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Kate is the ultimate trend setter - beautiful, sexy, dressed head-to-toe in designer labels. Steve is the admired successful businessman who has it all: a gorgeous wife, big house and an endless supply of high-tech toys.

Jenn and Mick rule their new school as they embody all that is hip and trendy - cool clothes, fast cars and the latest gadgets. But as their friends and neighbours try to keep up with the Joneses, none are prepared for the dark truth about this all too perfect family.

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Critically acclaimed ITV drama series 'Unforgotten' starring Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar returns for a second series.

The story begins with the discovery of a body; this time the perfectly preserved remains of a middle-aged man found in a sealed suitcase in the silt of the River Lea in North East London. As Cassie and Sunny begin the complicated task of trying to identify the victim, we will meet four unconnected people who we suspect are linked in some way to the victim...

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Each of the world's major cities has its best detective agency, and each of these has its best agents; super-agents like 'The Profecfors'. The most sensitive, baffling, dangerous assignments are handled by this trio of adventurers with no equal among private eyes.

In their nervetingling assignments, they function as a highly trained team, but they know that the next mission might mean death - and they live as if each moment were their last. Robert Vaughn stars as Harry Rule, the suave American who leads their operations and works from a London office; Nyree Dawn Porter is the elegant, Rome-based Contessa di Contini, and Tony Anholt is Paul Buchet, a French agent operating out of a Paris apartment.

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Clive Peacock is a cheery, contented postie living in a seaside Dorset town. His job has always been simple: real people, real post, real customer service. New technology is threatening Clive's livelihood, with the sorting office now swarmed by machines that are guaranteed to take over his job.

a defiant, last-ditch attempt to protest and prove his worth, Clive sets out on an ambitious mission. He vows to deliver every single letter in his last post by hand, cycling all over Britain to give his customers their letters face-to-face, the old fashioned way. However, Clive's noble quest doesn't win the hearts of the police, who are in hot pursuit of the gentle postman for stealing Her Majesty's mail... This two-part comedy-drama follows a simple man's mission to rescue his humble profession from being taken over by machines. It's a funny, moving tribute to elbow grease, perseverance, and ceaseless British spirit.

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Determined to track down the perfect curry and introduce new flavours, Rick Stein embarks on a spectacular journey though the Indian sub-continent to discover the origins of dishes, ingredients and spices that are celebrated the world over.

This colourful series offers viewers a feast of delights influenced by India's colourful history, captivating cultures and enthralling religious communities. He travels to Kolkata (Calcutta) to experience its ethnic influences and street food, discovers the temple food of Tamil Nadu, travels through the spice laden hills of Kerala, becomes a guest judge at a cooking competition in the Punjab and meets the Dalai Lama in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh - unearthing new flavours and dishes along the way. Inspired by the wealth and fabulous ethnic diversity of Indian regional cooking, Rick hosts a small gathering of friends at his cooking bungalow to reveal the outcome of his search for the perfect curry.

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Set in Edinburgh, Michael is a young local astronomer caught up in experiments to break down the barriers between space and time. An encounter with Caroline, an enigmatic French photographer, soon develops into an obsessive love affair.

However, Michael's experiments have turned everything into a kind of claustrophobic dreamscape where all sense of reality has been lost. In a series of flashbacks, Michael's mental state collapses like the black stars he's observing, as he struggles to work out if he is a ghost or if it is Caroline who has left the world.

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"Forbidden Planet" is the granddaddy of tomorrow, a pioneering work whose ideas and style would be reverse-engineered into many cinematic space voyages to come. Leslie Nielsen plays the commander who brings his space-cruiser crew to Planet Altair-4, home to Dr.

Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter (Anne Francis), a dutiful robot named Robby...and a mysterious terror. Featuring sets of extraordinary scale and the first allelectronic musical soundscape in film history, 'Forbidden Planet' is in a movie orbit all its own.

John Thaw (Inspector Morse, Goodnight Mr Tom) is Kavanagh Q.C, one of the most respected criminal advocates in London. From a northern working-class background, James Kavanagh has climbed to the top of an elite profession through hard work and a love of the law.

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"The Boys from Brazil" is a terrifying film about the perpetuation of a new race of Hitlers, based on Ira Levin's thrilling book of the same title. In the setting of 1970's South America, a notorious Nazi War criminal, Dr.

Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck), gathers a group of former Nazis to work on a covert project to establish a Fourth Reich. But when famed Nazi-hunter Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier) is enlightened to Mengele's bone-chilling scheme - to clone 94 young Hitlers and cause horror on a global scale - he attempts to unravel the conspiracy.

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Sally Gilmartin (Charlotte Rampling) can t escape the secrets of her past. Born Eva Delectorskaya (Hayley Atwell), the WWII-era spy was forced into hiding after a critical mission ended with a deadly betrayal.

Three decades on, Sally recruits her unsuspecting daughter (Michelle Dockery) to discover the truth of what happened those many years ago.

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In the Academy Award-nominated classic, Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire join forces, lending their song and dance talents to the timeless musical.

When a fashion magazine mogul (Kay Thompson) and her head photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) scout out a bookstore for their next photo shoot, Dick discovers the unique face of bookseller and amateur philosopher Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn). Whisked off to Paris, Jo is soon transformed into a global supermodel...and finds herself falling for the photographer who first noticed her sunny, funny face.

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Mel Smith is best known for 'Not the Nine O'Clock News' and 'Alas Smith and Jones'. In this much loved 1980s BBC sitcom, the late comedian plays an aspiring writer stuck in a soul destroying day job.

Depressed Colin Watkins (Mel Smith) works for the British Rail Passenger Relations Office, otherwise known as the complaints department. He doesn't like his job much and has dreams of becoming a full-time writer, toiling late into the night trying to realise his ambitions. Distracting him are his girlfriend Jenny, best friend Des, and the obnoxiously happy couple Richard and Sarah. He takes a step towards achieving his ambition when one of his short stories is accepted for publication in "The Langley Book of Horror". In Series 2, a famous film producer offers Colin the chance of adapting his short story for a film. Colin jumps at the chance but disruptions in various guises continue to derail him, and keep him tied to the desk job.

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Set in 1920's Toronto, 'Frankie Drake Mysteries' follows the city's only female private detectives as they take on the cases the police don't want to touch. In a time of change and hopefulness, their gender is their biggest advantage as they defy expectations and rebel against convention.

The Drake Private Detectives take on cases that explore every cross-section of Toronto, from gospel church choirs, bathing beauties and the early cinema scene, to the homes and private parties of the city's elite. Frankie (Lauren Lee Smith) and Trudy's (Chantel Riley) fearless sense of adventure gets them into all kinds of trouble, but they always manage to find a way out. They are new detectives for a new world - but is the world ready for them?

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Based on the international bestselling novel by Fredrik Backman and nominated for 2 Oscars (including Best Foreign Language Film), 'A Man Called Ove' is a heartwarming tale of unreliable first impressions and a wonderful reminder that life is sweeter when it's shared.

An ageing retiree with strict principles and a short fuse, Ove (Rolf Lassgard) is the quintessential angry old man next door. Having entirely given up on life, his days are spent in a constant monotony of enforcing housing association rules and visiting his wife Sonja's gravesite. But when a boisterous young family moves into the neighbourhood, immediately incurring his wrath, things take an unexpected turn. Pregnant Parvaneh (Bahar Pars) and her lively children are the complete antithesis of what ill-tempered Ove thinks he needs -and yet, from this inauspicious beginning an unlikely friendship blooms and Ove's past happiness and heartbreaks come to light.

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Known for his unique rasping voice and his elaborate way of expressing his hostility towards children and all mankind, W.C.

Fields had the special gift of making anything seem funny, and at the same time, had audiences believe that underneath all his humour he was not really kidding and that the grumpiness was genuine.

Shorts Comprise:
- The Dentist (1932)
- The Pool Shark (1915)
- The Pharmacist (1933)
- The Barber Shop (1933)
- The Golf Specialist (1930)
- The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933)