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Four lifelong friends' lives are turned upside down to hilarious ends when their book club attempts to shake things up by tackling the infamous 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. From discovering new romance to rekindling old flames, they inspire each other to make their next chapter the best chapter.

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"Hidden Figures" tells the incredible untold story of Katherine Johnson (Taraji P.

Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae) - brilliant African-American women working at NASA who served as the brains behind the launch into orbit of astronaut John Glenn (Glen Powell), a stunning achievement that turned around the Space Race. The visionary trio crossed all gender and racial lines and inspired generations.

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Florence Green (Emily Mortimer), is a free-spirited widow in 1950's England. Moving on from the death of her husband, she puts grief behind her and risks everything to open up a bookshop - the first in a sleepy seaside town.

Facing considerable local opposition, most notably from wannabe doyenne of the arts scene Mrs. Gamart (Patricia Clarkson), Florence finds a kindred spirit in Mr. Brundish (Bill Nighy), himself sick of the town's stale atmosphere. When Florence refuses to bend to Gamart's will, they begin a struggle not just for the bookshop but for the very heart and soul of the town.

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The curse of a family legacy and a web of lies that altered the course of US political history... On July 18,1969, Senator Ted Kennedy (Jason Clarke) drives his car off of a bridge on Massachusetts' Chappaquiddick Island.

The accident results in the death of passenger Mary Jo Kopechne, (Kate Mara) a 28-year-old campaign strategist who worked for the Kennedy's. The ongoing investigation into the mysterious and scandalous events forever alters his political legacy - and ultimately changes the course of presidential history. 'The Senator' is an enthralling tale of political Zeitgeist and will ensure this chapter won't just be left to the history books.

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The timeless story continues with the late Jean de Florette's daughter Manon (Emmanuelle Beart), now grown up into a beautiful and free-spirited young shepherdess on her father's Provence farm.

But when she finally learns the tragic truth behind her father's death, Manon plots her revenge on the dim-witted Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil) and the scheming Le Papet (Yves Montand).

Philip and Elizabeth find themselves at odds over their daughter's future now that the KGB is determined to recruit her. FBI Agent Stan Beeman has rededicated himself to uncovering the identities of the Russian spies.

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1876. The Black Hills Indian Cession, two weeks after Custer's last stand. Witness the birth of an American frontier town - and the ruthless power struggle between its just and unjust pioneers.

In an age of plunder and greed, the richest gold strike in American history draws a mob of restless misfits to an outlaw settlement where everything - and everyone - has a price. The settlers, ranging from an ex-lawman to a scheming saloon owner to the legendary Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane, share a constant restlessness of spirit, and survive by any means necessary. Welcome to Deadwood...a hell of a place to make your fortune.

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Adopted in childhood by the kindly squire Allworthy, Tom Jones (Max Beesley) is a young man whose destiny has been changed from that of anonymous foundling to one of privileged gentlemen.

His roving eye gets the better of his good nature however, and an amorous indiscretion with a local girl results in exile from his beloved home. In Tom's absence his true love Sophia (Samantha Morton) is unwillingly betrothed to her loathsome cousin Blifil (James D'Arcy) and flees to London to escape his clutches. Tom follows in hot pursuit, embarking on a series of adventures and misadventures from which he emerges redeemed by love. Set in the beautiful landscapes of Warwickshire, Oxfordshire and Dorset, this sumptuous BBC TV production brings to sparkling life one of literature's great comic tales. A ribald and bawdy romp through the mansions and taverns of Georgian England.

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Mad Men is a darkly humourous look at a prestigious ad agency on New York's Madison Avenue. The second season continues to blur the lines between the truth and lies, perception and reality.

The sixties are in full swing and the world of the "Mad Men" is moving in a new direction - can the moguls keep up?

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Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII, reunited a nation divided by religious strife, faced down the Spanish Armada and, after an unprecedented 45-year reign, died one of England's best-loved monarchs.

During her time as Queen, poets and playwrights wrote about her, artists painted her, composers dedicated their work to her, all contributing to the legend of the Virgin Queen. Elizabeth I looks beyond the myth, at the woman behind the crown. The woman subjected to a humiliating gynaecological examination when contemplating marriage to a French prince, to ensure she was still able to have children. The woman who ran a country and yet who wasn't allowed to marry the man she loved. The woman who, in her mid-fifties, conducted a passionate affair with a man half her age, a man whose arrogance led him to mount a desperate challenge for Elizabeth's throne. For Elizabeth, every personal decision was political. Aged 46, twenty years into her Protestant reign, Elizabeth is facing two huge challenges: the threat of attack from Catholic Spain, and the vexed problem of who will succeed her. This film gets beneath the opulence and formality of the English court to tell the intimate story of Britain's most famous queen during her fraught and passionate final years.

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A lavish adaptation of Stendhal's classic novel. Ewan McGregor is Julien Sorel seducing his way up the social ladder in post-Napoleonic France. Ewan McGregor, Alice Krige and Rachel Weisz head a top-class cast in this stylish adaptation of Stendhal's classic novel, 'Le Rouge et Le Noir'.

Filmed on location in the Jura mountains and aristocratic chateaux around Lyon, 'Scarlet and Black' tells the story of Julien Sorel, son of a provincial carpenter with ambitions far above his station in life. He is inspired by Napoleon Bonaparte, the humble soldier who rose through the ranks to become Emperor. But young Julien feels that the road to power no longer lies in the army (the scarlet) but in the church (the black) and applies himself to scholarship.

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"The Crown", created by Peter Morgan, follows Queen Elizabeth through the late 1950's and early '60s as she struggles to navigate a world that's changing around her. She must face the challenges of a new era, from the Suez Canal crisis to the assassination of John F.

Kennedy, while preserving both the monarchy and her marriage.

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Harry Clayton is back. Dl Harry Clayton (James Nesbitt) is still wearing the bracelet given to him by Eve (Sienna Guillory), but Harry refuses to use his new found 'power' to assist him in any way, mindful of the possible dire consequences.

With London bright and bold as the cinematic backdrop, each week Harry and the Murder Investigation Squad are called upon to solve particularly puzzling murder cases across the capital. Teamed with his partner, DS Suri Chohan (Amara Karan) and having been accepted back into the fold by his boss, Detective Superintendent Winter (Steven Mackintosh), Harry continues his struggle to come to terms with his gambling addiction while proving to both his wife, Anna (Eve Best) and his daughter that he can stay straight, fly right and win back their trust. Harry's meeting with the enigmatic and alluring Isabella Augustin (Thekla Reuten) throws everything he thought he knew about the bracelet into turmoil. She enters his life with a seemingly identical bracelet on her wrist. As Harry's will is tested, his state of mind begins to fray as the stakes rise and the race against evil draws ever closer.

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The Victorian era was an extraordinary time of change; a century that would influence and shape modern Britain. In his unique style - opinionated, surprising and hugely enthusiastic - Jeremy Paxman takes 19th Century art as a springboard to uncover the truths and myths of Victorian Britain.

The works of artists such as Luke Fildes, Hubert von Herkomer, Atkinson Grimshaw, John Everett Millais, William Powell and many others offer a uniquely vivid, almost documentary account of the dramatic upheavals of the age, from the social melting pot of railway travel to the melodrama of family conflict and the raw vitality of the Victorian city. Through the painting's depictions of 19th Century life, Jeremy also finds a fascinating insight into Victorian values - their moral hypocrisy, industrial callousness and imperial arrogance, but also their caring spirit and civic pride that brought us sewers, schools and museums. Fascinating, entertaining and constantly surprising, the series is a magnificently enthusiastic appraisal of the birth of modern Britain - a glorious reminder of how the Victorians made us who we are today.

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Born at the dawn of the 15th century in the Italian region of Mugello, near the birthplace of Giotto, Beato Angelico was a central figure of the early Renaissance.

A contemporary of Masaccio, he was deeply influenced by his lessons, not only in the conception of space, but also in the interpretation of the relationship between nature and faith.
However, his interpretation of this relationship was less dramatic. For this reason, for a long time, his art was substantially underestimated and considered only to be the expression of a simple and devoted spirit.
In this absorbing programme we rediscover the genius of an innocent, devout and hardworking painter whose work developed alongside changes in religion, politics and art. We visit the locations of his great works, and the places which shaped them - including Florence and Rome - and follow his career from a teen novice to a leading name in art, and the Domician movement.
In glorious footage, including lingering close-ups, of his greatest works we see how a style which began by reflecting the serene simplicity of Christianity developed to adopt the evolving humanist ideals, intertwining the late Gothic and magical with realism. We explore how changing architectural styles, political upheaval and his rediscovery of classicism all influenced Beato Angelico's masterpieces, but how a childlike innocence and simple sense of faith stayed at the heart of his work.
Each of the major works is carefully investigated and interpreted in the light of recent criticism.