' beloved cat on his fiftieth birthday triggers a personal quest to discover what happened to the father he never knew.

Stunned by what he learns, Suggs is taken back through his life to a childhood on the streets of Soho, featuring music written by The Kinks Prince Buster, Ian Dury and, of course, his beloved Madness. Director Julien Temple (The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, Absolute Beginners) takes a stage show, adds some drama, archive, animation and music, then shakes it all up for 'My Life Story' where Suggs takes a hilarious yet moving look back at his life in music and words. Is it a drama? Is it a comedy? Or a music hall dream? Whatever it is hold on to your seats as Suggs goes on to stumble and plummet through the trap door of failure, then trampoline back up to catch the passing trapeze of show business success.