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Lena Dunham and executive producers Judd Apatow and Jenni Konner return for the highly anticipated fifth season of 'Girls', the award-winning hit comedy series that follows the assorted humiliations and triumphs of a group of girls in their mid-20s - each facing new challenges in life and love this

season. As Season 5 begins, Hannah's put her writing ambitions aside and is teaching alongside Fran, her new boyfriend. Marnie realises that she needs more space after her honeymoon with Desi. While working towards becoming a therapist, Jessa also manages a budding relationship. And Shoshanna is thriving at her new job in Japan, flirting with her boss despite her long-distance relationship with Scott. Honest and uproarious, with unexpected surprise turns, the fifth season of 'Girls' promises to maintain the series' place as one of the most talked-about shows on television.

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Following the New York City adventures of a group of twenty-something women, the series focuses on Hannah Horvath (Lena Dunham) and her complicated web of friends, ex-friends, boyfriends and ex-boyfriends.

This season, Hannah forges ahead with her writing pursuits and begins seeing someone new, but her enthusiasm is tempered by the responsibility she feels for her now-ex Adam (Adam Driver), convalescing after being hit by a truck in the Season One finale. Let down by work and still lonely after calling things off with Charlie (Christopher Abbott), Marnie (Allison Williams) needs her best friend and former roommate more than ever, but lingering awkwardness - and some surprising turns - only drive a wedge further between them. Meanwhile, Jessa (Jemima Kirke) returns from her honeymoon and tries to settle into life with her new husband, Thomas-John (Chris O'Dowd), a sleazy businessman who she hardly knows. Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) takes charge of her sexuality - and copes with the emotions that come along with it - as Ray (Alex Karpovsky) has an out-of-sight, out-of-mind attitude toward their relationship. The girls may have their ups and downs, but the show's raw poignancy and fresh humour remain constant.

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From writer/director/actor Lena Dunham and executive producers Judd Apatow and Jenni Konner comes the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning HBO comedy series, Girls, which centres on Hannah Horvath (Dunham) and her mess of anxieties, insecurities and uncertainty as she approaches her mid-20s.

In Season 3, Hannah is now in a committed relationship with Adam (Adam Driver), and the two are settling into a newfound domesticity in Hannah's apartment. Hannah is also working on rehabilitating her writing career and concentrating on delivering her eBook to her eccentric publisher. Meanwhile. Marnie (Allison Williams) is adjusting to life after a sudden and traumatic breakup with Charlie and meticulously working to achieve the life she feels she deserves. Nearing graduation, newly single Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) masterminds a pian to create a healthy (at least on paper) balance between partying and her studies. And, continuing her streak of disrupting the lives of those around her. Jessa (Jemima Kirke) resurfaces and strikes up an ambiguous friendship with a flamboyant father figure. Over this season's 12 episodes, the friendships between the girls are more volatile than ever, proving that female friendship is its own kind of romance. As always, love, life, sex and death can all interrupt the circuitous path to adulthood - and will arrive when you're least prepared.

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From writer/director/actor Lena Dunham and comedy veterans Judd Apatow and Jenni Konner, this scripted half-hour series focuses on a group of women in their early twenties in New York and their adventures in post-collegiate floundering.

Two years out of liberal arts school, Hannah (Dunham) believes she has the talent to be a successful writer, though she has yet to complete her memoir - she has to live it first. But when her parents cut her off financially without warning, her New York life becomes a series of humiliating challenges. Further complicating things for Hannah is her unrequited passion for eccentric actor/woodworker Adam, with whom she occasionally has sex, at least when he can be bothered to respond to her text messages. As the harsh reality of rent and bills looms, Hannah leans on her very put-together best friend and roommate Marnie, who has a real job at an art gallery and an even realer boyfriend, neither of which she can admit she might not love. Meanwhile, their gorgeous British friend Jessa, who has travelled to as many different countries as she's had "lovers", appears in the city and moves in with Shoshanna, her naive younger cousin. Over the course of Season 1's ten episodes, the four girls try to figure out what they want - from life, from boys, from themselves and each other. The answers aren't always clear or easy, but the search is profoundly relatable and infinitely amusing.

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The House of Batiatus is on the rise, basking in the glow of its infamous champion Gannicus, whose skill with a sword is matched only by his thirst for wine and women. These are the times a young Batiatus has been waiting for.

Poised to overthrow his father and take control; he'll freely betray anyone to ensure his gladiators are in the highest demand. And he'll have his loyal and calculating wife Lucretia by his side for every underhanded scheme, drawing on the brazen talents of her seductive friend Gaia when it counts. Together, they will stop at nothing to deceive the masses, seize power and bleed Capua dry in this audacious prequel to "Spartacus: Blood and Sand".

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The spectacular Spanish thriller 'Locked Up' is back for a second series and is just as sharp, savage, and brilliantly horrifying. Left on a cliffhanger, we last saw our heroine, the once-virtuous Macarena (Maggie Civantos), accidentally strong-armed into a jailbreak.

In an opener that's shocking within moments, she, her sociopathic nemesis Zulema (Najwa Nimri), and a band of other escapees are out of the clink and on the run - and in the unfamiliar and unforgiving light of day, Maca finds herself transformed into a more merciless criminal than she imagined possible.

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Gaius Claudius Glaber is dead. Many months have passed since his defeat, and the rebel army, led by Spartacus and his generals Crixus, Gannicus and Agron, continue to amass victories over Rome.

With the rebel numbers swelling to thousands of freed slaves, Spartacus is more determined than ever to bring down the entire Roman Republic. Following Ashur's death, Naevia and Crixus fight as one. Together, the rebels engage in one bloody skirmish after another and prepare for the inevitable: a full out war with Rome. The Roman Senate turns to Marcus Crassus, a wealthy, strategic politician, for aid. He respects his opponent and refuses to make the same mistakes Glaber and his predecessors have. With a young and fiercely competitive Julius Caesar as an ally, Crassus is determined to crush Spartacus and his rebellion. The epic conclusion of a legendary journey, 'Spartacus: War of the Damned' will unleash a battle unlike anything ever seen before.

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The Romans are here and set to stay. Two years on from his invasion of Britannia, General Aulus (David Morrissey) is romanising cooperative Celt tribes and crushing those who try to resist, with the help of his new ally, Celt Queen Amena (Annabel Scholey).

The only form of hope for Veran's (Mackenzie Crook) Druids and Celts is Cait (Eleanor Worthington-Cox), a young girl who is being trained by outcast Druid Divis (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) to fulfil a prophecy that would save Britannia from the Romans. But when a dead man wakes, two Druid brothers begin an epic battle of wills that divides the Druids and puts the prophecy in jeopardy.

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Christian (Claes Bang), a respected curator of a contemporary art museum in Stockholm, is gearing up to launch a new show, 'The Square', a daring installation examining altruism and our duty to help others.

However, Christian's own views on social responsibility are put to the test when he becomes the victim of scam, forcing him to question the world around him and his place in it.

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On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between New York's twin towers, then the world’s tallest buildings.

After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail before he was finally released. Following six and a half years of dreaming of the towers, Petit spent eight months in New York City planning the execution of the coup. Aided by a team of friends and accomplices, Petit was faced with numerous extraordinary challenges: he had to find a way to bypass the WTC’s security; smuggle the heavy steel cable and rigging equipment into the towers; pass the wire between the two rooftops; anchor the wire and tension it to withstand the winds and the swaying of the buildings.

In Pete Walker's 'Schizo', a young woman's engagement to a famous athlete is overshadowed by terrifying threats from an unknown assailant As the stalker's menacing presence grows, she unearths a web of deceit and betrayal, leading to a suspenseful climax that will keep audiences guessing until the very end.

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"Locked Up" is a grippingly tense provocative prison drama that will fuel your addiction to foreign drama. Framed by her lover for corporate fraud, young Macarena Ferreiro (Maggie Civantos) finds herself locked up in a high security women's prison surrounded by tough, ruthless criminals.

Still in denial, prison proves to be a very rude awakening for Macarena and at the end of her first day, she finds herself struggling to cope. Yolanda (Belén Cuesta), her cell mate, takes Macarena under her wing, but a midnight visit from Zulema (Najwa Nimri), the prison's most dangerous inmate, is about to change Macarena's life forever.

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The fourth and final season of this Cinemax action drama finds ex-con Lucas Hood (Antony Starr) returning to 'Banshee' without his badge, but with a new mission: to hunt for a vicious serial killer and to track down a long-lost ally.

Season 4 begins two years after Lucas and Carrie (Ivana Milicevic) orchestrated a multimillion-dollar heist that went bad, leaving Carrie's husband dead and Job (Hoon Lee) in the hands of a criminal gang. After a bender, during which he finds an unlikely saviour in Rebecca (Lili Simmons), Lucas emerges from a self-imposed exile and goes back to Banshee to find it a drastically changed town that's facing multiple threats on many levels.

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Created by Jonathan Trapper and David Schickler, this Cinemax action drama charts the continuing twists and turns that follow Lucas Hood, an ex-convict who improbably assumes the identity of sheriff of the rural, Amish-area town of Banshee, where his former lover and partner-in-crime has been

living under her own alias, Carrie Hopewell. Series Three takes up a month after the events of the Series Two 2 finale: Carrie, now exposed and estranged from her husband and kids, remains in Banshee, working as a waitress by day while moonlighting with Lucas, and fellow co-conspirators Sugar Bates and Job, on a variety of local heists. As Lucas finds it harder and harder to keep his true identity from his deputies, he and the Banshee police force become embroiled in a new conflict between Amish gangster Kai Proctor and Chayton Littlestone, the vicious leader of the Redhone wing of the Kinaho tribe. And as fists and bullets fly in and around Banshee, Lucas concocts a new scheme that could net his thieves a fortune - robbing a decommissioned Marine compound housing millions of dollars.

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Director Mike Nichols brings Patrick Marber's highly acclaimed theatrical tour de force Closer to the screen.

An uncompromisingly honest look at modern relationships, Closer is the story of four strangers (Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen) - their chance meetings, instant attractions and brutal betrayals.