Pearce Quigley
As DI Helen Weeks grapples apprehensively with pregnancy, she’s compelled to return to her loathed rural home town of Polesford, Derbyshire with her partner and fellow detective Paul. Two girls have been abducted and the man arrested is married to Helen’s childhood best friend, Linda Bates. As a result, Linda has been drawn into the centre of a media storm and the local police force is under enormous pressure to get their man. But is he guilty? And why is Helen so desperate to come to Linda’s aid, after avoiding Polesford for all these years?
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Actors: MyAnna Buring, Ben Batt, Pearce Quigley, David Leon, Emma Fryer
The magical and the mundane unfolds in a suburban shed as a lonely man stumbles into the supernatural.
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Actors: Mackenzie Crook, Mackenzie Crook, Mackenzie Crook, Mackenzie Crook, Pearce Quigley
Allie Henshall (Sarah Parish) and Gavin Ferraday (Jason Merrells) are partners in love and business. They own Henshall Ferraday hair salon, where Allie's sisters Darcey (Angela Griffin) and Sydney (Sian Reeves) work alongside them. As Allie and Gavin consider taking over a vacant property across the road, they are rocked by the news that a rival hairdresser has bought it. To make matters worse, Allie discovers that the new salon, Blade Runner, is run by her ex, Finn, and his wife, Mia Bevan (Amanda Holden). Finn fathered the child Allie claimed to have aborted. He left her when he found out she was pregnant, but he's back in town to try and woo Allie.
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Actors: Cherie Lunghi, Sarah Parish, Ben Daniels, Siân Reeves, Enid Dunn
With ruthless US and Japanese investment banks circling Tuftons, a struggling two-hundred-year-old, family-run British bank, can its bumbling, incompetent chairman, Sir Charles Bunbury, fend off the onslaught and save the bank?
Director: Vadim Jean
Actors: Kelsey Grammer, Tamsin Greig, John Michael Higgins, Mathew Horne, Sonya Cassidy
A woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.
Director: Terence Davies
Actors: Gillian Anderson, Dan Aykroyd, Eleanor Bron, Terry Kinney, Anthony LaPaglia
During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.
Director: Marleen Gorris
Actors: Ulrich Tukur, Emily Watson, Pam Ferris, Ian Hart, Ben Miller
Shakespeare’s most outrageous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew introduces one of theatre’s great screwball double-acts, a couple hell-bent on confusing and outwitting each other right up to the play’s equivocal and controversial conclusion.
Director: Toby Frow
Actors: Jamie Beamish, Michael Bertenshaw, Sarah MacRae, Simon Day, Pearce Quigley
At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag—to take a perilous and uncertain journey to freedom as they cross deserts, mountains and several nations.
Director: Peter Weir
Actors: Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Saoirse Ronan, Jim Sturgess, Mark Strong
An English community gets testy when a refugee family is granted a plot of land on which to grow vegetables.
Director: Richard Laxton
Actors: Benedict Wong, Eddie Marsan, Omid Djalili, Alan Williams, Philip Jackson
Double-meanings, disguises and dirty laundry abound as Sir John Falstaff sets about improving his financial situation by wooing Mistress Page and Mistress Ford. But the ‘Merry Wives’ quickly cotton on to his tricks and decide to have a bit of fun of their own at Falstaff’s expense… The Merry Wives of Windsor is the only comedy that Shakespeare set in his native land. Drawing influences from British 1930s fashion, music and dance, the production will celebrate women, the power and beauty of nature, and with its witty mix of verbal and physical humour, it rejoices in a tradition that reaches right down to the contemporary English sitcom. The Windsor Locals appear courtesy of Soldiers’ Arts Academy, London Bubble and Clean Break.
Director: Ian Russell
Actors: Pearce Quigley, Anita Reynolds, Richard Katz, Joshua Lacey, Jude Owusu
Two boys, still grieving the death of their mother, find themselves the unwitting benefactors of a bag of bank robbery loot in the week before the United Kingdom switches its official currency to the Euro. What's a kid to do?
Director: Danny Boyle
Actors: Alexander Nathan Etel, Lewis McGibbon, James Nesbitt, Daisy Donovan, Christopher Fulford
Two years after founding his own bank, local hero Dave Fishwick takes on the predatory payday lenders bringing misery to his small English town.
Director: Chris Foggin
Actors: Rory Kinnear, Jo Hartley, Chrissy Metz, Amit Shah, Rob Delaney
An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60,000 that had gathered to demand political reforms and protest against rising levels of poverty.
Director: Mike Leigh
Actors: Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Pearce Quigley, David Moorst, Rachel Finnegan
An hilariously funny one-off comic sitcom in which some mates attempt to rob a pub of its takings.
Director: Jonny Campbell
Actors: Peter Kay, Pearce Quigley, Alexei Sayle, Paul Shane, Lynda Baron
A film recording of a production of William Shakespeare's comedy at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London. Directed by the Globe's artistic director Dominic Dromgoole, it stars Michelle Terry as Titania/Hippolyta and Pearce Quigley as Bottom.
Director: Robin Lough
Actors: Michelle Terry, John Light, Matthew Tennyson, Sarah MacRae, Olivia Ross
In 1934 London, Jimmy Erskine, the most feared drama critic in town, finds himself in the crosshairs of his newspaper's new owner. Nina Land, the actress determined to win his favor, becomes entangled in a dangerous web of blackmail, deceit and murder.
Director: Anand Tucker
Actors: Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton, Mark Strong, Lesley Manville, Ben Barnes