Adrian Scarborough

In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992) surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, 30 years Bacon's junior, accepts. Bacon finds Dyer's amorality and innocence attractive, introducing him to his Soho pals. In their sex life, Dyer dominates, Bacon is the masochist... (imdb)

Depressed businessman Henry Bell and aristocrat Karen Knightly save each other's lives one night when they are ready to jump off London's Tower Bridge. Karen invents a revenge plot - she will punish Henry's enemy Bruce Tick and Henry will destroy the life of Karen's enemy Imogen. (imdb)

Cranford is set in a small rural Cheshire town of the same name in 1842 and 1843, which Gaskell based on the real town of Knutsford. The town is dominated by women, and is comfortably settled in its traditional way of life, but the railway is about to arrive, and offers to introduce modern ways and ideas to the town, to the alarm of some of its inhabitants. (imdb)

Continuing the storyline of The Gathering Storm, Churchill at War is a look at the former British prime minister's life and career at the end of WWII. (imdb)

A female landscape-gardener is awarded the esteemed assignment to construct the grand gardens at Versaillers, a gilt-edged position which thrusts her to the very center of the court of King Louis XIV. (imdb)

A new family and their servants live at the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in 1936.

Centred on a fictional meeting between W. H. Auden and Benjamin Britten while Britten is composing the opera Death in Venice. (en.wikipedia.org)

The highly publicised appointment of Helen Hewitt, the youngest woman to be in charge of an all male prison, only increases the unrest in the already volatile situation. The officers are suspicious, antagonistic, and the prisoners ready to riot against any new rules and regulations. Helen Hewitt has a formidable task, and she has no allies. (lyndalaplante.com)

Gavin and Stacey have been continuing their romance on-line and by telephone for the last six months. Now they want to be together but will their friends and family let them? (imdb)

The true story of Charmian Brent (née Powell), the rebellious product of a strict 1950s upbringing, and her whirlwind romance with Ronald Biggs leading to a descent into crime, most infamously 1963's Great Train Robbery. (imdb)

A British newscaster moves to Los Angeles with his alcoholic manservant and the baggage of several failed marriages to host a sanctimonious talk show. (imdb)

Before passing away Lady Pagwell leaves a legacy in memory of her late husband to fund local new inventions and, as the only inventor in town, Branestawm is the obvious recipient. However his evil opponents Councillor Hagglestone and Miss Silt insist on an inventing competition to divert the cash elsewhere. Likeliest contender is Professor Algebrain who decides to steal one of Branestawm's creations, electric clairvoyant glasses, to pass off as his own.

A passionate chef resorts to extreme measures to get an obsessive dieter to eat good food. (imdb)

A new comedy series following the lives of six 20- and 30-somethings living together as property guardians of a large, disused hospital. (imdb)

A drama set in the early 1960s and centered on a young couple on their honeymoon. (imdb)

An alcoholic falls in love with a Salvation Army captain who is trying to help him.

Sarah is a young woman whose life is in a bit of a mess. The last thing she needs is someone else to look after. Yet, like it or not, her Grandmother has bequeathed her a very spoiled pug - Patrick. Surely she must have had her reasons?. (imdb)

Two young British privates during the First World War are given an impossible mission: deliver a message deep in enemy territory that will stop 1,600 men, and one of the soldier's brothers, from walking straight into a deadly trap. (imdb)

An artist is suspected of selling a valuable painting to the Nazis, but there is more to the story than meets the eye.

When tough-acting loner Maleek (Kayo) is paired with over-friendly divorcee Wendy, their partnership looks dead on arrival. But pretty soon they're giving each other life support.

Arnold, whose lifestyle on a battered houseboat in Chelsea's Cheyne Walk contrasts sharply with the affluent elite whose crimes he helps solve alongside partner D.C. Priya Shamsie.

A Welsh community devastated by tragedy is forced to confront difficult truths amid the search for justice. (imdb)

It's 1782 and welcome to the fabulous Palace of Versailles, France. Outside the gates, the peasants are on the verge of revolting , whilst inside lives one of the most hated women in all of France -Columbine, the Comtesse De Vache. (imdb)

Mr Bigstuff follows two estranged brothers; Glen, a nervy perfectionist and carpet salesman striving to live a suburban ideal and Lee, an alpha male with a prescription drug addiction and a tin full of their dad's ashes. (imdb)