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Private inspector Frank Hathaway (Mark Benton) has always worked alone. Only Frank isn't doing so well. He might have a brilliant instinct when it comes to solving crime, but he's also out of shape and low on cash. Frank needs a partner. Frank needs ex-hairdresser and people-person Lu (Jo Joyner).

He just doesn't know it yet. Frank and Lu eventually join forces and form a highly unlikely and hugely entertaining detecting duo. They quickly discover all is not as peaceful as it seems in this pretty theatre town. Vengeful lovers stalk the streets, the mayor is murdered and a magician's trick fatally misfires.

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Enter a nightmarish world of political cover-ups with international consequences. Set in the last decade of the Cold War, this six-part BBC drama is inspired by real events.

When an ordinary British fishing vessel and its 36-man crew mysteriously disappears off the coast of Norway, journalist Martin Taylor (Tom Wilkinson) is determined to find out why. His father was on board, and is now missing. His investigations soon lead him to run up against the twin barriers of Royal Navy stonewalling and an impenetrable Soviet Politburo. The notorious finale shocked audiences when it was first aired in 1983. 'Spyship' is based on the fictional novel by Brian Haynes and Tom Keene, former reporters who researched the real life sinking of the FV Gaul in 1974 which was shrouded in mystery.

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This outstanding police procedural drama stars noted actor Martin Shaw as Alan Cade, the compassionate and resolutely reformist chief constable of Eastland, a fictional East Anglian force; a distinguished guest cast includes Philip Glenister, Andy Serkis, John Shrapnel, Peter Egan and Nickolas

Grace. While this fourth series continues to show the many challenges facing Cade and his front-line team, from drug crime to terrorist bombings, witness intimidation and the exploitation of migrant workers, the focus remains on the politics of modern policing. The former Met commissioner's radical approach still antagonises his superiors at the Home Office, and he is now witnessing the gradual centralisation and unaccountability of the government agencies that are taking over different police roles. And, as ever, Cade's deep commitment to Eastland is taking an unremitting toll on his personal relationships...

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Series three of this outstanding police procedural drama sees the role of Chief Constable passing from John Stafford (played by Tim Pigott-Smith) to former Metropolitan Deputy Assistant Commissioner Alan Cade (Martin Shaw). This release contains all six episodes, originally transmitted in 1993.

As John Stafford takes up a new position with Europol, Alan Cade replaces him as Chief Constable at Eastland, East Anglia; Anne Stewart continues as Cade's deputy. While Cade is every bit as capable as his predecessor, he finds that the challenge of front-line policing continues to be eclipsed by the pressure to manage ever-tighter budgets and justify expenditure. Sharing Stafford's tolerant but scrupulous approach, he also faces ongoing conflict with his superiors, and certain local politicians whose cavalier attitudes towards issues of civil liberties contrast sharply with his own.

Jesse Stone (Tom Selleck) and Captain Healy (Stephen McHattie) are shot during an unauthorized stake-out in Boston. Meanwhile, a cryptic letter sent from Paradise leads the mother of a kidnapped child to Stone. Though her son was declared dead, she hopes he will reopen the case.

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'Luther' is an epic production recounting one of the greatest revolutionary periods in history - 'The Reformation'. It is the powerful true story of one man confronted with the frailty of human faith and his pursuit of spiritual upheaval in the battle against the corrupt might of an empire.

After a brush with death, which he labels "a fright from heaven", a young Martin Luther abandons his law studies to enter a humble 16th Century Augustinian monastery. Here, under the tutelage of Father Johann his spiritual mentor, he embarks on an incredible journey that will change the face of the world forever. Seeing vice and corruption littering his faith, Luther's defiant crusade is to rid society of Church-sanctioned treachery and fear-mongering. In doing so, he faces charges of heresy, excommunication and even death to uphold his belief in the divine word of his faith and in a better world for the devout followers of Christianity.

Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney (Mark Ruffalo) uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything - his career, his livelihood, and his family - to expose the truth.

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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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In this dramatic adaptation by Jack Pulman of the classic Henry James novel, a damaged golden bowl reflects the truth in a hidden relationship and redirects the lives of all the characters into whose hands it has been placed.

A young American in Europe, Maggie (Jill Townsend) is devoted to her father, the rich and cultured Adam Verver (Barry Morse). Introduced to the charismatic Italian Prince Amerigo (Daniel Massey) by her trusted friend Fanny Assingham (Kathleen Byron), she soon falls in love and a suitable marriage of affection and convenience takes place. When Amerigo runs into a former mistress, the attractive Charlotte Stant (Gayle Hunnicutt), he cannot help but rekindle their friendship and introduce her to his wife. Maggie, in turn, sees a suitable companion for her father, and so a second marriage that draws upon the Verver fortune takes place. All coexist, some knowingly, some blindly, until a hidden crack in a golden bowl exposes the truth and sets in motion an irreversible chain of events.

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This powerful three-part adaptation of Joseph Conrad's famous novel tells of an attempt by a triple agent to blow up the Greenwich Observatory in 1894, a time of unrest and anarchist violence throughout Europe.

However it is the far-reaching effect this infamous conspiracy has upon the domestic life of the anti-hero, Adolf Verloc, that takes this compelling and complex tale beyond political intrigue to reveal a psychological drama of probing depth and vivid detail, in its incisive portrayal of human frailty.

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When threatening letters arrive at his fashionable London home, prominent Government Minister Sir Paul Berowne (Bosco Hogan) calls his old friend Adam Dalgliesh (Roy Marsden) for assistance. Berowne's own household is a challenge.

His exquisite wife (Wendy Hiller) makes no secret of her adulterous affair with a fashionable surgeon. His only daughter (Fiona Fullerton), deeply involved in left-wing politics, has rejected her Conservative father. He is even resented by his own, strong-willed mother, whose favored son was killed in an IRA terrorist ambush. Dalgliesh has barely started on the case when a series of bizarre deaths turn the informal investigation into an urgent assignment. With characteristic determination Scotland Yard's enigmatic star detective pursues every possibility, ruthlessly exposing dark secrets and ugly emotions as the case proceeds toward its terrifying and bloody conclusion.

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Backstabbing, Blackmail and Betrayal...it's all in the family when you're a Roy.

Blending high drama with dark humour, the acclaimed HBO series 'Succession' explores themes of power, politics and money played out within a filthy rich, dysfunctional dynasty led by aging media tycoon Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and his four grown children: Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook), Roman (Kieran Culkin) and Connor (Alan Ruck). In Season 2, Kendall deals with fallout from his hostile-takeover attempt, Shiv is poised to enter the upper echelons of the company, Roman reacquaints himself with the business from the bottom up, and Connor launches an unlikely bid for president. There's plenty of juicy intrigue as this scheming, emotionally challenged family navigates a rapidly changing media landscape and the looming question of who will take over in a post-Logan world.

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"The Traitor" tells the true story of Tommaso Buscetta (Pierfrancesco Favino), the man who brought down the Cosa Nostra. In the early 1980's, an all out war rages between Sicilian mafia bosses over the heroin trade. Tommaso Buscetta, a made man, flees to hide out in Brazil.

Back home, scores are being settled and Buscetta watches from afar as his sons and brother are killed in Palermo, knowing he may be next. Arrested and extradited to Italy by the Brazilian police, Buscetta makes a decision that will change everything for the Mafia: he decides to meet with Judge Giovanni Falcone (Fausto Russo Alesi) and betray the eternal vow he made to the Cosa Nostra.

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A Merry Murdoch Christmas (2015)
When a philanthropist is found dead before the holidays and the presents he distributes to Toronto's orphans go missing, it is up to Murdoch (Yannick Bisson), Ogden (Helene Joy) and the team at Station House No. 4 to solve the mystery and save Christmas.

Once Upon a Murdoch Christmas (2016)
When brazen robberies target Toronto's wealthiest businessmen just days before Christmas, Murdoch and Brackenreid's (Thomas Craig) jobs are under fire if they don't quickly solve the case. Meanwhile, Jackson (Kristian Bruun) and James (Mouna Traore) team up to bring Christmas spirit to the Station House, Crabtree's (Jonny Harris) latest novel finds some unlikely fans, and Ogden (Helene Joy) is stalked by two street urchins who need her help.

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Power, Politics, Money...

in this provocative, bitingly funny drama series about a dysfunctional dynasty led by the ageing and ailing - Logan Roy (Brian Cox), whose four grown children (Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook, Alan Ruck) challenge his waning dominance while others in their orbit position themselves for the looming post-Logan world.