The lease on the Dupayne Museum is almost up and under the terms of their father's will, all three of the Dupayne children must agree to continue or the museum is to close. Neville Dupayne is dead set against continuing the museum when the money could be used for a much better purpose. One of the museum's key attractions is the Murder Room, displaying information on a series of...
Jasper is the perfect English Civil Servant - polite and refined. But to his girl friend, and even to himself, he is a bore. So he decides to become a painter in Paris. Not so fast. The powers-that-be send him to the country to dismantle a forgotten research unit which is headquartered in an old mansion. The eccentric owner lives in a railway train, on his own 'branch line', le...
The killing of a 15-year-old-boy rocks the nation, as a Sikh classmate of the boy is charged with the murder. The trial, which is engulfed in protests and media speculation, brings together 12 jurors who find themselves having to make a decision that the entire country is waiting for.
The jurors include: Charles, a young man who has left the seminary to search for his lost love...
本剧由BritBox UK和美国PBS旗下的Masterpiece联合制作,改编自《战地神探》主创Anthony Horowitz的同名畅销小说。Horowitz本人执笔剧本,共6集。
作者表示小说的叙事受到阿加莎·克里斯蒂的影响。这是一个案中案,故事围绕编辑Susan Ryeland展开,她拿到了作家Alan Conway最新小说未完成的手稿,毫不知情这将改变她的生活。
Anthony Horowitz是一名英国小说家和编剧,小说代表作为"少年间谍亚历克斯"系列。他创作的《丝之屋》是柯南·道尔产权会唯一认证的福尔摩斯新故事,除此之外还有一本《莫里亚蒂》。Horowitz还被伊恩·弗莱明产权会选中创作了两本詹姆斯·邦德的小说。
苏菲·库克森(《王牌特工》《吉普赛人》)将主演BBC新剧《审判克莉丝汀·基勒》,出演1960年代英国著名的“祸水红颜”——模特、派对女孩克莉丝汀·基勒,她卷入了冷战时期英国最著名的性丑闻“普罗富莫事件”,当时英国陆军大臣约翰·普罗富莫被她吸引,广为流传的说法是普罗富莫在一个派对上“看到一个19岁的少女从泳池中走出,已有妻子的他完全移不开目光。”
普罗富莫被曝出与基勒有婚外情后,他起先对下议院否认此事,之后又承认撒谎。加上基勒又被曝出可能同时跟苏联驻英国的海军专员尤金·伊万诺夫有染。此事件很快成为一起全球丑闻。
该剧将由《苹果园》编剧阿曼达·科写剧本,共6集,10月开拍,将在英国布里斯托尔拍摄,明年播出。
THE KING OF COMMUNISM
Monday 17 November 2003 10.30pm-11.30pm
Nicolae Ceausescu created a unique personality cult in the 1970s and 1980s, transforming communist Romania into one of the strangest regimes Europe has ever seen. Newspapers had to mention his name 40 times on every page, factory workers spent months rehearsing dance routines dressed as soldiers and gymnasts for huge...
When three down-on-their-luck strangers wake up in an English Countryside pub, they find a dead woman lying on the table with hefty chunks of flesh missing. They assume the stories of the Berkshire Rabid Dog roaming the county must be true and they are forced to work together if they are to survive the monster. As the night unfolds and they learn more about each other, they soo...
Zoe Stock,a brilliant pianist,is attending a music school run by the Fielding family when she believes she sees a woman drown herself in the river,having left her baby on the bank. When the police arrive there is nothing to support her claim but Barnaby recalls that a mystery woman died in identical circumstances eighteen years earlier. Her body was found by Catholic priest Fat...
When Helen dies young, leaving her husband behind to mourn to her, she finds herself in a surreal yet familiar afterlife. The similarly deceased prior owner of her house shows her a silent view of the living world - in a mirror - through which Helen witnesses her husband and another woman. Despite the ritual being dangerous for both the living and the dead, Helen is compelled t...
It’s Christmas in Darrowby and everyone is trying to make the most of things while the world is at war.