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Lavish BBC costume drama based on Anthony Trollope's novels.

Ten-part comedy-drama set in 1969. Outsider Maxine Dellacorte-Simmons strives to attain a place in the high society of Palm Beach through the town's most exclusive country club, in the process learning what she will and won't do to achieve this

In its early days Panorama tended to be a mixture of the arts, human-interest and scientific or medical studies. A BBC chief felt that the show should leave current affairs to other programmes.

Set in Newcastle Upon Tyne, The Paper Lads centres around the lives of young boys on a paper round who often make the news as well as deliver it

Comedy centred round the crew of a small cargo boat based in Scotland.

Two contrasting brothers, one a gangland boss and the other an ex-priest, are thrown together for the first time in eight years upon the death of their notorious gangster mother.

When a young shop assistant casually tries to polish an old watering can he releases a genie who is as rusty as the can he lives in; he’s four thousand years old, and his magic doesn’t always work as well as it should.

British sitcom which was a spin-off from Coronation Street.

The most loved interviewer in Britain, Michael Parkinson interviewed the last of Hollywood's golden greats from James Cagney to James Stewart. He introduced us to Billy Connolly and laughed along with the best of British. He crossed swords with Muhammad Ali and was attacked by "that bloody Bird."

Amy Poehler gives an award-winning performance as mid-level bureaucrat Leslie Knope in this US mockumentary about public officials striving to make their Indiana town a better place.