http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3579018/
A modern reimagining of the stories that led to ‘The Wizard of Oz’.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083446/
First broadcast in 1982, this Emmy award winning epic adventure cost a staggering ten million dollars and featured an all-star, Oscar winning cast. Filmed on location in Italy, Morocco, Nepal and China this lavish mini-series was the first Western production to film in China after WWII and took over thirteen months to complete. An epic in every sense of the word. Born in Venice in 1254, Marco Polo was just 17 when he set off with his father and uncle to travel the Silk Road to China. Their adventurous journey through Asia, which lasted three and half years, took them through uncharted territory and went down in history as one of the greatest exploratory journeys of all time. Marco then spent 17 years in Peking as the guest of the Great Khan, winning the trust and respect of the Emperor for whom he carried out various diplomatic missions. Marco took great care to understand and record the culture, language, traditions and customs of the people he met during his long travels and as a result became one of histories legendary explorers.
Audio Language: English
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1272883/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3075414/
– Four Seasons
This is a special four part mini-series based on Rosamunde Pilchers drama: Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring. Focusing on the Combes family and their magnificent country estate Endellion. Patriarch Alex reigns over the estate with a mildness that infuriates his eldest son Stephen, a high-powered financier, but perfectly suits his younger, more relaxed son Charles. After many years of unruffled tranquility, life at Endellion is about to enter a turbulent new phase with the return of Stephen s ex-wife, and division over her granddaughter Abby, whose mother had died never revealing the father s name. Scandal, vengeance, jealousy and desire rage as furiously as the sea in this powerful drama from bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher.– Unknown Heart
Carolina Vera and Gedeon Burkhard star in Giles Foster’s adaptation of the novel by Rosamunde Pilcher. When Elizabeth Lancaster (Vera), a terminally ill 40-year-old heiress to her family’s cider farm, gets a phone call from the hospital with the news of the heart transplant she has been waiting for, she feels like all her dreams have come true. After the operation Elizabeth is unable to connect to her family and instead finds herself drawn to a place she has never known: the home of the woman whose heart now beats in her chest. As she meets her donor’s widow, Andrew Shaw (Burkhard) she immediately feels an unexplainable connection and the tormented pair begin a passionate affair. Will their love be enough to keep them together or will more hearts be broken along the way?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3039270/
Count Arthur Strong – A man born to entertain an audience, whether they like it or not. Variety star, bit-part actor, life model, medium, entrepreneur, enjoyer of all-day breakfasts, and inexplicable Count, nothing is outside his area of expertise. Into Arthur’s world comes Michael Baker, the son of his vastly more successful former double-act partner, Max. Michael (Rory Kinnear) is professionally and personally adrift, an author whose last shot at the popularity he craves is a book about his Dad, the King of Saturday Night. but last time he met Arthur he burst into tears and wet himself. Thirty years on, it seems that Arthur is still capable of embarrassing him one way or another…
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166936/
"The X-Files" writer/executive producer Howard Gordon presents an exploration of a nefarious world where "big business" funds "big science," and the answers Paul Turner finds lead to more questions than have ever been imagined. After exposure to chemical weapons during the Gulf War, ex-Government scientist Turner spent six isolated years fighting for his life until an enigmatic Asian woman saved him with a miraculous cure…that lasted only temporarily. Ever since, the illness has regularly returned to ravage Turner’s body until the woman mysteriously reappears to provide another dose. After a six year absence, Turner returns to the Army as a Special Investigator in charge of tracking down the Frankensteins of the world. Turner’s belief that the government is too slow and inefficient to protect us from the unchecked advances of science proves to be all too true in this show that features such ripped- from-the-headlines fare as cloning and genetic engineering. His only allies are his …
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247144/
Yes, Dear is a comedy about two young couples and their outrageously contrasting views on parenting. First-time parents, Greg and Kim Warner struggle on a daily basis to become perfect at the job. Kim is a neurotic, stay-at-home mother, and although her husband, Greg, is a success in his career, his more difficult job is keeping his wife calm as they raise their year-old son, Sam. While Kim is determined to be the perfect mother and perfect wife and to raise the perfect son, her sister, Christine Hughes, a very down-to-earth mother of two [four-year-old Dominic and one-year-old Logan], continually reminds her that life will never be perfect. Christine’s husband, Jimmy, is employed as a security guard and unconcerned about living in Kim and Greg’s guest house and feels compelled to share with his brother-in-law his philosophy about being a husband and a parent while still remaining a man.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1797469/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2904608/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2904626/
Page Eight, Turks & Caicos, and Salting the Battlefield form The Worricker Trilogy-three gripping films that follow the exploits of the intensely private and scrupulous Worricker-from MI5 headquarters in London to exile on a Caribbean island to life on the run with his former lover and fellow agent Margot Tyrrell (Helena Bonham Carter). A spy who prefers the black-and-white certainties of the Cold War, Worricker (Bill Nighy) finds himself increasingly out of his element as the distinction between ally and enemy dissolves into the amorphous alliances of the 21st century.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4835514/
A glimpse of 80s literary London based on Nina Stibbe’s letters to her sister.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162083/
Thora Hird stars as indefatigable Salvation Army Captain Emily Ridley in this popular sitcom, which reunites her with In Loving Memory creator and writer Dick Sharples. This two-disc set comprises both series, originally running through 1983 to 1984 and also starring Patsy Rowlands (Carry On), Geoffrey Bayldon (Catweazle), Garfield Morgan (The Sweeney) and Gretchen Franklin (EastEnders), with guest appearances from Thora Hird’s Last of the Summer Wine co-star Michael Aldridge, Joan Sims, and Countdown legend Richard Whitely. For over forty years, Emily Ridley has fought the Devil and all his works with a vigour and sincerity second to none. Unfortunately, latter-day sinners seem reluctant to respond to the old hellfire-and-brimstone brand of evangelism, and Emily’s superiors decide it’s time for her to lay down her arms and retire from the battlefield. She’s posted to the quiet little Yorkshire town of Brigthorpe which, she is convinced, is in urgent need of salvation…
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108828/
A mock of a TV show where the host is rude to many of his guests.