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Smother (TV Series)Smother (TV Series) (2021)
Feat. Dervla Kirwan, Seána Kerslake, Niamh Walsh
Riveting Irish TV thriller set on the wild and rugged coast of County Clare, where a matriarch (Dervla Kirwan) is determined to find out who killed…
Belgravia (TV Series)Belgravia (TV Series) (2020)
Feat. Philip Glenister, Tamsin Greig, Emily Reid
TV period drama based on the novel of the same name by Julian Fellowes (DOWNTON ABBEY), set in Belgravia, the affluent district of London, in 1815.…
Crown, The - Season 4 (TV Series)Crown, The - Season 4 (TV Series) (2020) Recommended
Feat. Emma Corrin, Gillian Anderson, Olivia Colman
Season 4 of the sumptuous costume drama is considered by some to be the best yet, though also the one with the most controversy surrounding…
Great, The (TV Series)Great, The (TV Series) (2020)
Feat. Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult, Phoebe Fox
A wild and witty period drama loosely based on the rise to power of Catherine the Great (Elle Fanning). Billed as 'anti–historical', the…
It's a Sin (TV Mini-series)It's a Sin (TV Mini-series) (2020) Recommended
Dir. Peter Hoar
Feat. Olly Alexander, Omari Douglas, Callum Scott Howells
Another rich and satisfying drama created and written by Russell T Davies (QUEER AS FOLK, DOCTOR WHO, YEARS & YEARS), this time set in London in 1981…
Miss Scarlet and The Duke (TV Series)Miss Scarlet and The Duke (TV Series) (2020)
Feat. Kate Phillips, Danny Midwinter, Stuart Martin
Crime series set in Victorian London, where a penniless single woman decides to keep her father's detective agency running after his death, and hires…
Nest, The (TV Mini-series)Nest, The (TV Mini-series) (2020)
Feat. Martin Compston, Sophie Rundle, Mirren Mack
Suspenseful Scottish 5–part TV drama starring Martin Compston (LINE OF DUTY) and Sophie Rundle (PEAKY BLINDERS, BODYGUARD) as a wealthy couple…
Pale Horse, ThePale Horse, The (2020)
Dir. Leonora Lonsdale
Feat. Rufus Sewell, Sheila Atim, Georgina Campbell
Two–part miniseries based on the 1961 Agatha Christie novel of the same name, involving all manner of malevolent goings on in the picturesque…
Plot Against America, The (TV Mini-series)Plot Against America, The (TV Mini-series) (2020)
Dir. Thomas Schlamme
Feat. Winona Ryder, Anthony Boyle, Zoe Kazan
Created by David Simon (THE WIRE) and Ed Burns, this HBO mini–series adapts Philip Roth's 2004 prescient novel of the same name imagining an…
Sounds, The (TV Mini-series)Sounds, The (TV Mini-series) (2020)
Dir. Peter Stebbings
Feat. Matt Whelen, Rachelle Lefevre, Matt Nable
Kiwi mystery drama series from writer Sarah–Kate Lynch (800 WORDS), about a Canadian couple who move to the Pelorus Sound / Te Hoiere region in…
A Confession (TV Mini-Series)A Confession (TV Mini-Series) (2019)
Feat. Martin Freeman, Imelda Staunton, Siobhan Finneran
British crime drama with Martin Freeman playing a Detective Superintendent willing to risk his career and reputation to catch the killer of a…
Baptiste (TV Series)Baptiste (TV Series) (2019)
Feat. Tcheky Karyo, Tom Hollander, Jessica Raine
A TV spin–off of the acclaimed BBC crime drama THE MISSING, with the same writers and some of the same cast, which follows the character Julien…
Beecham House (TV Series)Beecham House (TV Series) (2019)
Feat. Tom Bateman, Lesley Nicol, Grégory Fitoussi
Lavish 6–part period drama set in Delhi on the cusp of the 19th century, and following a former soldier (Tom Bateman) who purchases the…
Big Little Lies - Season 2 (TV Mini-series)Big Little Lies - Season 2 (TV Mini-series) (2019) Recommended
Dir. Andrea Arnold
Feat. Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley
The second chapter of this acclaimed HBO series, this time from the director of FISHTANK and AMERICAN HONEY, throws a grief ridden…
Brexit: The Uncivil War (TV Mini-series)Brexit: The Uncivil War (TV Mini-series) (2019)
Dir. Toby Haynes
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Lee Boardman, John Heffernan
Television drama depicting the lead–up to the 2016 referendum through the activities of the strategists behind the Vote Leave campaign, that…
Catherine the Great (TV Mini-series)Catherine the Great (TV Mini-series) (2019)
Dir. Philip Martin
Feat. Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke, Roy Kinnear
A four–part miniseries starring Helen Mirren as Catherine the Great, loosely based on Russian Empress's later life cicra 1764 to her death in…
Chernobyl (TV Mini-Series)Chernobyl (TV Mini-Series) (2019) Aro Favourite
Dir. Johan Renck
Feat. Jared Harris, Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgard
Powerful dramatisation of the 1986 nuclear accident in Ukraine, one of the worst man–made catastrophes in history. Unfolds in 5…
Crown, The - Season 3 (TV Series)Crown, The - Season 3 (TV Series) (2019)
Feat. Olivia Colman, Tobias Menzies, Helena Bonham Carter
Third season of the sumptuous costume drama, with Olivia Colman replacing Claire Foy's Queen Elizabeth II, now in her 40's. Covers such events as the…
Deep Water (Mini-series)Deep Water (Mini-series) (2019)
Feat. Anna Friel, Sinead Keenan, Rosalind Eleazar
Hailed as Britain's answer to BIG LITTLE LIES, this modern day drama about three school–run mothers balancing work and family pressures is…
Gentleman Jack (TV Mini-Series)Gentleman Jack (TV Mini-Series) (2019)
Feat. Suranne Jones, Sophie Rundle
Gorgeous historical drama created by Sally Wainwright (HAPPY VALLEY, LAST TANGO IN HALIFAX) set in 1832 against the lush backdrop of Halifax, West…
Hunting, The (TV Series)Hunting, The (TV Series) (2019)
Feat. Asher Keddie, Richard Roxburgh, Sam Reid
Miniseries set in a contemporary, multicultural Australia and following two high school teachers after the revelation that their students are sharing…
Loudest Voice, The (TV Mini-series)Loudest Voice, The (TV Mini-series) (2019)
Dir. Jeremy Podeswa, Kari Skogland, Stephen Frears
Feat. Russell Crowe, Sienna Miller, Annabelle Wallis
A seven–part series revealing the final years of media consultant Roger Ailes as he devises his most potent political weapon, Fox News, over…
Miss Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries (TV Mini-Series)Miss Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries (TV Mini-Series) (2019)
Feat. Geraldine Hakewill, Joel Jackson, Catherine McClements
Spin–off of the popular Australian TV series MISS FISHER'S MURDER MYSTERIES, set in Melbourne in the 1960's, and following a woman who aspires…
MotherFatherSon (TV Mini-series)MotherFatherSon (TV Mini-series) (2019)
Feat. Richard Gere, Helen McCrory, Billy Howle
BBC TV thriller of distinction, interweaving themes of politics, media and law enforcement as it follows three members of a fractured but powerful…
Name Of The Rose, The (TV Mini-series)Name Of The Rose, The (TV Mini-series) (2019)
Dir. Giacomo Battiato
Feat. John Turturro, Rupert Everett
TV adaptation of Umberto Eco's novel 'The Name of the Rose', a murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the 14th century.
New Pope, The (TV Series)New Pope, The (TV Series) (2019)
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino
Feat. Jude Law, John Malkovich, Silvio Orlando
The director of THE YOUNG POPE helms this follow–up series (originally conceived as a second season), with Jude Law and John Malkovich…
Sanditon (TV Series)Sanditon (TV Series) (2019)
Feat. Rose Williams, Theo James, Anne Reid
Adapted from an unfinished manuscript by Jane Austen, this eight–part historical drama follows a young and naive heroine as she navigates the…
Traitors (TV Series)Traitors (TV Series) (2019)
Feat. Emma Appleton, Luke Treadaway, Michael Stuhlbarg
6–part TV series set in London in 1945, where a young women is recruited by the American Office of Strategic Services to spy on her own…
Virtues, The (TV Mini-series)Virtues, The (TV Mini-series) (2019) Recommended
Dir. Shane Meadows
Feat. Stephen Graham, Niamh Algar, Helen Behan
4–part drama co–written and directed by Shane Meadows, with talented actor Stephen Graham (who also starred in Meadows' acclaimed THIS IS…
World On Fire (TV Series)World On Fire (TV Series) (2019)
Feat. Jonah Hauer-King, Julia Brown, Helen Hunt
Ensemble drama set during the declaration and first year of WWII and following the intertwining stories of ordinary families who are affected. Season…
Years And Years (TV Series)Years And Years (TV Series) (2019)
Dir. Simon Cellan Jones, Lisa Mulcahy
Feat. Emma Thompson, Rory Kinnear, Russell Tovey
Six–part series created by Russell T. Davies, following the busy Lyons family from Manchester across 15 years, and starring Emma Thompson as a…
A Discovery of Witches (TV Series)A Discovery of Witches (TV Series) (2018)
Dir. Juan Carlos Medina
Feat. Teresa Palmer, Matthew Goode, Malin Buska
A romantic thriller series adapted from Deborah Harkness' trilogy of novels that uncovers a secret underworld of vampires, witches and daemons hiding…
A Very English Scandal (TV Mini-series)A Very English Scandal (TV Mini-series) (2018) Recommended
Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Hugh Grant, Ben Whishaw
3–part BBC miniseries set in the 60's and 70's depicting the evolution of the "Jeremy Thorpe Scandal", in which the leader of the Liberal Party…
Bletchley Circle, The: San Francisco (TV Mini-series)Bletchley Circle, The: San Francisco (TV Mini-series) (2018)
Feat. Julie Graham, Rachael Stirling, Crystal Balint
Set during the thrilling social change of the mid–1950s, these new episodes see two characters from the original British series travel to…
Crown, The - Season 2 (TV Series)Crown, The - Season 2 (TV Series) (2018) Recommended
Feat. Claire Foy, Vanessa Kirby, Matt Smith
Self–assured second season of the sumptuous costume drama. The exceptional Claire Foy reprises her role as The Queen, now in her thirties, as…
Escape at Dannemora (TV Mini-series)Escape at Dannemora (TV Mini-series) (2018)
Dir. Ben Stiller
Feat. Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Arquette, Paul Dano
TV miniseries based on the 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, where a prison employee (Patricia Arquette, who steals the show) becomes…
Girlfriends (TV Series)Girlfriends (TV Series) (2018)
Dir. Kay Mellor
Feat. Phyllis Logan, Miranda Richardson, Zoe Wanamaker
British TV comedy following a trio of middle–aged woman who were friends in childhood, and who are coping with divorce, age discrimination,…
Good Fight, The (TV Series)Good Fight, The (TV Series) (2018)
Feat. Christine Baranski, Rose Leslie, Erica Tazel
Spin–off TV series to the phenomenally popular THE GOOD WIFE, and created by the same team, following the character Diane Lockhart (Christine…
Good Girls (TV Series)Good Girls (TV Series) (2018)
Feat. Christina Hendricks, Mae Whitman, Retta
A female–centric take on the premise of BREAKING BAD in which three suburban moms who're tired of trying to make ends meet take a leap into…
Here and Now (TV Series)Here and Now (TV Series) (2018)
Feat. Holly Hunter, Tim Robbins, Daniel Zovatto
Dark comedy TV series created by Alan Ball (SIX FEET UNDER), following Portlandian parents with three adopted kids from Liberia, Vietnam and…
House of Cards - Season 6 (TV Series, US)House of Cards - Season 6 (TV Series, US) (2018)
Feat. Robin Wright, Diane Lane, Greg Kinnear
The highly–charged political melodrama continues after Kevin Spacey's controversial departure, with his screen wife Robin Wright taking the…
Innocent (TV Mini-series)Innocent (TV Mini-series) (2018)
Feat. Lee Ingleby, Daniel Ryan, Adrian Rawlins
TV miniseries following a man who is released from prison after his conviction for the murder of his wife is overturned, and sets about rebuilding…
Kidding (TV Series)Kidding (TV Series) (2018)
Dir. Michel Gondry, Jake Schreier
Feat. Jim Carrey, Frank Langella, Judy Greer
An ironically titled, poignant examination of life and grief for a beloved children's television presenter known as Mr. Pickles who anchors a…
Les Miserables (TV Mini-series)Les Miserables (TV Mini-series) (2018) Recommended
Dir. Tom Shankland
Feat. Dominic West, Lily Collins, David Oyelowo
Celebrated English–language television adaptation of the Victor Hugo French classic with the plum casting of Dominic West as former convict…
Looming Tower, The (TV Mini-Series)Looming Tower, The (TV Mini-Series) (2018)
Feat. Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim
Mini–series exploring the rivalry between the FBI and the CIA in the lead up to 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan. Based on Lawrence Wright's…
Mrs. Wilson (TV Mini-series)Mrs. Wilson (TV Mini-series) (2018) Recommended
Dir. Richard Laxton
Feat. Ruth Wilson, Iain Glen, Keeley Hawes
Fascinating 60's period drama series starring and executive–produced by Ruth Wilson, who plays her real–life grandmother, a widow who…
My Brilliant Friend (TV Mini-series)My Brilliant Friend (TV Mini-series) (L'amica geniale) (2018) Recommended
Dir. Saverio Costanzo
Feat. Valentina Acca, Annarita Vitolo
Evocative Neapolitan drama adapted from the international best–selling novel by Elena Ferrante, following an elderly woman as she recounts her…
Mystery Road (TV Mini-series)Mystery Road (TV Mini-series) (2018) Recommended
Dir. Rachel Perkins
Feat. Aaron Pedersen, Judy Davis, Deborah Mailman
Six–part miniseries based on the outback noir film of the same name, following indigenous detective Jay Swan as he investigates the…
Ordeal By Innocence (TV Mini-series)Ordeal By Innocence (TV Mini-series) (2018)
Dir. Sandra Goldbacher
Feat. Bill Nighy, Anthony Boyle, Anna Chancellor
Three–part BBC drama based on the Agatha Christie novel of the same name. Set in 1954, where a wealthy philanthropist is murdered and her…
Patrick Melrose (TV Series)Patrick Melrose (TV Series) (2018) Recommended
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hugo Weaving
5–part miniseries based on the acclaimed novels by Edward St. Aubyn in which Benedict Cumberbatch plays an aristocratic and outrageously funny…
Picnic at Hanging Rock (TV Mini-series)Picnic at Hanging Rock (TV Mini-series) (2018)
Feat. Natalie Dormer, Lily Sullivan, Lola Bessis
A second screen re–imagining of the iconic Australian novel of the same name by Joan Lindsay. On Valentines day in 1900, three school girls and…
Press (TV Series)Press (TV Series) (2018)
Dir. Tom Vaughan
Feat. Charlotte Riley, Ben Chaplin
6–part British TV drama following the staff of two contrasting and competing newspapers, one a lef–leaning broadsheet fighting to survive…
Resident, The (TV Series)Resident, The (TV Series) (2018)
Feat. Matt Czuchry, Emily VanCamp, Manish Dayal
Medical drama following the lives of the staff members at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital, and exploring the bureaucratic practices of the hospital…
Romper Stomper (TV Series)Romper Stomper (TV Series) (2018)
Dir. Geoffrey Wright, James Napier Robertson, Daina Reid
Feat. David Wenham, Dan Wyllie, Lachy Hulme
Created as a sequel to the cult Australian film about a neo–Nazi gang terrorising Melbourne's Vietnamese community. Set 25 years after these…
Sharp Objects (TV Mini-series)Sharp Objects (TV Mini-series) (2018) Recommended
Dir. Jean-Marc Vallée
Feat. Amy Adams, Patricia Clarkson, Chris Messina
Searing psychological thriller with Amy Adams playing a reporter who returns to her small home town to investigate the murders of two preteen girls.…
Sick Of It (TV Series)Sick Of It (TV Series) (2018)
Dir. Richard Yee
Feat. Karl Pilkington, Marama Corlett, Sondra James
Delightfully melancholic British comedy co–created and written by the talented Karl Pilkington (AN IDIOT ABROAD), who plays a fictionalised…
Succession (TV series)Succession (TV series) (2018) Aro Favourite
Feat. Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin
Provocative and witty satirical drama created by Jesse Armstrong (IN THE LOOP) about a dysfunctional dynasty led by an aging patriarch (Brian Cox).
Yellowstone (TV Series)Yellowstone (TV Series) (2018)
Feat. Kevin Costner, Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly
Picturesque TV western co–created by Taylor Sheridan (HELL OR HIGH WATER) set in Montana, where a family of ranch owners are defending their…
13 Reasons Why (TV Series)13 Reasons Why (TV Series) (2017)
Feat. Dylan Minnette, Katherine Langford, Christian Navarro
Controversial and sometimes gruelling teenage mystery series about a high school student who discovers a box of cassette tapes recorded by his friend…
American Gods (TV Series)American Gods (TV Series) (2017) Recommended
Feat. Ricky Whittle, Emily Browning, Crispin Glover
Faithful dramatisation of Neil Gaiman's 2001 epic fantasy novel that follows Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle) on a road trip across America with enigmatic…
Apple Tree Yard (TV Mini-series)Apple Tree Yard (TV Mini-series) (2017) Recommended
Dir. Jessica Hobbs
Feat. Emily Watson, Ben Chaplin
Gripping drama with Emily Watson superb as a woman whose impulsive and passionate affair with a complete stranger is the first in a series of events…
Big Little Lies - Season 1 (TV Mini-series)Big Little Lies - Season 1 (TV Mini-series) (2017) Aro Favourite
Dir. Jean-Marc Vallée
Feat. Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley
A superb, darkly comedic seven–part HBO miniseries set in the tranquil seaside town of Monterey, California, that weaves a tale of murder and…
Broken (TV Mini-series)Broken (TV Mini-series) (2017)
Feat. Sean Bean, Adrian Dunbar, Anna Friel
Sean Bean plays a Catholic priest in Northern England whose job it is to offer guidance and compassion to members of his parish, despite his own…
Doctor Doctor (TV Series)Doctor Doctor (TV Series) (2017)
Feat. Rodger Corser, Nicole da Silva, Ryan Johnson
Australian drama series centred around a gifted and charming heart surgeon who believes he is infallible but whose "work hard, play harder"…
Dynasty (TV Series)Dynasty (TV Series) (2017)
Feat. Grant Show, Elizabeth Gillies, Nathalie Kelley
A reboot of the 1980s glamour soap opera that retains the original characters played by a new generation of actors and updates elements that notably…
Game of Thrones - Season 7 (TV Series)Game of Thrones - Season 7 (TV Series) (2017) Recommended
The struggle for the iron throne continues in the seventh season of the rightly acclaimed HBO series derived from George R.R. Martin's fantasy novels.
Genius (TV Series)Genius (TV Series) (2017)
Feat. Geoffrey Rush, Johnny Flynn, Emily Watson
Biographical series with Geoffrey Rush as Albert Einstein, covering his life as a struggling clerk through to his emergence as a respected scientist…
Girls - Season 6 (TV Series)Girls - Season 6 (TV Series) (2017) Recommended
Dir. Lena Dunham
Feat. Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke
Final season of Lena Dunham's savvy HBO series on the highs and lows of living and dating in New York – a show that's at once witty, shallow,…
Gunpowder (TV Mini-series)Gunpowder (TV Mini-series) (2017)
Dir. J Blakeson
Feat. Kit Harington, Peter Mullan, Mark Gatiss
Three–part BBC dramatisation of the famous Gunpowder Plot in London of 1605 where activist Guy Fawkes conspires with a group of provincial…
Halcyon, The (TV Series)Halcyon, The (TV Series) (2017)
Feat. Steven Mackintosh, Olivia Williams, Mark Benton
A suitably upholstered drama series set in and around a five–star London hotel during World War II.
Handmaid's Tale, The (TV Series)Handmaid's Tale, The (TV Series) (2017) Aro Favourite
Feat. Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Yvonne Strahovski
Emmy Award–winning drama created by Bruce Miller and based on the 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood. Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced…
High LifeHigh Life (2017)
Feat. Odessa Young
A humorous and heartfelt portrayal of Bipolar Disorder, following a grounded and intelligent Australian teen (Odessa Young) who unexpectedly begins…
House of Cards - Season 5 (TV Series, US)House of Cards - Season 5 (TV Series, US) (2017) Recommended
Feat. Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Patricia Clarkson
The Emmy and Golden Globe winning political drama returns for its anticipated fifth season. Frank and Claire Underwood continue to juggle their…
Howards End (TV Mini-series)Howards End (TV Mini-series) (2017)
Dir. Hettie MacDonald
Feat. Hayley Atwell, Matthew MacFadyen
Sumptuous 4–part miniseries adaptation of E.M. Forster’s 1910 novel exploring the social and class divisions in 20th Century England.
Imposters (TV Series)Imposters (TV Series) (2017)
Feat. Inbar Lavi
TV series following a relationship con–artist, who gets involved with men and women under the guise of invented personalities, before using…
Jamestown (TV Series)Jamestown (TV Series) (2017)
1619, Virginia: on what feels like the edge of the world sits the British colony of Jamestown. For 12 years, it has been populated only by men, but…
Last Post, The (TV Mini-series)Last Post, The (TV Mini-series) (2017)
Dir. Jonny Campbell
Feat. Jessie Buckley, Stephen Campbell Moore, Ben Miles
Set in the mid–Sixties in the shimmering heat of Aden (Yemen), this BBC drama from the writer of THE VILLAGE centres on a unit of Royal…
Little Women (Mini-series)Little Women (Mini-series) (2017)
Feat. Emily Watson
Immaculate BBC adaptation of the classic 1868 novel by Louisa May Alcott, structured as three one hour episodes. The story follows the lives of the…
Love, Lies and Records (TV Series)Love, Lies and Records (TV Series) (2017)
Feat. Ashley Jensen, Kenny Doughty
6–episode TV Series from the pen of BAFTA award–winning writer Kay Mellor (SYNDICATE, IN THE CLUB). Kate Dickenson has just been…
Miniaturist, The (TV Mini-series)Miniaturist, The (TV Mini-series) (2017) Recommended
Feat. Anya Taylor-Joy, Romola Garai
Handsomely executed period drama based on the best–selling novel by Jessie Burton, with Anya Taylor–Joy (THE WITCH) as a woman newly…
Orphan Black - Season 5 (TV Series)Orphan Black - Season 5 (TV Series) (2017) Recommended
Feat. Tatiana Maslany
Final season of the extraordinary clone–centered sci–fi thriller, with formidable actress Tatiana Maslany reprising her many roles. The…
Riverdale (TV Series)Riverdale (TV Series) (2017)
Feat. KJ Apa
Millennial neo–noir teen drama set in the deceptively idyllic town of Riverdale, based on characters from the Archie Comics universe. Centres…
Riviera (TV Series)Riviera (TV Series) (2017)
Feat. Julia Stiles, Lena Olin, Adrian Lester
A TV mini–series set on the French Riviera, where a recently widowed art curator from the Midwest (Julia Stiles) seeks the truth about her…
Son, The (TV Series)Son, The (TV Series) (2017)
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Henry Garrett, Zahn McClarnon
Past and present and interweaved in this multi–generational saga of the bloody price of power that follows the rise of one ambitious family…
Split, The (TV Series)Split, The (TV Series) (2017)
Dir. Jessica Hobbs
Feat. Nicola Walker, Stephen Mangan, Fiona Button
British legal drama TV series following a family of female divorce lawyers whose father shows up after a 30–year absence and attempts to claim…
StartUp (TV Series)StartUp (TV Series) (2017)
Feat. Martin Freeman, Adam Brody
A unique cyber thriller in which the entrepreneurs behind a revolutionary unregulated digital currency are three strangers from the wrong side of the…
Striking Out (TV Series)Striking Out (TV Series) (2017-2018)
Feat. Amy Huberman, Neil Morrissey, Fiona OShaughnessy
Charming Irish legal drama following a Dublin lawyer who risks everything to start her own private practice after breaking up with her cheating…
Taboo (TV Series)Taboo (TV Series) (2017) Aro Favourite
Feat. Tom Hardy, Leo Bill, Mark Gatiss
Moody British period drama penned by the creative team of actor Tom Hardy and his father Edward "Chips" Hardy, and created by Stephen Knight (LOCKE).…
Twin Peaks (TV Series)Twin Peaks (TV Series) (Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series, Twin Peaks: The Return) (2017) Recommended
Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Kyle MacLachlan, Catherine E. Coulson, Madchen Amick
Revival of the cult TV series with most of the same cast (plus many, many more), which rivals and occasionally surpasses the terrifying brilliance of…
American Crime Story: People vs O.J. Simpson, The (TV Series)American Crime Story: People vs O.J. Simpson, The (TV Series) (2016) Aro Favourite
Feat. Cuba Jr. Gooding, Sarah Paulson, Courtney B. Vance
Mesmerizing dramatization of the O.J. Simpson trial that defies its unconventional casting choices to take the viewer on a gripping…
Billions (TV Series)Billions (TV Series) (2016) Recommended
Feat. Damian Lewis, Paul Giamatti, Maggie Siff
Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti square off in this drama set in the world of high finance from the writer of TOO BIG TO FAIL.
Brief Encounters (TV Series)Brief Encounters (TV Series) (2016)
Feat. Sophie Rundle, Angela Griffin, Penelope Wilton
In early 1980s England, four women wrestling with the pressures of family and finances grasp the opportunity to become party planners for "Ann…
Collection, The (TV Mini-series)Collection, The (TV Mini-series) (2016)
Feat. Richard Coyle, Tom Riley, Mamie Gummer
Glamourous miniseries set in the Parisian fashion scene post–WWII, as two bothers emerge from their family's fashion house to compete for fame…
Crown, The - Season 1 (TV Series)Crown, The - Season 1 (TV Series) (2016) Aro Favourite
Feat. Claire Foy, Matt Smith, Vanessa Kirby
The writer of the acclaimed 2006 movie THE QUEEN, Peter Morgan, turns his attention to Elizabeth II's earlier years. Season One covers her marriage…
Delicious (TV Series)Delicious (TV Series) (2016)
Dir. Claire Kilner
Feat. Dawn French, Iain Glen, Emilia Fox
A darkly comedic infidelity drama with a foodie twist. Dawn French plays a passionate cook who engages in a complicating affair with her celebrity…
Doctor Thorne (TV Series)Doctor Thorne (TV Series) (Dr. Thorne) (2016) Recommended
Feat. Tom Hollander, Stefanie Martini, Rebecca Front
Excellent Victorian drama adapted from the writings of Anthony Trollope by DOWNTON ABBEY's Julian Fellowes, concerning the penniless Mary Thorne, who…
Durrells, The (TV Series)Durrells, The (TV Series) (2016)
Feat. Keeley Hawes, Milo Parker, Leslie Caron
Picturesque adaptation of Gerald Durrell's autobiographical novel about his family's sudden move to Corfu in the 1930's.
Family Law, The (TV Series)Family Law, The (TV Series) (2016)
Feat. Trystan Go, Fiona Choi
Gently comic series set in one dysfunctional Chinese–Australian family seen through the eyes of a fourteen–year old boy.
Game of Thrones - Season 6 (TV Series)Game of Thrones - Season 6 (TV Series) (2016)
The struggle for the iron throne continues in the sixth season of the rightly acclaimed HBO series derived from George R.R. Martin's fantasy novels.
Girls - Season 5 (TV Series)Girls - Season 5 (TV Series) (2016)
Feat. Lena Dunham, Adam Driver
Further episodes from Lena Dunham's savvy HBO series on the highs and lows of living and dating in New York – a show that's at once witty,…
Home From Home (TV Series)Home From Home (TV Series) (2016)
Feat. Johnny Vegas, Emilia Fox, Adam James
BBC sitcom set in the Lake District, England, where a couple fulfill their dream of buying a holiday lodge there, and are overjoyed until they meet…
House of Cards - Season 4 (TV Series, US)House of Cards - Season 4 (TV Series, US) (2016) Recommended
Feat. Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Kate Mara
Further episodes in the shadowy revival of the classic BBC political series, with Kevin Spacey (perfectly cast) as a machiavellian congressman…
Masters of Sex - Season 4 (TV Series)Masters of Sex - Season 4 (TV Series) (2016)
Feat. Lizzy Caplan, Martin Sheen
Fourth and final season of the dramatisation of the work of pioneering researchers Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the eponymous 'Masters…
Moonstone, The (TV Mini-series)Moonstone, The (TV Mini-series) (2016)
Feat. John Thomson, Sarah Hadland, Joshua Silver
Updated BBC version of the Wilkie Collins' novel in which the numerous party guests at an English country house have a motive for stealing a missing…
Mum (TV Series)Mum (TV Series) (2016-2019) Recommended
Dir. Richard Laxton
Feat. Lesley Manville, Peter Mullan
Quality British character comedy following twelve months in the life of a newly widowed mother in her late fifties who attempts to rebuild her life…
My Mother and Other Strangers (TV Mini-series)My Mother and Other Strangers (TV Mini-series) (2016)
Dir. Adrian Shergold
Feat. Hattie Morahan, Owen McDonnell
Five–episode mini–series set during WWII in which a family and their neighbours in a Northern Irish village come to terms with the influx…
Path, The (TV Series)Path, The (TV Series) (2016)
Feat. Aaron Paul, Michelle Monaghan, Emma Greenwell
Compelling drama following a family who belong to a mysterious cult in upstate New York. Themes of relationships, faith and power are explored, with…
Rebellion (TV Series)Rebellion (TV Series) (2016) Recommended
Feat. Niamh Cusack, Brian Gleeson, Ruth Bradley
Powerful period drama that chronicles life in post–World War I Ireland as seen through the eyes of three young women, their families and…
Roots (TV Mini-Series)Roots (TV Mini-Series) (2016)
Dir. Phillip Noyce, Mario Van Peebles, Thomas Carter
Feat. Laurence Fishburne, Matthew Goode, Derek Luke
A powerful new adaptation of Alex Haley's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. This tragic story of resilience is told in four parts covering four…
Thirteen (TV Mini-series)Thirteen (TV Mini-series) (2016)
Feat. Jodie Comer, Natasha Little, Stuart Graham
Five–part BBC psychological drama that follows a 26–year–old woman who learns to live again after being abducted and held in…
This Is Us (TV Series)This Is Us (TV Series) (2016) Recommended
Feat. Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown
Comedy–drama following the lives of two twins and their adopted brother, interweaving the past and present to explore how each of the…
Tutankhamun (TV Mini-series)Tutankhamun (TV Mini-series) (2016)
Dir. Peter Webber
Feat. Max Irons, Jonathan Aris, Sam Neill
A four–part dramatisation of how a penniless, ostracised archaeologist named Howard Carter became a household name following his discovery of…
Victoria (TV Series)Victoria (TV Series) (2016)
Feat. Jenna Coleman, Tom Hughes, Peter Bowles
Lavish drama series that depicts the early life of Queen Victoria, from her accession to the throne at the tender age of 18 through to her courtship…
War and Peace (TV Series)War and Peace (TV Series) (2016) Recommended
Dir. Tom Harper
Feat. Paul Dano, Lily James, James Norton
Stellar BBC take on the Tolstoy's classic tale of aristocratic families caught in the tumult of Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
Young Pope, The (TV Series)Young Pope, The (TV Series) (2016) Recommended
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino
Feat. Jude Law, Diane Keaton, Silvio Orlando
Ten–part miniseries following the reign of Pope Pius XIII, the first American pontiff. Featuring Jude Law in a heavily praised lead…
800 Words (TV Series)800 Words (TV Series) (2015) Recommended
Feat. Erik Thomson, Michelle Langstone, Jonathan Brugh
From the writers of OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE come this gentle dramedy that follows the travails of a widowed Sydney columnist as he up sticks for life in…
Ballers (TV Series)Ballers (TV Series) (2015)
Feat. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Rob Corddry, John David Washington
ENTOURAGE–like series centred around the misadventures of a group of NFL footballers, their agents and their families.
Banished (TV Mini-series)Banished (TV Mini-series) (2015)
Feat. Orla Brady, Ewen Bremner, MyAnna Buring
British period drama created by Jimmy McGovern (CRACKER), set in the 18th century in the first penal colony founded by the British in New South…
Better Call Saul (TV Series)Better Call Saul (TV Series) (2015) Recommended
Feat. Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Michael McKean
Spinning–off from smash hit BREAKING BAD, this worthy successor follows the trials and tribulations of criminal lawyer Saul Goodman, in the…
Bloodline (TV Series)Bloodline (TV Series) (2015)
Feat. Kyle Chandler, Ben Mendelsohn, Linda Cardellini
Knotty thriller about a family of adult siblings who find that their past secrets and scars are revealed when their black sheep of a brother returns…
Call My Agent (TV Series)Call My Agent (TV Series) (Dix pour cent) (2015)
Feat. Camille Cottin, Liliane Rovere, Thibault de Montalembert
French TV drama set in a talent agency and following the lives of the agents as they combine art with business and juggle their private and…
CapitalCapital (2015)
Feat. Adeel Akhtar, Danny Ashok, Mona Goodwin
A three–part British TV adaptation of the novel by John Lanchester, set on an affluent London street, where residents receive a strange note…
Casual Vacancy, The (TV Mini-Series)Casual Vacancy, The (TV Mini-Series) (2015)
Feat. Rory Kinnear, Michael Gambon, Keeley Hawes
J. K. Rowling's novel of small–town politcs in which the residents of Pagford fight for a spot on the parish council after the unexpected death…
Catching Milat (TV Mini-series)Catching Milat (TV Mini-series) (2015)
Feat. Richard Cawthorne, Malcolm Kennard
Rigorous psychological thriller based on the investigation into the 1990s backpacker murders leading to the arrest and conviction of serial killer…
Doctor Foster (TV Series)Doctor Foster (TV Series) (2015-2017) Aro Favourite
Feat. Suranne Jones, Bertie Carvel, Jodie Comer
Top quality BBC melodrama with Suranne Jones superb as a general practitioner who becomes obessed with the notion that her doting husband may be…
Downton Abbey - Series 6 (TV Series)Downton Abbey - Series 6 (TV Series) (2015)
Feat. Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern
Further episodes from ITV's immensely popular, top–of–the–range period drama, centred on the residents and staff of the titular…
Downton Abbey - The Finale (TV Mini-series)Downton Abbey - The Finale (TV Mini-series) (Downton Abbey Christmas 2015) (2015)
Feat. Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael
The final installment of this internationally acclaimed hit drama series that chronicled the lives of the Crawley family and their servants.
Empire (TV Series)Empire (TV Series) (2015) Recommended
Feat. Terrence Howard, Taraji P. Henson, Gabourey Sidibe
Terrence Howard stars as the CEO of a hugely successful music label who is diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease and has to choose one of his…
Fargo - Season 2 (TV Series)Fargo - Season 2 (TV Series) (2015) Aro Favourite
Feat. Kirsten Dunst, Patrick Wilson, Jesse Plemons
Much acclaimed second season is set in the late seventies and features more deception, intrigue and murder in and around the town of Fargo, North…
Flesh and Bone (TV Series)Flesh and Bone (TV Series) (2015)
Feat. Sarah Hay, Ben Daniels, Damon Herriman
Psychological drama series about a talented but emotionally troubled dancer who runs away to New York City and quickly finds herself immersed in the…
Fortitude (TV Series)Fortitude (TV Series) (2015) Recommended
Feat. Sofie Grabol, Richard Dormer, Stanley Tucci
Addictive murder mystery set on the edge of the Arctic Circle, in the town of Fortitude, a town whose peaceful reputation is under threat.
Game of Thrones - Season 5 (TV Series)Game of Thrones - Season 5 (TV Series) (2015)
Feat. Peter Dinklage
The struggle for the iron throne continues in the fifth season of the rightly acclaimed HBO series derived from George R.R. Martin's fantasy…
Girls - Season 4 (TV Series)Girls - Season 4 (TV Series) (2015) Recommended
Feat. Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke
Further episodes from Lena Dunham's savvy HBO series on the highs and lows of living and dating in New York – a show that's at once witty,…
Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) - Season 11Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) - Season 11 (2015)
Eleventh season of the popular female–driven medical soap, continuing the trials and tribulations of five first–year interns as they…
Heavy Water War, TheHeavy Water War, The (The Saboteurs) (2015) Aro Favourite
Dir. Per-Olav Sørensen
Feat. Espen Klouman-Høiner, Soren Pilmark, Anna Friel
Thrilling Norwegian mini–series tells the story behind Hitler's plan for obtaining the atomic bomb during WW2, and the heavy water sabotages in…
Hollow Crown, The: Wars of the Roses (TV Series)Hollow Crown, The: Wars of the Roses (TV Series) (2015)
Dir. Dominic Cooke
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Hugh Bonneville, Judi Dench
A second series of star–studded, exceptionally presented Shakespeare adaptations, with Henry VI in two parts, along with Richard III. Together…
Home Fires (TV Series)Home Fires (TV Series) (2015) Recommended
Feat. Francesca Annis, Samantha Bond
Quality BBC drama following a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community during World War II.
House of Cards - Season 3 (TV Series, US)House of Cards - Season 3 (TV Series, US) (2015)
Feat. Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Kate Mara
Further episodes in the shadowy revival of the classic BBC political series, with Kevin Spacey (perfectly cast) as a machiavellian congressman…
Humans (TV Series)Humans (TV Series) (2015-2018) Recommended
Feat. William Hurt, Rebecca Front, Gemma Chan
Sci–fi series set in a parallel present where the latest must–have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' – a…
Indian Summers (TV Series)Indian Summers (TV Series) (2015)
Feat. Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Nikesh Patel, Julie Walters
Broadly played but beautifully scenic British drama series set in 1932 following the final years of British colonial rule in India from both sides of…
Jessica Jones (TV Series)Jessica Jones (TV Series) (2015)
Feat. Krysten Ritter
Engaging Marvel drama with BREAKING BAD's Krysten Ritter starring as the former superhero turned private detective.
Justified - The Final Season (TV Series)Justified - The Final Season (TV Series) (2015) Aro Favourite
Feat. Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Walton Goggins
Raylan Givens gets a terrific send–off in the conclusion to Elmore Leonard's urban western about an old–school U.S. Marshal reassigned…
Knick, The - Season 2 (TV Series)Knick, The - Season 2 (TV Series) (2015)
Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Clive Owen
Steven Soderbergh directs the second season of the grisly medical drama set within the confines of a New York hospital in 1900.
Last Kingdom, The (TV Series)Last Kingdom, The (TV Series) (2015) Recommended
Feat. Alexander Dreymon, Ian Hart, Matthew MacFadyen
Historical adventure series set in the divided England of the 9th century follows the travails of the orphaned son of a Saxon nobleman.
Legacy, The - Series 2 (TV Series)Legacy, The - Series 2 (TV Series) (Arvingerne) (2015) Recommended
Feat. Trine Dyrholm, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Lene Maria Christensen
Second season of the gripping drama in which the death of a matriarch brings forgotten secrets out into the open and causes a prolonged battle for…
Masters of Sex - Season 3 (TV Series)Masters of Sex - Season 3 (TV Series) (2015)
Feat. Michael Sheen, Lizzy Caplan
Third season of the dramatisation of the work of pioneering researchers Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the eponymous 'Masters of Sex'…
Midwinter of the Spirit (TV Mini-series)Midwinter of the Spirit (TV Mini-series) (2015)
Feat. Nicholas Pinnock, Anna Maxwell Martin, Kate Dickie
TV miniseries following a female vicar who works as an exorcist. Cheerfully creepy Middle–England gothic from the pen of supernatural mystery…
Mr. Robot (TV Series)Mr. Robot (TV Series) (2015-2020) Recommended
Feat. Rami Malek, Christian Slater, Portia Doubleday
The excellent Rami Malek stars as an expert hacker recruited by a mysterious anarchist, who calls himself Mr. Robot. 44 episodes across 4 seasons.
Narcos (TV Series)Narcos (TV Series) (2015) Recommended
Feat. Wagner Moura, Boyd Holbrook, Pedro Pascal
Vivid, unflinching HBO drama chronicles the exploits of the notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
Sherlock: The Abominable BrideSherlock: The Abominable Bride (2015)
Dir. Douglas Mackinnon
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs
One–off holiday special with the modern Sherlock and Watson finding themselves back in 1890's London.
Show Me a Hero (TV Mini-Series)Show Me a Hero (TV Mini-Series) (2015) Recommended
Dir. Paul Haggis
Feat. Oscar Isaac, Peter Riegert, Alfred Molina
Extraordinary true story of the political fight to build public housing in white middle–class neighbourhoods in 1980's New York. From the…
Syndicate, The (TV Series)Syndicate, The (TV Series) (2015)
Feat. Lorraine Bruce, Timothy Spall, Matthew Lewis
A Yorkshire–set BBC drama series written by Kay Mellor sees five members of a betting syndicate win the lottery. Each series follows a…
Togetherness (TV Series)Togetherness (TV Series) (2015) Recommended
Feat. Mark Duplass, Melanie Lynskey, Amanda Peet
Kiwi actress Melanie Lynskey stars in this entirely relatable HBO comedy–drama from the prolific Duplass brothers that follows the…
Versailles (TV Series)Versailles (TV Series) (2015)
Feat. George Blagden, Alexander Vlahos
Lavish historical drama follows the travails of Lous XIV as he attempts to build the world's greatest palace against abackdrop of political…
Wayward Pines (TV Series)Wayward Pines (TV Series) (2015)
Feat. Matt Dillon, Carla Gugino, Shannyn Sossamon
Matt Dillon stars as a Secret Service agent who journeys to the small town of Wayward Pines in search of two federal agents who have disappeared.
Westside (TV Series)Westside (TV Series) (2015-2019)
Feat. Antonia Prebble, David de Lautour, Reef Ireland
A period prequel to OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE. Legendary safe cracker and career criminal, Ted West and his first wife Rita Build their fortune in the slums…
When We Go To War (TV Mini-series)When We Go To War (TV Mini-series) (2015)
Feat. Ido Drent, Sophia Huybens
Historical saga that tells the story of six young men and women whose plans for the future are thwarted as New Zealand enters World War I. Events…
Wolf Hall (TV Series)Wolf Hall (TV Series) (2015) Aro Favourite
Feat. Mark Rylance, Claire Foy, Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Superb television adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Booker–winning tale of Thomas Cromwell's rapid rise to power in the court of Henry the Eighth.
Affair, The (TV Series)Affair, The (TV Series) (2014-2020)
Feat. Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, Maura Tierney
Well–acted cable drama that maps the psychological effects of an affair between a married waitress at a Hamptons diner and a teacher who spends…
Boardwalk Empire - Season 5 (TV Series)Boardwalk Empire - Season 5 (TV Series) (2014) Recommended
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Kelly MacDonald, Michael Shannon
Final episodes from the marquee HBO production, centred on the Prohibition–era empire surrounding corrupt Atlantic treasurer Enoch "Nucky"…
Devil's Playground, The (TV Series)Devil's Playground, The (TV Series) (2014)
Feat. Simon Burke, Morgana Davies, John Noble
Psychological thriller set 35 years after the events of Fred Schepisi's classic follows that films protagonist as he finds himself working as a…
Downton Abbey - A Moorland Holiday (TV Mini-Series)Downton Abbey - A Moorland Holiday (TV Mini-Series) (2014)
Feat. Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter
Another Downton Christmas special this time set in the Autumn of 1924. It's grouse shooting season and Rose's father–in–law, Lord…
Downton Abbey - Series 5 (TV Series)Downton Abbey - Series 5 (TV Series) (2014)
Feat. Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern
Further episodes from ITV's immensely popular, top–of–the–range period drama, centred on the residents and staff of the titular…
Fargo - Season 1 (TV Series)Fargo - Season 1 (TV Series) (2014) Aro Favourite
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks
This splendid reworking of the Coen Brothers' cult midwestern noir expands on the film's frosty Minnesota murder mystery with more eccentric…
Fat Tony & Co (TV Mini-series)Fat Tony & Co (TV Mini-series) (2014)
Feat. Robert Mammone, Gyton Grantley, Shane Jacobson
A mini–series that uncovers the story of one of Australia's most notorious criminals, Tony Mokbel.
Game of Thrones - Season 4 (TV Series)Game of Thrones - Season 4 (TV Series) (2014) Recommended
Feat. Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey
Further episodes from the justifiably acclaimed HBO medieval series, with realism and violence dictating its dark hued, anti–romantic take on…
Game, The (TV Mini-Series)Game, The (TV Mini-Series) (2014)
Feat. Brian Cox, Tom Hughes, Jonathan Aris
Brian Cox leads the cast in this Cold War spy thriller set in the world of 1970's espionage. It tells the story of the invisible war fought by MI5…
Girls - Season 3 (TV Series)Girls - Season 3 (TV Series) (2014) Recommended
Dir. Lena Dunham
Feat. Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke
Further episodes from Lena Dunham's savvy HBO series on the highs and lows of living and dating in New York – a show that's at once witty,…
Gracepoint (TV Series)Gracepoint (TV Series) (2014)
Feat. David Tennant, Anna Gunn, Jackie Weaver
The US remake of BROADCHURCH is largely a shot–for–shot remake with some minor plot tweaking. A young boy is found dead on the shores of…
Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) - Season 10 (2014)
Feat. Patrick Dempsey, Ellen Pompeo, Justin Chambers
Tenth season of the popular female–driven medical soap, continuing the trials and tribulations of five first–year interns as they juggle…
Halt and Catch Fire (TV Series)Halt and Catch Fire (TV Series) (2014-2017)
Feat. Lee Pace, Scoot McNairy, Mackenzie Davis
TV drama set during the technological revolution of the 1980's, following fictional characters who had insider experience of the development of the…
Honourable Woman, The (TV Mini-series)Honourable Woman, The (TV Mini-series) (2014) Aro Favourite
Feat. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Stephen Rea, Lubna Azabal
A rigorous, fast–paced thriller with Maggie Gyllenhaal as a woman who inherits her father's arms business, and finds herself in a international…
Hope and Wire (TV Mini-Series)Hope and Wire (TV Mini-Series) (2014)
Dir. Gaylene Preston
Feat. Rachel House, Joel Tobeck, Chelsie Preston-Crayford
Gaylene Preston directs this contentious, though humanly compelling medley of stories based on first–hand accounts of the direct aftermath of…
In The Club (TV Series)In The Club (TV Series) (2014)
Dir. Kay Mellor
Feat. Hermione Norris, Katherine Parkinson, Jill Halfpenny
Warm, gutsy British ensemble drama following six pregnant women in various stages of life. From the creator of COLD FEET.
Justified - Season 5 (TV Series)Justified - Season 5 (TV Series) (2014) Aro Favourite
Feat. Timothy Olyphant, Walton Goggins, Joelle Carter
Further episodes from the slick urban western about an old–school U.S. Marshal reassigned from Miami to his childhood home in the poor, rural…
Kingdom (TV Series)Kingdom (TV Series) (2014)
Feat. Frank Grillo, Kiele Sanchez, Matt Lauria
Drama set in the world of mixed–martial arts, with a retired fighter struggling to keep his gym and his family afloat.
Klondike (TV Mini-Series)Klondike (TV Mini-Series) (2014)
Dir. Simon Cellan Jones
Feat. Richard Madden, Abbie Cornish, Marton Csokas
The Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s is richly evoked in this frontier western, which is largely faithful to the history, conditions, and…
Knick, The - Season 1 (TV Series)Knick, The - Season 1 (TV Series) (2014) Recommended
Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Clive Owen, Andre Holland
Steven Soderbergh directs this look at the professional and personal lives of the staff at New York's Knickerbocker Hospital during the early part of…
Leftovers, The (TV Series)Leftovers, The (TV Series) (2014) Recommended
Feat. Justin Theroux, Amy Brenneman, Christopher Eccleston
Thoughtful adaptation of Tom Perrotta's novel about life in a small town after many of its residents vanished in a Rapture–like event.
Legacy, The - Series 1 (TV Series)Legacy, The - Series 1 (TV Series) (Arvingerne) (2014) Recommended
Feat. Trine Dyrholm, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Lene Maria Christensen
From the creators of BORGEN and THE KILLING comes this gripping drama in which the death of a matriarch brings forgotten secrets out into the open…
Looking (TV Series)Looking (TV Series) (2014) Recommended
Feat. Jonathan Groff, Frankie J. Álvarez, Murray Bartlett
A funny and earnest HBO dramedy about the lives of a group of gay friends living in contemporary San Francisco. Co–produced by Andrew Haigh…
Love Child (TV Series)Love Child (TV Series) (2014)
Feat. Jessica Marais, Jonathan LaPaglia, Mandy McElhinney
Vivid period drama recounting the appalling practice of forced adoptions for unmarried Australian mothers in the swinging sixties, as witnessed by a…
Mad Men - Season 7 (TV Series)Mad Men - Season 7 (TV Series) (2014) Recommended
Feat. Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser
Final episodes of the 60's–New–York–set television drama series focused on an ad exec basking in the glow of the golden age of…
Madam Secretary (TV Series)Madam Secretary (TV Series) (2014)
Feat. Tea Leoni, Tim Daly, Keith Carradine
Tea Leoni stars in this astute political drama that looks at the personal and professional life of a Secretary of State as she tries to balance her…
Masters of Sex - Season 2 (TV Series)Masters of Sex - Season 2 (TV Series) (2014)
Feat. Michael Sheen, Lizzy Caplan
Season two of the dramatisation of the work of pioneering researchers Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the eponymous 'Masters of Sex' whose…
Missing, The (TV Series)Missing, The (TV Series) (2014-2016) Recommended
Feat. James Nesbitt, Frances O’Connor, Tcheky Karyo
Gripping BBC drama with James Nesbitt as a man devastated by the abduction of his young son during a family vacation in France.
Olive Kitteridge (TV Mini-Series)Olive Kitteridge (TV Mini-Series) (2014) Aro Favourite
Dir. Lisa Cholodenko
Feat. Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins, Ann Dowd
Frances McDormand is superb as the forbidding Olive Kitteridge in this exemplary HBO adaptation of Elizabeth Strout's Pulitzer Prize–winning…
Our Girl (TV Series)Our Girl (TV Series) (2014) Recommended
Feat. Lacey Turner
Lacey Turner stars in this acclaimed drama as a young woman on her first deployment as a serving army medic against the backdrop of the British…
Our Zoo (TV Series)Our Zoo (TV Series) (2014)
Feat. Lee Ingleby, Liz White, Anne Reid
Charming mini–series follows the family who founded the famed Chester Zoo.
Outlander (TV Series)Outlander (TV Series) (2014) Recommended
Feat. Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Duncan Lacroix
From the pen of Ronald D. Moore comes this tale of a combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 18th century Scotland, a…
Red Road (TV Series)Red Road (TV Series) (2014)
Feat. Martin Henderson, Jason Momoa, Julianne Nicholson
Downbeat drama revolving around a sheriff struggling to keep his family together while simultaneously policing two clashing communities: the small…
Resurrection (TV Series)Resurrection (TV Series) (2014)
Feat. Omar Epps, Frances Fisher
A small Missouri town is the site of a number of unexplained resurrections in this thought–provoking drama, reminiscent of – though…
That Day We SangThat Day We Sang (2014)
Dir. Victoria Wood
Feat. Michael Ball, Imelda Staunton, Christopher Jordan
TV adaptation of the beloved musical written and composed by Victoria Wood, who also directs. Set in 1969 and based on a true story, the plot…
Widower, TheWidower, The (2014)
Dir. Paul Whittington
Feat. John Hannah, Sheridan Smith, Reece Shearsmith
Unnerving true crime drama depicting the life of criminal Malcolm Webster, who was convicted of murder, attempted murder and vast amounts of…
Witches of East End (TV Series)Witches of East End (TV Series) (2014)
Feat. Julia Ormond, Madchen Amick
TV series about a family of witches who live in the seaside town of East End. Based on the book of the same name by Melissa de la Cruz.
A Place to Call Home (TV Series)A Place to Call Home (TV Series) (2013)
Feat. Marta Dusseldorp, Noni Hazlehurst, Brett Climo
Australian television tries its hand at a DOWNTON ABBEY–style melodrama with this spiffy period production set on a New South Wales country…
Ambassadors (TV Series)Ambassadors (TV Series) (2013)
Feat. David Mitchell, Robert Webb
Comedy duo David Mitchell and Robert Webb somewhat invert their PEEP SHOW personas for this three–part comedy–drama series following the…
Bluestone 42 (TV Series)Bluestone 42 (TV Series) (2013) Recommended
Feat. Oliver Chris, Kelly Adams, Matthew Lewis
Excellent British dramedy combines realism with levity in its chronicle of a British bomb disposal detachment in Afghanistan. Series One: 9…
Boardwalk Empire - Season 4 (TV Series)Boardwalk Empire - Season 4 (TV Series) (2013) Recommended
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Kelly MacDonald, Michael Shannon
Further episodes from the marquee HBO production, centred on the Prohibition–era empire surrounding corrupt Atlantic treasurer Enoch "Nucky"…
Bonnie and Clyde (TV Mini-Series)Bonnie and Clyde (TV Mini-Series) (2013)
Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Emile Hirsch, Holliday Grainger, Sarah Hyland
The legend of depression era outlaws Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker is given the full treatment in this evocative History Channel drama.
Borgen - Series 3 (TV Series)Borgen - Series 3 (TV Series) (2013) Aro Favourite
Feat. Sidse Babett Knudsen, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Pilou Asbæk
Further episodes from the Bafta–winning Danish political drama in which an idealistic prime minister's rise to power brings with it a web of…
Breaking Bad - The Final Season (TV Series)Breaking Bad - The Final Season (TV Series) (2013) Recommended
Feat. Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn
Final episodes in the addictive series chronicling the deeds of anti–hero Walter White (Cranston), a high school chemistry teacher who turns to…
Breathless (TV Series)Breathless (TV Series) (2013)
Feat. Jack Davenport, Zoe Boyle
The lives of a team of doctors and nurses working at a gynaecology unit in a London hospital are explored with a predicable amount of froth and sheen…
Broadchurch - Series 1 (TV Series)Broadchurch - Series 1 (TV Series) (2013) Aro Favourite
Feat. David Tennant, Olivia Colman, Jodie Whittaker
Superb addition to the euro crime craze, with Tennant and Colman bringing a surprisingly fresh take on the mismatched partner scenario, as detectives…
Da Vinci's Demons (TV Series)Da Vinci's Demons (TV Series) (2013)
Feat. Tom Riley
A lavishly produced historical fantasy which imagines Leonardo da Vinci's life as an artist, inventor and genius. Season One: eight episodes…
Dancing on the Edge (TV series)Dancing on the Edge (TV series) (2013)
Dir. Stephen Poliakoff
Feat. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Matthew Goode, Angel Coulby
Aided by beautiful period detail, Stephen Poliakoff's latest drama richly explores the rise and fall of a black jazz band embraced by the aristocracy…
Death Comes to Pemberley (TV Mini-Series)Death Comes to Pemberley (TV Mini-Series) (2013)
Dir. Daniel Percival
Feat. Matthew Rhys, Anna Maxwell Martin, Jenna-Louise Coleman
Fine British period drama based on P.D. James' murder mystery novel set after the events of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
Downton Abbey - Series 4 (TV Series)Downton Abbey - Series 4 (TV Series) (2013)
Feat. Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern
Further episodes from ITV's immensely popular, top–of–the–range period drama, centred on the residents and staff of the titular…
Downton Abbey in London (TV Mini-Series)Downton Abbey in London (TV Mini-Series) (2013) Aro Favourite
Feat. Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern
Downton's latest Christmas special centres on Rose's 'coming out' at Buckingham Palace, with Shirley Maclaine and Paul Giamatti in memorable guest…
Family Tree (TV Series)Family Tree (TV Series) (2013)
Dir. Christopher Guest
Feat. Chris O'Dowd, Ed Jr. Begley, Nina Conti
Director Christopher Guest (WAITING FOR GUFFMAN, BEST IN SHOW) applies his distinctive doco–style comedy to the episodic format of television…
Frankie (TV Series)Frankie (TV Series) (2013)
Feat. Eve Myles, Dean Lennox Kelly
An endearing medical drama centred on a district nurse and her ceaseless dedication to her job – often, at the expensive of her personal…
Game of Thrones - Season 3 (TV Series)Game of Thrones - Season 3 (TV Series) (2013) Recommended
Feat. Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Michelle Fairley
Further episodes from the justifiably acclaimed HBO medieval series, with realism and violence dictating its dark hued, anti–romantic take on…
Getting On (TV Series)Getting On (TV Series) (2013)
Feat. Laurie Metcalf, Alex Borstein, Niecy Nash
Serio–comic HBO remake of the British satirical series about a geriatric ward and the relationship between its patients and medical…
Girls - Season 2 (TV Series)Girls - Season 2 (TV Series) (2013) Recommended
Dir. Lena Dunham
Feat. Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke
Further episodes from Lena Dunham's savvy HBO series on the highs and lows of living and dating in New York – a show that's at once witty,…
Golden Hour, TheGolden Hour, The (2013)
Superb 'Sunday Theatre' docu–drama relives the inspirational story behind New Zealand's greatest–ever day at the Olympics, in which…
Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) - Season 9Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) - Season 9 (2013)
Feat. Patrick Dempsey, Ellen Pompeo, Justin Chambers
Ninth season of the popular female–driven medical soap, continuing the trials and tribulations of five first–year interns as they juggle…
Harry (TV Series)Harry (TV Series) (2013)
Feat. Oscar Kightley, Sam Neill, Hunter Kamuhemu
Oscar Kightley plays a grieving South Auckland detective swamped by a series of armed robberies in this dark, authentic local policier, a welcome…
Hatfields & McCoys (TV Mini-Series)Hatfields & McCoys (TV Mini-Series) (2013)
Dir. Kevin Reynolds
Feat. Kevin Costner, Bill Paxton, Tom Berenger
Epic western mini–series recreates the legendary family feud between two Confederate soldiers returning to their land in the aftermath of the…
Hinterland (TV Series)Hinterland (TV Series) (2013)
Feat. Richard Harrington, Mali Harries
Noir crime drama set in Aberystwyth, Wales, where the knackered and troubled detective Tom Mathias searches for redemption, while solving crimes.
Justified - Season 4 (TV Series)Justified - Season 4 (TV Series) (2013) Aro Favourite
Feat. Timothy Olyphant, Walton Goggins, Joelle Carter
Further episodes from the slick urban western about an old–school U.S. Marshal reassigned from Miami to his childhood home in the poor, rural…
Mad Men - Season 6 (TV Series)Mad Men - Season 6 (TV Series) (2013) Recommended
Feat. Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser
Further episodes of the 60's–New–York–set television drama series focused on an ad exec basking in the glow of the golden age of…
Masters of Sex - Season 1 (TV Series)Masters of Sex - Season 1 (TV Series) (2013) Recommended
Feat. Michael Sheen, Lizzy Caplan, Beau Bridges
A fascinating MAD MEN–era dramatisation of the work of pioneering researchers Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the eponymous 'Masters…
Mr. Selfridge (TV Series)Mr. Selfridge (TV Series) (2013)
Feat. Jeremy Piven, Frances O’Connor, Katherine Kelly
Jeremy Piven transposes his larger–than–life Ari Gold persona (from ENTOURAGE) to turn–of–the–century London, where he…
Orange is the New Black (TV Series)Orange is the New Black (TV Series) (2013) Aro Favourite
Feat. Taylor Schilling, Laura Prepon, Kate Mulgrew
A bracing, darkly humorous addition to the women–in–prison genre, centred on the plight of a privileged young woman whose fling with a…
Paper Giants: Magazine Wars (TV Mini-Series)Paper Giants: Magazine Wars (TV Mini-Series) (2013)
Feat. Rachel Griffiths, Mandy McElhinney
The editors of New Idea and Woman's Day face off in this juicy chronicle of the publishing wars between the rival Packer and Murdoch empires in the…
Please Like Me (TV Series)Please Like Me (TV Series) (2013) Recommended
Dir. Matthew Saville
Feat. Josh Thomas, Debra Lawrance, David Roberts
A charming (if cute) Australian comedy–drama series created by and starring Josh Thomas, who plays a twenty–something who's girlfriend…
Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch War (TV Mini-Series)Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch War (TV Mini-Series) (2013)
Dir. Geoff Bennett
Feat. Lachy Hulme, Patrick Brammall
The bitter newspaper and television war between the Murdoch and Packer families during the 1960s and 70s is the front page material of this fiery…
Rectify (TV Series)Rectify (TV Series) (2013) Aro Favourite
Feat. Aden Young, Abigail Spencer, J. Smith-Cameron
An immensely rewarding dramatic series from Southern character actor Ray McKinnon, which follows the painstaking reintegration of a death row inmate…
Reign (TV Series)Reign (TV Series) (2013)
Feat. Adelaide Kane, Megan Follows, Torrance Coombs
A liberal, at times soapy reimagining of the life and reign of Mary, Queen of Scots in 16th century France. Season One: 22 episodes across five…
Returned, The (TV Series)Returned, The (TV Series) (Les Revenants) (2013) Recommended
Feat. Anne Consigny, Frédéric Pierrot, Clotilde Hesme
Inspired by the excellent 2004 'zombie' film THEY CAME BACK, this richly storied French series about a township of people affected by the unexplained…
Sherlock - Series 3 (TV Series)Sherlock - Series 3 (TV Series) (2013) Recommended
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman
Further episodes from this ingenious update of the master detective, with Benedict Cumberbatch's idiosyncratic take on the character nicely…
Shetland (TV Series)Shetland (TV Series) (2013) Recommended
Feat. Douglas Henshall, Steven Robertson, Alison ODonnell
Created from the novels by Ann Cleeves (VERA), this BBC series follows Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez (Douglas Henshall) and his team as they…
Spartacus: War of the Damned (TV Series)Spartacus: War of the Damned (TV Series) (2013)
Feat. Liam McIntyre, Manu Bennett, Dustin Clare
Third and final series of the outlandish sword–and–sandal serial features. Ten episodes across three discs.
Treme - Season 4 (TV Series)Treme - Season 4 (TV Series) (2013) Recommended
Feat. Khandi Alexander, Clarke Peters, Steve Zahn
Final episodes from David Simon's superb dramatic study of post–Katrina New Orleans, focusing on a community of musicians, chefs, and residents…
True Blood - Season 6 (TV Series)True Blood - Season 6 (TV Series) (2013)
Feat. Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell
Further episodes of the acclaimed series from SIX FEET UNDER creator Alan Ball, set in a world where vampires have 'come out' as members of modern…
Vikings (TV Series)Vikings (TV Series) (2013-2018) Recommended
Feat. Travis Fimmel, Katheryn Winnick, Gustaf Skarsard
A vividly mounted historical series inspired by the sagas of the Norsemen of early medieval Scandinavia.
Village, The (TV Series)Village, The (TV Series) (2013) Recommended
Feat. John Simm, Maxine Peake, Juliet Stevenson
A gritty riposte to the swell of glossy period dramas, this small scale epic charts the progress of a village of working class characters in early…
Wentworth (TV Series)Wentworth (TV Series) (2013)
Feat. Danielle Cormack, Leeanna Walsman, Robbie Magasiva
Glossy, menacing re–imagining of 80's series PRISONER, centers around a suburban housewife forced to come to terms with life inside one of…
White Queen, The (TV Series)White Queen, The (TV Series) (2013)
Feat. Rebecca Ferguson, Amanda Hale, Faye Marsay
Superb historical drama focuses on three women and their quest for the throne of England against the backdrop of the 'War of the Roses'. Ten episodes…
Wipers Times, The Wipers Times, The (2013)
Dir. Andy De Emmony
Feat. Ben Chaplin, Michael Palin
The horrors of trench warfare are matched with alleviating gallows humour in this strangely moving tale of a satirical newspaper published on the…
WPC 56 (TV Series)WPC 56 (TV Series) (2013)
Feat. Jennie Jacques
In the tradition of JULIET BRAVO, this Birmingham–set police drama follows the trials and triumphs of a woman constable to serving in the…
A Mother's Son (TV Mini-Series)A Mother's Son (TV Mini-Series) (2012)
Feat. Hermione Norris, Martin Clunes, Paul McGann
Taut two–part psychological thriller set in the sleepy Suffolk market town of Eastlee, where the disappearance of a young girl sends the…
Birdsong (TV Mini-Series)Birdsong (TV Mini-Series) (2012)
Dir. Philip Martin
Feat. Eddie Redmayne, Clemence Poesy, Matthew Goode
The horrific experiences of an English soldier fighting in northern France are juxtaposed against his fond, but haunted memories of a forbidden love…
Bletchley Circle, The (TV Series)Bletchley Circle, The (TV Series) (2012) Recommended
Feat. Anna Maxwell Martin, Rachael Stirling, Julie Graham
A smart, suspenseful period thriller set around a series of unsolved murders surreptitiously investigated by four former female codebreakers at…
Boardwalk Empire - Season 3 (TV Series)Boardwalk Empire - Season 3 (TV Series) (2012) Recommended
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Kelly MacDonald, Michael Shannon
Further episodes from the marquee HBO production, centred on the Prohibition–era empire surrounding corrupt Atlantic treasurer Enoch "Nucky"…
Bomb Girls (TV Series)Bomb Girls (TV Series) (2012)
Feat. Meg Tilly, Jodi Balfour, Ali Liebert
A first–rate Canadian drama centred on the lives of women on the home–front who were recruited to work in dangerous munitions factories…
Breaking Bad - Season 5 (TV Series)Breaking Bad - Season 5 (TV Series) (2012) Recommended
Feat. Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn
Further episodes chronicling the deeds of anti–hero Walter White (Cranston), a high school chemistry teacher who turns to a life of…
Call the Midwife (TV Series)Call the Midwife (TV Series) (2012)
Feat. Jessica Raine, Jenny Agutter, Miranda Hart
Immensely popular BBC series follows – in fashionable period detail – the trials and tribulations of a newly–qualified midwife, who begins…
Downton Abbey - A Journey To The Highlands (TV Mini-Series)Downton Abbey - A Journey To The Highlands (TV Mini-Series) (2012) Aro Favourite
Feat. Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern
The Crawley Family decamp to Scotland's Duneagle Castle for their summer holidays, whilst Carson attempts to keep the servants on a short leash back…
Downton Abbey - Series 3 (TV Series)Downton Abbey - Series 3 (TV Series) (2012)
Feat. Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern
Further episodes from ITV's immensely popular, top–of–the–range period drama, centred on the residents and staff of the titular…
Game of Thrones - Season 2 (TV Series)Game of Thrones - Season 2 (TV Series) (2012) Recommended
Feat. Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Michelle Fairley
Further episodes from the justifiably acclaimed HBO medieval series, with realism and violence dictating its dark hued, anti–romantic take on…
Girls - Season 1 (TV Series)Girls - Season 1 (TV Series) (2012) Recommended
Dir. Lena Dunham
Feat. Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke
Following her "mumblecore" hit TINY FURNITURE, wunderkind Lena Dunham's breakthrough into television (with the help of kingpin Judd Apatow) heralds a…
Good Cop (TV Series)Good Cop (TV Series) (2012)
Feat. Warren Brown, Kerrie Hayes
A hard–hitting police procedural about a run–down Liverpool constable who turns to increasingly violent and unlawful means in his line of…
Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) - Season 8Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) - Season 8 (2012)
Feat. Patrick Dempsey, Ellen Pompeo, Justin Chambers
Eighth season of the popular female–driven medical soap, continuing the trials and tribulations of five first–year interns as they juggle…
Hour, The - Series 2 (TV Series)Hour, The - Series 2 (TV Series) (2012) Aro Favourite
Feat. Dominic West, Romola Garai, Ben Whishaw
Further episodes from this fascinating news hour drama maintains the standard set by the first, where vice and corruption continue to intrigue a team…
House - Season 8 (TV Series)House - Season 8 (TV Series) (2012)
Feat. Hugh Laurie
Final series of the Hugh Laurie–fronted hospital thriller, which involve his medical team having to unravel baffling cases, CSI–fashion,…
Justified - Season 3 (TV Series)Justified - Season 3 (TV Series) (2012) Aro Favourite
Feat. Timothy Olyphant, Walton Goggins, Joelle Carter
Further episodes from the slick urban western about an old–school U.S. Marshal reassigned from Miami to his childhood home in the poor, rural…
Labyrinth (TV Mini-Series)Labyrinth (TV Mini-Series) (2012)
Dir. Christopher Smith
Feat. Jessica Brown-Findlay, Vanessa Kirby, John Hurt
The search for the Holy Grail provides the link between two parallel story lines – one set in medieval France, the other during a modern day…
Last Tango in Halifax (TV Series)Last Tango in Halifax (TV Series) (2012)
Feat. Derek Jacobi, Anne Reid, Sarah Lancashire
Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid play childhood sweethearts reunited via Facebook in their seventies in this thoughtful and engaging depiction of…
Longmire (TV Series)Longmire (TV Series) (2012)
Feat. Robert Taylor, Katee Sackhoff, Lou Diamond Phillips
A widowed sheriff returning to his jurisdiction within Wyoming's big sky country looks to crack down on crime in this involving period TV series,…
Mad Men - Season 5 (TV Series)Mad Men - Season 5 (TV Series) (2012) Recommended
Feat. Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser
Further episodes of the 60's–New–York–set television drama series focused on an ad exec basking in the glow of the golden age of…
Magic City (TV Series)Magic City (TV Series) (2012)
Feat. Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Olga Kurylenko, Steven Strait
Slavishly seductive period drama set in late 50s Florida, where a high–rolling hotel owner is forced to do business with a Miami mob boss in…
Mystery of a Hansom Cab, TheMystery of a Hansom Cab, The (2012)
This costume drama is based on the international best–selling crime novel by Fergus Hume. Set on the grimy streets of Melbourne during the…
Mystery of Edwin Drood, The (TV Mini-Series)Mystery of Edwin Drood, The (TV Mini-Series) (2012)
Feat. Matthew Rhys, Julia McKenzie, Rory Kinnear
An unfinished Dickens novel of obsessive love, betrayal and murder is sturdily adapted by the BBC, with the story's unknown ending fascinatingly…
Nashville (TV Series)Nashville (TV Series) (2012)
Feat. Connie Britton, Hayden Panettiere, Clare Bowen
A juicy, broadly appealing showbiz drama about private and professional rivalries in the country music industry. Stars Connie Britton as a Bonnie…
Newsroom, The (TV Series)Newsroom, The (TV Series) (2012)
Feat. Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, John Gallagher, Jr.
HBO and Aaron Sorkin team up for this quick–thinking workplace drama set behind the scenes at a fictional cable news network. Ambitious for…
Parade's End (TV Mini-Series)Parade's End (TV Mini-Series) (2012) Recommended
Dir. Susanna White
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall, Roger Allam
Benedict Cumberbatch plays an English aristocrat torn between loyalty to his beautiful but manipulative wife, and a young, passionate suffragette on…
Paradise, The (TV Series)Paradise, The (TV Series) (2012)
Feat. Emun Elliott, Joanna Vanderham, Elaine Cassidy
The BBC's answer to MR SELFRIDGE, this delightful period drama set in a Victorian–era department store revolves around a blossoming romance…
Political Animals (TV Mini-Series)Political Animals (TV Mini-Series) (2012)
Feat. Sigourney Weaver, Carla Gugino, James Wolk
Meaty White House drama with Sigourney Weaver, in a clear nod to Hillary Clinton, playing a divorced former First Lady now making waves as Secretary…
Puberty Blues (TV Series)Puberty Blues (TV Series) (2012)
Feat. Claudia Karvan, Ashleigh Cummings, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor
Two inseparable teenage girls growing up on the beaches of Cronulla come of age in this acclaimed TV adaptation of the seminal late 70s Australian…
Restless (TV Mini-Series)Restless (TV Mini-Series) (2012)
Dir. Edward Hall
Feat. Hayley Atwell, Rufus Sewell, Michelle Dockery
A fine small screen adaptation of William Boyd's espionage novel, about a young woman who learns that her mother was recruited as a spy during World…
Rita (TV Series)Rita (TV Series) (2012-2015) Recommended
Feat. Mille Dinesen, Lise Baastrup, Carsten Bjørnlund
Danish comedy series following the life of a defiantly outspoken school teacher and single mother who excels in her teaching but struggles in her…
Scandal (TV Series)Scandal (TV Series) (2012-2016)
Feat. Kerry Washington, Columbus Short, Tony Goldwyn
Kerry Washington plays a 'professional fixer' whose former life as a White House staffer draws her back into the world of political…
Secret of Crickley Hall, The (TV Mini-series)Secret of Crickley Hall, The (TV Mini-series) (2012)
Dir. Joe Ahearne
Feat. Suranne Jones, Tom Ellis, Douglas Henshall
Atmospheric 3–part BBC adaptation of the novel by prolific British horror writer James Herbert that connects a supernatural mystery between two…
Sherlock - Series 2 (TV Series)Sherlock - Series 2 (TV Series) (2012) Aro Favourite
Dir. Paul McGuigan
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Mark Gatiss
Further episodes from this ingenious update of the master detective, with Benedict Cumberbatch's idiosyncratic take on the character nicely…
Smash (TV Series)Smash (TV Series) (2012)
Feat. Debra Messing, Jack Davenport, Anjelica Huston
A superior, adult–minded alternative to GLEE, this focuses on the creative talent both on–stage and behind–the–scenes of a…
Spartacus: Vengeance (TV Series)Spartacus: Vengeance (TV Series) (2012)
Feat. Liam McIntyre, Manu Bennett, Peter Mensah
Series two of the outlandish sword–and–sandal serial features Lucy Lawless and a line–up of Kiwi faces in various states of…
Stella (TV Series)Stella (TV Series) (2012)
Feat. Ruth Jones
Ruth Jones, creator of GAVIN AND STACEY, steps into the role of a Welsh single mother surrounded by the comic eccentricities of her family and the…
Titanic (TV Mini-series)Titanic (TV Mini-series) (2012)
Dir. Jon Jones
Feat. Linus Roache, James Wilby, Timothy West
Four–part serial from the pen of DOWNTON ABBEY creator Julian Fellowes that tells the story of the doomed ship through four very different…
Touch (TV Series) (2012)
Feat. Kiefer Sutherland, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Mazouz
Supernatural drama about a widower who is struggling to raise his mute son, a child whose fascination with numbers and patterns leads his father to…
Town, The (TV Mini-Series)Town, The (TV Mini-Series) (2012)
Feat. Andrew Scott, Martin Clunes, Kelly Adams
A Londoner returns home following his parents' double–suicide, where he begins to suspect foul play in a town full of secrets in this…
Treme - Season 3 (TV Series)Treme - Season 3 (TV Series) (2012) Recommended
Feat. Khandi Alexander, Clarke Peters, Steve Zahn
Further episodes from David Simon's superb dramatic study of post–Katrina New Orleans, focusing on a community of musicians, chefs, and…
Tricky Business (TV Series)Tricky Business (TV Series) (2012)
Feat. Antony Starr, Gigi Edgley, Lincoln Lewis
A family of debt collectors grapple with the financial, emotional, professional, and personal problems inherent in their line of work in this lively…
True Blood - Season 5 (TV Series)True Blood - Season 5 (TV Series) (2012)
Feat. Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell
Further episodes of the acclaimed series from SIX FEET UNDER creator Alan Ball, set in a world where vampires have 'come out' as members of modern…
What to Do When Someone Dies What to Do When Someone Dies (Without You) (2012)
Feat. Anna Friel, Marc Warren
A love story morphs into a psychological thriller in this compelling tale of a happily married woman whose husband is inexplicably killed in a car…
White Heat (TV Series)White Heat (TV Series) (2012)
Dir. John Alexander
Feat. MyAnna Buring, Sam Claffin, Lee Ingleby
British TV drama from writer Paula Milne (THE POLITICIAN'S WIFE) following seven students who first meet while flatting in London in 1965. The six…
World Without End (TV Series)World Without End (TV Series) (2012)
Dir. Michael Caton-Jones
Feat. Ben Chaplin, Charlotte Riley, Nora von Waldstätten
Thinly drawn companion piece to THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH nonetheless makes for essential viewing for fans of the original historical series. Also…
Almighty Johnsons, The (TV Series)Almighty Johnsons, The (TV Series) (2011)
Feat. Timothy Balme, Dean O'Gorman, Ben Barrington
From the creators of Outrageous Fortune, this fantastical series follows the misadventures of four brothers who happen to be the living incarnations…
Alphas (TV Series)Alphas (TV Series) (2011)
Feat. David Strathairn, Ryan Cartwright, Warren Christie
David Strathairn leads this X–MEN–esque series about a group of people with superhuman powers – known as "alphas" – who are…
Appropriate Adult (TV Mini-series)Appropriate Adult (TV Mini-series) (2011) Recommended
Dir. Julian Jarrold
Feat. Emily Watson, Dominic West
Utterly riveting, BAFTA and Golden Globe winning mini–series that details the crucial part played by a trainee social worker in uncovering the…
Awkward (TV Series)Awkward (TV Series) (2011)
Feat. Ashley Rickards, Beau Mirchoff, Nikki Deloach
An unpopular 15 year old gains immediate, yet unwanted, popularity at her high school when the student body mistakes an accident she has for a…
BillyBilly (2011)
Dir. Peter Burger
Feat. Tainui Tukiwaho, Morgana O’Reilly
A sound, praiseworthy biopic of New Zealand's greatest ever comedian, played here by Tainui Tukiwaho with equal parts sobriety and jolly…
Black Mirror (TV Series)Black Mirror (TV Series) (2011-2013) Aro Favourite
Feat. Rory Kinnear, Lindsay Duncan, Rupert Everett
A brilliantly conceived anthology of science fiction stories in the tradition of THE TWILIGHT ZONE, this compelling British series explores the…
Bliss: The Beginning of Katherine MansfieldBliss: The Beginning of Katherine Mansfield (2011)
Dir. Fiona Samuel
Feat. Kate Elliot, Sarah Peirse, Peter Elliot
Revealing portrait of the early years of New Zealand's most celebrated writer Katharine Mansfield, movingly played by Kate Elliot.
Boardwalk Empire - Season 2 (TV Series)Boardwalk Empire - Season 2 (TV Series) (2011) Recommended
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Kelly MacDonald
Further episodes from the marquee HBO production, centred on the Prohibition–era empire surrounding corrupt Atlantic treasurer Enoch "Nucky"…
Body of Proof (TV Series)Body of Proof (TV Series) (2011)
Feat. Dana Delany, John Carroll Lynch, Jeri Ryan
Dana Delany graduates from Desperate Housewife to ace medical examiner in this formulaic hybrid of hospital melodrama and homicide procedural. Watch…
Booth At The End, TheBooth At The End, The (2011)
Dir. Christopher Kubasik
Feat. Xander Berkeley, Matt Boren, Matt Nolan
A man who may or may not be the devil, holds court in a diner booth where he is visited by those who've heard he is able to grant desires –…
Borgen - Series 2 (TV Series)Borgen - Series 2 (TV Series) (2011) Aro Favourite
Feat. Sidse Babett Knudsen, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Pilou Asbæk
Further episodes from the Bafta–winning Danish political drama in which an idealistic prime minister's rise to power brings with it a web of…
Borgias, The (TV Series)Borgias, The (TV Series) (2011)
Feat. Jeremy Irons, François Arnaud, Holliday Grainger
Sumptuous chronicling of the notorious Borgia family and their rise to the pinnacle of the Roman Catholic Church. Created by Neil Jordan.
Boss (TV Series)Boss (TV Series) (2011) Recommended
Feat. Kelsey Grammer, Connie Nielsen
In this tough political series, Kelsey Grammer is magnetic as a gritty Chicago mayor fighting for his city and his seat in office despite the onset…
Breaking Bad - Season 4 (TV Series)Breaking Bad - Season 4 (TV Series) (2011) Recommended
Feat. Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn
Further episodes chronicling the deeds of anti–hero Walter White (Cranston), a high school chemistry teacher who turns to a life of…
Christmas at Downton Abbey (TV Mini-Series)Christmas at Downton Abbey (TV Mini-Series) (2011) Aro Favourite
Feat. Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern
Lavish Christmas Special sees the Downton Abbey residents and staff hosting a spiffy holiday party, only for murder and jealously to cloud the…
CloudStreet (TV Mini-series)CloudStreet (TV Mini-series) (2011)
Dir. Matthew Saville
Feat. Essie Davis, Emma Booth, Geoff Morrell
Big, bold prestige production adapted from acclaimed Australian author Tim Winton's novel of the same name, about a pair of tragedy–stricken…
Crimson Petal and the White, The (TV Mini-Series)Crimson Petal and the White, The (TV Mini-Series) (2011)
Dir. Marc Munden
Feat. Romola Garai, Chris O'Dowd, Amanda Blake
An intensely realised adaption of Michel Faber's novel about an aspiring novelist (Romola Garai) who is unable to free herself from a life as a…
Death in Paradise (TV Series)Death in Paradise (TV Series) (2011)
Feat. Ben Miller, Sara Martins, Kris Marshall
A stuffy London detective is assigned the murder case of a fellow British policeman on a fictional Caribbean island, and ends up staying against his…
Downton Abbey - Series 2 (TV Series)Downton Abbey - Series 2 (TV Series) (2011)
Feat. Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern
Further episodes from ITV's immensely popular, top–of–the–range period drama, centred on the residents and staff of the titular…
Field of Blood, The (TV Mini-Series)Field of Blood, The (TV Mini-Series) (2011)
Dir. David Kane
Feat. Jayd Johnson, David Morrissey, Peter Capaldi
Grim, girl–powered crime drama shot through with impeccable period detail. Set in the male–dominated world of British journalism in the…
Game of Thrones - Season 1 (TV Series)Game of Thrones - Season 1 (TV Series) (2011) Recommended
Feat. Sean Bean, Mark Addy, Michelle Fairley
Justifiably acclaimed medieval series applies the magic HBO touch to the often–ridiculed world of sword and sorcery, with realism and violence…
Great Expectations (Mini-Series)Great Expectations (Mini-Series) (2011)
Dir. Brian Kirk
Feat. Ray Winstone, Gillian Anderson, David Suchet
Suitably atmospheric and gripping three–part adaptation of Dickens' masterpiece following the twists and turns in the life of a young orphan.…
Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) - Season 7Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) - Season 7 (2011)
Feat. Patrick Dempsey, Ellen Pompeo, Justin Chambers
Seventh season of the popular female–driven medical soap, continuing the trials and tribulations of five first–year interns as they…
Hell on Wheels (TV Series)Hell on Wheels (TV Series) (2011)
Feat. Anson Mount, Common , Colm Meaney
The building of the transcontinental railroad serves as the backdrop for this ambitious western that centres on the efforts of a Confederate soldier…
Hour, The - Series 1 (TV Series)Hour, The - Series 1 (TV Series) (2011) Aro Favourite
Feat. Dominic West, Romola Garai, Ben Whishaw
A team of journalists (lead by THE WIRE's Dominic West) front a groundbreaking news hour for the BBC, only to chance upon a high–level…
Justified - Season 2 (TV Series)Justified - Season 2 (TV Series) (2011) Aro Favourite
Feat. Timothy Olyphant, Walton Goggins, Joelle Carter
Further episodes from the slick urban western about an old–school U.S. Marshal reassigned from Miami to his childhood home in the poor, rural…
Kennedys, The (TV Mini-Series)Kennedys, The (TV Mini-Series) (2011)
Dir. Jon Cassar
Feat. Greg Kinnear, Barry Pepper, Katie Holmes
The latest in a long line of dramatizations around the Kennedy legacy in US politics, shaded as always by tragedy and scandal. While the…
Mad Dogs (TV Series)Mad Dogs (TV Series) (2011)
Feat. John Simm, Marc Warren, Max Beesley
Oddly unsettling and engaging in equal measure, this mid–life black comedy centres on four middle–aged blokes who reunite to celebrate…
Marchlands (TV Series)Marchlands (TV Series) (2011)
Dir. James Kent
Feat. Jodie Whittaker, Denis Lawson, Alex Kingston
Time–switching supernatural drama where three separate families who have lived in the same Yorkshire house in 1968, 1987 and the present day,…
Mildred Pierce (TV Mini-Series)Mildred Pierce (TV Mini-Series) (2011) Recommended
Dir. Todd Haynes
Feat. Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce, Evan Rachel Wood
Kate Winslet gives a towering performance as the titular housewife of James M. Cain's classic noir novel of Depression Era desperation and…
Monroe (TV Series)Monroe (TV Series) (2011)
Feat. James Nesbitt, Sarah Parish, Tom Riley
James Nesbitt stars as a wise cracking, chain smoking neurosurgeon in this slick hospital drama that has been called the British HOUSE.
Nothing Trivial (TV Series)Nothing Trivial (TV Series) (2011)
Feat. Shane Cortese, Tandi Wright, Blair Strang
An agreeable and endearingly performed 'singles' comedy by way of modern day Auckland, centred on the romantic hang ups of five friends who compete…
Once Upon a Time (TV Series)Once Upon a Time (TV Series) (2011)
Feat. Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison, Joshua Dallas
A mature, densely layered serial based on popular folklore, set in a fictional seaside town where characters from various fairy tales have been…
Pan Am (TV Series)Pan Am (TV Series) (2011-2012)
Feat. Margot Robbie, Christina Ricci, Karine Vanasse
Named for the iconic Pan American World Airways, this fictionalised period drama series revolves around the stories of the pilots and stewardesses of…
Promise, The (TV Series)Promise, The (TV Series) (2011)
Dir. Peter Kosminsky
Feat. Claire Foy, Christian Cooke, Itay Tiran
Intelligent, finely balanced drama alternates between storylines set in 1940s Palestine and present day Israel in its address of the contentious…
Shameless (TV Series, US)Shameless (TV Series, US) (2011)
Feat. William H. Macy, Emmy Rossum, Justin Chatwin
Watchable, surprisingly insightful remake of the hit British series attempts to three–dimensionalize the 'trailer park' stereotype in its…
Silk (TV Series)Silk (TV Series) (2011)
Feat. Maxine Peake, Rupert Penry-Jones, Tom Hughes
Fascinating, if somewhat glossy insider's guide to the competitive and pressure–filled world of London barristers, who are driven in this…
Skins (TV Series, US)Skins (TV Series, US) (2011)
Feat. James Newman, Sofia Black-D'Elia
Produced by MTV, this gritty stateside remake of the hit Brit series translates the angst and attitude of the modern teen experience for US audiences…
Slap, The (TV Series)Slap, The (TV Series) (2011)
Feat. Alex Dimitriades, Melissa George, Jonathan LaPaglia
Confronting, layered exploration of the human condition that traces the repercussions for a group of friends and family when a child is slapped at a…
South Riding (TV Mini-Series)South Riding (TV Mini-Series) (2011)
Dir. Diarmuid Lawrence
Feat. Anna Maxwell Martin, David Morrissey, Penelope Wilton
Seasoned period drama scribe Andrew Davies (BLEAK HOUSE) adapts Winifred Holtby’s classic novel about a feisty young headmistress who imports…
Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (TV Series)Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (TV Series) (2011)
Feat. John Hannah, Manu Bennett, Peter Mensah
Brawny mini–series prequel to the sordid Roman empire serial tones down the show's infamous sex and violence while improving considerably on…
Suits (TV Series)Suits (TV Series) (2011) Recommended
Feat. Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams
Smart, sassy lawyer show where a brilliant college drop–out with a photographic memory is hired by one of Manhattan's top corporate firms,…
This is England '88 (TV Mini-Series)This is England '88 (TV Mini-Series) (2011)
Dir. Shane Meadows
Feat. Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley
A further set of adventures for Shane Meadows's unforgettable cast of lapsed skinheads, here still struggling to find a foothold as young adults…
Treme - Season 2 (TV Series)Treme - Season 2 (TV Series) (2011) Recommended
Feat. Khandi Alexander, Clarke Peters, Steve Zahn
Further episodes from David Simon's superb dramatic study of post–Katrina New Orleans, focusing on a community of musicians, chefs, and…
True Blood - Season 4 (TV Series)True Blood - Season 4 (TV Series) (2011)
Feat. Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell
Further episodes of the acclaimed series from SIX FEET UNDER creator Alan Ball, set in a world where vampires have 'come out' as members of modern…
Underbelly - Season 4 (TV Mini-series) Underbelly - Season 4 (TV Mini-series) (Land of the Long Green Cloud) (2011)
Feat. Daniel Musgrove, Damien Avery, Grae Burton
World famous in New Zealand, drug trafficker Marty Johnstone – aka, Mr. Asia – steals the Underbelly spotlight in this locally made…
William and Kate - The MovieWilliam and Kate - The Movie (2011)
Dir. Mark Rosman
Feat. Nico Evers-Swindell, Camilla Luddington
Made–for–TV biopic to mark the nuptials of Wills and Kate charts the ups and downs of the couple's public and private romance in the…
Winners and Losers (TV Series)Winners and Losers (TV Series) (2011)
Feat. Zoe Tuckwell-Smith, Melissa Bergland, Virginia Gay
Winning female–centric dramedy concerns the altered lives of four Melbournian women who score big on the Lottery. Gets great mileage from the…
Any Human Heart (TV Mini-series)Any Human Heart (TV Mini-series) (2010) Recommended
Feat. Jim Broadbent, Matthew MacFadyen, Sam Claflin
Exquisite four–part British miniseries about a novelist's life that ricochets from 1920s Paris to '50s New York and '80s London. Along the way…
Big C, The (TV Series)Big C, The (TV Series) (2010)
Feat. Laura Linney, Oliver Platt, John Benjamin Hickey
Another gutsy Showtime drama centred on a woman in mid–life peril (a la WEEDS, NURSE JACKIE), starring Laura Linney as a high school teacher…
Blue Bloods (TV Series)Blue Bloods (TV Series) (2010-2020)
Feat. Tom Selleck, Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan
Character driven police procedural set in New York City where an Irish Catholic family has a history of work in law enforcement, with each family…
Boardwalk Empire - Season 1 (TV Series)Boardwalk Empire - Season 1 (TV Series) (2010) Aro Favourite
Dir. Martin Scorsese, Tim Van Patten
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Kelly MacDonald
Stunning period detail and the endless intrigue of organised crime characterize this marquee HBO production, centred on the empire surrounding…
Borgen - Series 1 (TV Series)Borgen - Series 1 (TV Series) (2010) Aro Favourite
Feat. Sidse Babett Knudsen, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Pilou Asbæk
Bafta–winning Danish political drama in which an idealistic prime minister's rise to power brings with it a web of consequences, sacrifices and…
Bouquet of Barbed Wire (TV Mini-Series)Bouquet of Barbed Wire (TV Mini-Series) (2010)
Dir. Ashley Pearce
Feat. Hermione Norris, Imogen Poots, Tom Riley
Though this controversial classic, originally filmed for TV in the seventies, now resembles little more than a steamy soap opera episode, it has been…
Breaking Bad - Season 3 (TV Series)Breaking Bad - Season 3 (TV Series) (2010) Recommended
Feat. Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn
Further episodes chronicling the deeds of anti–hero Walter White (Cranston), a high school chemistry teacher who turns to a life of…
Castle (TV Series)Castle (TV Series) (2010)
Feat. Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic, Jon Huertas
Quirky cop show with a pulp crime writer teaming up with a detective to track down a serial killer.
Come Rain Come ShineCome Rain Come Shine (2010)
Dir. David Drury
Feat. David Jason, Alison Steadman
Deep, The (TV Mini-series)Deep, The (TV Mini-series) (2010)
Dir. Jim O’Hanlon, Colm McCarthy
Feat. Minnie Driver, James Nesbitt, Goran Visnjic
BBC adventure series following a research submarine beneath the Arctic that stumbles upon a terrifying secret with Earth–shattering…
Downton Abbey - Series 1 (TV Series)Downton Abbey - Series 1 (TV Series) (2010) Aro Favourite
Feat. Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern
Handsome, top–of–the–range ITV period drama centres on the residents and staff of the titular English manor in the years leading up…
Enlightened (TV Series)Enlightened (TV Series) (2010) Recommended
Dir. Miguel Arteta, Nicole Holofcener, Jonathan Demme
Feat. Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Luke Wilson
This enlightened HBO cringe–comedy from writer–actor Mike White (CHUCK & BUCK) pushes all the buttons as an excruciating study of…
House - Season 7 (TV Series)House - Season 7 (TV Series) (2010)
Feat. Hugh Laurie
Further episodes from the Hugh Laurie–fronted hospital thriller, which involve his medical team having to unravel baffling cases,…
How to Make it in America (TV Series)How to Make it in America (TV Series) (2010)
Feat. Bryan Greenberg, Victor Rasuk, Lake Bell
High–energy, if sub–ENTOURAGE male drama centred on four twenty–something upstarts whose entrepreneurial ambitions see them tackle…
Indian Doctor, The (TV Series)Indian Doctor, The (TV Series) (2010)
Feat. Sanjeev Bhaskar, Ayesha Dharkar
A lively period medical drama steeped in the cultural friction of post–war Britain, centred on the efforts of an Indian doctor and his wife to…
Justified - Season 1 (TV Series)Justified - Season 1 (TV Series) (2010) Aro Favourite
Feat. Timothy Olyphant, Walton Goggins, Joelle Carter
Slick urban western with an old–school U.S. Marshal reassigned from Miami to his childhood home in the poor, rural coal–mining towns of…
Lip Service (TV Series)Lip Service (TV Series) (2010)
Feat. Ruta Gedmintas, Red Buttons, Laura Fraser
Scotland is the setting for this BBC spin on THE L WORD, centred on the romantic entanglements of a group of lesbians living in Glasgow. Though…
Longlasting Youth (TV Mini-series)Longlasting Youth (TV Mini-series) (Le cose che restano) (2010)
Dir. Gianluca Maria Tavarelli
Feat. Lorenzo Balducci, Daniela Giordano
A four–part mini–series about a Roman family who take separate paths after the death of their youngest son.
Mad Men - Season 4 (TV Series)Mad Men - Season 4 (TV Series) (2010) Recommended
Feat. Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser
Further episodes of the 60's–New–York–set television drama series focused on an ad exec basking in the glow of the golden age of…
Nights in the Gardens of SpainNights in the Gardens of Spain (Kawa) (2010)
Dir. Katie Wolfe
Feat. Calvin Tuteao, George Henare, Dean O'Gorman
Psychological drama of a family man coming to terms with his homosexuality and whose decision to come out plunges his family into crisis. Based on…
Offspring (TV Series)Offspring (TV Series) (2010) Recommended
Feat. Asher Keddie, Don Hany, Deborah Mailman
A neurotic obstetrician and her extended Melbourne family navigate love and other disasters in this bright comedy series. While not particularly…
Outrageous Fortune (TV Series) - Series 6Outrageous Fortune (TV Series) - Series 6 (2010) Recommended
Feat. Robyn Malcolm, Antony Starr, Antonia Prebble
Explosive final season of the popular NZ series, set around a family of 'Westie' (West Auckland) criminals trying to go straight.
Parenthood (TV Series)Parenthood (TV Series) (2010)
Feat. Lauren Graham, Peter Krause, Dax Shepard
Familiar faces star aplenty in this "funny and heart–warming" series that follows four grown siblings as they try to balance the various…
Pillars of the Earth, The (TV Mini-Series)Pillars of the Earth, The (TV Mini-Series) (2010)
Feat. Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell, Matthew MacFadyen
A fierce rivalry for the English throne provides the cut and thrust of this heady 12th century melodrama. Though less dramatically credible as the…
Pretty Little Liars (TV Series)Pretty Little Liars (TV Series) (2010)
Feat. Troian Bellisario, Ashley Benson, Shay Mitchell
An interesting blend of GOSSIP GIRL antics, VERONICA MARS intrigue, and light supernatural themes, this young adult series revolves four teenage…
Rake (TV Series)Rake (TV Series) (2010) Recommended
Feat. Richard Roxburgh, Matt Day, Russell Dykstra
Richard Roxburgh plays a live–wire criminal barrister whose brilliant defense of often guilty clientele is contrasted against his own…
Rookie Blue (TV Series)Rookie Blue (TV Series) (2010)
Feat. Missy Peregrym, Gregory Smith
A group of young, incongruously attractive recruits learn the ropes of police work in this highly unrealistic, but nonetheless addictive soap opera…
Sherlock - Series 1 (TV Series)Sherlock - Series 1 (TV Series) (2010) Recommended
Dir. Paul McGuigan
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs
Ingenious updating of the master detective finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London. Benedict…
Single Father (TV Series)Single Father (TV Series) (2010)
Dir. Sam Miller
Feat. David Tennant, Suranne Jones
David Tennant's amiable persona carries this moving, if sometimes overbearing BBC drama about a single father mourning the death of his wife while…
Spartacus: Blood and Sand (TV Series)Spartacus: Blood and Sand (TV Series) (2010)
Feat. Andy Whitfield, John Hannah, Peter Mensah
Outlandish sword–and–sandal serial features Lucy Lawless and a line–up of Kiwi faces in various states of dismemberment and/or…
This is England '86 (TV Mini-Series)This is England '86 (TV Mini-Series) (2010) Recommended
Dir. Tom Harper, Shane Meadows
Feat. Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley
The core cast of THIS IS ENGLAND return for this vivid small screen epilogue set three years later, where a maturing Shaun (Turgoose) must negotiate…
Treme - Season 1 (TV Series)Treme - Season 1 (TV Series) (2010) Aro Favourite
Feat. Khandi Alexander, Clarke Peters, Steve Zahn
Creator of THE WIRE, David Simon, tackles the post–Katrina reconstruction of New Orleans, focusing on a community of musicians, chefs, and…
True Blood - Season 3 (TV Series)True Blood - Season 3 (TV Series) (2010)
Feat. Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell
Further episodes of the acclaimed series from SIX FEET UNDER creator Alan Ball, set in a world where vampires have 'come out' as members of modern…
Underbelly - Season 3 (TV Mini-series)Underbelly - Season 3 (TV Mini-series) (The Golden Mile) (2010)
Feat. Mitch Bartlett, Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Emma Booth
Sydney’s infamous Kings Cross, circa 1989, is the setting for this latest airing of Australia’s dirty laundry. Although centred on the…
Upstairs, Downstairs (TV Series)Upstairs, Downstairs (TV Series) (2010)
Feat. Ed Stoppard, Keeley Hawes, Eileen Atkins
Slavish, lavish remake of the classic 70s serial plays out the hushed conflict between servants and gentry at the iconic 165 Eaton Place. Though…
Walking Dead, The (TV Series)Walking Dead, The (TV Series) (2010) Recommended
Dir. Frank Darabont
Feat. Andrew Lincoln, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey DeMunn
The undying zombie genre reaches the long–form TV format in this riveting, expertly studied AMC series about the aftermath apocalyptic events,…
Breaking Bad - Season 2 (TV Series)Breaking Bad - Season 2 (TV Series) (2009) Recommended
Feat. Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn
Further episodes chronicling the deeds of anti–hero Walter White (Cranston), a high school chemistry teacher who turns to a life of…
Breaking the MouldBreaking the Mould (2009)
Dir. Peter Hoar
Feat. Dominic West, Denis Lawson
Historical teledrama following the development of penicillin in the 1930's and 40's by a group of scientists in Oxford at The Dunn School of…
Darwin's Brave New World (TV Mini-series)Darwin's Brave New World (TV Mini-series) (2009)
Feat. Socratis Otto, Richard Jongejan, Nicola Bowman
Three–part dramatized series tells the story of Charles Darwin and his contemporaries, Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Russel Wallace,…
Desperate Romantics (TV Mini-series)Desperate Romantics (TV Mini-series) (2009)
Feat. Rafe Spall, Samuel Barnett, Aidan Turner
Ribald treatment of the controversial art movement pays only cursory attention to their work and instead largely on their adventures in the bodice…
Diary of Anne Frank, The (Mini-series)Diary of Anne Frank, The (Mini-series) (2009)
Dir. Jon Jones
Feat. Kate Ashfield, Tamsin Greig, Iain Glen
Superlative BBC adaptation of Anne Frank's enduring story is sensitively written and perfectly cast. Told over five half–hour episodes, one of…
Dollhouse (TV Series)Dollhouse (TV Series) (2009)
Feat. Eliza Dushku
Joss Whedon's short–lived sci–fi series set in a futuristic laboratory that assigns different tasks to its various residents, who then…
Drop Dead Diva (TV Series)Drop Dead Diva (TV Series) (2009)
Feat. Brooke Elliott, Margaret Cho, Kate Levering
A vacant fashion model is killed in a car accident, only to be resurrected in the body of a plus–sized lawyer, in this far–fetched, if…
Emma (TV Mini-Series)Emma (TV Mini-Series) (2009) Recommended
Feat. Romola Garai, Jonny Lee Miller, Michael Gambon
The BBC's latest update of Jane Austen's comic classic, centred on the titular beauty's dangerous game of matchmaking. Regarded as the best Austen…
Garrow's Law (TV Series)Garrow's Law (TV Series) (2009-2011)
Feat. Andrew Buchan, Alun Armstrong, Rupert Graves
Legal drama based around the true tale of William Garrow, who acted as counsel for the accused, introducing the concept of 'innocent until proved…
Go Girls (TV Series)Go Girls (TV Series) (2009)
Feat. Anna Hutchison, Bronwyn Turei, Alix Bushnell
A North Shore equivalent of OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE perhaps, but with considerably less bite, this follows four middle–class 20–somethings as…
Good Wife, The (TV Series)Good Wife, The (TV Series) (2009-2016) Aro Favourite
Feat. Julianne Margulies, Chris Noth, Josh Charles
First–rate, Golden Globe–winning series about a politician's wife who must return to the workforce after a sex and corruption scandal…
Heart and Soul (TV Series)Heart and Soul (TV Series) (All the Small Things) (2009)
Feat. Sarah Lancashire, Neil Pearson, Sarah Alexander
Novel musical drama set in small town England after her husband – the local choir master – leaves her for choir's soprano, a woman and…
House - Season 6 (TV Series)House - Season 6 (TV Series) (2009)
Feat. Hugh Laurie
Further episodes from the Hugh Laurie–fronted hospital thriller, which involve his medical team having to unravel baffling cases,…
Hung (TV Series)Hung (TV Series) (2009) Recommended
Feat. Thomas Jane, Jane Adams, Anne Heche
Earthy HBO drama centred around a former high–school sports legend turned middle–aged basketball coach and cash–strapped dad,…
Land Girls (TV Series)Land Girls (TV Series) (2009)
Feat. Summer Strallen, Christine Bottomley, Jo Woodcock
Four Women's Land Army recruits experience the highs and lows of wartime service in this stirring BBC drama which pays tribute to the lives of…
Lie To Me (TV Series)Lie To Me (TV Series) (2009-2011)
Feat. Tim Roth, Kelli Williams, Brendan Hines
Engaging crime drama that sees an unlikely Tim Roth play Cal Lightman, a doctor who has such an uncanny ability to read facial expressions and body…
Mad Men - Season 3 (TV Series)Mad Men - Season 3 (TV Series) (2009) Recommended
Feat. Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser
Further episodes of the 60's–New–York–set television drama series focused on an ad exec basking in the glow of the golden age of…
Married, Single, Other (TV Series)Married, Single, Other (TV Series) (2009)
Feat. Lucy Davis, Shaun Dooley, Dean Lennox Kelly
Light, likeable drama follows six friends as they discover the difficulties of living with, and without, the one you love.
Misfits (TV Series)Misfits (TV Series) (2009) Aro Favourite
Feat. Robert Sheehan, Antonia Thomas, Lauren Socha
"SKINS meets HEROES" is the catch–cry for this Bafta Award winning, streetwise drama about five teenagers stuck in community service, where…
Moving On (TV Series)Moving On (TV Series) (2009)
Feat. Sheila Hancock, Richard Armitage, Ian Hart
Wonderfully scripted series comprised of one–act plays set in contemporary Britain, all distinctly different but linked by the central idea of…
Nurse Jackie (TV Series)Nurse Jackie (TV Series) (2009)
Feat. Edie Falco
Pitch black comedy follows the everyday travails of the deeply troubled Nurse Jackie as she rails against the insanity of the US Health System.
Occupation (TV Mini-series)Occupation (TV Mini-series) (2009)
Dir. Nick Murphy
Feat. James Nesbitt, Stephen Graham, Warren Brown
Insightful, character–driven alternative to HBO's GENERATION KILL, this follows the lives of three British soliders during and after the 2003…
Outrageous Fortune (TV Series) - Series 5Outrageous Fortune (TV Series) - Series 5 (2009) Recommended
Feat. Robyn Malcolm, Charles Mesure, Antony Starr
Further outrageous episodes in the popular NZ series, set around a family of 'Westie' (West Auckland) criminals trying to go straight. Series 5:…
Packed to the Rafters (TV Series) Packed to the Rafters (TV Series) (2009)
Feat. Rebecca Gibney, Erik Thomson, Jessica Marais
Fluffy Australian comedy focused around a couple whose plans of finally having a quiet household are destroyed when their three grown children move…
Prisoners of War (TV Series)Prisoners of War (TV Series) (Hatufim) (2009) Recommended
Dir. Gideon Raff
Feat. Yoram Toledano, Ishai Golan, Adi Ezroni
The source material for HOMELAND, this Israeli series is a more serious–minded and nuanced drama than its American successor, dealing with the…
Queen, The - The Life Of A Monarch Queen, The - The Life Of A Monarch (2009)
Feat. Emilia Fox, Samantha Bond, Susan Jameson
Pivotal moments in the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II are portrayed by five British actresses in this series that mixes dramatisation with…
Return to Cranford (TV Mini-Series)Return to Cranford (TV Mini-Series) (2009)
Dir. Simon Curtis
Feat. Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton, Julia McKenzie
Winning follow–up to the acclaimed drama is set one year after the marriage of Dr. Harrison and Sophy Hutton. There's some exciting additions…
Take, The (TV Mini-series)Take, The (TV Mini-series) (2009)
Dir. David Drury
Feat. Tom Hardy, Brian Cox, Shaun Evans
Stylish, tough–as–nails gangland mini–series follows the fortunes of a recently released convict set on taking the London…
Tangle (TV Series)Tangle (TV Series) (2009)
Feat. Justine Clarke, Ben Mendelsohn, Catherine McClements
Acclaimed ensemble drama that focuses on the intertwining lives of families and friends in suburban Melbourne.
Trauma (TV Series)Trauma (TV Series) (2009)
Feat. Cliff Curtis, Derek Luke, Aimee Garcia
Kiwi Cliff Curtis is the charismatic frontman of this short–lived medical drama centred on a group of dashing San Francisco paramedics.…
True Blood - Season 2 (TV Series)True Blood - Season 2 (TV Series) (2009)
Feat. Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell
Further episodes of the acclaimed series from SIX FEET UNDER creator Alan Ball, set in a world where vampires have 'come out' as members of modern…
Underbelly - Season 2 (TV Mini-series)Underbelly - Season 2 (TV Mini-series) (A Tale of Two Cities: The Mr Asia Story) (2009) Recommended
Feat. Roy Billing, Anna Hutchison, Matthew Newton
A prequel to the events of the original series, this is loosely based on the hard drug trade that hit New South Wales and Victoria between 1976 and…
UnforgivenUnforgiven (2009)
Dir. David Evans
Feat. Suranne Jones, Matthew McNulty, Emily Beecham
3–part crime drama about a woman in Yorkshire who was found guilty of murdering two police officers when she was a teenager. After spending 15…
United States of Tara (TV Series)United States of Tara (TV Series) (2009)
Feat. Toni Collette, John Corbett, Keir Gilchrist
Toni Collette is thoroughly entertaining as a mild–mannered mother whose multiple personality disorder rears its ugly head as one of three…
Until Proven InnocentUntil Proven Innocent (2009) Recommended
Dir. Peter Burger
Feat. Cohen Holloway, Edward Campbell, Miranda Harcourt
Credible homegrown teledrama tells the true story of the crusade to free David Dougherty, wrongly imprisoned for the rape and abduction of an…
Vampire Diaries, The (TV Series)Vampire Diaries, The (TV Series) (2009)
Feat. Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder
The TWILIGHT zeitgeist is vamped up as a 90210–style serial in this melodramatic teen soap, about a troubled girl torn between her brooding…
White Collar (TV Series)White Collar (TV Series) (2009-2014)
Feat. Matt Bomer, Marsha Thomason, Tim DeKay
Police procedural series following a hard working and honest FBI agent (Tim DeKay) who makes a work–release deal with a captured con artist…
90210 (TV Series)90210 (TV Series) (2008)
Feat. Rob Estes, Shenae Grimes, AnnaLynne McCord
This updating of the popular '90's show brings the bling as more photogenic rich kids contend with regular problems.
Adventures Of Merlin, The (TV Series)Adventures Of Merlin, The (TV Series) (2008)
Feat. Colin Morgan, Angel Coulby, Bradley James
Ambitious drama series loosely based on the legend of King Arthur, following a young Merlin's arrival in Camelot where he must face great danger…
Apparitions (TV Series)Apparitions (TV Series) (2008)
Feat. Martin Shaw
Martin Shaw (formerly Judge John Deed) dons the cloth of a Catholic priest, tackling both incidents of miracle and deviltry in this confronting…
Ashes to Ashes (TV Series)Ashes to Ashes (TV Series) (2008) Recommended
Feat. Philip Glenister, Keeley Hawes
Spin–off from BBC drama LIFE ON MARS follows DI Alex Drake (Hawes), a police psychologist from 2008 transported to the 80's after a horrific…
Being Human (TV Series)Being Human (TV Series) (2008)
Feat. Russell Tovey, Lenora Crichlow, Aidan Turner
Supernatural sitcom has three British twenty–somethings struggling with their respective alter–egos as a vampire, ghost and werewolf.
Boston Legal - Season 5 (TV Series)Boston Legal - Season 5 (TV Series) (2008-2009)
Feat. James Spader, William Shatner
Further episodes from the irreverent spinoff to THE PRACTICE, based around the cases and happenings of the civil law section of a renowned Boston…
Breaking Bad - Season 1 (TV Series)Breaking Bad - Season 1 (TV Series) (2008) Recommended
Feat. Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn
Cynical drama series that gives us a new anti–hero in Walter White (Cranston), a high school chemistry teacher who turns to a life of…
Burying Brian (TV Series) Burying Brian (TV Series) (2008)
Dir. Peter Burger
Feat. Rebecca Hobbs, Ian Mune, Robbie Magasiva
Kiwi black comedy series centred on four friends who find themselves entangled in a scandalous cover–up when one of the ladies accidentally…
Cashmere Mafia (TV Series) Cashmere Mafia (TV Series) (2008) Recommended
Dir. Peyton Reed
Feat. Lucy Liu, Miranda Otto, Frances O’Connor
Short–lived drama series centred on four career hungry New York friends who turn to each other in times of personal and professional crisis.…
Consuming Passion: 100 Years Of Mills And Boon (TV Mini-series)Consuming Passion: 100 Years Of Mills And Boon (TV Mini-series) (2008)
Feat. Jodie Whittaker, Daniel Mays, Patrick Kennedy
One–off 'docudrama' made to celebrate the centenary of romance publishing house Mills & Boon focuses on interweaving stories of three women…
Criminal Justice (TV Series)Criminal Justice (TV Series) (2008-2009)
Feat. Ben Whishaw, Pete Postlethwaite, Maxine Peake
Grim and unglamorous drama series focuses on an individual’s journey through the British criminal justice system, from prison to courtroom. It…
Crusoe (TV Series)Crusoe (TV Series) (2008)
Feat. Philip Winchester, Tongayi Chirisa, Sam Neill
Lavishly mounted, if undeniably corny production of Daniel Defoe’s island classic, with the titular castaway fending off pirates, mutineers and…
Desperate Housewives (TV Series) - Season 5Desperate Housewives (TV Series) - Season 5 (2008-2009)
Feat. Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross
More episodes from the popular drama–black comedy set among the denizens of suburban America. 24 episodes over seven discs.
Devil's Whore, The (TV Mini-series)Devil's Whore, The (TV Mini-series) (Devil's Mistress) (2008)
Dir. Martine Brant, Peter Flannery
Feat. Andrea Riseborough, Dominic West, John Simm
Period romp set during the English Civil War concerning the devilishly manipulative Angelica (Riseborough), and her marriage to revolutionary Thomas…
Dickens' Secret LoverDickens' Secret Lover (2008)
Dir. Sarah Aspinall
Feat. Charles Dance, David Haig, Amy Shiels
Intelligent docu–drama that uncovers the torrid love life of Charles Dickens, who embarked on a clandestine affair with an actress young enough…
Generation Kill (TV Mini-series)Generation Kill (TV Mini-series) (2008) Recommended
Feat. Alexander Skarsgard, James Ransone, Lee Tergesen
Superlative HBO series from the makers of THE WIRE following the U.S. Marine reconnaissance battalion in the first year of the Iraq invasion.…
Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) - Season 5Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) - Season 5 (2008-2009)
Feat. Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey, Eric Dane
Fifth season of the popular female–driven medical soap, continuing the trials and tribulations of five first–year interns as they juggle…
Guns (TV Mini-series)Guns (TV Mini-series) (2008)
Dir. David Sutherland
Feat. Elisha Cuthbert, Lyriq Bent, Colm Feore
Mini–series exploring the issue of gun violence in Canada through the story of four families caught up in illegal trafficking in Toronto.…
House - Season 5 (TV Series)House - Season 5 (TV Series) (2008)
Feat. Hugh Laurie
Further episodes from the Hugh Laurie–fronted hospital thriller, which involve his medical team having to unravel baffling cases,…
In Treatment (TV Series)In Treatment (TV Series) (2008) Recommended
Feat. Gabriel Byrne, Dianne Wiest, Melissa George
Superlative character driven HBO series starring Gabriel Byrne as a self–doubting psychotherapist, who seeks help from his old therapist, whom…
Inbetweeners, The (TV Series)Inbetweeners, The (TV Series) (2008)
Feat. Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison
Acerbic comedy follows four gawky teenage boys growing up in suburbia experiencing the deep humiliations and relentless disappointments of late…
Invisibles, The (TV Series)Invisibles, The (TV Series) (2008)
Feat. Anthony Head, Warren Clarke, Jenny Agutter
Crooked comedy sees Antony Head (BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER) and Warren Clarke (DALZIEL AND PASCOE) play two notorious ex–crims struggling with…
John AdamsJohn Adams (2008) Recommended
Dir. Tom Hooper
Feat. Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, Sarah Polley
Acclaimed miniseries on the life of America's second president and founding father John Adams. Simultaneously epic and intimate this is compulsory…
Lark Rise To Candleford (TV Series)Lark Rise To Candleford (TV Series) (2008)
Feat. Julia Sawalha, Olivia Hallinan, Brendan Coyle
Comforting 1880s period drama focusing on the communities in two Oxfordshire towns: the quiet, traditional hamlet of Lark Rise, and the progressive…
Lipstick Jungle (TV Series)Lipstick Jungle (TV Series) (2008)
Feat. Brooke Shields, Kim Raver, Lindsay Price
Sassy, if at times sappy, TV drama based on another Candace Bushnell book (author of SEX AND THE CITY) centred on three NYC gal pals attempting to…
Little Dorrit (TV Mini-Series)Little Dorrit (TV Mini-Series) (2008) Recommended
Feat. Claire Foy, Matthew MacFadyen, Tom Courtenay
Andrew Davies’s latest Dickens offering is a similarly vast, immaculately produced mini–series to that of BLEAK HOUSE, this time adapting the…
Lost in Austen (TV Mini-Series)Lost in Austen (TV Mini-Series) (2008)
Feat. Jemima Rooper, Alex Kingston, Hugh Bonneville
Fizzy twist on PRIDE AND PREJUDICE has an ardent Jane Austen fan, living in present day London, swapping places with Austen's fictional creation…
Mad Men - Season 2 (TV Series) Mad Men - Season 2 (TV Series) (2008) Recommended
Feat. Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser
Further episodes of the 60's–New–York–set television drama series focused on an ad exec basking in the glow of the golden age of…
Mentalist, The (TV Series)Mentalist, The (TV Series) (2008)
Feat. Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang
Superior crime series sees Simon Baker play an ex–'psychic' who now uses his remarkable powers of scrupulous observation in the name of the…
Mistresses (TV Series) Mistresses (TV Series) (2008)
Feat. Sarah Parish, Sharon Small, Orla Brady
Provocative Brit series featuring four 30 something friends – a doctor, 9/11 widow, party gal and married mistress that get themselves into all…
Sense and Sensibility (TV Mini-series)Sense and Sensibility (TV Mini-series) (2008)
Dir. John Alexander
Feat. David Morrissey, Janet McTeer, Hattie Morahan
Another BBC adaptation of the Jane Austen novel centered around the Dashwood sisters and their search for love. Adapted by Andrew Davies of BLEAK…
True Blood - Season 1 (TV Series)True Blood - Season 1 (TV Series) (2008)
Feat. Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell
Acclaimed series from SIX FEET UNDER creator Alan Ball, set in a world where vampires have 'come out' as members of modern society, and the…
Underbelly - Season 1 (TV Mini-series)Underbelly - Season 1 (TV Mini-series) (2008) Recommended
Feat. Vince Colosimo, Kevin Harrington
Gritty, unflinching crime series dramatising the Melbourne gangland killings and seedy underworld, featuring Aussie actors who bear a striking…
XIII: The Conspiracy (TV Mini-Series) XIII: The Conspiracy (TV Mini-Series) (2008)
Feat. Val Kilmer, Stephen Dorff
Intriguing mini–series set around the premise that the first female President of the United States has been assassinated by an unknown sniper…
Army Wives (TV Series) Army Wives (TV Series) (2007)
Feat. Brian McNamara
Ensemble drama series focused on a group of women, and one guy, who reside with their families on an Army Base and attempt to lead fulfilling lives…
Boston Legal - Season 4 (TV Series) Boston Legal - Season 4 (TV Series) (2007-2008)
Feat. James Spader, William Shatner
Further episodes from the irreverent spinoff to THE PRACTICE, based around the cases and happenings of the civil law section of a renowned Boston…
Burn Notice (TV Series) Burn Notice (TV Series) (2007)
Feat. Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell
Polished spy series following the fate of a "burned" spy let go by the USA government who returns to his hometown of Miama to freelance and uncover…
Bury My Heart at Wounded KneeBury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)
Dir. Yves Simoneau
Feat. Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach, Anna Paquin
Distinguished HBO western based on the 1970 book of the same name by Dee Brown. A historical drama set in the 1860's and 1870's, the plot…
Californication (TV Series)Californication (TV Series) (2007) Recommended
Feat. David Duchovny, Natascha McElhone
Former X–FILER Duchovny plays a ribald American novelist in the throws of a career and personal crisis; a mid–life funk which draws in…
Cranford (TV Mini-series)Cranford (TV Mini-series) (2007) Recommended
Dir. Simon Curtis
Feat. Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Philip Glenister
Outstanding, atypical British costumer with Dame Judy and other bonneted Victorian women chewing the fat in 1840s Cheshire, England. Based on…
Damages (TV Series)Damages (TV Series) (2007) Recommended
Feat. Glenn Close, Rose Byrne, Ted Danson
Complex, high–stakes, aggressively acted legal drama starring Glenn Close as a power–suited litigator tackling a major class action…
Desperate Housewives (TV Series) - Season 4Desperate Housewives (TV Series) - Season 4 (2007-2008)
Feat. Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross
More episodes from the popular drama–black comedy set among the denizens of suburban America. 17 episodes over five discs.
Diary of a Nobody, TheDiary of a Nobody, The (2007)
Dir. Susanna White
Feat. Hugh Bonneville
Strong adaptation of the famous novel follows the ups and downs of the insignificant Mr Pooter through the course of a year. Performed entirely by…
Dirty Sexy Money (TV Series)Dirty Sexy Money (TV Series) (2007)
Feat. Peter Krause, Donald Sutherland, William Baldwin
Saucy TV drama following a New York family dripping in money and power, with closely guarded scandalous secrets just waiting to be leaked to the…
Durham County (TV Series)Durham County (TV Series) (2007-2008)
Feat. Hugh Dillon
An emotionally powerful series centered around Detective Mike Sweeney and his family as he hunts a serial killer he's certain is the guy across the…
East West 101 (TV Series)East West 101 (TV Series) (2007)
Feat. Don Hany, William McInnes, Susie Porter
A contemporary, racially–charged policier by way of blue collar Sydney, observing the volatile working relationship between an old–school…
Fallen Angel (TV Series)Fallen Angel (TV Series) (2007)
Dir. David Drury
Feat. Emilia Fox, Charles Dance, Clare Holman
Disquieting Brit crime thriller fixed on the story of a murderess, starting at her most recent crime then winding back through time to reveal her…
Gossip Girl (TV Series) Gossip Girl (TV Series) (2007)
Feat. Blake Lively, Taylor Momsen, Leighton Meester
Flashy teen series centred on a group of well–heeled New York prep school kids whose main focus in life is a blog written by 'Gossip Girl'…
Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) - Season 4Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) - Season 4 (2007-2008)
Feat. Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey, Sandra Oh
Fourth season of the popular female–driven medical soap, continuing the trials and tribulations of five first–year interns as they juggle…
House - Season 4 (TV Series)House - Season 4 (TV Series) (2007)
Feat. Hugh Laurie
Further episodes from the Hugh Laurie–fronted hospital thriller, which involve his medical team having to unravel baffling cases,…
John From Cincinnati (TV Series)John From Cincinnati (TV Series) (2007)
Feat. Rebecca De Mornay, Greyson Fletcher, Bruce Greenwood
Short–lived oddity from the creator of DEADWOOD set amongst a surfing community in California, where a stranger with mysterious powers shakes…
Lewis (TV Series)Lewis (TV Series) (2007-2015)
Feat. Kevin Whatley, Laurence Fox, Clare Holman
Spin–off to the popular INSPECTOR MORSE series, this Brit detective drama follows a newly promoted Inspector and his sidekick investigating…
Lilies (TV Series)Lilies (TV Series) (2007)
Feat. Catherine Tyldesley, Kerrie Hayes, Leanne Rowe
Soap opera–tinged drama series follows three young Catholic women as they struggle to make ends meet in a post–WW1 Liverpool. 8…
Mad Men - Season 1 (TV Series)Mad Men - Season 1 (TV Series) (2007) Recommended
Feat. Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser
60's–New–York–set television drama series focused on an ad exec basking in the glow of the golden age of advertising. An…
Man Who Lost His Head, TheMan Who Lost His Head, The (2007)
Dir. Terry Johnson
Feat. Martin Clunes, John Leigh, Nicola Kawana
Martin Clunes plays a museum curator on a New Zealand sojourn, traveling from Britain to the small Maori community of Otakataka appealing the return…
Oliver Twist (TV Mini-series) Oliver Twist (TV Mini-series) (2007)
Dir. Coky Giedroyc
Feat. Rob Brydon, Sophie Okonedo, Timothy Spall
BAFTA–winning Mini–series version of the world's most infamous orphan story brought to life by a selection of Britain's finest current…
Private Practice (TV Series) Private Practice (TV Series) (2007)
Feat. Amy Brenneman, Taye Diggs, Tim Daly
From the creators of GREY'S ANATOMY comes this spin–off series following the fate of neonatal surgeon Dr. Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh) as…
Roman Mysteries (TV Series)Roman Mysteries (TV Series) (2007)
Children's mystery series set in 79 AD, Rome, based on a series of kids books that focuses on a group of young friends embarking on crime solving…
Rude Awakenings (TV Series)Rude Awakenings (TV Series) (2007)
Feat. Danielle Cormack, Patrick Wilson
Polished, darkly tinged suburban satire between a grassroots Kiwi family and their new latte–slurping neighbours, who declare warfare in the…
Satisfaction (TV Series)Satisfaction (TV Series) (2007) Recommended
Feat. Kestie Morassi, Diana Glenn, Bojana Novakovic
Intelligent, ASTRA award–winning Australian drama series focusing on a group of beautiful women who work in a high–class brothel in…
Saving Grace (TV Series)Saving Grace (TV Series) (2007)
Feat. Holly Hunter, Leon Rippy, Bokeem Woodbine
Holly Hunter plays a self–destructive Oklahoma City police detective who is given a chance to redeem her life when help arrives in the form of…
Secret Diary of a Call Girl (TV Series)Secret Diary of a Call Girl (TV Series) (2007)
Feat. Billie Piper, Toyah Wilcox, Cherie Lunghi
Saucy Brit TV Series based on the real–life diaries of an anonymous prostitute who struggles to keep her night job a secret from her friends…
Skins (TV Series)Skins (TV Series) (2007) Recommended
Feat. Nicholas Hoult, Kaya Scodelario
A worthy, mildly refreshing addition to the youth angst genre, concerning a clique of present–day Bristol teens negotiating the pitfalls of…
Starter Wife, The (Mini-Series)Starter Wife, The (Mini-Series) (2007)
Dir. Jon Avnet
Feat. Debra Messing, Miranda Otto, Judy Davis
Attractive, summery affair concerns a pampered Hollywood trophy wife (Messing) who must get back on the horse after her marriage comes abruptly to an…
Amazing Mrs Pritchard, The (TV Series)Amazing Mrs Pritchard, The (TV Series) (2006) Recommended
Feat. Jane Horrocks, Steven Mackintosh, Jodhi May
Excellent UK drama focused on supermarket manager Ros Pritchard (Horrocks) who decides to sort out Britain's political climate by running for Prime…
Ancient Rome (TV Series) Ancient Rome (TV Series) (2006)
Extensive series dramatising the rise and fall of the Ancient Roman Empire through six episodes each presenting a different turning point in the fate…
Bartali - The Iron Man (Mini-Series)Bartali - The Iron Man (Mini-Series) (Gino Bartali - L'intramontabile) (2006)
Dir. Alberto Negrin
Feat. Pierfrancesco Favino
Spirited made–for–TV biopic of Italy’s indomitable road cyclist Gino Bartali, twice winner of the Tour de France.
Big Love (TV Series)Big Love (TV Series) (2006) Recommended
Feat. Bill Paxton, Chloe Sevigny, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Another class act series from the always edgy HBO network, centred around a practicing polygamist, his three wives and seven children in the mormon…
Bombshell (TV Series) Bombshell (TV Series) (2006)
Dir. Jim Loach
Feat. Zoe Lucker
Gritty television series set amidst the conflicts of a modern army troop starring Zoe Lucker from FOOTBALLER'S WIVES as an army sergeant in charge of…
Boston Legal - Season 3 (TV Series) Boston Legal - Season 3 (TV Series) (2006-2007)
Feat. James Spader, William Shatner
Further episodes from the irreverent spinoff to THE PRACTICE, based around the cases and happenings of the civil law section of a renowned Boston…
Brothers and Sisters (TV Series)Brothers and Sisters (TV Series) (2006) Recommended
Feat. Calista Flockhart, Rachel Griffiths, Balthazar Getty
The deceptively normal lives of the Walker clan make for compelling viewing in this layered family drama about the political disparity between adult…
Chatterley Affair, TheChatterley Affair, The (2006)
Dir. James Hawes
Feat. Isla Fisher, Rafe Spall
Steamy sidebar to Lady Chatterley's Lover tingles the loins of two attractive jurors sitting on a real–life obscenity trial to determine…
Deadwood - Season 3 (TV Series)Deadwood - Season 3 (TV Series) (2006)
Feat. Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker
Further tales from the troubled Arizona town of Deadwood. Season Three: 12 episodes across four discs. Disc 1: Tell Your God to Ready for Blood, I…
Desperate Housewives (TV Series) - Season 3Desperate Housewives (TV Series) - Season 3 (2006)
Feat. Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross
More episodes from the popular drama–black comedy set among the denizens of suburban America. 23 episodes over 6 discs.
Friday Night Lights (TV Series)Friday Night Lights (TV Series) (2006)
Feat. Kyle Chandler, Taylor Kitsch, Jesse Plemons
This acclaimed movie–spin off eschews high school and sporting cliches to expand on the community surrounding a Texan football team and the…
Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) - Season 2Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) - Season 2 (2006)
Feat. Ellen Pompeo, Sandra Oh, Katherine Heigl
Second season of the popular female–driven medical soap, continuing the trials and tribulations of five first–year interns as they juggle…
Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) - Season 3Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) - Season 3 (2006)
Feat. Ellen Pompeo, Sandra Oh, Katherine Heigl
Third season of the popular female–driven medical soap, continuing the trials and tribulations of five first–year interns as they juggle…
Hills, The (TV Series) Hills, The (TV Series) (2006-2008)
Heavy–handed Reality TV series focused on Laguna Beach It girl Lauren Conrad and her sassy friends trying to gain careers, a great tan and the…
Hotel Babylon (TV Series)Hotel Babylon (TV Series) (2006) Recommended
Feat. Tamzin Outhwaite, Max Beesley, Dexter Fletcher
The dysfunctional inner–workings of a posh luxury hotel are played out against the ever–increasing eccentricity of its guests in this…
House - Season 2 (TV Series)House - Season 2 (TV Series) (2006)
Feat. Hugh Laurie
Further episodes from the Hugh Laurie–fronted hospital thriller, which involve his medical team having to unravel baffling cases,…
House - Season 3 (TV Series)House - Season 3 (TV Series) (2006)
Feat. Hugh Laurie
Further episodes from the Hugh Laurie–fronted hospital thriller, which involve his medical team having to unravel baffling cases,…
Housewife, 49Housewife, 49 (2006)
Dir. Gavin Millar
Feat. Victoria Wood, David Threlfall, Christopher Harper
Emmy–nominated British TV movie set in WW2 England that follows a housewife finding new purpose in her life through volunteer work for the war…
Impressionists, The (TV Mini-series)Impressionists, The (TV Mini-series) (2006) Recommended
Dir. Tim Dunn
Feat. Richard Armitage, Andrew Havill, Julian Glover
A mini–series presentation of the intimate history of a most illustrious brotherhood of Impressionist artists – Monet, Degas, Renoir,…
Jane Eyre (TV Mini-Series)Jane Eyre (TV Mini-Series) (2006)
Dir. Susanna White
Feat. Toby Stephens, Ruth Wilson
Commendable mini–series version of the classic Charlotte Bronte tale of a headstrong governess who falls madly in love with her employer.…
Kyle XY (TV Series) Kyle XY (TV Series) (2006)
Feat. Matt Dallas
Engaging sci–fi series concerning an adopted teenager with super human abilities on a quest to uncover his past and reveal his true identity.…
Life on Mars (TV Series)Life on Mars (TV Series) (2006) Recommended
Feat. John Simm
John Simm is a modern day detective inadvertently transported back in time to 1973, where his investigative skills are now obsolete in a…
Lost (TV Series) - Season 2Lost (TV Series) - Season 2 (2006) Recommended
Feat. Dominic Monaghan, Naveen Andrews, Harold Perrineau, Jr.
The mysterious consequences of the downing of Oceanic Flight 815 continue in this excellent followup season. Season 2 (24 episodes) over 7 discs.
Lost Children, The (TV Series)Lost Children, The (TV Series) (2006)
Feat. Hudson Mills, Beatrice Joblin, Rhys Castle-Hughes
Well–crafted adventure series follows three children washed ashore from a shipwreck as they search for their parents..
Moll Flanders (TV Mini-Series)Moll Flanders (TV Mini-Series) (2006)
Feat. Daniel Craig, Alex Kingston
The hardships of the 18th century England prove a lifelong test of character for the eponymous heroine. Born into poverty, her swings of fortune…
New Street Law (TV Series)New Street Law (TV Series) (2006)
Feat. John Hannah, Paul Freeman, John Thomson
Engrossing legal drama with Hannah and Freeman as heads of two law firms sharing the same premises. Plenty of ethical conundrums populate a tightly…
Robin Hood (TV Series)Robin Hood (TV Series) (2006) Recommended
Feat. Jonas Armstrong, Lucy Griffiths, Richard Armitage
The latest reincarnation of Robin Hood is a lavish, broadly appealing small screen BBC revival of the Sherwood legend. All of Robin’s friends and…
Sally Lockhart Mysteries, The (TV Mini-series) Sally Lockhart Mysteries, The (TV Mini-series) (The Ruby in the Smoke, The Shadow in the North ) (2006-2007)
Dir. Brian Percival
Feat. Billie Piper, Julie Walters
Billy Piper stars as Sally Lockhart – the gutsy mystery–solving heroine of this Victorian England mystery series adapted straight from…
Shark (TV Series) Shark (TV Series) (2006)
Feat. James Woods
Fine courtroom series headlined by James Woods as a big–time lawyer who back steps to the position of District Attorney and imparts his…
State Within, The (TV Series) State Within, The (TV Series) (2006)
Dir. Daniel Percival
Feat. Jason Isaacs, Ben Daniels, Sharon Gless
Gripping political series centred on the British Ambassador to Washington who finds himself entangled in the midst of political scandal after a plane…
Street, The (TV Series)Street, The (TV Series) (2006-2009)
Dir. Jimmy McGovern
Feat. Timothy Spall, Ger Ryan, Lee Ingleby
TV series with each episode a stand–alone story about a different house on the same Northern British backstreet. Creator Jimmy McGovern…
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (TV Series)Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (TV Series) (2006)
Feat. Amanda Peet, Matthew Perry, Bradley Whitford
WEST WING creator Aaron Sorkin transplants the walk–and–talk posturing of his long–running White House series to the corridors of a…
Tsunami: The Aftermath (TV Mini-Series)Tsunami: The Aftermath (TV Mini-Series) (2006)
Dir. Bharat Nalluri
Feat. Tim Roth, Toni Collette, Hugh Bonneville
Inspired by the tsunami that devastated the coast of Thailand, this HBO miniseries focuses on a group of fictional characters caught up in the…
Wild at Heart (TV Series) Wild at Heart (TV Series) (2006)
Feat. Stephen Tompkinson, Amanda Holden
Gratifying drama series following the adventures of a middle class British family who travel to the wilds of Africa with their veterinarian father…
Alice, The (TV Series)Alice, The (TV Series) (2005)
Feat. Erik Thomson, Simon Burke
Compulsive Aussie melodrama –spiked with touches of quirky humour and ponderings on fate – set in the baking outback town of Alice…
Bleak House (Mini-series)Bleak House (Mini-series) (2005) Recommended
Dir. Justin Chadwick
Feat. Gillian Anderson, Alun Armstrong, Warren Clarke
From the pen of Charles Dickens comes this pacy, razor sharp BBC adaptation dabbling in murder, lineage, and the 19th century legal…
Boston Legal - Season 2 (TV Series) Boston Legal - Season 2 (TV Series) (2005-2006)
Feat. James Spader, William Shatner
Further episodes from the irreverent spinoff to THE PRACTICE, based around the cases and happenings of the civil law section of a renowned Boston…
Carnivale - Season 2 (TV Series)Carnivale - Season 2 (TV Series) (2005) Recommended
Further episodes from this unusual TV series which continues a running duel between two quasi–supernatural figures (Stahl and Brown) in the…
Closer, The (TV Series)Closer, The (TV Series) (2005-2006)
Feat. Kyra Sedgwick
Capable and assured detective drama dodges most of the worst cliches of the genre, with Kyra Sedwick playing a talented 'Southern Belle' investigator…
Commander in Chief (TV Series)Commander in Chief (TV Series) (2005)
Feat. Geena Davis, Donald Sutherland, Bruce Boxleitner
Excellent WEST WING–style political drama has Geena Davis depict an imagined first woman President of the USA, an independent senator who is…
Deadwood - Season 2 (TV Series)Deadwood - Season 2 (TV Series) (2005)
Feat. Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker
Further tales from the troubled Arizona town of Deadwood. Season Two: 12 episodes across four discs. Disc 1: A Lie Agreed Upon – Part 1, A…
DL Chronicles, The (TV Series)DL Chronicles, The (TV Series) (2005)
Feat. Damian T. Raven, Sheilynn Wactor, T. Ashanti Mozelle
Pioneering TV series about a group of gay African–American males who choose to lead double lives and attempt to keep their homosexual…
Empire Falls (TV Mini-series)Empire Falls (TV Mini-series) (2005)
Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Ed Harris, Paul Newman, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Conventional and well–handled drama series set in the once–booming factory town of Empire Falls, Maine, and mostly getting down in among…
Ghost Whisperer (TV Series)Ghost Whisperer (TV Series) (2005)
Feat. Jennifer Love Hewitt, Camryn Manheim
Further primetime paranormal activity, with a prissy Jennifer Love Hewitt as a small town newlywed overcoming her initial skepticism at being able to…
Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) - Season 1Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) - Season 1 (2005-2006)
Feat. Ellen Pompeo, Sandra Oh, Katherine Heigl
Unusually female–driven spin on the hospital soap genre, follows the overcomplicated lives of five interns at Seattle's Grace Hospital as they…
Human TraffickingHuman Trafficking (2005)
Dir. Christian Duguay
Feat. Mira Sorvino, Donald Sutherland, Remy Girard
Tough, at times miserly two–part telemovie detailing the efforts of an Immigration Enforcement agency fighting to curb the Eastern European…
Insiders Guide to Love, The (TV Series)Insiders Guide to Love, The (TV Series) (2005)
Feat. Kate Elliot, Will Hall, Ryan O' Kane
Adopting the whimsical style of series forerunner INSIDERS GUIDE TO HAPPINESS, this spiffy companion–piece assembles an entirely new set of…
Inspector Soneri: Fog and CrimesInspector Soneri: Fog and Crimes (Nebbie e delitti) (2005)
Feat. Luca Barbareschi, Natasha Stefanenko
Inspired by the best–selling crime novels by Valerio Varesi, this atmospheric policier set along the river Po, with Barbareschi as the brooding…
Into the West (TV Mini-series)Into the West (TV Mini-series) (2005)
Feat. Matthew Modine, Graham (Actor) Greene, Beau Bridges
The tale of the settlement of the American West between 1820 and 1890 is laid out in sprawling confusing detail in this epic mini–series told…
Kidnapped (TV Mini Series)Kidnapped (TV Mini Series) (2005)
Feat. Adrian Dunbar, John Bach, Paul McGann
A stirring adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure yarn, set around a young boy's entanglement with the Scottish Jacobite rebellion…
Macbeth (Shakespeare Retold)Macbeth (Shakespeare Retold) (2005)
Dir. Mark Brozel
Feat. James McAvoy, Richard Armitage, Keeley Hawes
An updated version of Shakespeare's tragedy by the makers of THE CANTERBURY TALES (2003) series, shifting the Scottish renegade into the…
My Family and Other AnimalsMy Family and Other Animals (2005) Recommended
Dir. Sheree Folkson
Feat. Imelda Staunton
Delightfully unassuming BBC telemovie with Imelda Staunton as the matriarch of an eccentric British family living on the Greek isle of Corfu. Based…
Over There (TV Series)Over There (TV Series) (2005)
Feat. Josh Henderson, Luke MacFarlane, Erik Palladino
Demanding Iraqi War excursion from Steven Bochco (NYPD BLUE) focuses on a US army unit’s dispatch to Iraq. Light on politics, this nevertheless…
Point Pleasant (TV Series)Point Pleasant (TV Series) (2005)
Feat. Elisabeth Harnois, Grant Show
Short–lived, mildly cultish series may interest BUFFY fans as a brief alternative: it concerns a mysterious girl who washes up on the shoreline…
Rome (TV Series)Rome (TV Series) (2005) Recommended
Feat. Kevin McKidd, Polly Walker, Ian McNeice
Lavish, handsomely–mounted cable television series chronicling dark goings–on in ancient Rome. The wide canvas of characters ranges…
Search for the Northwest PassageSearch for the Northwest Passage (2005)
Dir. Louise Osmond
A partially dramatised documentary examines the two most famous expeditions which attempted to find a passage around the northern–most…
Six Feet Under - Season 5 (TV Series)Six Feet Under - Season 5 (TV Series) (2005) Recommended
Feat. Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy
Fifth and final season of the acclaimed HBO drama set around a funeral home. 12 episodes over 5 discs: A Coat of White Primer, Dancing for Me,…
Wallis and EdwardWallis and Edward (2005)
Feat. Joely Richardson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Miriam Margolyes
A condensed tele–feature dramatisation of the royal scandal that shocked the world following Prince Edward from the time when he meets the…
24 - Season 3 (TV Series)24 - Season 3 (TV Series) (2004)
Feat. Kiefer Sutherland
Further episodes in this high–concept TV thriller, covering 24 hours of real time events (an hour per episode) with Kiefer Sutherland as lead…
Agatha Christie - A Life in PicturesAgatha Christie - A Life in Pictures (2004)
Dir. Richard Curson Smith
Feat. Olivia Williams, Anna Massey
BBC teledrama that focuses on the real life disappearance of detective–writer Agatha Christie in 1926, which has already spawned at least one…
Angels in America (TV Mini Series)Angels in America (TV Mini Series) (2004) Recommended
Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson
An ambitious, multi–leveled portrait of the fractures, politics and metaphysical crises of 1980s America based on the stageplay by Tony…
Bear Named Winnie, ABear Named Winnie, A (2004)
Dir. John Kent Harrison
Feat. Michael Fassbender, Gil Bellows, David Suchet
Interesting telemovie based on the true story of a Canadian black bear cub who was 'adopted' by a soldier in 1914, eventually placed in the London…
Blackpool (TV Series)Blackpool (TV Series) (2004)
Dir. Coky Giedroyc, Julie Ann Robinson
Feat. David Morrissey, Sarah Parish, David Tennant
Cocky and entertaining mini–series concerns the rise and fall of a Blackpool gambling entrepeneur, played with broad intensity by the excellent…
Boston Legal - Season 1 (TV Series)Boston Legal - Season 1 (TV Series) (2004-2005)
Feat. James Spader, William Shatner, Monica Potter
Irreverent spinoff to THE PRACTICE adds a thwack of biting comedy to some familiar courtroom antics, chiefly courtesy of star turns from James Spader…
Brief, The (TV Series)Brief, The (TV Series) (2004)
Feat. Alan Davies
Alan Davies juggles work as a brilliant, crusading barrister, with a less than perfect home life, in this lively courtroom drama.
Deadwood - Season 1 (TV Series)Deadwood - Season 1 (TV Series) (2004) Aro Favourite
Feat. Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker
An acclaimed new revision of the Western genre, recounting the complex and troubling establishment of the Arizona town of Deadwood in the 1880s,…
Desperate Housewives (TV Series) - Season 1Desperate Housewives (TV Series) - Season 1 (2004) Recommended
Feat. Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross
A wildly popular "super–soap" which explores the secrets, neuroses, affairs and generally intriguing lives of a group of middle–aged…
He Knew He Was RightHe Knew He Was Right (2004)
Dir. Tom Vaughan
Feat. Bill Nighy, Laura Fraser, Anna Massey
This dexterous, Dickens–esque romance from the quill of Anthony Trollope follows the marital adventures of Louis and Emily Trevelyan, with the…
House - Season 1 (TV Series)House - Season 1 (TV Series) (House M.D.) (2004) Recommended
Feat. Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps
Hugh Laurie cleverly overturns his nebbish comic persona to play an brilliant, yet misanthropic disease specialist in this surprisingly distinctive…
Huff (TV Series)Huff (TV Series) (2004)
Feat. Hank Azaria, Paget Brewster, Blythe Danner
Solid 'midlife crisis' drama series set around a successful psychiatrist (Azaria) who is sent into a tailspin when a 15–year old patient…
Insiders Guide to Happiness, The (TV Series)Insiders Guide to Happiness, The (TV Series) (2004) Recommended
Feat. Fasitua Amosa, Ben Barrington, Fraser Brown
An ambitious, stylish TV series (made on our doorstep) which shows the life–tracks of various contemporary urbanites and suburbanites meshing…
Island at War (TV Mini-Series) Island at War (TV Mini-Series) (2004)
Dir. Peter Lydon
Feat. James Wilby, Saskia Reeves, Philip Glenister
Above par made–for–television drama, set during the German occupation of the Channel Islands in World War II, with the struggle of three…
K Street (TV Series)K Street (TV Series) (2004)
Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. John Slattery, Mary McCormack, Roger Guenveur Smith
A cutting–edge political satire from Steven Soderbergh, which attempted to capture the immediacy and unpredictability of current affairs…
L Word, The (TV Series)L Word, The (TV Series) (2004-2009) Recommended
Feat. Jennifer Beals, Mia Kirshner, Pam Grier
A fiercely determined "queer" series exploring Los Angeles' liberal gay scene, canvasing a tight–knit community of attractive lesbians and…
Lives of the Saints (TV Mini-Series) Lives of the Saints (TV Mini-Series) (2004)
Dir. Jerry Ciccoritti
Feat. Sophia Loren, Fabrizio Filippo, Kris Kristofferson
Vivid mini–series focused on an Italian immigrant family, headed by the insatiable Sophia Loren, which must confront their sordid past in order…
Murder in Suburbia (TV Series)Murder in Suburbia (TV Series) (2004)
Feat. Lisa Faulkner, Caroline Catz
Another variation on Britain’s fetish for sleuthing duos, this is a spunkier, sexier alternative to most under the female eye two abrasively…
Nighty Night (TV Series)Nighty Night (TV Series) (2004)
Feat. Julia Davis
Thoroughly "wicked" drama series follows the nefarious efforts of arch–manipulator Julia Davis to 'move on' after her husband falls ill to…
North and South (TV Mini-series)North and South (TV Mini-series) (2004)
Dir. Brian Percival
Feat. Daniela Denby-Ashe, Richard Armitage, Tim Pigott-Smith
Quality BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's epochal novel of the Victorian Industrial era, in which a country–raised woman from the south of…
Rescue Me (TV Series)Rescue Me (TV Series) (2004-2006)
Feat. Denis Leary, Jack McGee
Fast and furious drama about the vigorous lives of firefighters in New York City. Created by and starring comedian Denis Leary in the lead part, this…
Show Me Yours (TV Series)Show Me Yours (TV Series) (2004-2005)
Feat. Rachael Crawford, Adam Harrington, Rachel Wilson
Diverting comedy with 'sexpert' Kate Langford's life is tipped upside down when her publisher insists on a particularly obnoxious co–author for…
Six Feet Under - Season 4 (TV Series)Six Feet Under - Season 4 (TV Series) (2004) Recommended
Feat. Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy
Further episodes of the acclaimed HBO drama set around a funeral home. 12 episodes over 5 discs: Falling into Place, In Case of Rapture, Parallel…
Tom Brown's SchooldaysTom Brown's Schooldays (2004)
Dir. David Moore
Feat. Stephen Fry, Jemma Redgrave, Alex Pettyfer
Movie based on the classic novel of the same name by Thomas Hughes, with Stephen Fry playing the young Tom Brown at a Victorian boys' public school…
Veronica Mars (TV Series)Veronica Mars (TV Series) (2004) Recommended
Feat. Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, Enrico Colantoni
Addictive, dark–hued mystery noir masquerading as a high school drama, centred on the socially ostracised teen daughter of a private eye whose…
After the Deluge (TV Series)After the Deluge (TV Series) (2003)
Feat. David Wenham, Hugo Weaving, Ray Barrett
A heartfelt and critically acclaimed teledrama about the troubled lives of three brothers and their father, who is disturbed by memories of WWII.…
And Starring Pancho Villa as HimselfAnd Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003)
Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Alan Arkin, Jim Broadbent
Zooming–in on an intriguing corner of 20th century history, this tells the unlikely (but true) story of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa's…
Augustus (TV Mini-Series) Augustus (TV Mini-Series) (2003)
Dir. Roger Young
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Charlotte Rampling
Peter O'Toole takes on the role of Augustus Caesar in this refreshing series focusing on the time when Augustus stepped into his adopted father's…
Between the Sheets (TV Mini Series)Between the Sheets (TV Mini Series) (2003)
Feat. Brenda Blethyn, Richard Armitage, Alun Armstrong
A well–to–do housewife, unhappy in marriage, rediscovers the joy of sex after a passionate encounter with a much younger man. A frank,…
Blackjack (TV Series)Blackjack (TV Series) (2003-2007)
Dir. Peter Andrikidis
Feat. Colin Friels, Vince Colosimo, Kate Beahan
Tenacious Aussie crime series centred on a detective banished to work in the police archives section, who uses his new surrounds to solve long…
Blue Murder (TV Series)Blue Murder (TV Series) (2003)
Feat. Caroline Quentin
Pragmatic crime series featuring British comedian Caroline Quentin as a detective at the top of her game, trying to juggle her demanding career and…
Canterbury Tales, The (TV Mini-Series)Canterbury Tales, The (TV Mini-Series) (2003)
Feat. James Nesbitt, Julie Walters, Billie Piper
A contemporay retelling of six tales from Geoffrey Chaucer's medieval classic, which dispenses with the framing journey to concentrate on the…
Carnivale - Season 1 (TV Series)Carnivale - Season 1 (TV Series) (2003) Recommended
Feat. Nick Stahl, Clancy Brown, John Savage
A most unusual TV series which sets a running duel between two quasi–supernatural figures (Stahl and Brown) in the Oklahoma dustbowl during the…
City of Men (TV Series)City of Men (TV Series) (Cidade dos Homens) (2003) Recommended
Feat. Darlan Cunha, Douglas Silva
Brazilian TV followup to the crime epic CITY OF GOD, continues the lives of Acerola and Laranjinha in the shanties of Sao Paolo dodging drug gangs…
Dead Like Me (TV Series)Dead Like Me (TV Series) (2003-2004)
Feat. Ellen Muth, Mandy Patinkin
Cult TV series about a recently–deceased woman – killed by a toilet seat falling off a space station – who gets recruited to help a…
Doctor Zhivago (TV Series)Doctor Zhivago (TV Series) (2003)
Dir. Giacomo Campiotti
Feat. Sam Neill, Keira Knightley, Kris Marshall
A 'Masterpiece Theatre' adaptation of Pasternak's novel of Tsarist Russia. Generally more complete and faithful than the Lean version, but less…
Fortysomething (TV Series)Fortysomething (TV Series) (2003)
Feat. Hugh Laurie, Anna Chancellor, Benedict Cumberbatch
Humorous Britcom starring Hugh Laurie as an anxiety ridden doctor amidst the meltdown of a midlife crisis. With his long–term marriage slowly…
Hitler - The Rise of EvilHitler - The Rise of Evil (2003)
Dir. Christian Duguay
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Stockard Channing, Peter O'Toole
Somewhat controversial account of Adolf Hitler's rise to power, attempting to fathom his potential for evil–doing. An only…
Killing Hitler (TV Mini-series)Killing Hitler (TV Mini-series) (2003)
Dir. Jeremy Lovering
Feat. Peter McDonald, Kate Ashfield, Kenneth Cranham
Accurate docu–drama merging archival footage with recreations and educated interview to portray and dissect 'Operation Foxley' – a secret…
Last Detective, The (TV Series)Last Detective, The (TV Series) (2003)
Feat. Peter Davison
The ironically moniker Constable "Dangerous" Davies livens up this comic policier about an inept but persistent detective saddled with the most…
Marking Time (TV Mini-Series)Marking Time (TV Mini-Series) (2003)
Dir. Cherie Nowlan
Feat. Abe Forsythe, Geoff Morrell, Bojana Novakovic
Teen angst and unrequited love stir in this topical outback drama, set in a small country town where the optimism behind the country's Olympic Games…
Napoleon (TV Mini-series)Napoleon (TV Mini-series) (2003)
Dir. Yves Simoneau
Feat. Christian Clavier, Gerard Depardieu, John Malkovich
A handsomely staged French (though English language) production of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte (Clavier) from his youthful antics, military…
New Tricks (TV Series)New Tricks (TV Series) (2003)
Feat. Alun Armstrong, James Bolam, Amanda Redman
Solidly commended British crime series set around a trio of retired police detectives (Armstrong, Bolam and Waterman), led by the rather brash Amanda…
Nip / Tuck (TV Series)Nip / Tuck (TV Series) (2003)
Feat. Dylan Walsh, Julian McMahon, Joely Richardson
Television drama series set around the plastic–surgery practice of two Miami doctors, who have different priorities in life. Somewhat risque…
OC, The (TV Series) - Season 1OC, The (TV Series) - Season 1 (2003-2004) Recommended
Feat. Peter Gallagher, Mischa Barton, Kelly Rowan
A stylish and instantly popular TV Series set in Orange County, California, in which a juvenile delinquent (McKenzie) is introduced to the…
One Tree Hill (TV Series)One Tree Hill (TV Series) (2003)
Feat. Chad Michael Murray, James Lafferty, Hilarie Burton
Smallscreen teenage melodrama set in the small town of Tree Hill, North Carolina, and around the simmering relationship between two…
Out of OrderOut of Order (2003)
Feat. Eric Stoltz, Felicity Huffman, Justine Bateman
The pilot episode for a TV Series set around a Los Angeles family, where Mom (Huffman) and Dad (Stoltz) exist on the middle rungs of the Hollywood…
Planman, ThePlanman, The (2003)
Dir. John Strickland
Feat. Robbie Coltrane, Graham Crowden
Ingenious two–part thriller in which Robbie Coltrane, in a near–reprise of his CRACKER role, plays a clever Scottish lawyer who in his…
Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, TheRoman Spring of Mrs. Stone, The (2003)
Dir. Robert Allan Ackerman
Feat. Helen Mirren, Olivier Martinez, Anne Bancroft
Reasonably solid telemovie version of Tennessee Williams' only novel, with Mirren here playing the aging actress lured into an affair after the…
Rosemary & Thyme (TV Series)Rosemary & Thyme (TV Series) (2003)
Dir. Tom Clegg
Feat. Pam Ferris, Felicity Kendal
Utterly peculiar crime series follows two disenchanted botanists – Rosemary, a sacked horticulture lecturer, and Laura, a police officer separated…
Shark Net, The (TV Mini-series)Shark Net, The (TV Mini-series) (2003)
Feat. William McInnes, Angie Milliken, Tim Draxl
Based on the memoir by Robert Drewe, this Australian mini–series focuses on Drewe's move to Perth as a young, excitable boy and his gradual…
Tru Calling (TV Series)Tru Calling (TV Series) (2003-2005)
Feat. Eliza Dushku
Paranormal TV drama with Dushku playing a morgue intern who discovers she can hear the voices of the recently deceased and reverse their fates.…
Bertie and ElizabethBertie and Elizabeth (2002)
Dir. Giles Foster
Feat. James Wilby, Juliet Aubrey, Alan Bates
Above–board portrait of the relationship between George VI and future wife Elizabeth Bowes–Lyon – better known as the 'Queen…
Born and Bred (TV Series) Born and Bred (TV Series) (2002-2005)
Feat. James Bolam, Michael French
Comforting drama series, set in 1950's Britain, centred on a son who moves back home to a Lancashire village to help his father establish a medical…
Crime and Punishment (TV Mini-series) Crime and Punishment (TV Mini-series) (2002)
Dir. Julian Jarrold
Feat. John Simm, Kate Ashfield, Lara Belmont
Lyrical TV adaptation of the great Dostoevsky novel focused on a young murderer struggling to escape his feelings of guilt and paranoia before they…
Cutting It (TV Series)Cutting It (TV Series) (2002)
Feat. Amanda Holden, Sarah Parish
Set in the snippily stylish world British hair salons, this television series concerns the competition between two salons facing each other across…
Daniel Deronda (TV Mini-series)Daniel Deronda (TV Mini-series) (2002)
Dir. Tom Hooper
Feat. Hugh Dancy, Romola Garai, Barbara Hershey
Faithful and reasonably stylish BBC adaptation of George Eliot's final novel, in which the titular young man (Dancy), an orphan raised by a guardian…
Dead Zone, The (TV Series)Dead Zone, The (TV Series) (2002-2006)
Dir. Robert Lieberman
Feat. Anthony Michael Hall, David Ogden Stiers, Nicole De Boer
Surprisingly effective spinoff from the 1983 David Cronenberg–Stephen King film, with Hall playing a coma victim who upon awakening six years…
Forsyte Saga, The (TV Series)Forsyte Saga, The (TV Series) (2002)
Dir. Christopher Menaul, David Moore
Feat. Rupert Graves, Damian Lewis, Gina McKee
Opulent adaptation of John Galsworthy’s cycle of novels by Granada television, with the saga of the squabbling, all–too–human Forsyte…
Foyle's War (TV Series)Foyle's War (TV Series) (2002-2015) Recommended
Feat. Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Anthony Howell
A distinguished drama series of mysteries set at the dawn of World War II, from the makers of Midsomer Murders. Michael Kitchen stars as charismatic…
Linda Green (TV Series)Linda Green (TV Series) (2002)
Feat. Liza Tarbuck
Surprisingly endearing comic drama, follows the life of swinging single girl Linda (played by former TV presenter Liza Tarbuck) from work to home to…
Lost World, The (TV Mini-series)Lost World, The (TV Mini-series) (2002) Recommended
Dir. Stuart Orme
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Peter Falk, James Fox
Sterling BBC adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s adventure novel, where an intrepid bunch of Victorians explore the Amazon jungle for dinosaurs…
Mataku (TV Series)Mataku (TV Series) (2002-2005)
Dir. Michael Bennett, Peter Berger
Feat. Temuera Morrison
A well–mounted anthology of contemporary one–off dramas, adapted from the unique and mystical world of Maori supernatural legends. The…
Taken (TV Series)Taken (TV Series) (2002)
Feat. Matt Frewer
Steven Speilberg ‘presents’ this straight–faced mini–series about the impact of UFOs (abductions, investigations,…
Tipping the VelvetTipping the Velvet (2002) Aro Favourite
Dir. Geoffrey Sax
Feat. Rachael Stirling, Keeley Hawes, Anna Chancellor
Dramatises a unique love–story (from Sarah Waters' novel) between a young girl and a charismatic male impersonator in the 1890s music hall, and…
Wire in the Blood - Prayer of the BoneWire in the Blood - Prayer of the Bone (2002)
Feat. Robson Green
Feature–length spin–off episode from the acclaimed Brit crime series 'Wire in the Blood' – centred on a fatigued psychotherapist /…
Wire, The - Season 1 (TV Series)Wire, The - Season 1 (TV Series) (2002) Aro Favourite
Feat. Dominic West, Idris Elba, Wood Harris
Tough, patient HBO TV policier (from David Simon, creator of HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREETS) follows the Baltimore drug scene from both the police and…
Without a Trace (TV Series)Without a Trace (TV Series) (2002)
Feat. Anthony LaPaglia, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Television crime drama from the Jerry Bruckheimer stable (see also CSI) that traces the investigations of the FBI's Missing Persons Squad, led by the…
Always Greener (TV Series)Always Greener (TV Series) (2001)
Feat. John Howard, Anne Tenney
Whimsical Australian 'dramedy' follows the mis/fortunes of two related families – the Taylors from suburban Sydney, and the Todds from rural New…
Being Eve (TV Series)Being Eve (TV Series) (2001)
Feat. Fleur Saville
Spunky, good–natured Kiwi comedy essays the angsty teenage years of girl philosopher Eve Baxter, whose unconventional outlook on life is…
Bob and Rose (TV Series)Bob and Rose (TV Series) (2001)
Dir. Julian Farino, Joe Wright
Feat. Alan Davies, Lesley Sharp
Smart, open–minded relationship drama contemplates the possibility of a gay man and a straight woman falling in love. Devoid of stereotypes,…
Book Group, The (TV Series)Book Group, The (TV Series) (2001)
Dir. Annie Griffin
Feat. Anne Dudek, Rory McCann, James Lance
Browses amusingly through the lives of a mixed group of Glaswegian book–lovers, who have weekly meetings to discuss their literary…
Count of Monte Cristo, TheCount of Monte Cristo, The (2001)
Dir. Josee Dayan
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Ornella Muti, Jean Rochefort
The classic tale of injustice and revenge (by Alexander Dumas), gets respectful treatment in this French TV mini–series starring Gerard…
Judge John Deed (TV Series)Judge John Deed (TV Series) (2001-2007)
Feat. Martin Shaw, Jenny Seagrove
Well crafted BBC TV series detailing the might of a High Court Judge commited to upholding justice whatever it takes. Portrayed with insight and wit…
Love in a Cold Climate (TV Mini-Series)Love in a Cold Climate (TV Mini-Series) (2001)
Dir. Tom Hooper
Feat. Rosamund Pike, Megan Dodds, Alan Bates
This witty romantic comedy of manners revolves around three upper–class girls who are launched into society with the goal of landing suitable…
McLeod's Daughters (TV Series)McLeod's Daughters (TV Series) (2001)
Feat. Lisa Chappell
Entire first season of the Australian TV Series.
Murder In Mind (TV Series)Murder In Mind (TV Series) (2001)
Excellent star–studded series of self–contained stories on the theme of murder, generally centered around apparently 'normal people' who…
Nero Wolfe (TV Series) Nero Wolfe (TV Series) (A Nero Wolfe Mystery) (2001)
Feat. Timothy Hutton, Maury Chaykin, Bill Smitrovich
Witty 40's–set detective series based on the series of Rex Stout novels, following the investigations of a sensitive detective and his right…
Secret Life of Us, The (TV Series)Secret Life of Us, The (TV Series) (2001)
Feat. Claudia Karvan, Deborah Mailman
Surprisingly consistent dramedy set in funky, downtown Melbourne amongst a group of romantically ambitious young people. Maintains a quirky lightness…
Six Feet Under - Season 1 (TV Series)Six Feet Under - Season 1 (TV Series) (2001) Aro Favourite
Feat. Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy
The acclaimed, innovative HBO comedy–drama about an extremely dysfunctional family that operate a funeral home presided over by their deceased…
Teachers (TV Series)Teachers (TV Series) (2001-2004)
Feat. Andrew Lincoln, Nina Sosanya, Adrian Bower
British TV comedy following the lives of a group of secondary school teachers in and out of the classroom. Series One centres around Andrew Lincoln…
The Way We Live NowThe Way We Live Now (2001)
Dir. David Yates
Feat. David Suchet, Matthew MacFadyen, Shirley Henderson
The rise and fall of a Jewish financer is laid bare by the masterful pen of Anthony Trollope. David Suchet broadly, if unlikeably encompasses the…
Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps (TV Series)Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps (TV Series) (2001)
Feat. Will Mellor, Sheridan Smith, Natalie Casey
Brit sitcom following a group of five 20 somethings in Cheshire who regularly meet at the local pub to discuss the trials and tribulations of life.…
Varian's WarVarian's War (2001)
Dir. Lionel Chetwynd
Feat. William Hurt, Julia Ormond, Maury Chaykin
Mostly satisfactory telemovie which deals with the intriguing real–life case of Varian Fry, an American journalist who in WW2 helped smuggle…
Victoria and Albert (TV Mini-Series)Victoria and Albert (TV Mini-Series) (2001)
Dir. John Erman
Feat. Victoria Hamilton, Jonathan Firth, Peter Ustinov
Lengthy and lavish account of the early life of Queen Victoria and her subsequent marriage to Prince Albert.
At Home With The Braithwaites (TV Series)At Home With The Braithwaites (TV Series) (2000) Aro Favourite
Feat. Amanda Redman, Peter Davison, Sarah Smart
A self–consciously offbeat domestic drama revolving around the dysfunctional minefield of the Braithwaite household, familial relations that…
Burnside (TV Series) Burnside (TV Series) (2000)
Feat. Christopher Ellison
Bearable Detective spin–off series of THE BILL, with Christopher Ellison reprising the riveting character of Detective Frank Burnside, who…
Clocking Off (TV Series)Clocking Off (TV Series) (2000-2003) Recommended
Dir. John Strickland, Geoffrey Sax
Feat. Christopher Eccleston, Sarah Lancashire, Jason Merrells
BAFTA–winning drama with a self–contained anthology format that focuses each episode on the home life of a worker at a Manchester textile…
Corner, The (TV Series)Corner, The (TV Series) (2000)
Feat. Khandi Alexander, Sean Nelson, T. K. Carter
Miniseries based on the non fiction book "The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner–City Neighbourhood" by David Simon and his writing partner…
David Copperfield (Mini-series)David Copperfield (Mini-series) (2000)
Dir. Simon Curtis
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Ian McKellen
Charles Dicken's semi–autobiographical novel (and his own personal favourite) of an aspiring young lad, gets adapted by the BBC, with an…
Gilmore Girls - Season 1 (TV Series)Gilmore Girls - Season 1 (TV Series) (2000-2001) Recommended
Feat. Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel
Critically lauded and invitingly fresh TV drama about an amiably eccentric mother and daughter, whose suburban American lives in Connecticut explore…
Gormenghast (TV Mini-series)Gormenghast (TV Mini-series) (2000)
Dir. Andy Wilson
Feat. Christopher Lee, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Ian Richardson
Immaculately designed – if somewhat overstated – BBC rendition of Mervyn Peake's cult novel set in an immense castle where the…
Human Remains (TV Series)Human Remains (TV Series) (2000) Recommended
Feat. Rob Brydon, Julia Davis
BBC black comedy mockumentary style series centred around six different offbeat couples, one per episode, candidly revealing their kooky home lives.…
Les Miserables (TV Mini-series)Les Miserables (TV Mini-series) (2000)
Dir. Josee Dayan
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Christian Clavier, John Malkovich
Well mounted and faithful adaptation of Victor Hugo's tale of persecution and revenge set in early 19th century France, with Gerard Depardieu playing…
Madame BovaryMadame Bovary (2000)
Dir. Tim Fywell
Feat. Eileen Atkins, Hugh Bonneville, Frances O’Connor
Typically lavish BBC costumer, here tackling Gustave Flaubert's classic French tragi–romance with gusto and explicit sex. Frances O'Connor…
Monarch of the Glen (TV Series)Monarch of the Glen (TV Series) (2000)
Dir. Edward Bennett, A.J. Quinn
Feat. Richard Briers, Susan Hampshire, Alastair Mackenzie
A whimsical drama set on the Scottish Highland estate of Glenbogle, with Richard Briers and Susan Hampshire.
Monsignor Renard (TV Mini-series)Monsignor Renard (TV Mini-series) (2000)
Dir. Malcolm Mowbray
Feat. John Thaw, Cheryl Campbell, Dominic Monaghan
ITV drama starring John Thaw as a humble parish priest who returns home to his French village to join the resistance during WWII after a twenty year…
Mrs Bradley Mysteries, The (TV Series)Mrs Bradley Mysteries, The (TV Series) (2000)
Feat. Diana Rigg
Short–lived but rewarding variation on the mystery serial turns the clock back to the 1920s, where upper class socialite Adela Bradley dabbles…
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series)Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) (2000)
Dir. Paul Seed
Feat. Ian Richardson, Robin Laing, Charles Dance
A rather fascinating speculation which dramatises the real–life relationship between "Sherlock Homes"–author Arthur Conan Doyle (Laing)…
My Family (TV Series)My Family (TV Series) (2000-2006)
Feat. Zoe Wanamaker, Robert Lindsay
Sturdy British sitcom with Zoe Wanamaker and Robert Lindsay at the head of middle–class family whose dysfunctions range from the petty…
Nicholas Nickleby (TV Series) (2000)
Dir. Stephen Whittaker
Feat. James D'Arcy, Charles Dance
An ITV version of Charles Dickens’ saga of family misfortune. Young Nicholas (James D’Arcy) must fight his malevolent uncle (Charles Dance) to…
NurembergNuremberg (2000)
Feat. Alec Baldwin, Jill Hennessy, Brian Cox
This two part miniseries follows the Chief Prosecutor through the Nuremberg Trials of 1945–46.
Queer As Folk (TV Series)Queer As Folk (TV Series) (2000-2005)
Feat. Hal Sparks, Gale Harold, Peter Paige
An American variation on the groundbreaking British series (currently unavailable due to censorship restrictions) which is likewise completely set…
Rebus (TV Series) Rebus (TV Series) (2000-2007)
Feat. John Hannah
John Hannah takes on the now familiar role of a Scottish Detective Inspector in the first few episodes of this whodunit crime series set on the…
Sally Hemings - An American Scandal (Mini Series)Sally Hemings - An American Scandal (Mini Series) (2000)
Dir. Charles Haid
Feat. Sam Neill, Carmen Ejogo
Provocative mini–series telling the allegedly true story of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson's thirty–eight year affair with…
Sins, The (TV Mini-series)Sins, The (TV Mini-series) (2000)
Feat. Pete Postlethwaite, Geraldine James, Frank Finlay
BBC miniseries with Pete Postlethwaite playing an aging getaway driver who decides to go straight – after one last robbery. A light hearted…
Wives and DaughtersWives and Daughters (2000)
Dir. Nicholas Renton
Feat. Francesca Annis, Ian Carmichael, Michael Gambon
A BBC adaptation of the 19th century writer Elizabeth Gaskell's neglected masterpiece, in which the daughter of a widower is thwarted by her new…
Wyvern Mystery, The (TV Mini-Series)Wyvern Mystery, The (TV Mini-Series) (2000)
Dir. Alex Pillai
Feat. Naomi Watts, Derek Jacobi
Naomi Watts plays the adopted daughter of a prickly Squire (Derek Jacobi) with more than just fatherhood on his mind. Pseudo–haunted house…
All the King's MenAll the King's Men (1999)
Dir. Julian Jarrold
Feat. David Jason, Maggie Smith
BBC dramatisation of one of WWI's most enduring enigmas, in which the Sandringham Company, made up from King George's private staff, disappeared into…
Aristocrats (TV Mini-series)Aristocrats (TV Mini-series) (1999)
Dir. David Caffrey
Feat. Sian Phillips, Alun Armstrong, Ben Daniels
BBC costumer set in 18th–century England and Ireland tells the story of four beautiful, privileged sisters who are the…
Audrey Hepburn Story, TheAudrey Hepburn Story, The (1999)
Dir. Steven Robman
Feat. Jennifer Love Hewitt, Frances Fisher, Keir Dullea
Gallant, but workmanlike TV biopic about timeless Hollywood star Audrey Hepburn, whose sparkle and perkish good looks carried her from a childhood in…
Bad Girls (TV Series)Bad Girls (TV Series) (1999) Recommended
Feat. Simone Lahbib, Mark Pegy, Jack Ellis
Top rating and dramatically juicy ITV series set in a British women’s prison, which directly confronts bisexuality, female violence, drugs and the…
Great Expectations (Mini-series) (1999)
Dir. Julian Jarrold
Feat. Charlotte Rampling, Ioan Gruffudd, Justine Waddell
The Charles Dickens novel, about a young lad's progress into society with the aid of a mysterious benefactor, has already been twice–filmed,…
Joan of ArcJoan of Arc (1999)
Dir. Christian Duguay
Feat. Jacqueline Bisset, Powers Boothe, Maximilian Schell
The French heroine, brought to the small–screen with a big name cast.
Judging Amy (TV Series)Judging Amy (TV Series) (1999-2005)
Feat. Amy Brenneman, Richard T. Jones, Tyne Daly
Wholesome drama with Amy Brenneman as a family court judge, focuses on the trials and tribulations of three generations of women living together.…
LongitudeLongitude (1999)
Dir. Charles Sturridge
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Michael Gambon, Stephen Fry
Adapted from the book by Dava Sobel, this tells the intriguing story surrounding the 18th century search for an accurate way to calculate longitude,…
Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married (TV Series)Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married (TV Series) (1999)
Dir. Brian Grant
Feat. Gerard Butler
Romantic drama based on the top selling chick lit novel by Marian Keyes following the life and loves of a twenty–something living in London.…
Oliver Twist (TV Series) (1999) Recommended
Dir. Renny Rye
Feat. Alan Bleasdale, Julie Walters, Robert Lindsay
Charles Dickens' enduring classic of orphan Oliver's hardships in Victorian London. Here the timeless story gets the lavish six hour treatment at…
Queer as Folk (TV Series)Queer as Folk (TV Series) (1999) Recommended
Feat. Aidan Gillen, Craig Kelly, Charlie Hunnam
Groundbreaking television drama that chronicles the lives of three gay men living in Manchester's gay village around Canal Street. Eight…
Scarlet Pimpernel, The (Mini Series)Scarlet Pimpernel, The (Mini Series) (1999)
Dir. Simon Langton
Feat. Richard E. Grant, Elizabeth McGovern
A lively television adaptation of the Baroness Orczy's famous novel set around the bloody chaos of post–revolutionary France and one English…
Shopgirls (TV Series)Shopgirls (TV Series) (Commesse) (1999)
A haute couture boutique in Rome is the playground for six headstrong, fiercely independent women in this colorful, empowering Italian soap opera…
Sopranos, The (TV Series) - Season 1Sopranos, The (TV Series) - Season 1 (1999) Aro Favourite
Dir. Nick Gomez, John Patterson, David Chase
Feat. James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Lorraine Bracco
Groundbreaking TV–series that ironically portrays the life of a New Jersey Mafia clan as a parade of suburban neurosis, pop–culture…
Third Watch (TV Series)Third Watch (TV Series) (1999-2005)
Feat. Michael Beach, Bobby Cannavale, Kim Raver
Three–pronged drama series charting the intersecting lives of New York City firefighters, paramedics and police officers in the (fictional)…
West Wing, The - Season 1 (TV Series)West Wing, The - Season 1 (TV Series) (1999) Recommended
Dir. Various, Michael Lehmann, Thomas Schlamme
Feat. Martin Sheen, Rob Lowe, Moira Kelly
One of the most popular (and lauded) US TV–series of recent years, set in a White House presided over by Martin Sheen and his staff. With…
Ambassador, TheAmbassador, The (1998-1999)
Feat. Pauline Collins, Tom Connolly, Denis Lawson
An intriguing series examines the pitfalls of the diplomatic life with Pauline Collins as England's Ambassador to Ireland. Continually under fire the…
Berkeley Square (TV Mini-series)Berkeley Square (TV Mini-series) (1998)
Feat. Victoria Smurfit, Tabitha Wady, Clare Wilkie
Mini–series following three woman from very different backgrounds who all gain positions as nannies for wealthy families living on Berkeley…
Charmed (TV Series)Charmed (TV Series) (1998-2005) Recommended
Feat. Shannen Doherty, Alyssa Milano, Holly Marie Combs
A career–reviving hit for Doherty and Milano, as two of a trio of sisters who discover they have the supernatural powers of witches. This…
Coming Home (TV mini-series)Coming Home (TV mini-series) (1998)
Dir. Giles Foster
Feat. Joanna Lumley, Peter O'Toole, Emily Mortimer
Star–studded adaptation of Rosamunde Pilcher's best–selling novel of love, friendship and the discovery of womanhood set on the Cornish…
Dawson's Creek (TV Series)Dawson's Creek (TV Series) (1998-2002)
Dir. Rodman Flender, Arvin Brown
Feat. Katie Holmes, James Van Der Beek, Michelle Williams
The popular post–modern teen melodrama created by the writer of SCREAM, Kevin Williamson. On tape – two favourite episodes: ‘The…
Felicity (TV Series)Felicity (TV Series) (1998)
Dir. Matt Reeves
Feat. Keri Russell
Mousy high–school graduate Russell follows her heart (i.e. the boy she has a crush on) to college in New York City, in this sweetly engaging…
From the Earth to the Moon (TV Series)From the Earth to the Moon (TV Series) (1998) Recommended
Feat. Dylan Baker, Adam Baldwin, Gary Cole
Truly epic dramatisation of the Apollo space programme – produced by Tom Hanks after the success of APOLLO 13 – which looks at the entire…
Grafters (TV Mini-series) Grafters (TV Mini-series) (1998)
Dir. David Richards, Stephen Whittaker
Feat. Robson Green, Stephen Tompkinson
Distinct drama series following the misadventures of two brothers forced to work together as builders and renovate a house for a London couple, which…
Kings in Grass Castles (TV Mini-series)Kings in Grass Castles (TV Mini-series) (1998)
Dir. John Woods
Feat. Max Cullen, Fionnula Flanagan, Essie Davis
Chronicles the hard life of an Irish peasant family who flee the potato famine and emigrate to Australia in the second half of the 19th century.…
Magnificent Seven, The (TV Series)Magnificent Seven, The (TV Series) (1998-2000)
Dir. Christopher Cain
Feat. Michael Biehn, Ron Perlman, Dale Midkiff
Detailed spin–off series from the 1960 movie THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, continuing with the premise of seven cowboys each with a unique set of…
Our Mutual Friend (Mini-series)Our Mutual Friend (Mini-series) (1998)
Dir. Julian Farino
Feat. Paul McGann, Keeley Hawes
Adapted by the BBC, Charles Dickens' last novel opens on a forlorn family who earn a crust fishing corpses out of the Thames, before sifting upwards…
Seachange (TV Series)Seachange (TV Series) (1998-2001)
Feat. Sigrid Thornton, David Wenham
Sigrid Thornton plays a high–flying, disenchanted city girl offered a change of pace in idyllic Pearl Bay, in this much–loved Australian…
Tess of the D'UrbervillesTess of the D'Urbervilles (1998)
Dir. Ian Sharp
Feat. Justine Waddell, Jason Flemyng, Oliver Milburn
British TV version of Thomas Hardy's famous novel concerning a young woman's tragic struggle in 19th century England.
Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star, The (1998)
Dir. Sheree Folkson, Kieron Walsh
Feat. Ciaran McMenamin, Simone Lahbib, Nicole Stapleton
Young persons are the target of the whimsical Scottish TV series following the fortunes of an eclectic rock group who go from garage nobodies to gain…
Grand, The (TV Series)Grand, The (TV Series) (1997-1998)
Feat. Susan Hampshire, Rebecca Callard, Paul Warriner
Grandiose period drama set during the roaring twenties follows the Bannerman family as they re–open The Grand Hotel in Manchester. Written by…
IvanhoeIvanhoe (1997)
Dir. Stuart Orme
Feat. Steven Waddington, Victoria Smurfit, Ciaran Hinds
Sir Walter Scott's classic adventure of the Crusades gets a fair rollicking in this BBC adaptation. Returning from the wars in Palestine, Ivanhoe…
Lakes, The (TV Series)Lakes, The (TV Series) (1997)
Feat. John Simm, Emma Cunniffe, Kaye Wragg
Gritty British drama following a compulsive gambler from Liverpool who moves to the Lake District and encounters the secrets, lies and crimes that…
Law and Order (TV Series)Law and Order (TV Series) (1997)
Feat. Michael Moriaty, George Dzundza, Paul Sorvino
The original US police and courtroom drama from which various satellite shows and TV movies have sprouted, which contrasts its polish with fairly…
OZ (TV Series)OZ (TV Series) (1997)
Feat. Ernie Hudson, Harold Perrineau, Jr., J.K. Simmons
Groundbreaking HBO series delivers an unflinching look at life on the inside for a group of inmates serving hard time in a maximum security prison.…
Practice, The (TV Series)Practice, The (TV Series) (1997)
Feat. Dylan McDermott, Michael Badalucco, Camryn Manheim
Joined ostensibly at the hip with BOSTON LEGAL (James Spader and other characters would migrate in later seasons), this punchier, more serious minded…
Tom Jones (Mini-series)Tom Jones (Mini-series) (The History of Tom Jones - A Foundling) (1997)
Dir. Metin Hüseyin
Feat. Max Beesley, Brian Blessed, Kathy Burke
Full–scale adaption of Henry Fielding's comic masterpiece, charting the amorous misadventures of the orphan Tom through the rollicking morals…
True WomenTrue Women (1997)
Dir. Karen Arthur
Feat. Dana Delaney, Annabeth Gish, Angelina Jolie
A female–driven historical saga spanning five decades from the Texas Revolution through to the American Civil War. A Hallmark production based…
Twelve Angry MenTwelve Angry Men (1997)
Dir. William Friedkin
Feat. George C. Scott, Ossie Davis, Armin Mueller-Stahl
An award–winning television version of the classic jury–room drama. Re–written by the scriptwriter of the original film version…
Andersonville (TV Mini-series)Andersonville (TV Mini-series) (1996)
Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Frederic Forrest, Ted Marcoux, Jarrod Emick
TV western set during the American Civil War, about a group of Union soldiers who are sent to a Confederate prison camp near Andersonville, Georgia…
Ballykissangel (TV Series)Ballykissangel (TV Series) (1996-2001)
Feat. Stephen Tompkinson, Dervla Kirwan, Niall Toibin
Quirky smalltown Irish drama takes a warmly comedic approach to the travails of the 'new priest in town'. It doesn't help that he's English and…
Cold Feet (TV Series)Cold Feet (TV Series) (1996) Aro Favourite
Feat. James Nesbitt, Helen Baxendale, John Thomson
Highly infectious and candid look at the lives of six thirty–something Brits, which gets to the sharp end of careers, love and sex in the…
Dalziel and Pascoe (TV Series)Dalziel and Pascoe (TV Series) (1996)
Feat. Warren Clarke, Colin Buchanan
Adapted from a series of novels by Reginald Hill, Clarke and Buchanan play a pair of mismatched Yorkshire detectives whose clash in personal and…
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (TV Series)Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (TV Series) (1996)
Feat. Patricia Routledge, Dominic Monaghan
Former suburban stickler Patricia Routledge plays a retiree who takes to some amateur sleuthing with the help of runaway teen Dominic Monaghan…
Inspector Wexford Collection, The (TV Mini-series) Inspector Wexford Collection, The (TV Mini-series) (1996-2000)
Feat. George Baker, Sadie Frost
Collection of commended adaptations based on the Ruth Rendell novels and centred on the recurring Rendell character of Inspector Wexford – an…
More Tales of the City (TV Series)More Tales of the City (TV Series) (1996) Recommended
Feat. Olympia Dukakis, Laura Linney, Colin Ferguson
The second series of the much–loved TV show set among the varied folk of San Francisco.
Our Friends in the North (TV Mini-series)Our Friends in the North (TV Mini-series) (1996) Aro Favourite
Feat. Christopher Eccleston, Gina McKee, Daniel Craig
British TV show following four friends living in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England over a period of 31 years from 1964 to 1995.…
Rhodes (TV Mini-series)Rhodes (TV Mini-series) (1996)
Dir. David Drury
Feat. Martin Shaw, Frances Barber, Joe Shaw
Lengthy but worth–it biopic telling the story of Cecil Rhodes, the 19th–Century businessman who was sent to Africa to die, but came back…
Tenant of Wildfell HallTenant of Wildfell Hall (1996)
Dir. Mike Barker
Feat. Tara Fitzgerald, Cathy Murphy, Jackson Leach
Tara Fitzgerald plays the new tenant of a decaying Yorkshire manor, who ruffles the feathers of the rural community with her independent spirit and…
This Life (TV Series)This Life (TV Series) (1996-1997)
Feat. Jack Davenport, Ramon Tikaram
Subdued but truthful drama set around the 1990s conflicts, problems, successes and romances of a crowd of young London urbanites – mainly…
Vanity Fair (TV Mini-series)Vanity Fair (TV Mini-series) (1996)
Dir. Marc Munden
Feat. Natasha Little, Nathaniel Parker, Frances Grey
BBC adaptation of William Thackery's 19th century satire of class snobberies in which social–climbing Natasha Little socially negotiates the…
American Gothic (TV Series)American Gothic (TV Series) (1995)
Dir. Mike Binder
Feat. Gary Cole, Lucas Black, Jake Weber
Mordant supernatural thriller set in the small town of 'Trinity', South Carolina, where despite outward appearances of normality, much of the town's…
Bramwell (TV Series)Bramwell (TV Series) (1995-1998)
Feat. Jemma Redgrave, Ruth Sheen, David Calder
TV series set in the Victorian era about a courageous young woman who defies social rules and gender roles to study medicine, and begins her own…
Buccaneers, TheBuccaneers, The (1995)
Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Carla Gugino, Mira Sorvino, Alison Elliott
Four blue–blooded American girls search in England for the fortune and success denied to them back home. A BBC production, from Edith Wharton's…
Dangerfield (TV Series)Dangerfield (TV Series) (1995)
Feat. Nigel Le Vaillant, Amanda Redman
Small–town BBC fare stars Nigel Le Vaillant as a successful GP whose moonlighting as a police surgeon puts pressure on his understaffed…
Hamish MacBeth (TV series)Hamish MacBeth (TV series) (1995-1997)
Feat. Robert Carlyle
The town of Lochdubh in the Scottish Highlands forms a droll and scenic setting for this smalltown policier set around the put–upon local…
Hanging Gale, The (TV Mini-series)Hanging Gale, The (TV Mini-series) (1995)
Feat. Stephen McGann, Joe McGann, Mark McGann
Bleak Irish mini–series centered around a family of four brothers who must fight to save their land and family from a cruel English Land Agent…
Jake's Progress (TV Mini-series)Jake's Progress (TV Mini-series) (1995)
Feat. Robert Lindsay, Julie Walters
Oddly masterful Alan Bleasdale drama stars G.B.H's Robert Lindsay as a failed musician who learns from a fortune teller that he'll die shortly after…
McCallum (TV Series)McCallum (TV Series) (1995-1998)
Feat. John Hannah
Above–par crime series trails the private and professional life of the titular forensic pathologist as he becomes entangled in various murder…
Oliver's Travels (TV Mini-series)Oliver's Travels (TV Mini-series) (1995)
Feat. Alan Bates, Sinead Cusack, Bill Paterson
BBC oddity centered around Oliver (Bates), an ex–university lecturer with a passion for puzzles, who goes on a search to find legendary…
Politician's Wife, The (TV mini-series)Politician's Wife, The (TV mini-series) (1995) Recommended
Dir. Graham Theakston
Feat. Juliet Stevenson, Trevor Eve, Minnie Driver
Hell hath no fury like Juliet Stevenson in this Bafta and Emmy award–winning drama as a woman humiliated by the public revelation that her…
Pride and Prejudice (TV Series)Pride and Prejudice (TV Series) (1995) Aro Favourite
Dir. Simon Langton
Feat. Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle
Jane Austen connoisseurs shan't be disappointed with this terrifically popular BBC version of her consummate novel about romantic intrigues between…
Rik Mayall Presents (TV Series)Rik Mayall Presents (TV Series) (1995)
Feat. Rik Mayall
There's more to Rik Mayall than the usual ' fart jokes' ,as demonstrated by these six groundbreaking 50 minute plays commissioned by the BBC in 1995.…
Battlers, The (TV Mini-series)Battlers, The (TV Mini-series) (1994)
Dir. George Ogilvie
Feat. Gary Sweet, Jacqueline McKenzie
Fairly sensitive teledrama about life on the backroads in Australia at the height of the Great Depression. Centring on the developing romance between…
Cadfael (TV Series)Cadfael (TV Series) (1994-1996) Recommended
Dir. Graham Theakston
Feat. Derek Jacobi, Sean Pertwee, Peter Copley
Derek Jacobi stars as Brother Cadfael, a former soldier, sailor and crusader turned botanist monk who often finds himself solving baffling murders…
Due South (TV Series)Due South (TV Series) (1994)
Feat. Paul Gross
CRASH dir. Paul Haggis served as creator of this offbeat, mildly popular fish–out–of–water policier about a Canadian Mountie in…
E.R. (TV Series)E.R. (TV Series) (1994-2003)
Feat. George Clooney, Noah Wyle, Sherry Stringfield
A contender for the most successful TV series of all time, this drama is set around the Emergency Room of Cook County General Hospital, Chicago.…
Love On A Branch Line (TV Mini-series)Love On A Branch Line (TV Mini-series) (1994)
Dir. Martyn Friend
Feat. Michael Maloney, Leslie Phillips
Acclaimed comedy tracks the misfortunes that befall a dull civil servant who decides to quit his job to become an artist in Paris, but his employers…
Martin Chuzzlewit (Mini-series)Martin Chuzzlewit (Mini-series) (1994)
Dir. Pedr James
Feat. Keith Allen, Paul Scofield, John Mills
BAFTA–winning, Emmy–nominated BBC adaptation of the great Charles Dickens satire of American life, death and family fortunes, starring…
Middlemarch (TV Mini-series)Middlemarch (TV Mini-series) (1994)
Dir. Anthony Page
Feat. Juliet Aubrey, Douglas Hodge, Patrick Malahide
An exemplary screen adaptation of George Eliot's literary classic about the machinations of the well–to–do in 19th century…
My So-Called Life (TV Series)My So-Called Life (TV Series) (1994-1995)
Dir. Scott Winant
Feat. Claire Danes, Jared Leto, Bess Armstrong
Hard–hitting drama series starring a young Claire Danes in her breakout role as a 15 year–old dealing with angst–ridden teen…
Party of Five (TV Series)Party of Five (TV Series) (1994-2000)
Feat. Matthew Fox, Neve Campbell, Lacey Chabert
Accessible youth drama about a family of five orphaned siblings who, after their parents are killed in a car accident, are left to fend for…
Pie in the Sky (TV Series)Pie in the Sky (TV Series) (1994)
Feat. Richard Griffiths
Brit crime series following a retirement age detective hanging up his mystery solving hat to fulfil a goal of owning his own restaurant, but it seems…
Rector's Wife, The (Mini-Series)Rector's Wife, The (Mini-Series) (1994)
Dir. Giles Foster
Feat. Lindsay Duncan, Miles Anderson, Pam Ferris
The wife of a kind but dull preacher is scorned by her conservative community when she takes a job at the grocery store one town over. Based on…
Scarlett (TV Mini-Series)Scarlett (TV Mini-Series) (1994)
Dir. John Erman
Feat. Timothy Dalton, Joanne Whalley, Stephen Collins
The epic miniseries sequel to GONE WITH THE WIND has Scarlett, Rhett go from tragedy to triumph in an action packed saga of international scope…
Touched by an Angel (TV Series)Touched by an Angel (TV Series) (1994)
Feat. Della Reese, Roma Downey
Wonderfully soppy TV drama centered around a group of angels who bring messages of hope and Godliness to people on Earth who are losing their fatih.…
Wycliffe (TV Series)Wycliffe (TV Series) (1994)
Dir. Jack Shepherd
Feat. Bill Nighy, Jack Shepherd
Edgy novel based detective drama following the feats of a conventional trench coat clad superintendent investigating small town crime. Effectively…
Cracker (TV Series)Cracker (TV Series) (1993-1994) Recommended
Dir. Michael Winterbottom, Andy Wilson, Julian Jarrold
Feat. Robbie Coltrane, Christopher Eccleston, Adrian Dunbar
Justifiably acclaimed, often grim television drama centred round the forensic exploits of troubled, gambling–addict psychologist Robbie…
Diagnosis Murder (TV Series)Diagnosis Murder (TV Series) (1993)
Feat. Dick Van Dyke, Scott Baio, Charlie Schlatter
Dick Van Dyke is on duty as Dr. Mark Sloan, a good–natured, unconventional and sometimes zany physician with a nose for murder. A…
Doctor Finlay (TV Series)Doctor Finlay (TV Series) (1993-1996)
Feat. David Rintoul, Jason Flemyng
Set in the small and struggling Scottish town of Tannochbrae in the years after WW2, this update of the popular BBC series from the 1960s –…
Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman (TV Series) Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman (TV Series) (1993-1998)
Feat. Jane Seymour, Chad Allen
Appealing western series starring Jane Seymour as the wilful Dr. Quinn starting up a practice in the wilds of redneck Colorado while dealing with the…
Homicide (TV Series) Homicide (TV Series) (Life On The Street) (1993-1999) Aro Favourite
Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Richard Belzer, Ned Beatty, Yaphet Kotto
Award–winning cop drama, from the creator of THE WIRE, centred on a group of homicide detectives investigating grisly crimes on the tough…
House of Eliott, The (TV Series)House of Eliott, The (TV Series) (1993) Recommended
Dir. Rodney Bennet et al
Feat. Stella Gonet, Louise Lombard, Aden Gillett
By starting their own clothing 'house', Bea and Evie Eliott stitch and sew their way out of debt and into high society. Set in 1920's England, this…
Joh's JuryJoh's Jury (1993)
Dir. Ken Cameron
Feat. Simon Bossell, Noah Taylor, Gerry Connolly
Intensively researched teledrama about the sensational trial of Queensland state premier Joh Bjelke–Petersen (Connolly) for perjury in…
Lipstick On Your Collar (1993)
Dir. Renny Rye
Feat. Giles Thomas, Louise Germaine, Ewan McGregor
Dennis Potter's musical comedy combines the elements that made his 'Singing Detective' and 'Pennies from Heaven' so memorable and distinctive. This…
NYPD Blue (TV Series)NYPD Blue (TV Series) (1993)
Feat. David Caruso, Dennis Franz, Amy Brenneman
"Groundbreaking" TV cop show that wasn't so much groundbreaking as a slick 90s rehash of the likes of 'Hill Street Blues'. But despite all the fast…
Peak Practice (TV Series)Peak Practice (TV Series) (1993)
Feat. Kevin Whately, Amanda Burton, Simon Shepherd
Popular, long–running British daytime staple about a new country GP adjusting to life and work in rural Derbyshire. Series One: eight…
Sharpe (TV Series)Sharpe (TV Series) (1993-1998)
Dir. Tom Clegg
Feat. Sean Bean, Brian Cox
Various teledramas adapting Bernard Cornwall's famous novels about the adventures of an officer in the 19th century British Army. In perhaps his best…
Typhon's PeopleTyphon's People (1993)
Dir. Yvonne MacKay
Feat. Alfred Molina, Sophie Lee, Michael Hurst
Capable sci–fi thriller, scripted by Margaret Mahy, concerning dodgy genetic–engineering in a remote NZ research station. Stars local…
Year in Provence, A (TV Series)Year in Provence, A (TV Series) (1993)
Dir. David Tucker
Feat. John Thaw, Lindsay Duncan
Adapted from Peter Mayle's best–selling book, this depicts the experiences of an English couple who move into a rustic village in the south of…
A Touch of Frost (TV Series)A Touch of Frost (TV Series) (1992-1995)
Feat. David Jason
An old–fashioned but thoroughly reliable British detective series set around a Detective Inspector with the 'common touch'. David Jason's…
Anglo Saxon Attitudes (TV Series)Anglo Saxon Attitudes (TV Series) (1992)
Feat. Richard Johnson, Douglas Hodge, Elizabeth Spriggs
TV drama based on the post–war satirical novel by Angus Wilson, following an aging historian (Richard Johnson) as he reflects on his youth, his…
Camomile Lawn, The Camomile Lawn, The (1992)
Feat. Felicity Kendal, Claire Bloom, Jennifer Ehle
Handsomely mounted for it's time, this TV miniseries is set in 1939 in Cornwall, against the backdrop of the final days of the Spanish Civil War and…
Get Back (TV Series)Get Back (TV Series) (1992-1993)
Feat. Ray Winstone, Carol Harrison, Larry Lamb
Limp sitcom with Ray Winstone as an East End boy now running a menswear shop facing financial ruin. Notable only for an early Kate Winslet role and…
Melrose Place (TV Series)Melrose Place (TV Series) (1992-1999)
Feat. Heather Locklear, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Daphne Zuniga
Glossy spinoff to BEVERLY HILLS 90210 tracked an older set of characters all living at a plush apartment complex in Los Angeles and coping with love,…
Picket Fences (TV Series)Picket Fences (TV Series) (1992)
Feat. Tom Skerritt, Kathy Baker, Costas Mandylor
Small–town drama from the creator of BOSTON LEGAL and ALLY MCBEAL in which Sheriff Jimmy Brock (Tom Skerritt) investigates dark goings on…
Shortland Street: 15 Years Of (TV Series)Shortland Street: 15 Years Of (TV Series) (1992-2007)
New Zealand's most successful primetime drama – a regular weeknight fixture for homes nationwide, and a port–of–call for almost every…
Absolute HellAbsolute Hell (1991)
Dir. Anthony Page
Feat. Judi Dench, Francesca Annis
Classic BBC television production based on Rodney Ackland's book of the same name: a black, bleak comedy about about a sex–addicted , boozy…
Brides of Christ (TV Series)Brides of Christ (TV Series) (1991)
Dir. Ken Cameron
Feat. Brenda Fricker, Naomi Watts, Russell Crowe
Set in Catholic convent in 1960s Australia among a group of nuns and students, this series caused mild controversy on release, depicting the church…
Brittas Empire, The (TV Series)Brittas Empire, The (TV Series) (1991)
Feat. Chris Barrie
Set around the mishap–prone executive of the 'Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre', this enjoyable series provided a semi–satirical look at…
Clarissa (Mini-series)Clarissa (Mini-series) (1991)
Dir. Robert Bierman
Feat. Sean Bean, Saskia Wickham, Shirley Henderson
Based on the colossal Samuel Richardson novel this series set in the 18th century reveals the trials of a young heiress in line for an arranged…
Commish, The (TV Series) Commish, The (TV Series) (1991-1995)
Feat. Michael Chiklis
Impressionable cop series set in small–town America with Michael Chiklis taking on the role of local police commissioner attempting to balance…
Eerie Indiana (TV Series)Eerie Indiana (TV Series) (1991-1992)
Feat. Omri Katz, Justin Shenkarow
Short–lived, cult TWIN PEAKS–offshoot follows the arrival of a young boy to Eerie, Indiana, a town overrun with urban legends, a living…
G.B.H (TV Mini-series)G.B.H (TV Mini-series) (1991)
Feat. Robert Lindsay, Michael Palin, Dearbhla Molloy
Dynamite Channel 4 mini–series from the pointed pen of tele–writer Alan Bleasdale plays out the battle of wits between a mad Labour Party…
Prime Suspect (TV Series)Prime Suspect (TV Series) (1991-2003) Aro Favourite
Dir. Christopher Menaul
Feat. Helen Mirren, Tom Bell, Tom Wilkinson
Helen Mirren stars as DCI Tennison in seven award–winning (Emmy and BAFTA) mini–series from the pen of Lynda La Plante.
Sleepers (TV Series)Sleepers (TV Series) (1991)
Feat. Nigel Havers, Warren Clarke
Absurdist BBC spy comedy set in the post–Glasnost era, where it is discovered that two KGB agents assigned to infiltrate British society in the…
Beverly Hills 90210 (TV Series)Beverly Hills 90210 (TV Series) (1990-2000) Recommended
Dir. Tim Hunter
Feat. Shannen Doherty, Jason Priestley, Tori Spelling
In its day, compulsory viewing for teenagers, as the Beverly Hills High gang of new–faces (Shannen Doherty, Jason Priestley), rich–kids…
House of Cards, The (TV Series)House of Cards, The (TV Series) (1990-1993) Recommended
Dir. Paul Seed
Feat. Ian Richardson
A sardonic and blackly humourous look at British politics, with a reptilian Ian Richardson plotting and blackmailing his way into power in three…
Portrait of a Marriage (TV Mini-series)Portrait of a Marriage (TV Mini-series) (1990)
Dir. Stephen Whittaker
Feat. Janet McTeer, Cathryn Harrison, David Haig
TV mini–series detailing the real–life love affair between Vita Sackville–West and Violet Keppel, as well as the strength of Vita's…
Twin Peaks - Season 1 (TV Series)Twin Peaks - Season 1 (TV Series) (1990) Aro Favourite
Dir. David Lynch, Various
Feat. Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Madchen Amick
An eccentric, mystical FBI agent arrives in a small Pacific Northwest town to investigate the murder of a young high school girl. Iconic, influential…
Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV Series)Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV Series) (1989-2002) Recommended
Feat. David Suchet
Solid TV adaptation of Agatha Christie's series of detective novels featuring the fussily eccentric Belgian detective Hercule Poirot as he goes about…
Around the World in 80 Days (TV Mini-series)Around the World in 80 Days (TV Mini-series) (1989)
Dir. Buzz Kulik
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Eric Idle, Peter Ustinov
Mostly delightful version of Jules Verne's light adventure yarn, in which Phileas Fogg (Brosnan) attempts the titular feat for a bet. More complete…
Boys from the Blackstuff (TV Series)Boys from the Blackstuff (TV Series) (1989) Recommended
Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Bernard Hill
Alan Bleasdale's series of plays vividly encapsulates the bleaker side of life in Thatcher's Liverpool. Beginning with the feature–length…
Come In Spinner (TV Mini-series)Come In Spinner (TV Mini-series) (1989)
Dir. Robert Marchand
Feat. Lisa Harrow, Rebecca Gibney, Gary Day
Something of an Australian TV classic, this revolves around three women working in a Sydney beauty salon during the closing years of WW2 and the…
Press Gang (TV Series)Press Gang (TV Series) (1989-1993)
Feat. Julia Sawalha, Dexter Fletcher
Much–loved British TV series follows the fortunes of a newspaper, the 'Junior Gazette', run by a troublesome crowd of teenage students in North…
Summer's Lease (TV Mini-series)Summer's Lease (TV Mini-series) (1989)
Feat. Susan Fleetwood, John Gielgud, Michael Pennington
BBC "masterpiece theatre" drama–mystery series set in Tuscany, based on the novel by John Mortimer (RUMPOLE OF THE BAILEY) and adapted by the…
Tale of Two Cities, A (Mini-series)Tale of Two Cities, A (Mini-series) (1989)
Dir. Philippe Monnier
Feat. James Wilby, John Mills, Jean-Pierre Aumont
BBC TV adaptation of Charles Dickens' great, historical novel of the French Revolution, in the shadow of which two, very different men fall for the…
TraffikTraffik (1989)
Dir. Alistair Reid
Feat. Bill Paterson
Complex mini–series set throughout the hierarchies of the international heroin trade. Filmed in locations such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and…
A Very British CoupA Very British Coup (1988)
Dir. Mick Jackson
Feat. Ray McAnally, Alan MacNaughtan, Keith Allen
Old–school Labourite Ray McAnally is elected Prime Minister of Great Britain, an event displeasing to various high–placed civil servants…
Bourne Identity, The (Mini-series)Bourne Identity, The (Mini-series) (1988)
Dir. Roger Young
Feat. Richard Chamberlain, Jaclyn Smith, Anthony Quayle
Mini–series based on Robert Ludlam's best–seller about an injured, unconscious man who washes ashore in a small French town and discovers…
China Beach (TV Series)China Beach (TV Series) (1988)
Feat. Dana Delany, Michael Boatman, Nan Woods
TV series set at an evacuation hospital during the Vietnam War, following the unique perspectives of a range of characters including US Army doctors…
Echoes (TV Mini-series)Echoes (TV Mini-series) (1988)
Dir. Barbara Rennie
Feat. Siobhan Garahy, Robert Hines, Geraldine James
Set in Ireland in the 1950's, this picturesque romance traces the life of a small town girl whose dreams of escape come true when she wins a…
Edens Lost (TV Mini-series)Edens Lost (TV Mini-series) (1988)
Dir. Neil Armfield
Feat. Julia Blake, Linda Cropper
A melancholy dramatic saga set in rural Australia around the growing knowledge of a teenage boy from Sydney, staying with mysterious landed relatives…
Importance of Being EarnestImportance of Being Earnest (1988)
Dir. Stuart Burge
Feat. Gemma Jones, Alec McCowen, Paul McGann
A straightforward and lucid version of Oscar Wilde's classic comedy, made for television by the BBC. McGann is a particular neurotic highlight.
Jack the Ripper (TV Mini-series)Jack the Ripper (TV Mini-series) (1988)
Dir. David Wickes
Feat. Michael Caine, Armand Assante, Jane Seymour
This British television series adds a new solution to the ever–intriguing and grisly case of Jack the Ripper, who preyed on women in Victorian…
Monsignor QuixoteMonsignor Quixote (1988) Recommended
Dir. Rodney Bennett
Feat. Alec Guinness, Leo McKern
Fine tele–version of Graham Greene's novel follows a newly appointed Monsignor and his avowed Marxist companion on an enlightening drive to…
Noble House (Mini-Series)Noble House (Mini-Series) (1988)
Dir. Gary Nelson
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Deborah Raffin, Ben Masters
Improbably entertaining thriller with Brosnan smarming his way through business deals in Asia, only to find his reign as Tai–Pan (supreme…
War and Remembrance (Mini-Series)War and Remembrance (Mini-Series) (1988)
Dir. Dan Curtis
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Hart Bochner
Sequel to THE WINDS OF WAR follows trials and tribulations of the Henry and the Jastrow families amid the events after the USA's entry into World War…
Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, The / The RainbowWidowing of Mrs. Holroyd, The / The Rainbow (1988-1992)
Dir. Katie Mitchell, Stuart Burge
Feat. Zoe Wanamaker, Stephen Dillane, Colin Firth
A 1992 BBC "Performance" theatre production of The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, D.H. Lawrence's portrayal of a woman married to a loutish miner whom she…
Captain James Cook (TV Mini Series)Captain James Cook (TV Mini Series) (1987)
Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Keith Michell, Fernando Rey, Carol Drinkwater
Lavishly–produced series about the epochal sea voyages of Captain James Cook, who set out from Britain in 1768 to observe the transit of Venus…
Complete Talking Heads, The (TV Miniseries)Complete Talking Heads, The (TV Miniseries) (1987-1998) Recommended
Dir. Alan Bennett
Feat. Alan Bennett, Stephanie Cole, Thora Hird
Much–feted 1980s TV series comprising a series of six stage monologues by renowned playwright Alan Bennett, devised to depict various suffering…
Degrassi Junior High (TV Series)Degrassi Junior High (TV Series) (1987-1991)
An unusually entertaining 1980s Canadian high school drama gathered a certain cult following around its charismatic young cast and well–judged…
East of IpswichEast of Ipswich (1987)
Dir. Tristram Powell
Feat. Edward Rawle-Hicks
Michael Palin drew from his childhood memories of seaside family holidays in penning this coming–of–age dramedy for the BBC, set in the…
Fortunes of War (TV Mini-series)Fortunes of War (TV Mini-series) (1987)
Dir. James Cellan Jones
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Alan Bennett
An under–appreciated historical epic focused on the personal experience of war, starring then–English glamour couple Kenneth Branagh and…
GhostsGhosts (1987)
Dir. Elijah Moshinsky
Feat. Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Kenneth Branagh
BBC television adaptation of Ibsen's great, once–controversial play about secrets and lies, sex and hypocrisy, starring Judy Dench as Mrs…
Harp in the South, The (TV Mini Series)Harp in the South, The (TV Mini Series) (1987)
Dir. George Whaley
Feat. Martyn Sanderson, Anne Phelan, Anna Hruby
A TV mini–series about an Irish family who migrate to Australia in the post WW2 years to find their hopes of prosperity dashed on the streets…
In Between (TV Series)In Between (TV Series) (1987)
Feat. Sheryl Munks, Vichea Ten, Jim Petrovski
Acclaimed Australian TV series about troubled teenagers attempting to find their way through life in the inner city, dealing with issues like drugs,…
Inspector Morse (TV Series)Inspector Morse (TV Series) (1987) Recommended
Feat. John Thaw
Much–loved British TV Series that follows the criminal cases of Morse, probably John Thaw's most famous character – the cantankerous…
Little Dorrit (TV Mini-Series)Little Dorrit (TV Mini-Series) (1987) Recommended
Dir. Christine Edzard
Feat. Alec Guinness, Derek Jacobi, Joan Greenwood
Exemplary, all–star reworking of the Charles Dickens' classic in two parts. The first, "Nobody's Fault", is told from Arthur Clennam's (Derek…
Make and BreakMake and Break (1987)
Dir. Michael Frayn
Feat. Judi Dench, Robert Hardy
BBC television drama, directed by Michael Frayn and based on his play of the same name, stars Hardy as a building industry boss, unaware of his…
Northanger AbbeyNorthanger Abbey (1987)
Dir. Giles Foster
Feat. Katherine Schlesinger, Peter Firth
A BBC adaptation based on the Jane Austen novel, with Austen–heroine Katherine Schlesinger yearning for a consuming gothic romance amid the…
On the Black HillOn the Black Hill (1987)
Dir. Andrew Grieve
Feat. Bob Peck, Nicola Beddoe, Patrick Godfrey
Adapted from Bruce Chatwin's novel about the difficult lives of Welsh tenant–farmers in the early 20th century. A bull–headed Bob Peck…
Perfect Spy, APerfect Spy, A (1987)
Dir. Peter Smith
Feat. Peter Egan, Ray McAnally, Peggy Ashcroft
Peter Egan is Magnus Pyum, a spy so perfect he has come to betray everyone he knows, including himself. A superbly realised Beeb version of John Le…
ScoopScoop (1987)
Dir. Gavin Millar
Feat. Denholm Elliott, Sir Michael Hordern, Herbert Lom
Satirical drama based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Evelyn Waugh. Set in the world of journalism, where an inexperienced reporter is sent to…
Thirtysomething (TV Series)Thirtysomething (TV Series) (1987-1991)
Feat. Timothy Busfield, Mel Harris, Peter Horton
One of the highlights of 1980's television, centering around a group of late thirties baby boomers struggling with adult angst in Philadelphia, is…
Tour of Duty (TV Series)Tour of Duty (TV Series) (1987-1988)
Feat. Terence Knox, Stephen Caffrey
A much–admired chronicle of U.S. soldiers grappling with combat, friendship, and ethics in Vietnam. One of several popular Vietnam War…
Edge of Darkness (TV Mini-series)Edge of Darkness (TV Mini-series) (1986) Recommended
Dir. Martin Campbell
Feat. Bob Peck, Joe Don Baker, Joanne Whalley
Multi award–winning suspense drama journeys into the secret, high–stakes world of the nuclear state. This is television at its most…
London's Burning (TV Series)London's Burning (TV Series) (1986-1988)
This long running drama series was developed from a feature length telemovie which focused on the lives of the Blue Watch firefighters in London's…
Monocled Mutineer, The (TV Mini-series)Monocled Mutineer, The (TV Mini-series) (1986)
Dir. Jim O'Brien
Feat. Paul McGann, Robert Fellows
A four–part BBC historical drama depicting the life of Private Percy Toplis, who supposedly led a British army mutiny against training officers…
Paradise Postponed (TV Series)Paradise Postponed (TV Series) (1986)
Feat. Sir Michael Hordern, Richard Vernon, Peter Egan
Ambitious series following various characters in a small British village across three post–war decades. Written by John Mortimer, who adapted…
Peter the Great (TV Mini-Series)Peter the Great (TV Mini-Series) (1986)
Feat. Maximilian Schell, Vanessa Redgrave, Omar Sharif
Emmy Award–winning mini–series about Peter I, Tsar of Russia from 1682, and his efforts to transform Russia in an "all European" country,…
Singing Detective, The (TV Series)Singing Detective, The (TV Series) (1986) Aro Favourite
Dir. Jon Amiel
Feat. Michael Gambon, Joanne Whalley, Patrick Malahide
Ground–breaking fantasy–drama from the unique genius of Dennis Potter. Michael Gambon is brilliant as a bed–ridden, frustrated…
Alfred Hitchcock Presents… (1985)
Dir. Various
Feat. Ned Beatty, John Huston, Steven Bauer
Four episodes from the TV–series, posthumously endorsed by Hitch, which replicate his blend of suspense, macabre humour and brutal…
ANZACS (TV Series)ANZACS (TV Series) (1985) Recommended
Dir. John Dixon, George Miller, Pino Amenta
Feat. Paul Hogan, Andrew Clarke, Jon Blake
An exemplary depiction of a group of ANZAC soldiers in WWI as they progress through the horrors of the war in Europe. Told mainly from the Australian…
Beiderbecke Affair, The (TV Series)Beiderbecke Affair, The (TV Series) (1985)
Feat. James Bolam, Barbara Flynn, Dudley Sutton
Character–centric Brit TV series that was the first in the 'Beiderbecke Trilogy' following a couple of Leed's teachers ensconced in a…
Dunera Boys, The (Mini-series)Dunera Boys, The (Mini-series) (1985) Recommended
Dir. Ben Lewin
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Warren Mitchell, Julia Blake
WW2 set mini–series following a group of suspected Jewish spies sent from England to a POW camp in NSW, Australia. Nicely balanced historical…
Equalizer, The (TV Series)Equalizer, The (TV Series) (1985-1989)
Feat. Edward Woodward, Keith Szarabajka
Classic '80's show noted for its mix of espionage, crime drama, and the private eye genres rolled into a classy film noir package. Woodward excels…
Fortunate Life, A (Mini-series)Fortunate Life, A (Mini-series) (1985)
Feat. Dominic Sweeney
At the turn of the 20th century, a motherless child faces hard labour, the trauma of Gallipoli, and the unforgiving outback in this life affirming…
Kane And Abel (Mini-series) Kane And Abel (Mini-series) (1985)
Dir. Buzz Kulik
Feat. Sam Neill, Peter Strauss, Ron Silver
Based on the epic best selling novel by Jeffrey Archer, about two ambitious men born on the same day on either side of the Atlantic, one to a…
Mussolini - The Untold StoryMussolini - The Untold Story (1985)
Dir. William A. Graham
Feat. George C. Scott, Gabriel Byrne, Robert Downey Jnr.
Based on the memoirs of his eldest son this memorable mini–series begins with Mussolini's rise to power in 1922 and follows his political and…
North and South (TV Series)North and South (TV Series) (1985)
Dir. Richard T. Heffron
Feat. Patrick Swayze, James Read, Kirstie Alley
Heavyweight Civil War tome starring Patrick Swayze and James Read as young men caught up in the winds of American revolution, conflict and…
Oliver Twist (Mini-series)Oliver Twist (Mini-series) (1985)
Dir. Gareth Davies
Feat. Robert Middlemass, Lysette Anthony, Michael Attwell
Quality BBC adaptation of the beloved Dickens story starring Ben Rodska as the eponymous orphan, ably supported by older British thespian brass.
Pickwick Papers, The (Mini-series)Pickwick Papers, The (Mini-series) (1985)
Feat. Nigel Stock, Clive Swift, Ray Brooks
BBC televison production stars Nigel Stock as the titular Mr Samuel Pickwick who – with his pals Nathaniel Winkle, Augustus Snodgrass, and…
Wallenberg: A Hero's StoryWallenberg: A Hero's Story (1985)
Dir. Lamont Johnson
Feat. Richard Chamberlain, Alice Krige, Kenneth Colley
The true story of Hungarian diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who risked his own life manufacturing protective passports for thousands of Jews in exile…
BBC Shakespeare Collection: Series 7BBC Shakespeare Collection: Series 7 (Much Ado About Nothing, Love's Labour's Lost, Pericles: Prince of Tyre, Titus Adronicus) (1984-1985)
Dir. Stuart Burge, Elijah Moshinsky, David Giles
Feat. Robert Lindsay, Cherie Lunghi, Leonard Rossiter
Disc 1: "The Life and Death of King John" (157 Minutes) Directed by David Giles. Starring Leonard Rossiter as King John. Disc 2: "Pericles, Prince…
Bill, The (TV Series)Bill, The (TV Series) (1984-2006)
One of the longest–running TV series in history, this surprisingly realistic drama is set around the comings and goings of the Sun Hill Police…
Far Pavilions, The (TV Mini-series)Far Pavilions, The (TV Mini-series) (1984)
Dir. Peter Duffell
Feat. Ben Cross, Amy Irving, Christopher Lee
Lavish period drama based on the epic book by novelist M.M. Kaye, centered around the romance between a young English officer and a beautiful Indian…
Highway to Heaven (TV Series)Highway to Heaven (TV Series) (1984)
Feat. Michael Landon, Victor French
Feelgood, down–to–earth fantasy series for the whole family, starring Michael Landon (Little House on the Prairie) as a "probational"…
Jewel in the Crown, The (TV Mini series)Jewel in the Crown, The (TV Mini series) (1984) Aro Favourite
Dir. Christopher Morahan
Feat. Peggy Ashcroft, Charles Dance, Art Malik
One of the supreme TV events of the 1980s, this epic adaptation of Paul Scott's novels 'The Raj Quartet' is set in 1930–40s India: the 'jewel…
Mistral's Daughter (Mini-series)Mistral's Daughter (Mini-series) (1984)
Feat. Stefanie Powers, Robert Urich, Lee Remick
Blubbery, melodramatic saga of three generations of women by way of artist Julien Mistral. Based on a novel by Judith Krantz.
Murder, She Wrote (TV Series)Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) (1984-1990)
Feat. Angela Lansbury
The archetypal amateur sleuth series, this long–running show starred the indomitable Angela Lansbury as a mystery…
Widows (TV Series)Widows (TV Series) (1984)
Feat. Ann Mitchell, Ann Mitchell
Gritty crime TV from the writer of PRIME SUSPECT, Lynda La Plante, about the widows of three armed robbers who take over their husbands' crime busines
Agatha Christie: Partners in Crime (TV Series)Agatha Christie: Partners in Crime (TV Series) (1983)
Feat. Francesca Annis, James Warwick, Reece Dinsdale
Crisp adaptation of some of Dame Agatha's lesser known short mysteries. The protagonists here are husband and wife sleuths Tommy and Prudence…
Hotel (TV Series)Hotel (TV Series) (1983)
Feat. James Brolin, Connie Sellecca, Anne Baxter
A 'Love Boat' for the seasick traveller, this glitzy Aaron Spelling production relocates the guest star formula of the maritime hit to the heart of a…
Jamaica Inn (Mini Series)Jamaica Inn (Mini Series) (1983)
Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Jane Seymour, Patrick McGoohan, Trevor Eve
Jane Eyre (TV Series)Jane Eyre (TV Series) (1983) Recommended
Dir. Julian Amyes
Feat. Zelah Clarke, Timothy Dalton
Charlotte Bronte's ever–popular story, of orphan Jane's marriage to the enigmatic Mr Rochester (Timothy Dalton), is here adapted to its…
Mansfield ParkMansfield Park (1983)
Dir. David Giles
Feat. Sylvestra Le Touzel
BBC drama based on Jane Austen's classic about life at an upper class family estate in Eighteenth century rural England.
Reilly Ace Of Spies (TV Mini-series)Reilly Ace Of Spies (TV Mini-series) (1983) Recommended
Dir. Martin Campbell, Jim Goddard
Feat. Sam Neill, Peter Egan, Ian Charleson
Quintessential 1980s mini–series follows the adventures of a real life British superspy Sidney Reilly in the turbulent Russia, Europe and Asia…
Return to Eden (TV Series)Return to Eden (TV Series) (1983)
Feat. Rebecca Gilling
Early 80s mini–series set around the survivor of a treacherous crocodile attack, that garnered a small cult due to its Aussie–kitsch…
Richard IIIRichard III (The Tragedy of Richard III) (1983)
Dir. Jane Howell
Feat. Peter Benson, Antony Brown, David Burke
BBC adaptation of Shakespeare's brilliantly dark play, completely unabridged and loyal to the original text.
Scales of Justice (TV Mini-series)Scales of Justice (TV Mini-series) (1983)
Dir. Michael Jenkins
Feat. John Hargreaves, Bill Hunter, Isabelle Anderson
A three–part crime drama which links tales of drug–dealing, organised crime, police corruption and political conspiracy in 1980s…
Under Capricorn (TV Mini-Series)Under Capricorn (TV Mini-Series) (1983)
Dir. Rod Hardy
Feat. Peter Cousens, Lisa Harrow, John Hallam
Tumultuous drama with Cousens seeking his fortune in 19th century Australia, but his friendship with a convict threatens to scupper his plans.
WagnerWagner (1983)
Dir. Tony Palmer
Feat. Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud
Epic tele–production with Richard Burton as the manic German composer. Includes the Tony Palmer documentaries "In From the Cold? A Portrait of…
Waterfront (Mini-series)Waterfront (Mini-series) (1983)
Dir. Chris Thompson
Feat. Jack Thompson, Greta Scacchi
Intense mini–series depiction of labour relations hotting–up on the Melbourne waterfront in post–WWII Australia. Jack Thompson…
Winds of War, The (Mini-series)Winds of War, The (Mini-series) (1983)
Dir. Dan Curtis
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Jan-Michael Vincent
Thorough and imposing wartime miniseries chronicling the width and breadth of events in the years leading up to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour in…
1915 (TV Mini-series)1915 (TV Mini-series) (1982)
Feat. Scott Burgess, Scott McGregor, Lorraine Bayly
A solid recreation of the Great War era, this TV mini–series charts the experiences of several young men leaving the home–front in…
Barchester Chronicles, The (TV Mini-series)Barchester Chronicles, The (TV Mini-series) (1982)
Dir. David Giles
Feat. Alan Rickman, Donald Pleasence, Nigel Hawthorne
Scandal inflames the once placid town of Barchester, in this typically astute BBC production of Anthony Trollope's novel. A young Alan Rickman holds…
BBC Shakespeare Collection: Series 6BBC Shakespeare Collection: Series 6 (Cymbeline, The Comedy of Errors, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Coriolanus, Macbeth) (1982-1984)
Feat. Helen Mirren, Jane Lapotaire, John Hudson
The sixth in a series of boxed–sets compiling the BBC's comprehensive Shakespeare adaptations for television. This set includes: Cymbeline…
Blue and the Gray, The (TV Mini-Series)Blue and the Gray, The (TV Mini-Series) (1982)
Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen
Feat. Stacy Keach, Colleen Dewhurst, Lloyd Bridges
Handsomely staged mini–series views the Civil War throught the eyes of a Southern war correspondent bearing witness to the war's key events.
Fame (TV Series)Fame (TV Series) (1982-1987)
Feat. Lori Singer, Debbie Allen
Based on the 1980 hit movie, this series charts the ambitions, joys and heartbreaks of assorted dance and music students and teachers at New York's…
For the Term of His Natural Life (TV Mini-series)For the Term of His Natural Life (TV Mini-series) (1982)
Dir. Rob Stewart
Feat. Colin Friels, Anthony Perkins, Patrick Macnee
Solid dramatisation of the Marcus Clarke novel concerning an Englishman unjustly transported to the harsh penal colony of Tasmania in the 1830s. Good…
Hound of the Baskervilles, TheHound of the Baskervilles, The (1982)
Dir. Peter Duguid
Feat. Tom Baker
Former Doctor Who Tom Baker plays Inspector Holmes in this serviceable adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan's most famous Sherlock mystery.
King LearKing Lear (1982)
Dir. Jonathan Miller
Feat. Sir Michael Hordern, John Shrapnel, Norman Rodway
BBC adaptation of Shakespeare's powerful tragedy, with Michael Hordern in the lead role as the troubled King.
Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, TheLife and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, The (1982) Aro Favourite
Dir. James Goddard, Trevor Nunn
Feat. Roger Rees, David Threlfall
The legendary, nine–hour stage adaptation of Charles Dickens' "Nicholas Nickleby", performed by members of The Royal Shakespeare…
Nancy Astor (TV Mini-series)Nancy Astor (TV Mini-series) (1982)
Dir. Richard Stroud
Feat. Lisa Harrow, Pierce Brosnan
Rags–to–riches biography of the life of Nancy Astor, the first woman to hold a seat in the house of commons.
Scarlet Pimpernel, The (TV Mini-Series)Scarlet Pimpernel, The (TV Mini-Series) (1982)
Dir. Clive Donner
Feat. Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, Ian McKellen
Top–notch mini–series version of the classic tale of The Scarlet Pimpernel – an English nobleman who lived a double–life…
Smiley's PeopleSmiley's People (1982) Recommended
Dir. Simon Langton
Feat. Alec Guinness, Bernard Hepton, Barry Foster
Alec Guinness is John Le Carre's Smiley, a retired agent called back to investigate a collegue's assasination which leads him on a treacherous…
Walter / Walter & JuneWalter / Walter & June (Loving Walter) (1982-1983)
Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Ian McKellen, Barbara Jefford, Keith Allen
A pair of grim television movies based on the novels by David Cook, starring Ian McKellen as a man with a learning disability who is condemned by…
Brideshead Revisited (Mini-series)Brideshead Revisited (Mini-series) (1981) Recommended
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews, Diana Quick
Famous adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel chronicles one Charles Ryder and his relationship with the Marchmain family in England between the wars.…
Cherry Orchard, TheCherry Orchard, The (1981)
Dir. Richard Eyre
Feat. Judi Dench, Bill Paterson, Timothy Spall
BBC television drama based on the classic 1904 play by Anton Chekhov about the decline of the Russian aristocracy in general and one high–born…
Dynasty (TV Series)Dynasty (TV Series) (1981-1989)
Feat. John Forsythe, Joan Collins, Linda Evans
Producer Aaron Spelling's lavish prime–time soap, conceived to capitalize on the huge success of rival, "Dallas", can't hide its status as a…
Going GentlyGoing Gently (1981)
Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Judi Dench, Norman Wisdom, Fulton MacKay
Quality BBC television drama about a group of terminally ill patients on a cancer ward.
Henry VIHenry VI (Henry the Sixth) (1981-1983)
Dir. Jane Howell
Feat. John Benfield, Peter Benson, Brenda Blethyn
BBC adaptation of Shakespeare's three–part play across three discs.
Hill Street Blues (TV Series)Hill Street Blues (TV Series) (1981) Recommended
Feat. Daniel J. Travanti, Michael Conrad, Veronica Hamel
Steven Bochco's progressive eighties policier found dramatic substance and acclaim in its realistic and ethnically diverse portrayal of the lives of…
Kessler (TV Mini-series)Kessler (TV Mini-series) (1981)
Feat. Clifford Rose, Alan Dobie
Six–part sequel to the terrific WW2 series SECRET ARMY sees former SS member Ludwig Kessler (Rose) living in 'present day' and on the run from…
Nanny (TV Series)Nanny (TV Series) (1981)
Feat. Wendy Craig, John Quayle, Natalie Forbes
Lovely period 30's BBC series following Barbara Gray (Craig) a childless, lonely woman who decides to turn her life around and become a nanny for…
Sense and SensibilitySense and Sensibility (1981)
Dir. Rodney Bennett
Feat. Irene Richards, Tracey Childs, Diana Fairfax
Two sisters search for love, happiness and a way out of financial strife. From Jane Austen's novel, this was filmed by the BBC on location in Dorset…
Take a Letter Mr. Jones (TV Series)Take a Letter Mr. Jones (TV Series) (1981)
Feat. John Inman, Rula Lenska, Miriam Margolyes
British sitcom set in the office of a multinational corporation, where an exec juggles her hectic work life (and workplace sexual politics) with…
Tenko (TV Series)Tenko (TV Series) (1981-1984)
Feat. Stephanie Cole, Jean Anderson
Memorable British drama in which a group of English women, shipwrecked while fleeing the invasion of Singapore in 1941, are captured by the Japanese…
Wave, TheWave, The (1981) Aro Favourite
Dir. Alexander Grasshof
Feat. Bruce Davison, John Putch
A powerful "after school special" that dramatizes a real experiment conducted in an American High School where students learn how easy it is to be…
Berlin Alexanderplatz (TV Series)Berlin Alexanderplatz (TV Series) (1980) Recommended
Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Gunter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Elisabeth Trissenaar
This monolithic tome set in Weimar–era Germany represented the peak of dir. Fassbinder's filmmaking career. Across 15 hours, it details the…
Beulah Land (TV Mini-series)Beulah Land (TV Mini-series) (1980)
Feat. Lesley Ann Warren, Michael Sarrazin, Eddie Albert
There are plenty of well–known faces in the support cast of this old–fashioned, three–part mini–series dramatizing the lives…
Juliet Bravo (TV Series)Juliet Bravo (TV Series) (1980)
Feat. Stephanie Turner, David Ellison, Noel Collins
Massively popular – although rather dated – UK police series focused on a female police officer who takes charge of a fictional…
Lucinda Brayford (TV Mini Series)Lucinda Brayford (TV Mini Series) (1980)
Dir. John Gauci
Feat. Wendy Hughes, Sam Neill
Australian mini–series based on the novel by Martin Boyd, and depicting the span of generations of a family of English emigrees in the late…
Oppenheimer (TV Mini-series)Oppenheimer (TV Mini-series) (1980)
Dir. Barry Davis
Feat. Sam Waterston, Shane Rimmer, David Suchet
Excellent mini–series starring Waterson as nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who helped build the atomic bomb for the 'Manhattan…
Pride and Prejudice (TV Mini-Series)Pride and Prejudice (TV Mini-Series) (1980)
Feat. Elizabeth Garvie, David Rintoul, Moray Watson
Fay Weldon adaptation of the Jane Austen perennial in which the arrival of a wealthy gentleman sends her marriage–minded mother into a frenzy,…
Spoils of War, The (TV Series)Spoils of War, The (TV Series) (1980)
Feat. Alan Hunter, William Lucas, Emily Moore
British drama series examining the effects of World War II on two families.
Strumpet City (Mini-Series)Strumpet City (Mini-Series) (1980)
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Peter Ustinov
Broad, sweeping Irish history of Dubliners in the early 20th century. Based on James Plunkett’s popular novel.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, SpyTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1980) Recommended
Dir. John Irvin
Feat. Alec Guinness, Ian Richardson, Michael Jayston
Alec Guinness returns as John Le Carre's retired agent George Smiley, this time lured back to trace an infiltrator at his old stomping ground.
To Serve Them All My Days (TV Series)To Serve Them All My Days (TV Series) (1980)
Feat. John Duttine
A shell–shocked WWI vet retreats to a teaching post in Devon, England, where he inspires students through unconventional and empowering means.…
Blue Remembered HillsBlue Remembered Hills (1979) Recommended
Dir. Brian Gibson
Feat. Colin Welland, Michael Elphick, Robin Ellis
Acutely observed teleplay from the genius of Dennis Potter: viewed through the prism of adolescence, Potter crafts a dark, elegiac, if always…
Children of Fire Mountain (TV Mini-Series)Children of Fire Mountain (TV Mini-Series) (1979)
Dir. Peter Sharp
Feat. Terence Cooper, Mark Hadlow
Fondly–remembered Kiwi period drama set in 1900 New Zealand, depicting the conflict between Maori and British settlers from the point of view…
Dick Turpin (TV Series)Dick Turpin (TV Series) (1979)
Feat. Richard O'Sullivan, Alfie Bass
Historical adventure series about the real–life 18th century highwayman Dick Turpin and his "Robin Hood" thieving of the rich to give to the…
Ike (TV Mini-series)Ike (TV Mini-series) (1979)
Dir. Boris Sagal, Melville Shavelson
Feat. Robert Duvall, Lee Remick, Dana Andrews
Robert Duvall is expectedly good in this three–part miniseries detailing the life of Dwight D. Eisenhower, who commanded American forces during…
Knots Landing (TV Series)Knots Landing (TV Series) (1979)
Feat. Joan Van Ark, Michele Lee, Ted Shackelford
Bold and beautiful couples stake out their territory in a suburban Californian cul–de–sac. An addictive primetime soap of…
Littlest Hobo, The (TV Series)Littlest Hobo, The (TV Series) (1979-1985)
Winning family serial follows a wandering German shepherd who who travels from place to place befriending and helping the struggling.
Prisoner (TV Series)Prisoner (TV Series) (Prisoner Cell Block H) (1979-1986) Recommended
Feat. Sheila Florance
The classic Australian women's prison series, which still sets the standard for its tough–as–nails cast, pithy dialogue and unglamorous…
Testament of Youth (Mini-series)Testament of Youth (Mini-series) (1979)
Dir. Moira Armstrong
Feat. Cheryl Campbell, Peter Woodward, Emrys James
Sterling adaptation of Vera Brittain's memoir recounts her early years and lost loves admidst the turmoil of the first world war.
Thomas and Sarah (TV Series)Thomas and Sarah (TV Series) (1979)
Feat. John Alderton, Pauline Collins
Spinoff to UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS, this features John Alderton and Pauline Collins reprising their roles as Thomas, the chauffeur, and Sarah, the…
To the Manor Born (TV Series)To the Manor Born (TV Series) (1979-1981)
Feat. Penelope Keith, Peter Bowles
Fondly remembered British comedy series in which the recently widowed Audrey Forbes–Hamilton (Keith) finds she has to relinquish her stately…
All Creatures Great and Small (TV Series)All Creatures Great and Small (TV Series) (1978)
Feat. Christopher Timothy, Peter Davison, Robert Hardy
A timelessly charming BBC series set around the misadventures of a vet in Yorkshire in the 1940s. Tending to various farm animals of the region…
An Englishman's Castle (TV Mini-series)An Englishman's Castle (TV Mini-series) (1978)
Dir. Paul Ciappessoni
Feat. Kenneth More, Isla Blair, Kathleen Byron
TV miniseries set in an alternative history where Germany won WWII and England is ruled by a fascist government. Kenneth More plays a writer for a…
Anna KareninaAnna Karenina (1978)
Dir. Basil Coleman
Feat. Victoria Allum, Nicola Pagett, Stuart Wilson
Leo Tolstoy's classic novel of the love–lives of Russian high–society, is here adapted by the BBC. Shot on location in Hungary.
Disraeli (TV Mini-series)Disraeli (TV Mini-series) (1978)
Dir. Claude Whatham
Feat. Ian McShane, Rosemary Leach, Mary Peach
Detailed biopic of the remarkable life of the author turned British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. Talky and visually limited this is more than a…
Edward and Mrs. Simpson (TV Mini-series)Edward and Mrs. Simpson (TV Mini-series) (1978)
Dir. Waris Hussein
Feat. Edward Fox, Cynthia Harris, Peggy Ashcroft
Tasteful, but perceptive television series follows the scandalous romance between British monarch Edward VIII and American socialite (and divorcee)…
Kent Chronicles, TheKent Chronicles, The (The Bastard, The Rebels, The Seekers) (1978-1979)
Dir. Lee H. Katzin, Russ Mayberry, Sidney Hayers
Feat. Andrew Stevens, William Shatner, Tom Bosley
A trilogy of mini–series adaptations based on the bestselling novels by John Jakes (North and South), also known as the American Bicentennial…
Law And Order (TV Mini-Series) Law And Order (TV Mini-Series) (1978) Recommended
Dir. Les Blair
Feat. Peter Dean, Derek Martin
Discerning Brit crime series focusing on three men involved in a bungled armed robbery – the Criminal, the Inspector and the Lawyer and played…
Lillie (TV Mini-Series)Lillie (TV Mini-Series) (1978)
Dir. Tony Wharmby, Christopher Hodson, John Gorrie
Feat. Francesca Annis, Catherine Feller, Anton Rodgers
Fascinating costume drama about the life and loves of scandalous British actress Lillie Langtry, who's numerous admirers included the Prince Of Wales…
Little Women (TV Mini-series)Little Women (TV Mini-series) (1978)
Dir. David Lowell Rich
Feat. Susan Dey, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Ann Dusenberry
Emmy Award–winning two part miniseries adapting Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical novel. Mostly unsurprising except for the casting of…
Pennies From Heaven (Mini Series)Pennies From Heaven (Mini Series) (1978) Aro Favourite
Dir. Piers Haggard
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Cheryl Campbell, Gemma Craven
The original television version of Dennis Potter's acclaimed and much–remembered musical drama, set around philandering sheet–music…
Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series) (1978-1992) Recommended
Dir. Herbert Wise
Feat. Leo McKern, Peter Bowles, Patricia Hodge
The much–loved series in which Leo McKern portrayed the rumpled lawyer – created by playwright Sir John Mortimer – who attacks his…
Sandbaggers, The (TV Series)Sandbaggers, The (TV Series) (1978) Recommended
Feat. Roy Marsden, Alan MacNaughtan
The Sandbaggers is a nickname for the Special Section of the British SIS – a team of special agents deployed undercover in hostile situations…
Six Plays by Alan BennettSix Plays by Alan Bennett (1978-1979)
Dir. Stephen Frears, Lindsay Anderson, Giles Foster
Feat. Thora Hird, Prunella Scales, Patricia Routledge
Six classic plays by Oscar nominated playwright Alan Bennett, produced by Stephen Frears, who also directs four of the six. ME! I'M AFRAID OF…
Another Bouquet (TV Mini-Series)Another Bouquet (TV Mini-Series) (1977)
Dir. John Frankau
Feat. Frank Finlay, James Aubrey, Deborah Grant
So–so follow up to Andrea Newman's painful chronicle of incestual desire is set six months later, and the repercussions are still being felt.
Citizen SmithCitizen Smith (1977-1980)
Dir. Ray Butt
Feat. Robert Lindsay
Mischievous TV comedy about self–styled 'urban guerilla' Wolfie Smith (Lindsay) who tries to spark a socialist revolution from the London…
Eight is Enough (TV Series)Eight is Enough (TV Series) (1977)
Feat. Dick Van Patten, Diana Hyland, Betty Buckley
Comedy about a family of eight living in Sacramento California, where Dad is a columnist for the fictional local newspaper (based on real–life…
Jesus of Nazareth (Mini Series)Jesus of Nazareth (Mini Series) (1977) Recommended
Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Robert Powell, Laurence Olivier, Anne Bancroft
Touched by the hand of Franco Zeffirelli and a who's–who of famous thesps, this is the most respectfully detailed and complete retelling of the…
Love For Lydia (TV Series)Love For Lydia (TV Series) (1977)
Dir. Tony Wharmby, Christopher Hodson
Feat. Mel Martin, Jeremy Irons, Christopher Blake
Adapted from the H.E. Bates' book, this scrumptious Masterpiece Theatre series details the exploits of the beautiful but vapid Lydia and the four men…
Murder Most English (TV Series)Murder Most English (TV Series) (The Flaxborough Chronicles) (1977)
Feat. Anton Rodgers, Christopher Timothy
Based on the Colin Watson mysteries, this Ever–so–English detective series follows two English detectives as they solve particularly…
Roots (TV Mini-series)Roots (TV Mini-series) (1977) Recommended
Dir. Marvin J. Chomsky et al
Feat. Maya Angelou, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Moses Gunn
Engrossing TV mini–series traces the misfortunes of an African family forcibly transported to America as slaves. The lives of subsequent…
Secret Army (TV Series)Secret Army (TV Series) (1977)
Feat. Bernard Hepton
This gripping – and unlike its comedy spoof successor ALLO' ALLO!, deadly serious – BBC dramatic series focused on the exploits of a…
Washington: Behind Closed Doors (Mini-Series)Washington: Behind Closed Doors (Mini-Series) (1977)
Feat. Cliff Robertson, Jason Robards Jr., Stefanie Powers
Sharply written mini–series inspired by the Nixon administration tells the story of a power–hungry U.S. President, and the men he…
Who Pays the Ferryman? (TV Series)Who Pays the Ferryman? (TV Series) (1977)
Dir. William Slater
Feat. Jack Hedley
A penchant for Greek music and the murky vendettas of yesteryear combine in this engrossing BBC drama series. Jack Hedley is a former fighter with…
American Film Theatre - ButleyAmerican Film Theatre - Butley (1976)
Dir. Harold Pinter
Feat. Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Richard O'Callaghan
Another in the excellent American Film Theatre series, playwright Harold Pinter directs his first film, based on the Simon Gray play. An…
Bouquet of Barbed Wire (TV Mini-Series)Bouquet of Barbed Wire (TV Mini-Series) (1976)
Dir. Tony Wharmby
Feat. Frank Finlay, Susan Penhaligon, James Aubrey
Quease–inducing drama of a middle–class family being torn apart by a father's obsessive love for his manipulative daughter. Shocking for…
Dickens of London (TV Series) (1976)
Dir. Michael Ferguson, Marc Miller
Feat. Roy Dotrice, Diane Coupland, Simon Bell
Dramatic biography of Charles Dickens and his rise from obscure origins to blacking factory worker to political reporter and author.
Glittering Prizes, The (TV Mini-series) Glittering Prizes, The (TV Mini-series) (1976)
Feat. Tom Conti, Mark Wing-Davey, Nigel Havers
Bittersweet Mini–series following a group of Cambridge University pals from days of 50's style college shenanigans into their muddled adult…
Hunter's Gold (TV Series)Hunter's Gold (TV Series) (1976)
Feat. Ken Blackburn, Andrew Hawthorn, Ian Mune
Classic kidult series follows young Scott Hunter as he searches for his father amidst the Otago Gold Rush in thismagnificent recreation of early New…
I, Claudius (TV Series)I, Claudius (TV Series) (1976) Recommended
Dir. Herbert Wise
Feat. Brian Blessed, John Hurt, Derek Jacobi
Superlative televison epic spans the juicy analogues of Roman history with Augustus (Brian Blessed), Caligula (John Hurt), Claudius (Derek Jacobi)…
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (TV Series)Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (TV Series) (1976-1977)
Feat. Louise Lasser, Greg Mullavey
Adventurous satirical soap opera from the 70's following a small–town housewife who encounters various complex and compounding…
Moneychangers, The (TV Series)Moneychangers, The (TV Series) (1976)
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Christopher Plummer, Anne Baxter
Kirk Douglas and Christopher Plummer play executives battling to claim the presidency of one of America's largest banks in this meaty financial…
Our Mutual Friend (Mini-Series)Our Mutual Friend (Mini-Series) (1976)
Dir. Peter Hammond
Feat. Leo McKern, Kathleen Harrison, John McEnery
Faultless performances bring vigour to this brooding, Dickensian tale of love triangles, plots within plots, and above all “money, money, money,…
Picture of Dorian Gray, ThePicture of Dorian Gray, The (1976)
Dir. John Gorrie
Feat. John Gielgud, Jeremy Brett, Peter Firth
His self–portrait taking all the consequences, artist Jeremy Brett leads a debauched lifestyle that ultimately takes its toll, leading to…
Quincy, M.E (TV Series)Quincy, M.E (TV Series) (1976-1983)
Feat. Jack Klugman
The genuine precursor to the CSI 'forensic crime' television genre, this groundbreaking series has Jack Klugman (of TV's 'The Odd Couple') playing a…
Rich Man, Poor Man (Mini-series)Rich Man, Poor Man (Mini-series) (1976)
Feat. Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, Susan Blakely
Popular TV Mini–Series with a superb ensemble cast based on the best–selling Irwin Shaw novel following the fate of two immigrant…
Sullivans, The (TV Series)Sullivans, The (TV Series) (1976-1983)
Feat. Mel Gibson
Long–running Australian series set during WW2 Melbourne that became an iconic, antipodean version of THE WALTONS, eventually running to 1114…
When The Boat Comes In (TV Series)When The Boat Comes In (TV Series) (1976) Recommended
Feat. James Bolam, James Garbutt, Jean Heywood
'Northern' drama series set in a post–WW1 Britain, where Ex–Sergeant Jack Ford (Bolam) and his family must deal with the aftermath…
Young Doctors, The (TV Series)Young Doctors, The (TV Series) (1976-1983)
Feat. Rebecca Gilling
One of Australia's most popular soap operas – and across the ditch too! – followed the appealing medical dramas and behind–scenes…
Anne Of AvonleaAnne Of Avonlea (1975)
Feat. Kim Braden, Barbara Hamilton, Nicholas Lyndhurst
Continues the story of Anne Shirley (the heroine of ANNE OF GREEN GABLES) as she begins her job as a schoolteacher and faces a whole new set of…
Edward VII (TV Series)Edward VII (TV Series) (1975)
Dir. John Gorrie
Feat. Timothy West, John Gielgud, Robert Hardy
Superb period drama covers the complicated 'Royal' Edward VII, who was almost an old man by the time he finally became King of England in the early…
Poldark (TV Series)Poldark (TV Series) (1975)
Dir. Philip Dudley
Feat. Ralph Bates, Robin Ellis, Jill Townsend
Highly successful British TV series based on the series of novels by Winston Graham about the life of an 18th–century Cornish nobleman (Ellis)…
Raffles (TV Series)Raffles (TV Series) (1975-1977)
Feat. Anthony Valentine, Christopher Strauli
Known by day as A.J. Raffles, gentleman of leisure and top–rate cricketer, at night Raffles becomes "the amateur Cracksman", an expert jewel…
Survivors (TV Series)Survivors (TV Series) (1975-1977) Recommended
Feat. Carolyn Seymour, Ian McCulloch, Lucy Fleming
Memorable post–apocalyptic drama serial following a small group of survivors after 99.9% of Earth’s population has been wiped out by a deadly…
Affairs of the Heart (TV Series)Affairs of the Heart (TV Series) (1974)
Dir. Derek Bennett, Michael Ferguson
Feat. Diana Rigg, Ian Ogilvy, Anna Calder-Marshall
Seven tales from the fiction of Henry James are adapted to television with varying degrees of success and a wide range of actors. Plenty of…
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (TV Mini-Series)Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (TV Mini-Series) (1974)
Dir. James Cellan Jones
Feat. Lee Remick, Warren Clarke, Barbara Parkins
Rightly acclaimed series that reveals the fascinating life of the Lady Randolph Churchill, and mother of Winston. Adroitly scripted and acted –…
Melissa (TV Mini-series)Melissa (TV Mini-series) (1974)
Dir. Peter Moffatt
Feat. Peter Barkworth, Moira Redmond
Riveting BBC mystery thriller series adapted from the Francis Durbridge novel that tells the tale of a husband who begins to uncover the mysterious…
Napoleon and Love (TV Mini-Series)Napoleon and Love (TV Mini-Series) (1974)
Feat. Ian Holm, Billie Whitelaw, Peter Bowles
Plodding account of the famed emperor's conquests – in the bedroom. Holm and Whitelaw rise above some fairly pedestrian film–making.
Onedin Line, The (TV Series)Onedin Line, The (TV Series) (1974-1980) Recommended
Feat. Peter Gilmore, Howard Lang, Brian Rawlinson
A sterling soap–opera of the 1970s, this immensely popular TV saga followed the empire–building and family fortunes of gruff 19th Century…
Pallisers, The (TV Series)Pallisers, The (TV Series) (1974)
Dir. Hugh David
Feat. Phillip Latham, Barbara Murray, Susan Hampshire
Substantial saga of wealth, passion, power, and scandal set in the palatial country houses and grand Mayfair salons of mid–Victorian England,…
Policewoman (TV Series)Policewoman (TV Series) (1974)
Feat. Angie Dickinson, Earl Holliman
Angie Dickinson stars in this classic police drama – the first cop show to feature a woman as the lead character– as Sergeant "Pepper"…
QB VII (TV Mini-Series)QB VII (TV Mini-Series) (1974)
Dir. Tom Gries
Feat. Ben Gazzara, Anthony Hopkins, Leslie Caron
A multiple Emmy–winning adaptation of the novel by Leon Uris (best known for "Exodus") detailing the gripping court battle between a…
Rockford Files, The (TV Series)Rockford Files, The (TV Series) (1974-1975)
Feat. James Garner, Noah Jr. Beery, Joe Santos
In the spirit of 'Cold Case' this detective thriller series stars James Garner as an easy going plaid jacket attired investigator pursuing unsolved…
American Film Theatre - A Delicate BalanceAmerican Film Theatre - A Delicate Balance (1973)
Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick
The American Film Theatre's adaptation of the Edward Albee stageplay set amongst a troubled, but well–to–do American family. When some…
American Film Theatre - The HomecomingAmerican Film Theatre - The Homecoming (1973) Aro Favourite
Dir. Peter Hall
Feat. Cyril Cusack, Ian Holm, Michael Jayston
One of the very finest of the American Film Theatre stageplay adaptations, dir. Hall and his cast came off a two–year run of Harold Pinter's…
Brontes of Haworth, The (Mini Series)Brontes of Haworth, The (Mini Series) (1973)
Dir. Marc Miller
Feat. Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Alfred Burke
BBC period drama that delves into the lives of the mysterious Bronte sisters, from their literary achievements to the tragedies that beset both them…
Edwardians, TheEdwardians, The (1972) Recommended
Dir. John Howard Davies, James Cellan Jones, Alan Clarke
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Timothy West, Robert Powell
Superb examination of eight famous Edwardians who helped shape the early 20th century. Impeccably presented and directed by some of the BBC's finest…
Emergency! (TV Series)Emergency! (TV Series) (1972)
Feat. Randolph Mantooth, Kevin Tighe, Julie London
Thrilling medical drama concerning firefighting paramedics weaves nonsensical medical jargon and elaborate novelty accidents with the one–two…
Emma (TV Series)Emma (TV Series) (1972)
Dir. John Glenister
Feat. Doran Godwin, John Carson
A reverent, charming BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's novel about one of her most memorable characters, Emma Woodhouse.
MASH (TV Series)MASH (TV Series) (M*A*S*H) (1972-1983)
Feat. Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, Loretta Swit
Long running and much loved TV Series loosely based on Robert Altman’s 1969 film set in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in the Korean…
Moonstone, The Moonstone, The (1972)
Dir. Robert Bierman
Feat. Kathleen Byron, Robin Ellis, Basil Dignam
Atmospheric whodunit drama, based on the Wilkie Collins novel, which tells the tale of an investigation into the theft of a precious Indian jewel…
Waltons, The (TV Series)Waltons, The (TV Series) (1972-1981) Recommended
Feat. Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, Michael Learned
One of the most iconic TV Series of all time depicted the life of an extended family in Depression–era Virginia. Claimed as a repository for…
War and Peace (TV Mini-series)War and Peace (TV Mini-series) (1972)
Dir. John Davies
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Alan Dobie, Rupert Davies
Hugely ambitious television production of Leo Tolstoy's epic novel, told through twenty 45–minute episodes. Boasting beautiful design and…
CasanovaCasanova (1971)
Dir. Mark Cullingham, John Glenister
Feat. Frank Finlay, Norman Rossington
Adventurous Dennis Potter biopic of libertine Casanova, concerned chiefly with his imprisonment and escape from Venice, though not forgetting to shed…
Elizabeth R (TV Series)Elizabeth R (TV Series) (1971) Recommended
Dir. Claude Whatham, Herbert Wise, Various.
Feat. Glenda Jackson, Robert Hardy, Robert Ellis
Glenda Jackson makes a banquet of English history, as Elizabeth I, one of Auld England's most influential monarchs. This BBC series is exceptional in…
PersuasionPersuasion (1971)
Dir. Howard Baker
Feat. Ann Firbank, Richard Vernon, Bryan Marshall
Circumspect heroine Anne Elliot has the opportunity to rekindle a long–abandoned love–affair, in this BBC adaption of Jane Austen's final…
Six Wives of Henry VIII, The (TV Mini-Series) Six Wives of Henry VIII, The (TV Mini-Series) (1970)
Feat. Keith Michell, Rosalie Crutchley, Jane Seymour
Accurate BAFTA–winning TV series chronicling the life of the notorious Henry VIII by way of six plays, featuring a notable cast and immaculate…
An Ideal Husband / Lady Windermere's FanAn Ideal Husband / Lady Windermere's Fan (1969-1985)
Dir. Rudolph Cartier
Feat. Margaret Leighton, Keith Michell, Jeremy Brett
Two well–mounted BBC television productions from the pen of Oscar Wilde, done with fidelity, grace, cunning and wit: An Ideal Husband (1969) &…
Marcus Welby MD (TV Series)Marcus Welby MD (TV Series) (1969)
Feat. Robert Young, James Brolin
Long–running medical drama, with Robert Young as the beloved General Practioner whose unorthodox care of patients riled his much younger,…
Paul Temple (TV Series)Paul Temple (TV Series) (1969)
Feat. Francis Matthews, Ros Drinkwater
Forgotten 70s crime series follows the fortunes of a globetrotting novelist–cum–amateur sleuth and his dishy wife. Something of an…
Forsyte Saga, The (TV Series)Forsyte Saga, The (TV Series) (1967) Recommended
Dir. David Giles, James Cellan Jones
Feat. Eric Porter, Ngaire Dawn Porter, Kenneth More
The BBC's acclaimed version of John Galsworthy's series of novels known as "The Forsyte Saga", which cover the lives of five generations of a wealthy…
Wuthering HeightsWuthering Heights (1967)
Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Ian McShane, Angela Scoular
This BBC adaptation of Emily Bronte's gothic romance was one of only a handful that were able to cover the entire novel by virtue of the miniseries…
Cathy Come HomeCathy Come Home (1966) Recommended
Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Carol White
Dramatic critique of Britain's housing problems follows the progress of a young couple in London as they slip down the social and class ladder into…
Talking to a Stranger (TV series)Talking to a Stranger (TV series) (1966)
Dir. Christopher Morahan
Feat. Judi Dench
Seminal, BAFTA–winning, Emmy–nominated 1960s made–for–TV British drama written by John Hopkins, about a family trauma, told…
Stand Up, Nigel Barton/Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel BartonStand Up, Nigel Barton/Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton (1965)
Dir. Gareth Davies
Feat. Keith Barron, Jack Woolgar, Janet Henfrey
Formative Dennis Potter chronicles the bumpy political rise of one aspiring Nigel Barton, from Oxford to Cabinet. Sharply autobiographical,…
It Happened HereIt Happened Here (1963) Recommended
Dir. Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo
A genuine filmic curiousity, this meticulous historical fantasy proposes that Nazi Germany invaded Britain in 1940 – leading to a lengthy…
Virginian, The (TV Series)Virginian, The (TV Series) (1962-1971)
Feat. James Drury, Doug McClure, Lee J. Cobb
Television adaptation of Owen Wister's novel, where Jame's Drury's 'The Virginian' tries to maintain order on the Shiloh Ranch in the Wyoming…
Anger Management (TV Series)Anger Management (TV Series)
Feat. Charlie Sheen, Selma Blair, Shawnee Smith
TV series which is a loose spin–off of the 2003 movie of the same name, with Jack Nicholson's character here played by Charlie Sheen. A…

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