Robert Lindsay

A quaint English zoo is the setting for a riotous revolt after the zoo director attempts to rid the park of its cute, cuddly animals and display only "fierce creatures." (Universal)

Horatio Hornblower begins his naval career, but a deadly feud with a despicable mate is causing complications. (imdb)

Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but obviously mentally unstable captain and eventually must mutiny. (imdb)

Lt. Hornblower and his mates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France. (imdb)

Ioan Groffudd ably repeats his role as British sea captain Horatio Hornblower in this multi-episode series. This episode opens with the British at peace with the French. Hornblower, as well as many other officers, have been reduced in rank,left on land and are being paid half-wages. (imdb)

While Lt. Hornblower studies for his promotion exam, he is distracted by the serious supply problems that face his crew. (imdb)

Lt. Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own. (imdb)

With Sawyer dead, Buckland takes control of the ship, but he is not up for the task, and decides to sail to Jamaica, despite the failure of the mission to capture the Spanish fort on Samana Bay. Hornblower suggests another plan of attack which goes well. However, Hornblower will have to come to Buckland's rescue once more before they reach Jamaica. (itv DVD)

This episode's title most certainly refers to the duty that Hornblower feels to his country, but more certainly also references the responsibility he learns he now has with his new wife. (imdb)

Abandoned by his father at an early age, Jim MacLaine seems to have inherited the old man's restlessness. Despite his apparent intelligence, Jim decides not to take the exams that would pave his way to university. He lives, for a time, a life consisting of dead-end jobs and meaningless sex, before returning home to work in his mother's shop. But still he can't settle down; he begins to think that the life of a pop musician might be the thing for him. (imdb)

A married drunk (Thewlis) hooks up with the ex-girlfriend of a viscious local criminal (Isaacs). He gets booted out of home for his infedelity, has a murderer on his tail, and must try to write the story of his life in order to save his journalism job. He gets help from a stripper dressed as a nun (Griffiths) and goes undercover dressed as Shaggy from Scooby Doo. He finds a drinking buddy in an American fellow journalist. (imdb)

Joe North is a cab driver in London, something that gives him many opportunities to have sex. (imdb)

A made for TV version of the classic Shakespeare play about an elder king who must choose which of her daughters will inherit the throne, with disastrous consequences.

Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson star in a story of grief and celebrity, set in the intense spring and summer of New Labour's election victory and Diana's death. Nighy is a PR guru who has to stop and re-evaluate his world when his daughter threatens to leave his life, perhaps as revenge for his serial infidelities. Richardson plays a mother trying to bury her grief in an unconventional way after the loss of her young son. (imdb)

Michael Murray is an ambitious and charismatic politician, Jim Nelson is a much loved headmaster of a local school for disturbed children. When the paths of these two men cross, things are destined never to be the same again. (imdb)

Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France... (imdb)

Benedick and Beatrice fight their merry war of words. But when Beatrice's friend, Hero, is humiliatingly jilted by Benedick's best friend... (imdb)

Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino... (imdb)

"Friends and Crocodiles" traces the changing relationship of maverick entrepreneur Paul Reynolds and his assistant Lizzie Thomas over a period of 20 years from the beginnings of the Thatcher era to the bursting of the dot.com bubble. (imdb)

This play gets its title from the name of a British holiday called Midsummer Day, the feast of John the Baptist, celebrated on June 24 with merrymaking. On Midsummer Night, witches, goblins, and fairies materialized to hold a festival of their own. Shakespeare's play capitalizes on the magic of the occasion. Set in Athens, it begins when Duke Theseus orders gala ceremonies for his coming marriage to Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons. (allrovi.com)

The Trial of Tony Blair is a satirical drama, based around the notion that the former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair is to face charges of war crimes by an international tribunal, following his departure from 10 Downing Street. (Wikipedia)

An English coal miner gives up his job and girl to join an amateur show that will tour in the United States. (TCM.com)

The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s. (imdb)

Wolfie Smith is an unemployed dreamer from Tooting London, a self proclaimed Urban Guerilla who aspires to be like his hero Che Guevara. Leading a small group called the Tooting Popular Front with aspirations to create a communist Britain. Although through being thoroughly disorganised his chances range from slim to none. (imdb)

Comedy about Ben, a dentist, and his family. They don't exactly get along well. (imdb)

A satirical look at Home Secretary David Blunkett and his affair with publisher Kimberly Quinn. (imdb)

Four-part drama about the struggles of a family with a failed rock star father and a troubled young son.

A documentary series examining key technical achievements during the technical age, including the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Panama Canal.

A London accountant on his honeymoon gets swept away by gambling fever. (imdb)

A Bavarian police commissioner, a former Nazi with a lasting admiration for Hitler, teams up with the ghost of a Jewish ventriloquist to solve a serial killing.

A middle class, suburban family find their lives thrown into a crisis with the unexpected arrival of one of the wife's old flames.

Tim is in a custody battle with his ex-wife, when he quits his job. He applies for a job as a civil servant doing data entry, but discovers during the job interview that he has been offered a job as a trainee spy for MI5.

Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies, and dark new forces at play.

British celebrities take their dogs for walks through beautiful Wales and British sites. These landmarks are not only amazing to see but each celebrity explains the history of the area in which they walk.

After a chance meeting with her old school-friend Sandra Delaney (Crissy Rock), pub landlady Maureen Hardcastle (Dame Julie Walters) finally realizes what she needs to enliven her flagging business and spice up her equally flagging marriage to Jimmy (Alun Armstrong) - male strippers in her pub. So she contacts "Bad" Billy Bowmans (Robert Lindsay) to arrange it - but gets more than she bargained for. (imdb)

Hawkins was an original film for BBC Television about a man who lives a double life, as a Nietzschean Philosophy Lecturer and as a Detective who is fascinated by lowlife and criminal mentalities.

Detective Chief Inspector Michael Jericho of Scotland Yard is a respected, uncompromising and forward thinking detective investigating high-profile murders in 1950s London. (imdb)

High up in a deserted office block, three night security guards - Sarge, Carter and Bell - find their peaceful jobs constantly disturbed. (imdb)

1955 called up into R.A.F. a group of young men find it hard to cope,especially with a corporal who is unhappy and takes it out on them. (imdb)