Malcolm Tierney

İngiltere'nin hayali Midsomer kontluğunda hayat kartpostal kadar huzurlu görünür, ta ki ilk ceset bulunana kadar. Müfettiş Barnaby, güler yüzlü köylülerin arkasına saklanmış sırları ve akla gelmeyecek cinayet yöntemlerini çözmeye çalışır.

Doctor Who (Türkçe anlamıyla Doktor Kim) BBC yapımı İngiliz bilim kurgu televizyon dizisidir. Dizi; Doktor olarak bilinen, zamanda yolculuk yapan insansı Dünya dışı yaratık olan Zaman Lordu'nun maceralarını anlatmaktadır. Doktor, dışarıdan 1950'lerden kalma bir polis kulübesi gibi görünen TARDIS adındaki bilince sahip ve zamanda yolculuk edebilen bir uzay gemisi ile evreni araştırır. Doktor, yardımcıları ile beraber uzay ve zamanı keşfeder, sorunları çözer, yaratıklarla yüzleşir ve tarihe yapılan müdahalelere engel olur. Guinness Rekorlar Kitabı tarafından dünyanın en uzun süren bilim kurgu televizyon programı olarak listelenen dizi aynı zamanda İngiliz popüler kültürünün de önemli bir parçasıdır. Dizi iyi planlanmış hikâyeleri, ilk yayınlandığı dönemdeki düşük bütçeli yaratıcı özel efektleri ve elektronik müzik kullanımındaki önderliği ile tanınır.

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

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.

Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it.

In the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton, the unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-China-shop-copper DS Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick DS, later DI, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining down-to-Earth wit and humour.

Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.

The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.

The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.

Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972.

Wallander, üstlendiği cinayet davalarını kişiselleştiren ve bu uğurda hem hayat düzenini hem de ailesini ikinci plana atan, işinde usta bir dedektif. Hayatı ve yaptığı işi sorgulamaktan hiç vazgeçmiyor ve işi kurbanlarla empati kurmaya kadar vardırıyor. Aynı zamanda gerçeği öğrenmek için sahip olduğu her şeyi tehlikeye atacak kadar gözükara...

Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between 1965 and 1971. Each episode was a dramatisation of a science fiction short story; some were created for the series, but most were adaptations of already published stories. The first three years were exclusively science fiction, but that genre was abandoned in the final year in favour of horror and fantasy. A number of episodes were wiped during the early 1970s, as was standard procedure at the time.

The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocates from London to Leeds.

Notable as the first British series to feature a female police officer (predating Juliet Bravo by four months), Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes raises her teenage son while navigating a male-dominated police force following the murder of her police commissioner husband.

Strangers is a 1978–82 ITV police procedural created and principally written by Murray Smith, based on characters created by Kenneth Royce in his novel series and subsequent 1977–78 television adaptation The XYY Man. Don Henderson and Dennis Blanch reprise their roles, respectively, of Detective Sergeant (DS) George Bulman and Detective Constable (DC) Derek Willis. A group of police officers are brought together from across the country to the north of England. There, the fact that they're not well-known gives them the advantage to infiltrate where a more familiar local detective could not. Despite being based around a comparatively small team of detectives, a regular feature in its early years is that few episodes feature the entire team, with most using just two or three regulars in any major role.

Poldark is a television drama based on Winston Graham's novels of the same title. It was first transmitted on BBC Two across two seasons between 1975 and 1977. The adaptation covered all seven novels (of the eventual twelve) published up to the time. In late 18th-century Cornwall, Ross Poldark loses his fiancée, well-bred beauty Elizabeth, to his cousin Francis. He ends up marrying his servant, Demelza Carne, but his passion for Elizabeth simmers on for years. Meanwhile, he strives to make his derelict copper mines a success. Life is hard, smuggling is rife, and Ross finds himself taking the side of the underclass against the ruthless behaviour of his enemies, the greedy Warleggan clan.

Frustrated at a new moderate Conservative government and deprived of a promotion to a senior position, chief whip Francis Urquhart prepares a meticulous plot to bring down the Prime Minister then to take his place.

Late Night Theatre is a UK television anthology series produced by Granada Television, Scottish Television (STV), Southern Television, and Westward Television. Forty-four episodes were aired on ITV (TV network) from 1972–1974.

The Love School is a BBC television drama miniseries originally broadcast from 22 January to 26 February 1975 about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The series was written by John Hale, Ray Lawler, Robin Chapman, and John Prebble, and directed by Piers Haggard, John Glenister and Robert Knights. The drama was a significant influence on the subsequent 2009 series Desperate Romantics. It was also the basis of the historical novel of the same name by Hale.

A Bit of a Do is a British comedy drama series based on the books by David Nobbs. The show starred David Jason and was aired on ITV in 1989. It was made for the ITV network by Yorkshire Television. The show was set in a fictional Yorkshire town. Each episode took place at a different social function and followed the changing lives of two families, the working-class Simcocks and the middle-class Rodenhursts, together with their respective friends, Rodney and Betty Sillitoe, and Neville Badger. The series begins with the wedding of Ted and Rita Simcock's son Paul to Laurence and Liz Rodenhurst's daughter Jenny; an event at which Ted and Liz begin an affair. The subsequent fallout from this affair forms the basis for most of the first series.

In the aftermath of the Second World War, the Haywards are staunch labour supporters, the Warringtons own a soon to be nationalised coal mine. A riveting story exploring the differing effects of the Labour election victory on working class and upper class life, as well as the disruptive effect of war on the love lives of the younger members of the families.

A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-hearted, grasping uncle.

When an ordinary British fishing vessel and its 36-man crew mysteriously disappears off the coast of Norway, journalist Martin Taylor is determined to find out why.

Yıldız Savaşları: Yeni Umut'ta Luke Skywalker, galaksiyi değiştirecek bir yolculuğa çıkar. Luke, İmparatorluğun kuruluşundan 19 yıl sonra çöl gezegen Tatooine'de yıllardır tek başına yaşayan Obi-Wan Kenobi ile karşılaşınca Asiler İttifakı mücadelesinin içine çekilir. Obi-Wan, Luke'u Jedi olarak eğitmeye başlarken Luke da güzel Asi Prenses Leia'yı Darth Vader ve kötü İmparatorluğun pençesinden kurtarmak için Obi-Wan ile zorlu bir göreve girişir.

13. yüzyıl İskoçyası. İngiliz Kralı I. Edward, İskoçya'yı da krallığına katmak istemektedir. İngiliz soylularına Prima Nocta, yani topraklarında evlenen her İskoç kadınla ilk geceyi geçirme hakkını vererek İskoç halkının ayaklanmasına sebep olur. Çocukken ailesini ve yakınlarını özgür İskoçya uğruna kaybeden William Wallace, yıllar sonra karısı da öldürülünce halkı organize etmeye ve İngilizleri topraklarından atmaya karar verir.

Basit kaygıları olan saf İrlandalı genç Gerry Conlon, 70’li yıllarda Londra’ya gelir. Kendini hayatın akışına kaptıran delikanlı burada bir işgal evinde serbest bir hayat yaşayan gençlerle birlikte zaman geçirmeye başlar. Bir polis baskınında hiç ilgisi olmadığı 1974 Gyildford bombalamasından sorumlu tutularak tutuklanır. O dönemin İngiltere’sinde şimdikinden çok farklı olarak, terörle mücadele adına insan haklarının hiçe sayıldığı uygulamalar olmaktadır. Yoğun fiziksel ve manevi işkencelerin baskısı altındaki Gerry’nin ömrünün sonbaharındaki masum babası da, suç ortağı olarak hapse atılır. Kadın bir avukatın yıllar süren çabalarının da yardımıyla, Gerry maruz kaldığı adaletsizliğe direnmeye başlar.

Simon Templar, en sıkı korunan hazineleri çalmakta usta, zeki bir hırsızdır. Alaycı ve sofistike tavrı ile yeryüzünde çalamayacağı şey yoktur. Günün birinde hayatı tehlikede olan genç bilimci Emma ile karşılaşır. Emma'yı korumak için mücadeleye girer.

Zalim ablası tarafından büyütülen zavallı yetim Pip, Magwitch isimli bir mahkumla mezarlıkta yaşadığı korkunç deneyimden sonra ve tuhaf Bayan Havisham’la güzel ama çıkarcı yeğeni Estella’ya yaptıkları utanç verici ziyaretler yüzünden büyük umutları olması mümkün olan bir çocuk değildir. Estella isimsiz bir hayırsever tarafından servete kavuşturulana dek Pip’e işkence etmiştir. Unutulamaz karakterle dolu Büyük Umutlar entrika, aşk ve paranın satın alamayacağı mutluluğa dair bir hikaye. John Irving’e göre, Büyük Umutlar İngiliz dilinde yazılmış bir roman için, konusu fazla mükemmel kurgulanmış bir eserdir. J. Hillis Miller ise Büyük Umutlar’ın Dickens’ın dünyayı algılama şeklinin en kapsamlı ve en yoğun örneği olduğunu ve Pip’in örnek bir Dickens kahramanı olabileceğini belirtmiştir...

An aspiring Hollywood actress, on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker, who also writes obituaries for the local paper. Returning home, where she works as a waitress at a Japanese restaurant, she tells everyone about the handsome "writer" she met on her trip. Unfortunately, he decides to follow her back to Hollywood, setting up the expected light romantic comedy with asides as the newcomer gains experience about the goings on in Hollywood.

A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.

A deep dive into the historic 1997–2005 libel lawsuit, wherein fast-food conglomerate McDonald's sued environmental activists Helen Steel and David Morris over a critical factsheet. It became the longest trial in English legal history and a major free-speech PR disaster for the corporation.

Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in 1978 as Pope of the Catholic world.

Tells the story of a woman who gets involved in politics with no previous contact with world events.

They're young, unemployed and on the march - from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea to London.

A look at the classic "Cinderella" story from the perspective of one of her 'ugly' stepsisters

The Final Curtain is a British film from 2002 directed by Patrick Harkins and starring Peter O'Toole. It tells the story of J. J. Curtis, ageing gameshow host played by O'Toole, who hires novelist Jonathan Stitch (Adrian Lester) to pen his biography, in the hope of sealing his immortality in the hearts and minds of the British public. This is made more difficult by his rivalry with fellow gameshow host Dave Turner (Aidan Gillen), and events from his past.

A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-hearted, grasping uncle.

A CIA analyst takes over a case from his brother, a field agent who was killed in the line of duty, in this thriller based on a Robert Ludlum novel.

The 1998 dramatization of a 1970s UK miscarriage of justice, centered around Stefan Khizcho, and his mother's subsequent battle for his freedom.

Jane Lapotaire and Joss Ackland star in this adaptation of Rudolph Besier's play. Elizabeth Barrett is kept a virtual prisoner by her father. Then the poet Robert Browning bursts into her life.

The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord was the umbrella title for a series of four 2|entertain documentaries. Each covered a different story within the larger fourteen-part serial The Trial of a Time Lord. An instalment of the series was found on each DVD of the The Trial of a Time Lord box set.

The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.

A quarter of classic horror stories presented by actor Martin Jarvis.