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Sue Johnston, Dawn French and Joanna Lumley lead a celebrity cast in an eccentric comedy written by and starring Jennifer Saunders. Clatterford is a small town, with a good cross section of people, local shops and a late night convenience store - a place which also has a thriving Women's Guild; who promote truth, justice, tolerance and fellowship - or is it just an excuse for a good old gossip? Without a job and feeling very much alone, Sal slowly...
62) The Old Guys
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Housemates Tom and Roy are the ying to each other's yang. Roy is well-read, organised, clean and sensitive. Tom, well, isn't. As both of them settle into retirement, they are faced with the prospect of life simply not turning out quite how they imagined. Together, however, they manage to muddle through life - answering the important questions that retirement poses. Questions involving religion, true-love and precisely how early is too early to start...
63) Hunting Hitler
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In "HUNTING HITLER," an FBI cold case that has laid dormant for 70 years leads a group of world-renown investigators on the ultimate manhunt to finally answer the question: Did Adolf Hitler survive World War II?
64) Early Doors
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Comedy set in The Grapes, an old-fashioned Manchester pub where the daily life of the locals - among them jack-the-lads Joe and Duffy, beer-bellied landlord Ken and his police officer cronies Phil and Nige, miserable old git Tommy and single mum Janice - revolves around love, loneliness and blocked urinals. The regulars rib each other and discuss the minutiae of everyday life, each bringing their own faults and foibles with them to the bar.
65) Hoff the Record
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After five divorces and some misguided professional decisions, David Hasselhoff is in the UK to star in a new film that could reboot his career. But alarm bells start to ring when he gets the low budget treatment on arrival. The Hoff tasks his manager with finding him something more worthy of his talents. But as his attempts fall into disarray, can The Hoff get his career back on track?
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"While working at the Newark Star-Ledger, Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall created a popular column debating the merits of then-current television. Eventually they went on to successful careers as critics elsewhere, but the debate raged on and now comes to an epic conclusion in TV (THE BOOK). Alan and Matt have established The Pantheon of top TV shows using a complex, obsessively all-encompassing ranking system by which to order and stack them...
67) Whitechapel
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The streets of Whitechapel are awash with blood in this compelling crime drama. A murderer stalks the night, picking off vulnerable women and leaving them brutally butchered. The locals live in fear and the police remain clueless. But this is not the 19th Century and the time of Jack the Ripper. This is now. Assigned to the case is fast-tracked DI Chandler - a novice in the business of murder, but an expert in the politics of policing. Can Chandler...
68) Bedlam
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A supernatural thriller set in a luxury apartment building which is haunted by the ghosts of its dark and violent past. Welcome to Bedlam Heights, a hip new high rise on the edge of a British metropolis. Behind the façade of stylish 21st century living lie unimaginable horrors, for this former pre-Victorian asylum is possessed by its previous inhabitants. Kate, who lives and works at Bedlam Heights, thinks anyone who believes in ghosts is a fool....
69) Mountain Men
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Mountain Men follows men who have devoted their lives to surviving off the grid in some of the country's most unforgiving terrain.
70) Dogfights
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Harnessing the technology from the latest CGI video game flight simulators this puts the viewers behind the cockpit pitted against enemy aircraft in some of modern history's greatest air battles.
71) Obsessed
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Obsessed examines the anxiety of individuals suffering from extreme obsessive-compulsive disorders, capturing their radically affected home lives, the incredible emotion of therapy, and their courageous attempts to defeat their debilitating conditions.
72) Ambassadors
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Comedy drama series staring David Mitchell and Robert Webb as British ambassadors working at the fictional Tazbekistan embassy.
73) Thirteen
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This tense psychological drama follows the story of Ivy Moxham, a 26-year-old woman learning to live again after 13 years in captivity. When Ivy escapes the cellar that's been her prison since she was abducted, it's just the start of her story. She's beginning to pick up the threads of a life half-lived, but they're about to be pulled apart again. Her captor is on the run, and as cracks appear in Ivy's account of her ordeal, the police begin to doubt...
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In CULTS AND EXTREME BELIEF, Elizabeth Vargas, alongside former members of controversial organizations, goes on a search to uncover how these sects use their influence to prey upon people’s desperation to create powerful and often destructive belief systems. Each episode will take an immersive look at one currently active group through the eyes of past devotees and get perspective from believers and leaders that are still inside.
77) Marion and Geoff
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Taxi driver Keith Barrett has been left by his wife, Marion, for the flashy, high achieving Geoff and turned out of his own home. In a series of monologues starring Rob Brydon, Keith chats about the events that have shaped his life - namely his doomed marriage to Marion and her affair - and he reveals himself to be a man for whom the silver lining was especially invented.
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Based on a true story, this family-friendly series follows the adventures of a young, hearing impaired woman who has a special gift and goes to work for the FBI in Washington, D.C. She's one hard-headed, soft-hearted woman whose talent for reading lips helps crack crimes and bag the bad guys in places listening devices can't penetrate. With her hearing-ear dog, Levi, Sue's a glutton for jeopardy – and there's (almost) nothing she won't do to bring...
79) In My Skin
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Sitcom set in South Wales offers a raw, starkly funny portrayal of adolescence today. Teenager Bethan is using her cheek and wit to hide her home life from her friends. But when your mother is in a mental facility and likes breaking out, and your father is a Hell's Angel, flying under the radar isn't easy. Bethan learns, through heartache and laughter, to finally let go of the armour and exist for the first time in her own skin. Based on the writer...
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