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Although he left a huge body of work, including 80 novels, British writer G.K. Chesterton is best remembered today for his Father Brown mystery stories, which were brought to life in this classic British television series.Film legend Kenneth More (A Night to Remember), in his most famous TV role, stars as Chesterton's wily clergyman-detective whose calling as a priest brings him into contact with all levels of society. From village scandals to black magic, the crimes Father Brown solves are complex and diverse. Period details and pastoral images of 1920s rural England complement the leisurely pace of the stories. Fondly remembered from its 1982 PBS Mystery! run. Includes seven episodes!
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For years, maverick magicians Penn & Teller have amazed crowds from Broadway to Vegas with their illusions. Now it's their turn to be astounded. Join them as they trek to China, India, and Egypt to witness astounding feats of magic, rarely-seen tricks, and outrageous characters. Along the way, you'll learn how Penn really feels about puppeteers.
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Raised in a den of petty thieves ( fingersmiths ), an orphan agrees to help a con man defraud and betray an heiress. Plans change when the two women fall in love with each other. Adapted from the novel by Sarah Waters (Tipping the Velvet), this riveting BBC miniseries features Oscar-nominee Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake), BAFTA-nominee Charles Dance (The Jewel in the Crown), Sally Hawkins, Rupert Evans, and Elaine Cassidy in a tightly plotted tale of lust, deception and intrigue (The Guardian U.K.).
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Wandaba Style-3-Idol Invasion
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Based on Stella Tillyard's bestseller that made history sexy again (London Sunday Times), this encore presentation of Aristocrats tells the true story of the bewitching Lennox sisters: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah. Great-granddaughters of King Charles II and his French mistress, they live up to their mixed heritage by tempting scandal with their unconventional ideas and daring affairs.A sweeping saga of a noble family's disgrace and fall, spanning two generations, Aristocrats is a dazzling adaptation, an acclaimed family chronicle set against the spectacular backdrop of palaces, country estates and ballrooms of eighteenth-century England and Ireland.What producer David Snodin (Great Expectations) finds most striking is that the story is absolutely true. As far as characters and plot, Aristocrats could be a classic novel. But it isn't. It actually happened.
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Midsomer Murders-Set 7
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Based on the towering 18th-century novel by Samuel Richardson--the original tale of fatal attraction and the model for all literary dangerous liaisons to come--this acclaimed BBC production features an impressive line-up of stars, including Sean Bean (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Troy, Lady Chatterley), Saskia Wickham (Angels & Insects, Peak Practice), Hermione Norris (Cold Feet) and Sean Pertwee (Cadfael, Dog Soldiers). Sean Bean plays Lovelace, a handsome rake determined to seduce--and thus destroy--the beautiful young virgin Clarissa Harlowe (Saskia Wickham), a wealthy heiress famed for her virtue. As Clarissa is forced by her scheming family into the predatory Lovelace's arms, it seems certain that he will succeed. But Lovelace has failed to reckon with both Clarissa's strength and character and his one fatal weakness: his own heart. For the firs time in his life, he becomes genuinely infatuated with his prey--a failing that drives him to new heights of decadence and sows the seed of his own destruction
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Tales of the Unexpected
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Jane Eyre-Bbc Miniseries
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