Rash and Stefan are two guys in their mid-twenties, stuck at the bottom of the career ladder. One is a trainee police detective, the other a very junior investigator at the Serious Fraud Office. Rash's parents were born in Iran, Stefan's in Poland. They're first generation British - but still outsiders. When they're brought together by two apparently unrelated cases, they find themselves involved in a worldwide conspiracy. In 21st century London, a new breed of criminal hides behind the legitimate facades of business and government. Rash and Stefan must combine their skills to bring them down. They are opposites in almost every way, but as their friendship develops they realise they can take on the rich and the powerful. Just as long as they don't get themselves fired first.
It is all change at Grantleigh Manor when Martin Forbes-Hamilton dies and Audrey is forced to sell her beloved stately home to millionaire grocer Richard DeVere. Life in the sleepy village will never be the same again when Richard and his formidable mother, Mrs Polouvicka move in. Richard gets off to a bad start with Audrey when he misses the church service and things go from bad to worse when he decides to modernise the manor.
"My name is Jim, but most people call me...Jim". And most people call Blazing Saddles deliriously funny. Filmmaker, star and paddle-ball whiz Mel Brooks goes way out West and way out of his mind with a spiffy spoof set in an 1874 Old West where 1974 Hollywood is just one soundstage away-and where nonstop fun blasts prejudices to the high comedy heavens. Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn and more join for horseplay and horselaughs, making Blazing Saddles the # 6 choice among the American Film Institute's Top-100 Comedies. Give these out to the boys in Lieu of pay. And enjoy
Tom Selleck stars as Jesse Stone, an ex-Los Angeles homicide detective whose alcoholism forced him to downsize his career and take a job as a small town police chief. When Stone investigates the town's first ever murder, he soon finds himself embroiled in a hunt for serial killers who seem determined to make him a victim as well. Complications arise when a young girl's parents reveal she was raped and Stone orders his team to investigate the charges while keeping both crimes under the radar of national press, state police and FBI. Stone must uncover both mysteries and faces the most challenging case of his career - one that could possibly claim the life of someone very close to him.
Vienna, 1900: Eisenheim (Edward Norton) is a brilliant stage magician, the greatest illusionist Vienna has ever seen. When his childhood friendship with Duchess Sophie von Teschen (Jessica Biel), now betrothed to the power-hungry Crown Prince Leopold (Rufus Sewell), is rekindled he finds himself a target for the Prince's anger. As the clandestine romance continues, Leopold orders the shrewd Chief Inspector Uhl (Paul Giamatti), the head of the secret police, to close down the theatre and make Eisenheim vanish. But as the net tightens around him and tragedy strikes, Eisenheim prepares to execute his greatest illusion yet.
From the writers of 'The Missing' comes 'Baptiste'; a thrilling new drama starring Tchéky Karyo as the insightful but stubborn investigator Julien Baptiste. When Julien and his wife move to Amsterdam to help look after their grandchild, the Chief of Police (an old girlfriend) seeks out his help in finding a young sex worker who has gone missing. As Baptiste rapidly becomes embroiled in a case that peels back the layers of atrocity in the trade of sex, drugs and people themselves, nothing is as it first seems. For Julien Baptiste the beautiful streets, canals and houses of Amsterdam hide dark, deadly secrets.
"Guilt" follows two disparate brothers Max (Mark Bonnar) and Jake (Jamie Sives) who, while driving home from a wedding together one night, accidentally run over and kill an old man on a darkened street. After making the panicked decision to cover their tracks, the brothers seem to get away with their crime. However, as neighbours and relatives of the dead man begin to suspect his death wasn't as innocent as it initially seemed, the brothers find their lives rapidly falling apart, as their actions begin to catch up with them. Their increasingly desperate attempts to conceal their guilt lead them further Into a world where everyone seems to have a hidden agenda and they discover they can trust no-one, ultimately including each other.
An old friend informally invites Commander Dalgliesh (Roy Marsden) to look into death threats being made against the partners of a respected publishing house. While visiting their offices - a splendid Venetian building with a haunted past on the banks of the Thames - Dalgliesh is on hand when the first body is discovered. The coroner's verdict is suicide and the case is closed - but as the partners of Peverell Press wage their own internal war over the future of the family firm the mysterious hate campaign intensifies...and a partner dies in bizarre circumstances. Recalled to the case, Dalgliesh must decide if the motive lies in the present...or the horrors and betrayals of another time. As he struggles to untangle the mystery, the case takes a strange turn. His prime suspects begin to die...
Set in the halls of Westminster, the series follows Prime Minister Robert Sutherland (Robert Carlyle) and his Chief of Staff Anna Marshall (Victoria Hamilton) as they try to deal with a national emergency. The pair must bear attacks from their political opponents, face family pressures and lead the 'Cobra' committee, a team of experts and politicians, to ensure the nation's safety.
"Manhunt" is a captivating mini series based on the true story of a murder investigation that kept the people of Britain gripped - and defined a detective's career. Starring Martin Clunes (Doc Martin) as DCI Colin Sutton, the story begins in August 2004 when a young woman's body is found. Sutton is appointed senior investigating officer but initially struggles: there's no forensics, motive or witnesses. Painstaking detective work finally delivers a suspect - Levi Bellfield (Celyn Jones), but now the hunt is on for enough evidence to arrest him and make sure he's found guilty at trial. 'Manhunt' follows the compelling story of how DCI Sutton charged one of Britain's most notorious killers with two murders, as well as an attempted murder, whilst also impelling Surrey police to consider Bellfield as prime suspect in the high-profile murder of Milly Dowler.
In the summer of 2006, Rob Reilly (Killian Scott), a smart suited homicide detective and his partner Cassie Maddox (Sarah Greene) are dispatched to investigate a child's murder, and find a community caught between old and new Ireland. On an altar lies the body of a local teenage girl, the talented Katy Devlin. Her body is found in the middle of an archaeological site, threatened by local developers aiming to build a shiny new motorway. The neighbouring estate, Knocknaree, has never quite got its share of the 'Celtic Tiger' and has been blighted by poverty arid unemployment for generations. Moreover, this is the not the first time a child of Knocknaree has been lost - twenty-one years earlier, in a very different Ireland, three children went missing, and only one came back alive. Memory runs deep in this part of the world* and locals, press and the Dublin Garda soon begin to worry that the cases are linked.
Based on the facts we know about William Shakespeare, Ben Eltons sitcom is about the life of the world's favourite bard as it just might have been. It's the 1590s and Will (David Mitchell) is still at the start of his career. In London his plays are looked down on by his sinister rival Robert Greene, while his friends and fellow actors are baffled by Will's weird new ideas. He's not taken very seriously in Stratford either where his mum and dad say his plays are boring, his teenage daughter makes fun of his flowery language and his wife Anne wonders how he can claim to be a great writer when he can't even find his quill. Packed with gags and sparkling wordplay 'Upstart Crow' pays comic homage to the greatest writer in the history of the English language - and reveals some rather surprising stories about where his best ideas came from...
"Mary Queen of Scots" explores the turbulent life of the charismatic Mary Stuart (Saoirse Ronan). Queen of France at 16, widowed at 18, Mary defies pressure to remarry and instead returns to her native Scotland to reclaim her rightful throne. By birth, she also has a rival claim to the throne of Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie), who rules as the Queen of England. Determined to rule as much more than a figurehead, Mary asserts her claim to the English throne, threatening Elizabeth's sovereignty. Rivals in power and in love, the two Queens make very different choices about marriage and children. Betrayal, rebellion and conspiracies within each court imperil both Queens - driving them apart, as each woman experiences the bitter cost of power.
Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel star in this dramatic film about two officers in Napoleon's army who violently confront each other in a series of duels. The duels begin as a reaction to a minor incident and escalate into a consuming passion that rules the lives of both men for a period of 15 years. Based on Joseph Conrad's story, 'The Duellists' explores the themes of obsession, honour and violence.
Among the intricate investigations in Season 9, Murdoch (Yannick Bisson) and Meyers race against the clock to save Canada from annihilation when they learn of a secret space program involving the inventor James Pendrick (Peter Stebbings). Vehement support and opposition to prohibition measures bring radical American temperance advocate Carrie Nation (Valerie Buhagiar) to the city and a little too close to Brackenreid's beloved scotch. And a curious death in an opium den piques Ogden's (Helene Joy) curiosity about the exotic drug, and the doctor's life is about to change in unexpected ways after Murdoch investigates a bank robbery that occurs while he's applying for a loan to build their dream home.
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