David Attenborough’s ground-breaking exploration of a group of organisms that are vast in number, yet often too small to be noticed: the invertebrates. Thanks to technical innovations in lighting, optics and computerized motion control, the turbulent, super-organized world of insects and invertebrates is finally revealed from the perspective of its extraordinary inhabitants.
Citizen Smith starred Robert Lindsay as “Wolfie” Smith, a young Marxist “urban guerrilla” in Tooting, South London, who is attempting to emulate his hero Che Guevara. Wolfie is a reference to the Irish revolutionary Wolfe Tone who used the pseudonym Citizen Smith in order to evade capture by the British. Wolfie is the self-proclaimed leader of the revolutionary Tooting Popular Front (the TPF, merely a small bunch of his friends), the goals of which are “Power to the People” and “Freedom for Tooting”. In reality he is an unemployed slacker and petty criminal whose plans fall through due to apathy, ineptitude and inexperience.
The British phenomenon and Emmy-winner Ricky Gervais, founder of BBC’s original The Office, stars in the hilariously funny series Extras! Watch the story unfold as Ricky Gervais plays a lowly film extra, Andy Millman, who makes his mark in the background while the stars do their work. The show with big, big stars…and Andy Millman.
When astronomers detect a transmission from another galaxy, it is a definitive proof of the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life. The world population expects future contact with the contained breath. However, they won’t have to wait long. In a matter of days, humanity is virtually annihilated in a devastating attack; The survivors will find a mysteriously deserted world. While the aliens hunt and kill those who remain alive, the survivors wonder who these attackers are and why they are committed to our destruction. Exciting, cinematic and complex characters, it is a perfect union between human drama and the best science fiction. A story of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, victims in a brutal war. Because, as we shall see, the wild attack of the aliens on Earth is not arbitrary: their seeds are being sown before our own eyes.
When British Parliament creates an award of twenty thousand pounds sterling to whomever can come up with a solution for determining longitude at sea, a carpenter-turned-clockmaker, John Harrison (Sir Michael Gambon), begins his experiments to build an accurate timepiece unaffected by sea travel. His main obstacles are lack of money, a judgment Board convinced that the answer lies in astronomy and not clocks, and the mechanics of the clock. Rupert Gould (Jeremy Irons), a retired Naval officer who suffered a nervous breakdown in World War I, has been researching Harrison’s history and makes efforts to locate and restore Harrison’s clocks. Harrison’s and Gould’s struggles are linked by the clocks which the two men will, across two hundred years, make tick accurately enough to measure longitude.
Driven by a plea for help from a man under supernatural assault, a small crew of paranormal researchers find themselves in a dying coal town, where a series of strange coincidences leads them to a decades-old mystery with far-reaching implications.
A New Yorker awakens to find himself in a place called The Village run by a man known as Two. As everyone in The Village is referred to only by a number, everyone in The Village refers to him as Six – despite he himself knowing that he has another name – and seems to know who he is. He is told he lives in The Village and that The Village is the only reality there is. Six’s mission becomes to find out where The Village is, who Two is and why he is seemingly keeping him prisoner in The Village (despite Two stating that Six is a free man), and how he can escape to his life back in New York. Six has to learn who among the Villagers he can trust – who include a doctor named 313, a cab driver named 147, and Two’s own son named 11-12 – in his quest to escape from The Village. Six also has recurring memories of his life in New York, including an encounter with a woman named Lucy, which may be part of the key to discovering why he’s in The Village. Episode guide on next page.
“Burn the Stage” follows the 300-day journey of the band’s sold-out world tour, 2017 BTS LIVE TRILOGY EPISODE: THE WINGS TOUR. This show is an intimate, personal portrayal dedicated to each other and to their fans across the globe. It celebrates the triumph of their friendship as they overcome shared hardships, and shows the growth and hard work as BTS continues on the path to grow into fully-fledged artists.
Stan Butler works as a bus driver for the Luxton & District Bus Company. He lives at home with his overbearing mother, his frumpy sister Olive and his lazy brother in law Arthur. Stan’s route is the number 11 to the Cemetary Gates which he works with his conductor Jack. Stan and Jack have an eye for the ladies and are often found chatting up either the female bus conductors or the canteen staff. The bane of Stan’s life is Inspector ‘Blakey’ Blake who is often checking up of them and threatening them with the sack for lateness and untidyness.
Illusionists Penn & Teller throw down the gauntlet to aspiring magicians to perform their most mystifying trick – and fool Penn and Teller. Penn & Teller have no prior knowledge of either the performers or the planned trick. They sit in the audience just like everyone else, watching every move the guest magicians make. If any illusionist fools the professionals, they win a five star trip to Las Vegas to perform as the opening act in Penn & Teller’s world famous show at the Rio Hotel & Casino.
Ancient Aliens explores the controversial theory that extraterrestrials have visited Earth for millions of years. From the age of the dinosaurs to ancient Egypt, from early cave drawings to continued mass sightings in the US, each episode in this hit History series gives historic depth to the questions, speculations, provocative controversies, first-hand accounts and grounded theories surrounding this age old debate. Did intelligent beings from outer space visit Earth thousands of years ago?
Black Jesus, the live-action comedy from award-winning creator Aaron McGruder and Mike Clattenburg, follows Jesus in present day Com pton, CA on a daily mission to spread love and kindness throughout the neighborhood with the help of his small but loyal group of do wntrodden followers.
