John Shrapnel

Assassinato, rapto, chantagem e traição são os lugares comuns na idílica vila de Midsomer em Inglaterra. Por detrás das pitorescas e belas vedações, nada é o que parece…

Maximo, um general das legiões romanas, é querido por todos e o favorito do imperador Marco Aurélio, que o elege como sucessor, pondo de lado o próprio filho, o invejoso e cruel Cómodo. Movido pelo ódio, ele mata o pai, toma o poder e decide banir Maximo, condenando-o à morte e matando a sua família. Mas a vida dá voltas e Máximo voltará a Roma como gladiador em busca de vingança.

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.

Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.

New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.

ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.

A lenda do rei Arthur é recontada a partir da chegada de Merlin a Camelot, onde ele aperfeiçoa seus dotes mágicos com a ajuda do médico da corte.