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Tony Britton won a BAFTA nomination for his central performance in this finely observed drama about a veteran Labour back-bencher who risks the remains of his career when he re-engages in the grass-roots politics of his northern working-class constituency.

Starting life as a single 'ITV Playhouse' drama which won the Broadcasting Press Guild's award for Best Single Play in 1975, 'The Nearly Man' follows the events of seven months in a critical year for Christopher Collinson - a public-school MP with the perfect credentials for a candidate in the forthcoming general election. The series charts his uneasy relationship with party activists, the intrigues and aggression of politics - and the impact of Collinson's renewed ambition upon his marriage.

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Indigenous Detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) arrives in the frontier mining town of Goldstone on a missing persons enquiry.

What seems like a simple 'light duties' investigation soon opens into a web of crime and corruption implicating the local Mayor (Jacki Weaver), mining boss and Aboriginial Land Council.

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"A Very English Scandal" is the shocking true story of the first British politician to stand trial for conspiracy to murder.

It's the late 1960's, homosexuality has only just been decriminalized, and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party and the youngest leader of any British political party in a hundred years, has a secret he's desperate to hide. As long as Norman Scott, his vociferous ex-lover is around, Thorpe's brilliant career is at risk, and eventually Thorpe can see only one way to silence Scott for good. The trial of Jeremy Thorpe changed politics forever as the British public discovered the darkest secrets of the Establishment and the lengths they'd go to conceal them.

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Halifax, Yorkshire, 1832. Charismatic, swashbuckling Anne Lister (Suranne Jones) determines to transform the fate of her ancestral home Shibden Hall. To do this, she must re-open her coal mines and marry well. But Anne has no intention of marrying a man.

True to her own nature she plans to marry a woman and embarks on an epic, unconventional love story. 'Gentleman Jack' brings all the warmth, wit and complexity of the writing of Sally Wainwright (BAFTA award-winning writer of Happy Valley, Last Tango in Halifax) to the remarkable true story of Anne Lister.

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Debauchery. Greed. Murder. Welcome to Garlow. This once-peaceful frontier town has become a den of vice after vicious outlaw Dutch Albert (John Cusack) and his gang arrived - and began gunning down their opposition.

Undertaker Patrick Tate (Emile Hirsch) must now choose between the blood money he makes burying the murderers' victims and the threats he and his family face in this intense and gritty western.

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Based on real-life events that took place in the 1880's when Hereford cattle were first introduced to the American West.

Martha Price (Maureen O'Hara) and her daughter Hilary (Juliet Mills) enlist the help of Sam 'Bulldog' Burnett (James Stewart), a wandering ranch hand, to carry out the dream of Martha's late husband who died en route to America. His dream was to introduce Hereford cattle by transporting a lone bull, Vindicator, to Texas to breed it with longhorn cattle. Martha, Hilary and Sam set out on the road to Texas with the bull, but the trail is fraught with dangers and Sam has to rescue the women from a series of Western-style ambushes and abductions.

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A particularly vicious serial killer is stalking the Norfolk coast in the vicinity of the Larksoken nuclear power station. The press have branded him 'The Whistler' because witnesses have heard a hymn being whistled in the vicinity of the murders.

His trademark is the letter 'L' carved on the forehead of his victims. L for Larksoken? At first, his victims seem to be chosen entirely at random - women in the wrong place, at the wrong time - but then two women employed at the nuclear power station are murdered in quick succession... Adam Dalgliesh (Roy Marsden), on leave in Norfolk to settle his late aunt's estate, becomes intimately caught up in the murder hunt as suspicions grow that the police may be looking for more than one killer...

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Crabbe faces an under-staffed kitchen at his restaurant, the wrath of the ubiquitous Fisher over a slow surveillance job and angry letters from the bank.

Then tragedy and excitement are dished up in equal measures when there is an accident during a pheasant shoot and Fisher is framed - leaving Henry to save the career and reputation of his ex-boss. Margaret recognises the groom from her swinging 60s days when a newly married couple plan on taking over the restaurant for a wedding feast. Henry continues to dream of being a full-time chef.

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"Spiral" is back for a thrilling seventh series of criminal investigations in Paris, as it embraces the various perspectives of those involved in the judicial system: the police and the judicial authorities.

Berthaud (Caroline Proust) and Gilou (Thierry Godard) are brought back together by a double homicide in a Chinese restaurant located in the district of Belleville. One of the victims is the team's esteemed former superior. All of them will have to face unexpected hurdles and solve a dilemma: give up the truth or betray the institution they have faithfully served.

A cantankerous food writer asks Henry for help when her spicy memoirs come under threat. Some local busybodies approach Henry to 'sort out' a hooligan and moody boss Fisher has second thoughts about his job. Henry wonders if now could be the time to leave the Force and concentrate on cooking.Featuring Episodes 6-10

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As a Russian émigré, businessman Samuel Petrukhin (Toby Stephens) is determined to integrate his young family into the establishment.

So when Samuel meets the captivating Kathleen Shaw (Keeley Hawes) and her husband Richard (Linus Roache) - a war hero and Member of Parliament - he's dazzled by their upper class glamour. But then MI5 agents blackmail Samuel into spying on the Shaws, and he's drawn into a dark web of deception. These shadowy government operatives could be tempting him into a deadly trap. Are the Shaws really involved in a plot to betray their nation? The country's future is shrouded in doubt. Who can Samuel trust? Anyone?

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A grisly homicide...a sensational trial...a forbidden affair. It's 'Jagged Edge', a razor-sharp suspense-thriller about crime, punishment and passion. When a San Francisco socialite is viciously murdered, her publisher husband, Jack Forrester (Jeff Bridges), is accused of committing the crime.

Teddy Barnes (Glenn Close) decides to defend the charming, manipulative Jack, only to disregard legal ethics by having an affair with him. With the help of private eye Sam Ransom (Robert Loggia), she takes on a ruthless D.A. (Peter Coyote) who's using the case as a political steppingstone. However, a startling revelation puts Teddy in jeopardy of becoming the next victim of the 'Jagged Edge'.

A murdered girl's defiant mother (Frances McDormand) boldly paints three local billboards, each with a controversial message, igniting a furious battle with a volatile cop (Sam Rockwell) and the town's revered chief of police (Woody Harrelson).

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Johnny Deep stars as charismatic and elusive bank robber marked by the FBI as America’s ‘Public Enemy Number One’. Marion Cotillard plays Billie Frechette, the only woman capable of capturing his hear.

Hunted relentlessly by top FBI agent Melvin Purvis, Dillinger engages in an escalating game of the cat and mouse that culminates in an explosive legendary showdown.

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1944: as WWII’s bloody conflict is ravaging Europe, two fearless and deadly freedom fighters choose to put their lives at stade fighting for the Holger Danske Resistance.

Their codenames: "Flame" and "Citron" Intrepid and uncompromising, Flame dreams of an armed counterattack against the oppressive occupying forces, something which sits uneasily with Citron’s more strategic diplomacy. Ordered to hunt down two Nazi officials, this routine espionage exercise spirals out of control as Flame begins to suspect deception amongst their ranks. Soon suspicions become catastrophically real trust turns to deception and betrayal. The race is on to uncover who is ort to stop the Resistance reaching its ultimate target: the hated and feared chief of the Gestapo, Hoffmann. Based on monumental, ground breaking research into on explosive and secret history, 'Flame And Citron' takes you to the heart of war as you’ve never experienced it.