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Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (172 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Meet Don: a man with ambition, a man in the prime of life; a man who manages to mess up even the simplest of tasks. When faced with any awkward situation, Don's energetic imagination gets into gear - showing him all of the things not to do or say in that situation... Entertaining, surprising and with some unexpected turn of events, this series will make you think whatever situations you have got yourself into, however you have dealt with them, it...
42) Early Doors
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (175 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Comedy set in The Grapes, an old-fashioned Manchester pub where the daily life of the locals - among them jack-the-lads Joe and Duffy, beer-bellied landlord Ken and his police officer cronies Phil and Nige, miserable old git Tommy and single mum Janice - revolves around love, loneliness and blocked urinals. The regulars rib each other and discuss the minutiae of everyday life, each bringing their own faults and foibles with them to the bar.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (201 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Venables is probably the only man in Britain who gets divorced and ends up with his mother-in-law. When his ex-wife Ann volunteers to go to East Africa, weekend-dad Jimmy agrees to take care of their two teenage kids full-time in an attempt to win her back. Unfortunately, his mother-in-law Diana virtually moves herself in to keep an eye on things and undermine Jimmy whenever possible.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (177 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Sue Johnston, Dawn French and Joanna Lumley lead a celebrity cast in an eccentric comedy written by and starring Jennifer Saunders. Clatterford is a small town, with a good cross section of people, local shops and a late night convenience store - a place which also has a thriving Women's Guild; who promote truth, justice, tolerance and fellowship - or is it just an excuse for a good old gossip? Without a job and feeling very much alone, Sal slowly...
45) The Old Guys
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (174 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Housemates Tom and Roy are the ying to each other's yang. Roy is well-read, organised, clean and sensitive. Tom, well, isn't. As both of them settle into retirement, they are faced with the prospect of life simply not turning out quite how they imagined. Together, however, they manage to muddle through life - answering the important questions that retirement poses. Questions involving religion, true-love and precisely how early is too early to start...
46) Hoff the Record
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (179 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
After five divorces and some misguided professional decisions, David Hasselhoff is in the UK to star in a new film that could reboot his career. But alarm bells start to ring when he gets the low budget treatment on arrival. The Hoff tasks his manager with finding him something more worthy of his talents. But as his attempts fall into disarray, can The Hoff get his career back on track?
47) Thirteen
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (261 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This tense psychological drama follows the story of Ivy Moxham, a 26-year-old woman learning to live again after 13 years in captivity. When Ivy escapes the cellar that's been her prison since she was abducted, it's just the start of her story. She's beginning to pick up the threads of a life half-lived, but they're about to be pulled apart again. Her captor is on the run, and as cracks appear in Ivy's account of her ordeal, the police begin to doubt...
Publisher
Legacy Distribution
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (983 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, this family-friendly series follows the adventures of a young, hearing impaired woman who has a special gift and goes to work for the FBI in Washington, D.C. She's one hard-headed, soft-hearted woman whose talent for reading lips helps crack crimes and bag the bad guys in places listening devices can't penetrate. With her hearing-ear dog, Levi, Sue's a glutton for jeopardy – and there's (almost) nothing she won't do to bring...
49) Marion and Geoff
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Taxi driver Keith Barrett has been left by his wife, Marion, for the flashy, high achieving Geoff and turned out of his own home. In a series of monologues starring Rob Brydon, Keith chats about the events that have shaped his life - namely his doomed marriage to Marion and her affair - and he reveals himself to be a man for whom the silver lining was especially invented.
50) In My Skin
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (145 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Sitcom set in South Wales offers a raw, starkly funny portrayal of adolescence today. Teenager Bethan is using her cheek and wit to hide her home life from her friends. But when your mother is in a mental facility and likes breaking out, and your father is a Hell's Angel, flying under the radar isn't easy. Bethan learns, through heartache and laughter, to finally let go of the armour and exist for the first time in her own skin. Based on the writer...
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (8 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Rupert, a ten year old boy, falls hopelessly in love for the first time. When it all goes terribly wrong, he wishes never to experience heartache again. Turning to a book of magic, he invokes a spell to shield him from emotion forever. Winner of Best Animation and nominated for Best Short Film at the 2012 **Irish Film and Television Awards**.
52) Scott and Bailey
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
Police crime drama exploring the personal and professional lives of two female detectives. Detective Constable Rachel Bailey is 30, down-to-earth, noisy, argumentative and single. Her partner, Detective Constable Janet Scott, is 40, a diplomat and a thinker, as well as being a wife and mother. They both work for Manchester Metropolitan Police's prestigious Murder Investigation Team and, despite the obvious differences between them, the fact that they...
53) Waking the Dead
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
The Cold Case squad is a crack team of detectives, reopening the files on unsolved murders. A psychotic killer is the key to an investigation when a victim who survived is harassed by a copycat assailant, a deathbed confession appears to link the hanging of an East End gangster and the assassination of the jury who found him guilty, the team come up against a wall of Whitehall secrecy when a petty burglar is acquitted of murdering a prominent Home...
54) New Tricks
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A team of seemingly over-the-hill detectives investigate previously unsolved cases in this crime drama. From the discovery of a new motive in the killing of a college lecturer, to the tracing of a missing child, the team finds a way through the detail that eluded the original officers. But they are finding a surprising incidence of cover-up and conspiracy in their new investigations. Are their superiors about to close ranks? Or is someone feeding...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (590 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Inspired by Banjo Paterson's famous poem, The Man from Snowy River, this series is about cattle rancher Matt McGregor, his family, and their neighbours in the township of Paterson's Ridge in Australia's Snowy Mountains.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 49 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
With a career that spanned 45 years, Valentino Garavani was born in a small town in northern Italy. His single name became synonymous with refinement. Valentino dressed rock to royalty - all with a capital V. No other designer was more true to elegance and beauty. He brought Italian couture to the international stage and his retirement in 2008 was a magical end to a long run.
57) Two Men in Town
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (117 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
William Garnett (Forest Whitaker) is an ex-con starting life over as a recently converted Muslim. With the help of his determined parole officer (Brenda Blethyn), he gets a job, meets an interesting woman, and keeps his head down. But the town sheriff, Bill Agati (Harvey Keitel), won't leave him alone since Garnett was responsible for killing his deputy. As Agati puts pressure on him, and his old partners in crime hassle him, Garnett slowly starts...
58) Prey
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
BAFTA nominated John Simm stars as Detective Constable Marcus Farrow in this fast-paced thriller. Farrow is a well-liked copper with an ex-wife and two kids. But when Farrow is found at the scene of a brutal crime, with all the evidence pointing towards him, his world collapses. Arrested and charged, it seems his fate is sealed. So when he gets the opportunity to escape, he seizes it with both hands. Now on the run, Farrow is not just trying to evade...
59) 12 Angry Men
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Life is in their hands…death is on their minds. Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley and Jack Klugman lead the distinctive cast in this powerful, classic film. Eleven jurors are convinced that the defendant is guilty of murder. The twelfth has no doubt of his innocence. How can this one man steer the others toward the same conclusion? It's a case of seemingly overwhelming evidence against a teenager accused of killing his father in "one of the best...
60) Atlantis
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Ancient Greek myths and legends are brought to life for a new generation in this thrilling fantasy drama. Ripped from his present day search for his father, Jason wakes up on the shores of a strange land. A wondrous place; a world of bull leaping, of snake haired Goddesses and vast palaces - this is the lost city of Atlantis. As Jason searches for the truth about his father he embarks on an epic adventure which sees him brush shoulders with Medusa,...
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