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India 1795: John Beecham (Tom Bateman), a former soldier in the East India Company, is determined to start a new life as an independent trader.

When he arrives to take up residence in Delhi the staff are shocked to discover that their secretive new master's infant son August (Shona Oberoi / Sienna Oberoi) is of mixed parentage. John is keen to reunite his family and for Beecham House to become home to his mother (Lesley Nicol) and bring his errant brother Daniel (Leo Suter) back into the fold. Family friend Violet (Bessie Carter) clearly hopes to become the next Mrs. Beecham but John has met the charming and talented English governess Margaret (Dakota Blue Richards) and there also appears to be a deep connection with another member of the household. With the country in turmoil and political tensions on a knife edge John must tread carefully if he is to secure his future and keep his family safe. But the mystery surrounding Beecham House is who and where is August's mother?

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Iconic film maker Agnes Varda and photographer JR share a passion for images and how they're created, displayed and shared; Varda through cinema. JR through his emotionally arrested outdoor installations.

Inspired by this connection, they set out in JR's photo booth-enhanced truck, exploring the villages and small towns of rural France and meeting its humble residents - all the while creating large-scale portraits plastered across unconventional locations. What follows is a heart-warming insight into unnamed communities, documented here in Varda's typically playful and tender manner. A Cannes Film Festival award-winner and Oscar nominee, 'Faces Places' is a deeply charming and life-affirming look at not only the subtle power of community, but the inspiration that comes from the most cross-generational of friendships.

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The BAFTA-winning series returns as director Michael Winterbottom reunites Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon for their last culinary coast-to-coast odyssey.

Nearly ten years after their first journey together round the gastronomic hot spots of northern England, Steve and Rob set off on a fourth and final expedition. This time they will set out from the ruins of Troy in modern-day Turkey as they head to Greece to retrace the steps of legendary king Odysseus, hero of Homer's epic poem The Odyssey, on his journey home to Ithaca at the end of the Trojan War. Along the way, Steve and Rob's semi-fictional alter-egos make pit-stops in search of culture, history, beautiful scenery and, yes, some of the finest dishes in Europe. Pop culture, music, art and even the meaning of life are all discussed in their famous free-flowing conversations, peppered with barbed banter, boisterous in-car singalongs and uncannily life-like celebrity impersonations.

When elderly mother Edna (Robyn Nevin), inexplicably vanishes, her daughter Kay (Emily Mortimer) and granddaughter Sam (Bella Heathcote) rush to their family's decaying country home. When Edna returns her behaviour is strangely volatile.

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Jack Malik was just another struggling songwriter...but that was yesterday.

After a mysterious blackout, Jack (Himesh Patel) discovers he is the only person on earth who remembers The Beatles! As he rockets to fame by passing off the Fab Four's songs as his own, Jack risks losing Ellie (Lily James) - the one person who has loved him and believed in him from the start. Before the door to his old life closes forever, Jack must decide if all he needs is love, after all.

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Weaving present day sequences with photography, scenes from her own films and portraits of her friends and family, the legendary French auteur Agnes Varda takes us on a memorable voyage through her life, during which she confronts the joys of creation and artistic success and the pain of personal

loss and ageing. It is a singular and stirring trip through events of the second half of the 20th Century: China and Cuba Revolutions, Women's Movement, New Wave cinema history and so on...

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Enjoy Countryfile as you've never seen it before in this exclusive feature-length journey through the seasons! Including 50 minutes of specially filmed footage, never seen on TV, alongside beautifully remastered highlights from the series.

Join the Countryfile team as they come together to celebrate the quintessential rural beauty of Britain around the year: Adam Henson is on his farm in the throes of the harvest season, Helen Skelton is in the Lake District, enjoying some of her favourite childhood activities, Ellie Harrison gets to grips with managing her Cotswold orchard, Matt Baker nets a Spring catch in Southport and John Craven is on the Summer seas, hoping for a glimpse of one of our most mysterious marine creatures. Also includes a full length special programme - the 25th Anniversary Episode - as Countryfile celebrates its Silver Jubilee by throwing a party in the form of a traditional country Summer Fayre.

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Coast and Beyond takes the shoreline as its starting point, moving inland and outwards to the sea and other continents as it explores and tells the story of life on the outer reaches of this island country we live on. The tales come thick and fast - of geography, commerce and the deeply human.

Coast's intrepid and inquisitive team of presenters led by Nicholas Crane clamber over cliff tops, ride the rough seas and explore the history and evolution of life as it is lived along the Coast and Beyond.

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The beautiful island of Corfu continues to work its magic on the eccentric Durrell family. Even a visit from Aunt Hermione isn't the usual dreaded experience as the formerly formidable matriarch has embraced the laid-back Greek attitude and found romance.

Leslie's also enjoying a much-improved love life with three very different girls. But there's no safety in numbers when his mother and siblings decide to interfere. Margo has (temporarily) given up on love and found a new vocation, while Gerry's obsession with animals continues to grow. As for Louisa, a trip to the UK with Larry to sort out family affairs reminds her of the restrictions of her old life. After a brush with bohemian London artists, she realises her heart lies in her island paradise.

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A warm, funny, feel-good series about a family's adventures on a gorgeous Greek island when they uproot from their English home in the hope of a better life.

Based on Gerald Durrell's much-loved Corfu trilogy of novels, 'The Durrells' sees impoverished but sparky widow Louisa Durrell make the radical decision to seek out a new destiny for her family when she relocates her reluctant brood to a dilapidated house in the Greek sun. This beautifully shot series follows the family as they adjust to their new life, face a whole new set of challenges and meet new friends, rivals, lovers - and animals.

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Ashley Jensen stars as Agatha Raisin in three mysteries based on M. C. Beaton's best-selling novels. Formerly a high-flying PR executive in London, Agatha has now settled into village life in the Cotswolds, but her early retirement is far from quiet.

Along with her friends Sir Charles (Jason Merrells), Roy (Mathew Horne), and Gemma (Katy Wix), Agatha solves the village's bizarre murders with panache, investigating the downfall of an arrogant hair stylist; mysterious occurrences attributed to fairies; and the frenzy surrounding the new handsome curate when it leads to murder. Her love life, however, may be a puzzle beyond even her skills to decipher.

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Meet Tony Soprano: your average, middle-aged businessman. Tony's got a dutiful wife. A not-so-dutiful daughter. A son named Anthony Jr. A mother he's trying to coax into a retirement home. A hot headed uncle. A not-too-secret mistress.

And a shrink to tell all his secrets, except the one she already knows: Tony's a mob boss. These days, it's getting tougher and tougher to make a killing in the killing business. Just because you're made ...doesn't mean you've got it made.

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From the creator of "Weeds" comes a heartbreaking and hilarious new series set in a women's prison.

Based on Piper Kerman's acclaimed memoir, "Orange Is the New Black" follows engaged Brooklynite Piper Chapman, whose wild past comes back to haunt her and results in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.

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Brad's (Ben Stiller) comfortable life with his wife Melanie (Jenna Fischer) and son Troy (Austin Abrams) is not quite what he imagined during his college glory days.

Showing Troy around Boston, where Brad went to university, he can't help comparing his life with those of his college friends: a Hollywood bigshot (director Mike White), a hedge-fund founder (Luke Wilson), a tech entrepreneur (Jemaine Clement), and a political pundit (Michael Sheen). He begins to reassess his own life choices...

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"Mum" is the brand new sitcom by two-time BAFTA winner Stefan Golaszewski. It follows Cathy (Academy Award nominee Lesley Manville), a woman facing her sixties and life after the death of her husband.

Set across a year, starting with her husband's funeral and ending on New Year's Eve, the first series sees her family pull around her and friendships deepen as hope glimmers on the horizon.