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In 1961 Hancock was the most successful and best-loved performer on British television, having just recorded his famous episode, The Blood Donor. The rest of his life was rather different.
A funny and poignant dramatisation of the last eight years in the life of the comedian Tony Hancock , written by William Humble and starring
Alfred Molina.
Laura Simms has an exciting job as a top magazine editor, but her love life's a disaster.
Her luck seems to change when she meets Gabriel, a handsome but mysterious man who believes in old-fashioned love and marriage. This is a first script for television by Adrian Hodges and a first lead role for Judith Scott.
Sean Bean (The Field, Caravaggio) stars as Gabriel, with James Wilby (A Handful of Dust, Mother Love) as Laura's philandering ex-boyfriend.
A new BBC film written by Andrew Davies (A Very Peculiar Practice, House of Cards) and starring Charlie Drake, Bill Maynard, David Thewlis.
Five men from Wales book an eight-day package tour to the Philippines hoping to return with a 'mail order' bride.
The drinks are lined up at the bar. The girls are in their glad rags. The fellas are on the rampage. Everyone is hellbent on having a good time celebrating the night before the wedding of Dave and Linda. But Peter McGeegan is back for a gig and Peter was once in love with Linda.
Russell, author of Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine , adapted his stage play Stags and Hens for this film, which had a successful run at the cinema last year.
William Humble 's comedy-drama stars Griff Rhys Jones as a writer on a popular television soap opera who falls in love with the show's leading lady but finds himself unable to break his ties with his ex-wife and their children. It is a witty and telling examination of the way we live now, seen through the eyes of a middling writer in his mid-30s writing about the middle classes.
A new BBC film and first screenplay - with a strong autobiographical slant - by Julie Burchill, Mail on Sunday columnist and bestselling author of Ambition.
In the confined space of a working-class terrace a grand passion erupts. A passion so great that years later the daughter of the house returns to a cemetery in an attempt to understand. 'When I was young,' remembers the adult Claudie, standing at a graveside, 'every household had a head. You just didn't question that.' She looks at the tombstone. On it is a large colour photograph of a huge leering alsatian dog, its tongue hanging out. 'The head of our household was Prince.'
A powerful and disturbing black comedy that takes an unflinching look at drug addiction. Henry plays a dealer convinced he is untouchable, Coltrane the ex-gangster turned drug counsellor who is determined to break him.
Writer Al Hunter (The Firm) was inspired by the true story of a football team founded to help drug addicts kick their habit.
Sir Anthony Blunt, who was a Soviet agent for 25 years, is routinely questioned and gives no answers, but is knighted and works as Director of the Courtauld Institute, and presents his interrogator with a puzzle in the shape of a doubtful Titian painting. He also does art restoration work in Buckingham Palace, where he gets into an interesting conversation with HMQ.
