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Due to the sudden illness of its regular host, BBC One show 'This Time' welcomes Alan Partridge as its guest presenter. The show sees Alan handed a career lifeline - the chance to stand in as co-host on a nightly magazine show.

His return to primetime television after his 90's chat show Knowing Me, Knowing You was cancelled after a guest was fatally shot on air. This Time is a heady mix of consumer affairs, current affairs, viewer interaction, highbrow interview and lightweight froth; very much the sweet spots for a man whose broadcasting style has been described as 'equidistant between chitchat and analysis'. Joining Alan in the studio is co-presenter Jennie Gresham (Susannah Fielding) and Tweet reader-outer Simon 'formerly Sidekick Simon' Denton (Tim Key).

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Sinan (Dogu Demirkol) returns from his studies in the city of Canakkale to his parents' home in the small rural town of Can. He hopes to publish a book of essays and short stories (or what he describes as a "quirky auto-fiction meta-novel").

But his teacher father Idris (Murat Cemcir) is an addictive gambler, so much so that his mother and sister have become reluctantly accustomed to making do without food or electricity. And so Sinan, with his writing dreams, worrying that we will be reduced after army service to teaching in the remote East, wanders around town, visiting his grandparents, encountering old friends, all the while looking for funding for his book.

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First broadcast in December 1954, Zoo Quest was one of the most popular television series of its time and launched the career of the young David Attenborough as a wildlife presenter.

Zoo Quest completely changed how viewers saw the world - revealing wildlife and tribal communities that had never been filmed or even seen before. Broadcast ten years before colour television was seen in the UK, Zoo Quest was thought to have been filmed in black and white. Until now! Thanks to a recent remarkable discovery in the BBC's film vaults, the best of David Attenborough's early Zoo Quest adventures can now be seen as never before - in stunning HD colour - and with it the fascinating behind the scenes stories from David Attenborough and cameraman Charles Lagus of how this pioneering television series was made.

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Dr. Russell Marvin (Hugh Marlowe) works for Operation Skyhook, a government task force sending rockets into space to probe for future space flights. But when the rockets begin mysteriously disappearing, Dr.

Marvin investigates along with his wife and assistant, Carol (Joan Taylor), only to find the rockets are being intercepted by an army of space aliens who give humanity an ultimatum: loyalty or death! As the aliens begin attacking cities and landmarks across the Earth including an unforgettable assault on Washington D.C. it's up to Dr. Marvin and his wife to figure out how to stop these diabolical creatures before it's too late.

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Brad Pitt picks up a sword and brings a muscular, brooding presence the role of Greek warrior Achilles in this spectacular retelling of The Iliad.

Orlando Bloom and Diane Kruger play the legendary lovers who plunge the world into war, Eric Bana portrays the prince who dares to confront Achilles, and Peter O'Toole rules Troy as King Priam. Director Wolfgang Petersen recreates a long-ago world of mighty warships, clashing armies, the massive fortress city and the towering trojan horse. "If love is worth fighting for, it has known no greater battle than this." It's known no greater action-epic movie either.

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In a remote part of New England, two teenagers on a camping trip see what looks like a meteorite fall from the sky and land nearby. Investigating, they discover the deadly spawn - a toothsome alien being, that quickly disposes of them before setting off in search of more food.

Soon it has found a hiding place in a nearby town, where its terror is fully unleashed upon the unwary inhabitants...

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Two of Hollywood's most dazzling stars Hight up the screen in this charming and captivating love story about finding true love.

After losing his wife, Fred feels confused and alone, so his daughter, helps move him into a nearby apartment building where he meets Elsa. From that moment on, their lives are turned upside down as Elsa bursts into Fred's life like a whirlwind, determined to teach him that time is precious and that he should enjoy life and love - to the fullest.

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Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon (Best Actress, Dead Man Walking, 1995) narrates this visually stunning and thought-provoking documentary based upon New York Times best-selling author Dan Burstein's book 'Secrets of the Code'.

Featuring interviews and commentary by renowned historians, including: Timothy Freke (Time Machine: Beyond the Da Vinci Code), Richard Leigh (Time Machine: Beyond the Da Vinci Code), Sean Martin (Templar Code: Crusade of Secrecy), Rabbi Irwin Kula (Simple Wisdom), and Elaine Pagels (The Real Da Vinci Code), 'Secrets of the Code' explores and challenges the global obsession inspired by Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. Examine the mysteries surrounding ancient signs and symbols, the meaning of the Holy Grail in history, the true identities of Mary Magdalene and Leonardo da Vinci, the significance of the Gnostic Gospels and the true facts behind secret societies such as the Priory of Sion, Opus Dei and more! 'Secrets of the Code' is a sweeping cinematic journey that delves even deeper into the mysteries of mankind's past and the origins of our religious beliefs, making this feature-length documentary a powerful companion piece to the best-selling novel and blockbuster film.

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Simon Pegg stars as Sidney Young, a gate-crashing British journalist who loves exposing the shallowness of the celebrity world, yet desperately wants to join it.

When he accepts an offer from renowned editor Clayton Harding (Jeff Bridges) to write for an ultra-chic magazine in Manhattan, Sidney finally gets to rub elbows with A-list celebrities but always manages to rub them the wrong way. His fellow writer, Alison Olsen (Kirsten Dunst), is powerless to stop Sidney when he sets his lustful sites on beautiful starlet Sophie Maes (Megan Fox). But when Sophie's publicist (Gillian Anderson) makes him a tempting offer, Sidney is finally poised to conquer the Big Apple or suffer the biggest humiliation of his life.

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Too terrifying to even have a name, "It" is a seemingly invincible monster that is hell-bent on killing everyone on a mission to Mars. A rescue ship travels out to Mars to retrieve the only survivor of a space probe that has experienced some sort of cataclysm.

That survivor, Col Ed Carruthers (Marshall Thompson), is accused of murdering his fellow crewmen. But Ed claims that the killer was a Martian monster, and hopes to prove his assertions by signing up for a second journey to the Red Planet. Before long, the crew members of this second expedition are being systematically killed off, and it looks as though Ed is up to his old tricks. As it turns out, however, Ed was telling the truth: there is a monster on board, the savage descendant of the once-mighty Martian civilization, who snuck on board when an irresponsible crew member left the door open. The monster stays alive by absorbing the vital body fluids of its victims - and there seems to be no way to stop this parasitic creature! Will they be able to destroy the monster before it manages to feed on them all?

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Perhaps his most famous film, La Dolce Vita slices into the decadent amoral core of Roman society with Fellini's trademark attention to detail and spectacular photography.

Marcello Mastroianni plays a gossip columnist (the term 'paparazzi' derives from the in a film) who aspires to be a more serious writer but knows he never will be, because like society, he is fascinated by the decadent hedonist pursuits which are seemingly everywhere. The Vatican was appalled by the film, but the public adored it, relishing the images Fellini fed them, most notably the now infamous scene of Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg frolicking in the Trevi Fountain.

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A woodcutter experiences a horrific series of events - an ambush, rape and murder.

In the telling of the tale however, each of the four participants give different views of what actually happened - is any of them telling the truth? Kurosawa's masterful film plays on the subjective nature of truth while unfurling a riveting tale of violence and greed.

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October, 1957. "It" awakens and the small town of Derry, Maine will never be the same.

Stephen King brings to life every childhood fear and phobia as seven children face an unthinkable horror which appears in various forms, including "Pennywise" (Tim Curry) - a clown who lives, hunts and kills from the town's sewers. Years later, the surviving adults who are brave enough return to stop the new killing spree, this time for good.

After a date and seemingly innocent sexual encounter, 19-year-old Jay (Maika Monroe) is left with an inescapable sense that someone, or something is following her. Jay and her friends team up to try and find ways to escape the traumatising horrors that are always right behind them.

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Browning, a former circus contortionist, cast reai-life sideshow professionals.

A living torso who, nimbly fights his own cigarette despite having no arms or legs, microcephalics (whom the film calls "pinheads")-they and others play the big-top troupers who inflict a terrible revenge on a trapeze artist who treats them as subhumans.