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400087
Series
A character driven high-concept thriller. Without warning Ryan, Nathan, Jenni and Andy disappear, leaving no trace. Four years later, their family members learn that all of them are living on the compound of a bizarre “life enchancement organization” – a Cult. Their loved ones quickly discover that while it’s easy to join, the Cult is almost impossible to leave. And they’re in danger – Enhancement Day is coming.
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5 x 60’ or 2 x 60’
Series
Nine Film & TV Pty for Nine NetworkStarring: Paul Leyden, Brooke SatchwellWhat happens when the psychiatrist becomes the patient? That’s the problem for Spence McKay struggling to get his life back on track following the death of his wife and son in a car crash. From the network that brought us the international hit Sea Patrol and the phenomenal Underbelly, comes Murder at Canal Road – a m...
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400061
8 x 50'
Series
From the makers of This Life and No Angels, power, politics and sexual intrigue collide in a new BBC drama series. Set in the frantic, high-stakes world of government, Party Animals follows a group of young researchers and advisers who shoulder huge responsibility in jobs where social alliances and sexual intrigue go hand-in-hand with policy making. We see the drink and drugs, the sex and scandals, the low pay...
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400089
100’ or 2x50’
TV Movie
Three Acts of Murder aired on ABC, Australia on 15th June 2009. The network had one of their highest ratings for the year in the Sunday night slot. Official ratings were 975,000 across all capital cities and, with the regions, was over a million. Audience share was 21%, ahead of CSI on Channel 9. Starring Luke Ford (The Black Balloon, The Mummy: Tomb of the Drag...
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400014
40'
Drama
Harold Pinter's dark comedy filmed for More4 with an all-star cast including Colin Firth and Michael Gambon first broadcast in February 2007.Two sets of diners in an expensive restaurant trade stories of affairs and casual insults, while the restaurant's staff look in on them, giving glimpses into their own pasts. Pinter creates a war of words which barely masks what is really going on behind the scenes. B...
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400045
6 x 60'
Drama
Returning to Market Shipborough, we find that Peter has found a new lease of life for himself, free from the troubles of his wayward brother who now rests in peace – for certain this time. Beatrice is getting on with motherhood in her own unique way. Lyle is now a fully qualified solicitor and keen to prove himself. The flood has long retreated and everybody is getting on with their lives....
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400080
26x30'
Sketch Show
**SHORTLISTED: BEST CHILDREN'S PROGRAMME, BROADCAST AWARDS 2009** Sorry, I’ve Got No Head is a sketch show for a demanding young audience who know their comedy and have sophisticated tastes. It’s a children’s comedy with adult sensibilities, including the writing and performing talent and featuring returning characters and catchphrases. The result i...
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400059
13 x 30’
Drama
This series rated very successfully on CBBC and regularly had the highest percentage share in its timeslot. The show peaked with a 9.8% audience share twice during series transmission with an overall series average of 7.7%. Combining stunning locations and supernatural tales with themes of friendship, trust and responsibility, Paradise Café is a comedy mystery series for children.&nb...
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400034
1x90'
TV Movie
This is a heartbreaking story based on a real life case of child abuse within a family and the difficult and courageous road to redemption and the re-uniting of the family.
When Liz, a suburban housewife, played by Lucy Cohu, discovers that her husband has been abusing their oldest daughter, she is faced with the terrible prospect of reporting her husband Stephen (Derek Riddell) to the police. He goes to prison f...
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400019
5 x 60' or 2 x 110'
Mini Series
**WINNER BEST DRAMA SERIAL, BAFTA 2009WINNER BEST ACTOR (MALE), BEN WHISHAW, RTS TELEVISION AWARDS 2009WINNER BEST DRAMA SERIES OR SERIAL, BROADCAST AWARDS 2009 ** When 20 year old Ben Coulter embarks upon a spontaneous evening of fun with a sexy stranger, Melanie, he doesn’t expect to wake up beside her dead body, covered in her blood and holding the murder weapon; ending the night in a police c...
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400018
5x60' or 2x100'
Mini Series
Collision tells the stories of a group of very different people who have never met, who aren’t remotely connected (as far as they know) and who may never see each other again. Yet all these people will share one single defining moment. A crash. Beyond the crumpled cars and the beleaguered emergency services there are invisible dramas that television has never attempted to show. The series will finish with a de...
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400076
1x75’
TV Movie
* Julie Walters was honoured as most outstanding actress for her role in this TV movie at the 49th Monte Carlo Television Festival which took place on Thursday 11th June 2009 * A Short Stay in Switzerland, a moving dramatisation of the true story of Dr Anne Turner, whose assisted suicide in a Zurich clinic made headline news in January 2006. Dr Turner was accompanied to Switzerland by her son and t...
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400090
13 x 30’
Drama
Time Trackers is an hilarious off-beat action-packed time travelling adventure series. Three teenagers – one from the future, one from the present day, and a prehistoric cave girl– are on a time-travelling mission to combat deadly viruses aimed at destroying the world’s greatest inventions. It’s not going to be easy, especially when their crew consists of a smart-mouthed robotic ...
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400054
7x 30'
Drama
Mumbai Calling is a new comedy series, set in a call centre in Mumbai, that will air on ITV in Spring 2009.
Mumbai Calling…“an Indian Call Centre… hour upon hour spent hanging on the telephone listening to poor saps who completely fail to understand what you need – but if you’re a highly educated graduate of the University of New Delhi you’ve got to work somewhere, isn’t it?"......
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400111
13 x 1hrs
Series
A generation before the notoriously bloody Melbourne Gangland Wars, an even bigger crime wave rocked Australia. Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities is a compelling drama based on real events that took place between 1976-1986. The series explores how two men ‘Aussie’ Bob Trimbole (Roy Billing) and ‘Kiwi’ Terry Clark (Matthew Newton) joined forces to change the face of organised crime i...
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400113
8 x 15'
Series
British Academy Award and Emmy Award winning director and producer, Norman Stone (Shadowlands, Pied Piper, New World) heads up this striking set of eight fifteen minute drama soliloquies.Highly acclaimed performers such as Claire Bloom as Pilate's Wife, Tony Robinson as Judas, Helen Baxendale as the Servant Girl, Joss Ackland as Barabbas and Jonathan Pryce as the Thief tell the story of their character's encounter...
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400020
95'
Features
The Crooked Man is a pulsating thriller that takes us into a world of violence, betrayal, kidnap, blackmail and surprisingly, love. Harry Fielding (Ross Kemp) works for the secret service, a lone operator working to tight instructions. Harry investigates cases where special Branch tactics would be too obvious: discretion and stealth are key. He is untraceable, anonymous, kept in check by the cruel and manipulat...
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400084
7 x 30'
Sketch Show
Emmy® Award-winner Tracey Ullman continues her hilarious tour across America. The second season of TRACEY ULLMAN’S STATE OF THE UNION will once again showcase Ullman’s vast array of original characters and impersonations in a wide collection of irreverent and hilarious skits that range from sardonic parody to social satire. This season, Ullman will introduce an entire new line-up of ...
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400112
Features
When Jimmy Kerrigan (Alex Ferns) is released from jail after 9 years inside, everyone expects him to fall back into his old ways. But Jimmy’s changed, says all he wants to do is open a bar on a Greek island once his parole is up. Problem is, nobody believes him – not least his former gangland boss, Donnie McGlone (James Cosmo) and Jimmy’s old adversary, Detective Inspector Walter Villers (Kenneth Cranham). They both...
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400114
13 x 30'
Drama
* This series is filming in July. First episodes are due for delivery in September.* Lulu Baker is not your typical teen, she has a very cool secret – she’s the proud owner of a magic cook book. She can bake her own gingerbread boyfriend for that school dance. She can create an extra-terrestrial to win the class debate on the existence of aliens. She can give her annoying step-brother donkey e...
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400005
1 x 100'
Features
Tele-feature ‘Aftershock’ follows the fortunes of four groups of people in the minutes, hours and days after is destroyed by “the big one” – a magnitude 8.2 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Buried office workers who must pull together; strangers, caught by the tsunami on the ruined motorway, who put themselves in danger to save another; a mother who must reunite her family; and, at the...
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