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Heart stopping journeys past the edge of human endurance.  In this spin off series from award winning feature Touching the Void, ordinary people thrown into epic struggles for survival tell their own stories while drama brings these incredible experiences to life. Every film has an extraordinary physical ordeal at its heart, but there’s always an equally powerful emotional journey. What would you do if you suddenly had to accept that you were about to die alone? Would you lose your mind or would you fight to your last breath to defeat unimaginable odds? Moment by moment, survivors relive the moral dilemmas, chance events and desperate decisions that ultimately brought them home.

The Scottish Detective television programme that revolves around a group of detectives initially in the Maryhill CID and now more recently operate out of the fictional John Street Police Station solving crime and mysteries.  Not only do they solve crimes, but the team are very involved in all that they do and sometimes find themselves in a little too deep and their private lives become entwined with their professional career.

Informed and shaped by the testimony of a panel of top experts from the military, police and Secret Service and former hostages, this documentary explores what the likely responses would be if such a high profile individual as Prince Harry were to be captured on military duty in Afghanistan.
Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan: an Apache helicopter being flown by Prince Harry has crashed. Prince Harry survives but is quickly captured by locals who are only too aware of the enormous value in a western soldier.
The film examines what would happen in this hypothetical situation both politically and militarily: how it would be managed in Britain, who would be in charge, how negotiations would be carried out and what would be implemented on the ground in Afghanistan.

Hop on the bus and join them from Monday 24 October to Saturday 12 November.
Join a group of larger than life characters aboard the Skylink bus as we head for the departure gate at East Midlands Airport. As the excitement and anticipation mounts, escape, discovery, romance and chance encounters are all on the cards for our passengers. But how will they feel a week later, as we greet them at Arrivals and climb back aboard for the return journey?

ed by the brilliant but volatile DCI Peter Boyd (Trevor Eve) and the insightful Dr. Grace Foley (Sue Johnston), the team unearths buried secrets to finally bring killers to justice. Created by Barbara Machin and produced by Richard Burrell, the series is a dark and intelligent procedural acclaimed for its complex characters and intricate plots.

Everyone has to start somewhere. Lydia Harrison, a young fashion reporter steps off the train in London to start her new life and make her mark on the world-leading London fashion scene. She dreams of seeing her name printed in the magazines she poured over as a teenager.But as we all know, ‘dreams-come-true’ are hard to come by these days and across the series we’ll watch Lydia scramble to build the career she’s always wanted, all the while negotiating the wilds of a big, shiny new city and the realities of life as a freelance fashion journalist.

Splatalot! is the explosive new kid television series similar to Wipeout!  Based upon a medieval-themed physical course for Attackers (children aged 13-15) competing not only against the clock, each other and numerous weird and wacky obstacles, but the worst of all, the international squad of nine Defenders who have the very important job of protecting the castle and ensuring only the strongest and most noble Attacker becomes King or Queen!

Alan Turing is the genius British mathematician who was instrumental in breaking the German Naval Enigma Code during World War II, arguably saving millions of lives. He was also the visionary scientist who gave birth to the computer age, pioneered artificial intelligence, and was the first to investigate the mathematical underpinnings of the living world.
In the last 18 months of his short life, Turing visited a psychiatrist, Dr Franz Greenbaum, who tried to help him. This film brings Turing ideas to life by dramatising this relationship and these sessions, based on historical records, Turing writings, and accounts of those who knew him.

Winner: Best New British Comedy - British Comedy Awards 2011
A brand-new comedy drama series about the hilarious and painful truths of being a student. The latest creation from Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong (Peep Show, The Thick of It) Fresh Meat follows a group of six students about to embark on the most exciting period of their lives so far: university!
Away from home for the first time, on the brink of adult life, they are about to discover who they really are. From the moment they first meet, their lives are destined to collide, overlap and run the whole gamut of appalling behaviour and terrible errors of judgment familiar to anyone who ever experienced one of life great  rites of passage.

Archbishop Cosmon Gordon Lang believed that Edward VIII love for Wallis Simpson made a mockery of all that he stood for and threatened the Crown and the Church of England.
Based on a large archive of unpublished diaries, personal notes and his own secret account of the abdication, the film reveals for the first time the machinations that went on behind the scenes to remove the King. When the archbishop project to force the abdication of the King looked in doubt, he even resorted to smear tactics.

Silent Witness is a complex, compelling crime drama and one of the BBC’s most popular and long-running series. It focuses on a team of forensic pathologists: Dr. Harry Cunningham (Tom Ward), Dr. Nikki Alexander (Emilia Fox) and Professor Leo Dalton (William Gaminara).
Based in ‘The Thomas Lyell Centre’ - a hi-tech scientific laboratory set within the grounds of a university - the pathologists painstakingly examine the bodies of the deceased to search for vital clues that may reveal the cause of death.

This is a story about the impact of police Stop and Search powers; of the tense drama young people must play out in the public space. It all over the news but how does it feel to be right in the thick of it?
Two happy families are thrown together by celebration and disaster. Parents… black parents, white parents… want to see their children thrive, grow up and live the good life. Tonight Dianne and Ivan discover how little they understand of son Callie journey into the adult world. Ann and Mick must also learn that their hard work and public service are not enough to protect their family.

Me and Mrs Jones, follows the increasingly complex life of Mrs Jones (Sarah Alexander) as she balances love, affection, sex and motherhood between an ex-husband, one grown-up son, two young daughters and two male admirers with a 20-year age gap.

When 10-year-old Katy makes an earth-shattering discovery on Christmas Eve, the magic and sparkle of the festive season vanish, leaving a dreary reality and the unappetising whiff of a half-burnt, half-raw turkey. 
Thankfully, all is not lost when an unlikely opportunity to save Christmas presents itself, prompting young Katy to step forth and lead the heroics.

Late one night, Sophie is snatched from her bed in the orphanage by the BFG, who takes her back to his cave in Giant Country. The BFG – Big Friendly Giant – is a dream-blowing giant who blows lovely golden dreams into the bedrooms of sleeping children. The two soon become the best of friends, feasting together on disgusterous stinking snozzcumbers, washed down with frobscottle and making whizzpoppers together.

A set of hilarious idents for ITV and Im A Celebrity, Get Me Outta Here 2012.  The idents were created by Beta and break with the past by starring a normal couple pretending to live the celebrity lifestyle, rather than featuring celebrities who are starring in the show.  In the 15 different idents, the couple are superimposed onto glamorous celebrity settings trying their utmost to act to their celebrity status, but there always little incidents along the way that make that so much harder!</div>

The Pantomime ‘Dick Whittington’ has been in rehearsals at the Grand Theatre Lancaster for a number of weeks and tonight is the first night.   A full dress rehearsal has been called before curtain up and tensions are beginning to show.  Producer, DI (Sam Spiro) is keen for the show to be a success – it’s a tough time in regional theatre and by taking the part of the fairy, she is anxious to realise her lofty ambitions.  Director FRANCIS (Mark Benton) tries valiantly to pull the show to order in spite of DI’s constant interfering.

The new season, titled Skins Redux, follows three individual stories focusing on the lives of our favourites Effy (Kaya Scodelario), Cassie (Hannah Murray) and Cook (Jack O'Connell) called Fire, Pure and Rise: in each episode, we see their lives 5 years on from when we last saw them:

Life Dumped Her. Love Found Her. Music Saved Her.
Left with nothing but a piano and debts after her mother’s death, Heather’s only option is to move in with her estranged father and half-brother. She turns to music and DJing to help her through this new stage and to make some sense out of life.

Work-numbed, self-obsessed couple Peter (Ed Stoppard) and Mary (Melanie Gray) with bawling brat on the baby monitor find their lives spiralling out of control when they decide to reject fast-living best friend Mark (John Schwab) and his stunning young shag-buddy Paula (Agyness Deyn) at a last-hurrah supper party.
A deliciously offensive four-hander comedy by the award-winning Montreal playwright François Archambault (translated by Bobby Theodore).