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The second series of the critically acclaimed and British Comedy Award winning show AI Murray's Happy Hour is packed with rip-roaring celebrity interviews and beautiful British bar banter. Sit tight and enjoy this madcap retrospective of the best bits of Series Two.

Enjoy classic moments as Barbara Windsor reignites her Carry On career with the help of James Blunt, Cerys Matthews and Jungle love-rat Marc Bannerman; Richard Madeley and Phil Vickery dance the Guvs all new British Haka and Spice Girl Mel B gets grilled on such hot topics as, "Do you ever have any technical problems on stage, such as microphones switching on?" Further unforgettable moments include: Piers Morgan murdering 'My Way' and Ricky Hatton revealing that he went to a Spice Girls concert after his Las Vegas fight, even though, as the Guv mused, "you'd already risked serious brain damage once that night!" Not forgetting of course an electrifying live music performance from the best band in the world, Queen.

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When serial killer Gabriel Engel is captured in a spectacular police strike a small town cop Michael Martens travels to interrogate him, believing him to be responsible for the brutal murder of a child from his village.

Despite making more headway than the other more experienced detectives, Martens becomes increasingly troubled by his conversations with Engel. Finding his beliefs shaken, Michael soon becomes a dangerous threat to those around him.

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Tales from painted Hawaii is the second instalment from the luxury comedy team (Noel Fielding and Nigel Coan).

Join Noel and the gang, Andy Warhol (Tom Meeten), Dolly (Dolly Wells) and Smooth (Michael Fielding), in a coffee shop on the edge of a volcano in painted Hawaii, for five brand new magical adventures. See them battle a monster called fantasy block in an attempt to save their only viewer Terry from being killed by an asteroid. Welcome back favourites such as Fantasy Man, New York cop and Joey Ramone. Get naked and dance to new music from the "Loose Tapestries" (Sergio Pizzorno, Kasabian) and gasp at the comic stylings of guest stars including Richard Ayoade, Steve Oram, Rich Fulcher and Simon Farnaby. Luxury comedy is back and as wonky as ever!

Episodes Comprise:
1. Paul Panfer
2. Saving Terry
3. Reality Man
4. Cucumbers of Cool
5. Joey and the Whale

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'Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy' is a show unlike anything else on television. A fusion of live action and animation with music by Sergio Pizzorno (Kasabian).

Along with animator/director Nigel Coan (Mighty Boosh, Bunny and the Bull), Fielding has created a joyful, charming explosion of a show in the tradition of Spike Milligan and Kenny Everett. A mash-up of sketch comedy and psychedelic sitcom featuring wild characters such as ghost of a flea, dondylion and fantasy man (a modern day tron quixote trapped inside an electronic opera). 'Luxury Comedy', also starring Mike Fielding, Tom Meeten and Dolly Wells, will change the way you feel about television and your own hands forever!

Episodes Comprise:
1. Pelé
2. The Jelly Fox
3. King Tutta
4. Phone Cake
5. Mash Potato Utopia
6. Tiger With Chlamydia
7. BBQ Breakdown

Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) doesn't expect much when she moves to the small town of Forks, Washington, until she meets the dark and mysterious Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) - a boy who's hiding a dark secret: he's a vampire.

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In 1972, before the internet, before the explosion of the adult film industry, Deep Throat was a phenomenon and introduced the world to an unknown and unlikely star: Linda Lovelace (Amanda Seyfried).

Escaping a strict religious family, Linda discovered freedom and the high life when she fell for and married charismatic hustler Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard). As "Linda Lovelace" she became an international sensation - a charming girl-next-door with some 'impressive skills'. Fully inhabiting her new identity, Linda became an enthusiastic spokesperson for sexual freedom and uninhibited hedonism. Six years later she presented another, utterly contradictory, narrative to the world - and herself, as the survivor of a far darker story.

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Emma (Tilda Swinton), a Russian emigre and the matriarch of a wealthy Milanese family, lives in a carefully ordered world where duty towards husband and children dominates her life.

But after a chance discovery reveals an unspoken love her world is thrown open to sensuality and she embarks on a journey of unbridled passion that will shake her family's foundations to the core. Hailed by critics and lauded by audiences across the world, 'I Am Love' is a breath-taking tour de force of cinematic beauty. As lush, sumptuous and visually arresting as it is moving, heartbreaking and overwhelmingly powerful, this stunning account of the pain and pleasure of desire will leave you gasping for air.

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Beginning with a kinetic, bone-crushing car accident, 'Amores Perros' imaginatively interweaves the stories of its three victims: Octavio (Gael Garcia Bernal) a young man who has fallen in love with his violent brother's wife; Valeria (Goya Toledo), a beautiful Mexican model for whom physical

appearances are everything and El Chivo (Emilio Echevarria), a former political assassin now exiled from his family. The result is a moving, visceral eulogy to life, loss and dog fighting on Mexico's mean streets.

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Eva (Swinton) puts her ambitions and career aside to give birth to Kevin, but the relationship between mother and son is difficult from the very first years.

When Kevin is 15, he does something irrational and unforgivable in the eyes of the community, leaving Eva grappling with her own feelings of grief and responsibility. Did she ever love her son? And how much of what Kevin did was her fault?

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Based on the bestseller by Richard Yates and directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes, this mesmerising and moving story follows the lives of a passsionate young couple living in the suburbs of Connecticut who decide to risk everything to pursue their dreams.

They are willing to break away from the ordinary - but can they do it without breaking apart?

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John Russell (George C. Scott) has been haunted by the horrific death of his wife and child for months. A change of lifestyle and a move to Seattle may be the only way to escape the visions that torment him.

With the help of a woman, Claire Norman (Trish Van Devere), a local historian, he moves into an old mansion and begins a new job. But before his life can completely heal, John Russell is plagued by a peculiar string of events, leading him to the discovery of a hidden attic room and a troubled presence that lies within. Consumed with a need to discover the truth of the hidden room, John must right an injustice from long ago.

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Director Spike Jonze delivers a stunningly original comedy that seamlessly blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche (Cooper), New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean (Streep), Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Cage), and his

twin brother Donald (also Cage). As Charlie struggles to adapt Orlean's best-selling book "The Orchid Thief," he writes himself into his own movie. The various stories crash into one another exploding into a wildly imaginative film. .

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Anais is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. Her body is both a fortress and the citadel for her pain. Huddled safely alone, and forgotten by others, she has long been an observer. It's summertime. Anais and her family holiday by the sea.

In this atmosphere, Anais yearns for the experience of first love. However, she experiences it by proxy when her beautiful older sister, Elena - whom Anais both loves and hates - gets involved with an older boy. Soon Elena's naive hopes of romance will be shattered. Not realising that she has merely become an object of desire, she sets a chain of events in motion that will shatter her family forever...

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Conspiracy Theorists. Serial Killers. Deadly Drag Racers. Drug Traffickers. Boston's worst bad guys bring out the best in Detective Jane Rizzoli and Medical Examiner Maura Isles, who use their expert skills and instincts to analyse cadavers, nail criminals and crack the case.

In Season Four, the pair's personal lives are as complicated as their professional ones. Smart, sophisticated Maura struggles to cope with issues involving her biological family as she learns more about its gangster past. And brash, down-to-earth Jane reconsiders an ongoing long-distance romance when a handsome new boss sets her pulse pounding. Sixteen murderous, memorable episodes put these best friends to the ultimate test as they face life changes and heartbreaking decisions with their signature humour and humanity - all while solving Boston's toughest crimes.

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'Maleficent' explores the untold story of Disney's most iconic villain from the classic' Sleeping Beauty', and the elements of her betrayal that ultimately turn her pure heart to stone.

Driven by revenge and a fierce desire to protect the moors over which she presides, Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) cruelly places an irrevocable curse oh the human king's newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Aurora is caught in the middle of the seething conflict between the forest kingdom she has grown to love and the human kingdom that holds her legacy. Maleficent realises that Aurora may hold the key to peace in the land and is forced to take drastic actions that will change both worlds forever.