Robert Putt

biography: Robert Putt is a familiar faced British character actor with a career stretching for over 40 years.

The Professionals

overview:
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley.

The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.

character: Inspector Newton

original_name: The Professionals

The Sweeney

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

character: Prison Officer

original_name: The Sweeney

Crown Court

overview: Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.

character: Jury Foreman

original_name: Crown Court

Our Friends in the North

overview: An epic tale of a changing Britain over four decades, seen through the eyes of four friends.

character: Taylor

original_name: Our Friends in the North

Agatha Christie's Poirot

overview: From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.

character: Rogers

original_name: Agatha Christie's Poirot

Midsomer Murders

overview: The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

character: Oyster Man

original_name: Midsomer Murders

Pie in the Sky

overview: Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed, created by Andrew Payne and first broadcast in five series on BBC1 between 13 March 1994 and 17 August 1997 as well as being syndicated on other channels in other countries, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The series departs slightly from other police dramas in that the protagonist, Henry Crabbe, while still being an on-duty policeman, is also the head chef of the title restaurant set in the fictional town of Middleton and county of Westershire.

character: Chief Constable Braithwaite

original_name: Pie in the Sky

Wycliffe

overview:
Wycliffe is a British television series, based on W. J. Burley's novels about Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe. It was produced by HTV and broadcast on the ITV Network, following a pilot episode on 7 August 1993, between 24 July 1994 and 5 July 1998. The series was filmed in Cornwall, with a production office in Truro. Music for the series was composed by Nigel Hess and was awarded the Royal Television Society award for the best television theme. Wycliffe is played by Jack Shepherd, assisted by DI Doug Kersey and DI Lucy Lane.

Each episode deals with a murder investigation. In the early series, the stories are adapted from Burley's books and are in classic whodunit style, often with quirky characters and plot elements. In later seasons, the tone becomes more naturalistic and there is more emphasis on internal politics within the police.

character: Lionel Samford

original_name: Wycliffe

Call the Midwife

overview: Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.

character: Mr. Gillespie

original_name: Call the Midwife

Shine on Harvey Moon

overview:
Shine on Harvey Moon! is a British comedy-drama series made by Central Television for ITV from 8 January 1982 to 23 August 1985 and briefly revived in 1995 by Meridian.

This generally light-hearted series was created by comedy writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. The series is set in the East End of London shortly after the Second World War. Upon being demobbed RAF serviceman Harvey Moon, played by Kenneth Cranham, returns home and finds his family involved in various troubles. His wife Rita, played by Maggie Steed, is not interested in resuming their relationship, and works in a seedy nightclub frequented by American servicemen. He becomes involved with the Labour Party and the union movement.

The name of the series is a wordplay on the title of the popular 1908 song 'Shine On, Harvest Moon'. The first series was commissioned and recorded by ATV at their Elstree studios with the remaining series filmed at newly constructed facilities in Nottingham.

character: Postman

original_name: Shine on Harvey Moon

Andor

overview: In an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue, Cassian Andor will discover the difference he can make in the struggle against the tyrannical Galactic Empire. He embarks on a path that is destined to turn him into a rebel hero.

character: Old Man

original_name: Andor

Target

overview: A crime drama set in Southampton following a team of detectives and the cases they solve.

character: Platt

original_name: Target

Pennies from Heaven

overview:
Pennies From Heaven is a 1978 BBC television drama serial written by Dennis Potter. The title is taken from a song of the same name written by Johnny Burke and Arthur Johnston. It was one of several Potter serials to mix the reality of the drama with a dark fantasy content, and the earliest of his works where the characters burst into miming to popular 1930s songs.

During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent schoolteacher.

character: Jumbo

original_name: Pennies from Heaven

The House of Windsor

overview: PR man Max Kelvin is hired by Prince Charles to change the Monarchy's image. His first task: to tackle the web of intrigue spun by the staff of Buckingham Palace under the lead of Lord Bermondsey.

character: Peter Hitchings

original_name: The House of Windsor

The New Avengers

overview:
The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The Avengers and was developed by Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens.

A joint United Kingdom-France-Canada production, the show picks up the adventures of John Steed and his team of Avengers fighting evil plots and world domination. Whereas in the original series Steed had almost always been partnered with a woman, in the new series he had two partners: Mike Gambit, a top agent, crack marksman and trained martial artist, and Purdey, a former trainee with The Royal Ballet who was an amalgam of many of the best talents from Steed's previous female partners.

character: Attendant

original_name: The New Avengers

origin_country: CA GB

Crossbow

overview: Crossbow follows the adventures of William Tell and takes place in the 14th-century in Switzerland. William Tell and his son are imprisoned by the tyrannical Gessler. As Governor of Austria, Gessler plans to stop the Swiss uprising. Having split the apple on his son's head with his crossbow, much to Gessler's chagrin, there is no stopping William Tell's legendary strength and skill.

original_name: Crossbow

original_language: fr

Martin Chuzzlewit

overview: Old Martin Chuzzlewit is nearing his death. Who will inherit his riches? With such a prize to play for, the Chuzzlewit family bring forth all of their cunning, greed and selfishness.

character: Mr Jones

original_name: Martin Chuzzlewit

Plays for Britain

overview: An anthology series of six contemporary plays from writers at relatively early stages in their careers.

character: Terrorist

original_name: Plays for Britain

ITV Playhouse

overview: 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.

character: Mr. Mann

original_name: ITV Playhouse

Urban Gothic

overview:
Urban Gothic was a horror based series of short stories shown on Channel 5 running for two series between May 2000 and December 2001. Filmed on a low budget and broadcast in a later time-slot, it nonetheless acquired a following. It has also since been repeated on the Horror Channel.

Set around London there is an underlying story thread that only becomes clear in the last episodes of each series. Each episode was different in style from the others, running the gamut of documentary-style independent film to spoof, to slick dramas similar in style to The Outer Limits or The Twilight Zone.

character: Grandad

original_name: Urban Gothic

English

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english_name: English

Pусский

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iso_3166_1: RU

english_name: Russian

Deutsch

Robert Putt

biography: Robert Putt ist ein bekannter britischer Charakterdarsteller mit einer über 40-jährigen Karriere.

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title: Little Dorrit

overview: Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.

character: Mr. Chivery

original_title: Little Dorrit

title: Knockback: 2

overview: Alan and Sylvia fall in love and Alan gains a renewed sense of purpose. He begins to hope for an eventual release on licence. However both he and Sylvia have to face the fact that, for the foreseeable future, they cannot enjoy any physical intimacy. They decide to treat their affair as a long Victorian courtship.

character: Verne Reception Officer

original_title: Knockback: 2

title: Silas Marner

overview: Adaption of George Eliot's novel. When a respectable weaver is wrongfully accused of theft, he becomes a virtual hermit until his own fortune is stolen and an orphaned child is found on his doorstep.

character: Ben Winthrop

original_title: Silas Marner

title: Old Chums

overview: A man on crutches bumps into an old acquaintance who relentlessly bombards him with small talk.

character: Terry

original_title: Old Chums

title: Treasure Island

overview: Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew. Jim and his mother fight off the attackers and discover Billy Bones' treasure map for which the buccaneers had come. Jim agrees to sail on the S.S. Espaniola with Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey to find the treasure on a mysterious isiand. Upon arriving at the island, ship's cook and scaliwag Long John Silver leads a mutiny of crew members who want the treasure for themselves. Jim helps the Squire and Espaniola officers to survive the mutiny and fight back against Silver's men, who have taken over the Espaniola.

character: Job Anderson

original_title: Treasure Island

title: The Little Match Girl

overview: The Little Match Girl is a short story by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story is about a dying child's hopes and dreams, and was first published in 1845. This adaptation was made for Harlech TV and broadcast  on 28th December 1986 and starred Twiggy and Roger Daltrey, and features the song 'Mistletoe and Wine' which became a Christmas number one for Cliff Richard in 1988, the biggest selling record of that year.

character: Landlord

original_title: The Little Match Girl

title: The Ruby in the Smoke

overview: Sally Lockhart has struck a man dead with just three words, sent to her in a message from her father just before he drowned in the South China Seas. But unfortunately, Sally has no idea what the words The Seven Blessings mean. Before long, she is drawn into a mystery filled with opium, secrets from her own past and, at the heart of it all, the Ruby of Agrapur.

character: Porter

original_title: The Ruby in the Smoke

title: Two Days That Shook the Branch

overview: Des, an enthusiastic incompetent, always promises rather more that he can deliver.

original_title: Two Days That Shook the Branch

title: Ready When You Are, Mr McGill

overview: A film extra has won a chance for the big break in his career. He has two crucial lines in a television film, but nothing goes according to plan.

character: Location Caterer

original_title: Ready When You Are, Mr McGill

title: Eskimo Day

overview: Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly they have to let them enroll at Cambridge University.

character: Roadsweeper

original_title: Eskimo Day

title: The Fool

overview: A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.

original_title: The Fool

title: Vera Drake

overview: Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

title: Hatton Garden: The Heist

overview: Following the lead up to one of the biggest robberies of the century, Hatton Garden The Heist watches the journey of Brian Reader, John Collins, Terry Perkins, Daniel Jones and the mysterious Basil throughout the audacious heist.

title: It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet

overview: Based on James Herriot's books about life as a 1930s veterinarian in Yorkshire, John Alderson plays the kindly doctor who ministers to animals in this enjoyable family film. Sequel to the 1975 film All Creatures Great and Small.

title: Mike Bassett: England Manager

overview: After England's football (soccer) manager has a heart attack, Mike Bassett is hired as the new manager and promptly announces the team will win the World Cup.

title: Tom's Midnight Garden

overview: When Tom's brother Peter gets measles, he is sent to stay with his Uncle Alan and Aunt Gwen in a flat with no garden and an elderly landlady, Mrs Bartholomew, living upstairs. Because he may be infectious, he is not allowed to play outside and feels lonely. Without exercise he is less sleepy at night and when he hears the communal grandfather clock strangely strike 13, he investigates and finds the small back yard is now a large sunlit garden.

title: Porridge

overview: Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it.

title: Hawk the Slayer

overview: Hawk the Slayer, after seeing both his father and bride die at the hands of his malevolent brother, Voltan, sets out for revenge and the chance to live up to his title. Tooling himself up with the "mind-sword" and recruiting a motley band of warriors — a giant, a dwarf, a one-armed man with a machine-crossbow, and an elf with the fastest bow in the land — Hawk leads the battle against Voltan to free the land from the forces of evil and avenge his loved ones.

title: A Fish Called Wanda

overview: While a diamond advocate attempts to steal a collection of diamonds, troubles arise when he realises he’s not the only one after the collection.

title: The Many Lives of Albert Walker

overview: After killing his English partner, a Canadian businessman assumes his identity. Things begin to fall apart for him when the murdered man's body is found.

title: A Running Jump

overview: Gary attempts to buy a second-hand car.  What should be a straightforward task is turned into something of a quest by various people, including dodgy East End car dealer Perry, Perry's taxi-driver dad, a garage owner called Derek, Perry's wife Debbie and couple of twins.

title: Naked

overview: An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.

title: A Choice of Evils

overview: Cardinal Volponi tries to save his old friend, a priest-turned-militant communist, from being executed by the Nazis alongside 334 other hostages but struggles to reason with either the Vatican, the Nazis or his friend.

title: Bar Mitzvah Boy

overview: On the eve of his Bar Mitzvah, young Elliot finds that all the grown men in his life are somewhat wanting.

title: Nineteen Eighty-Four

overview: Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country's leaders in a charitable light. His trysts with Julia provide his only measure of enjoyment, but lawmakers frown on the relationship -- and in this closely monitored society, there is no escape from Big Brother.

title: The Paradise Run

overview: Johnny has joined the army because he likes canoeing, but ends up in a war-torn city and is compromised into helping the enemy. However, desertion will not be a solution, and he finds himself more distressed than ever.

title: Confessions of a Driving Instructor

overview: Timothy Lea and his brother-in-law Sidney decide upon opening a driving school as their latest get-rich-quick scheme. Though he sincerely wants to teach, young Timmy finds that his female students are far more interested in keeping their eyes on him than on the road.

title: Easy Go

overview: A hot day by the Thames - very hot for some Deptford children. When they and some dockers spot a 'prize' in the river, the race is on between the rival factions to win it.

title: Under the Hammer

overview: All seems ready for a major sale of impressionist paintings to be graced by a royal visit. But panic erupts in the boardroom when the pedigree of the Van Gogh - to be sold by the Russians - is questioned. When it causes a scene between the porters, Les and Mick, a respectable firm is forced to take drastic action to save the big day.

title: Occupy!

overview: Bill Nighy, Pete Postlewaite and (briefly) Julie Walters, then all of the Everyman Theatre Company, feature in this potent reportage/dramatisation hybrid about the occupation of the Fisher-Bendix Factory in Kirkby. Dohany uses a variety of imaginative techniques to explore the longstanding dispute, and a pronounced sense of urgency pervades this act of solidarity.

character: Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool

title: Waterloo Sunset

overview: Grace leaves her old folks' home to return to her birthplace in Lambeth, a place which has changed on the surface but at its heart is still the same.

title: The Hour of the Pig

overview: In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and political intrigues. At the same time, he is pushed to defend a pig, owned by the mysterious gypsy Samira. The pig has been arrested for the murder of a young boy.

title: The Wicked Lady

overview: Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, she gets bored and turns to highway robbery for thrills. While on the road she meets a famous highwayman, and they continue as a team, but some people begin suspecting her identity, and she risks death if she continues her nefarious activities.

title: Caught in a Trap

overview: Gemma collects money out of parking meters. But really she's obsessed with Elvis.

title: Carry On Henry

overview: Henry VIII has just married Marie of Normandy, and is eager to consummate their marriage. Unfortunately for Henry, she is always eating garlic, and refuses to stop. Deciding to get rid of her in his usual manner, Henry has to find some way of doing it without provoking war with Marie's cousin, the King of France. Perhaps if she had an affair...

title: What's the Score

overview: Tony's been away for 25 Years. Now he's back and looking to put a team of faces together to do a job in Scotland.

place_of_birth: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

title: Little Dorrit

title: Knockback: 2

title: Silas Marner

title: Old Chums

title: Treasure Island

title: The Little Match Girl

title: The Ruby in the Smoke

title: Two Days That Shook the Branch

title: Ready When You Are, Mr McGill

title: Eskimo Day

title: The Fool

title: Vera Drake

title: Hatton Garden: The Heist

title: It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet

title: Mike Bassett: England Manager

title: Tom's Midnight Garden

title: Porridge

title: Hawk the Slayer

title: A Fish Called Wanda

title: The Many Lives of Albert Walker

title: A Running Jump

title: Naked

title: A Choice of Evils

title: Bar Mitzvah Boy

title: Nineteen Eighty-Four

title: The Paradise Run

title: Confessions of a Driving Instructor

title: Easy Go

title: Under the Hammer

title: Occupy!

title: Waterloo Sunset

title: The Hour of the Pig

title: The Wicked Lady

title: Caught in a Trap

title: Carry On Henry

title: What's the Score


Nicola Stephenson

Superstorm

overview:
Superstorm is a three-part British docudrama miniseries written and directed by Julian Simpson, about a group of scientists that try to divert and weaken hurricanes using cloud seeding.

Superstorm originally aired on BBC One for a period of three weeks, totaling three 59 minute episodes, from 15 April 2007 to 29 April 2007. Each episode was followed by a half-hour documentary on BBC Two on extreme weather monitoring and forecasting, called The Science of Superstorms. The series was also aired on the Discovery Channel in the U.S. and Canada during the summer of 2007.

Superstorm is a co-production of BBC Worldwide, Discovery Channel and ProSieben, in association with M6 and NHK. Ailsa Orr and Michael Mosley, who made also Supervolcano, are the executive producers for BBC, while Jack E. Smith is the executive producer for Discovery Channel.

The miniseries was released on DVD in the United Kingdom on 2 July 2007.

character: Sara Hughes

original_name: Superstorm

original_language: en

Waking the Dead

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

character: Julia Henderson

original_name: Waking the Dead

Northern Lights

overview:
Northern Lights is a 2006 comedy-drama. It is a spin-off of the 2004 Christmas special Christmas Lights.

A sequel, City Lights, was broadcast in 2007. Also a Christmas special, Clash of the Santas, was broadcast in December 2008. It featured Colin and Howie taking a trip to Lithuania to represent the United Kingdom in a Santa convention. The main problem with this is that miserable Howie is picked as Santa, while true Christmas believer Colin is relegated to the role of cheerleading elf.

character: Jackie

original_name: Northern Lights

Law & Order: UK

overview: Adapted from the hit US series, Law & Order: UK follows a team of police detectives and prosecutors representing the public interest in the criminal justice system.

original_name: Law & Order: UK

Dead Man Weds

overview:
Dead Man Weds is a 6-part comedy series shown on ITV on British TV in January and early February 2005.

The series was written by Dave Spikey who played the part of Jerry St Clair in Phoenix Nights. It was produced for ITV by the independent producers Red Production Company.

There are two lead parts, one being Dave Spikey and the other being Johnny Vegas.

The series is based on the fictional newspaper, The Fogburrow Advertiser. New editor, Gordon Garden, is determined to shake up the small rural newspaper office. Acting editor and all-round lazy slob Lewis Donat is furious at Gordon's appointment, convinced that the job should be his. Lewis's school of journalism involves going on a break as soon as he gets in, stealing stories from old piles of newspapers and getting the rest of the news from Joan at the cake shop, Cake That.

The show's title was inspired by a headline from the Bolton Evening News.

The series was filmed in Castleton in Derbyshire.

The theme music, also used as incidental music and stings throughout the series, was a version of the Jonathan King composition "It's Good News Week", a 1965 hit for Hedgehoppers Anonymous.

original_name: Dead Man Weds

Nice Day at the Office

overview: Nice Day at the Office is a British sitcom starring Timothy Spall, John Sessions and David Haig as put-upon and frustrated employees of a large company.

original_name: Nice Day at the Office

All at Sea

overview: Charlie and his family move from London to run a Bed and Breakfast by the sea. For Charlie and his new friends, Ben and Alison, the glorious Scarborough seaside represents a safe, exciting, child-friendly place where there’s an adventure round every corner.

character: Mum

original_name: All at Sea

Big Bad World

original_name: Big Bad World

Big Brother's Little Brother

overview: Each week, the housemate evicted from the Big Brother house the previous week traditionally spends another week on Big Brother's Little Brother, answering questions and taking part in Call BBLB along with other features. The show also boasts celebrity guests and experts who come in to discuss and analyse the remaining Big Brother housemates.

character: Self

original_name: Big Brother's Little Brother

Angela and Friends

overview: Daily chat show, hosted by Angela Griffin, that combines topical debate with five lifestyle clubs: Diet and Health, Beauty, Books and Travel, Entertainment and Fashion.

original_name: Angela and Friends

Strike Back

overview: The series follows John Porter, a former British Special Forces soldier, who is drafted back into service by Section 20, a fictional branch of the Secret Intelligence Service.

character: Diane Porter

original_name: Strike Back

New Tricks

overview: 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.

character: Emily Fraser

original_name: New Tricks

Moving On

overview: Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of change in their life and moving on.

character: Lindsay

original_name: Moving On

Hotel Babylon

overview: Hotel Babylon is a British television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones. The show followed the lives of workers at a glamorous five-star hotel.

original_name: Hotel Babylon

Lark Rise to Candleford

overview: Set in the small hamlet of Lark Rise and the wealthier neighbouring market town, Candleford, the series chronicles the daily lives of farm-workers, craftsmen and gentry at the end of the 19th Century. Lark Rise to Candleford is a love letter to a vanished corner of rural England and a heart-warming drama series teeming with wit, wisdom and romance.

original_name: Lark Rise to Candleford

Holby City

overview: Drama series about life on the wards of Holby City Hospital, following the highs and lows of the staff and patients.

character: Julie Fitzjohn

original_name: Holby City

Casualty

overview: Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

original_name: Casualty

Dead Man Weds

character: Donna Havercroft

The Long Shadow

overview: Dramatizing  one of the most infamously notorious and shocking serial killer cases in the world, the hunt for Peter Sutcliffe, commonly dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, between October 1975 and January 1981, South Yorkshire police undertook the biggest manhunt in British criminal history. The search for Sutcliffe lasted five years, involved over a thousand officers and changed the way the British police worked forever.

character: Olive Smelt

original_name: The Long Shadow

Going Live!

overview:
Going Live! was a Saturday morning magazine show, broadcast on BBC1 between 1987 and 1993. It was presented by Phillip Schofield and Sarah Greene.

Other presenters included Trevor and Simon, Peter Simon, Emma Forbes, and puppet Gordon the Gopher.

The show was broadcast during the autumn to spring seasons, with other shows such as the 8:15 from Manchester and Parallel 9 taking over during the summer months. It was preceded by Saturday Superstore, and succeeded by Live & Kicking.

In 1988, when the second series started, Greene was hurt in a helicopter crash with her then boyfriend, Mike Smith. Guest presenters stood in for her including T'Pau's Carol Decker. Similarly, in 1992-93 during the final series, Schofield was starring in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and was unable to present the show. A third presenter took his place. Originally, Neighbours actor Kristian Schmid took the role but soon left after problems with his work permit. Various other celebrities to stand in included Shane Richie and Robbie Williams during his Take That days.

original_name: Going Live!

Call the Midwife

overview: Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.

character: Thelma Haig

Celebrity Gogglebox

overview: A rolling cast of famous faces, some of Britain's best loved personalities, turn their hand to being the country's most opinionated viewers, sharing their opinions on what they have been watching during the week.

original_name: Celebrity Gogglebox

Whitstable Pearl

overview: With her son grown up, single mom Pearl Nolan decides to pursue her lifelong dream and launches a private detective agency, which she runs from her family's restaurant in the coastal town of Whitstable. Drawn by her caring nature, locals soon flock to her with all manner of cases. But when an old friend dies suspiciously, Pearl finds herself in conflict with gruff new cop in town, DCI Mike McGuire.

character: Connie Rowe

original_name: Whitstable Pearl

Midsomer Murders

overview: The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

character: Izzy Silvermane

Loose Women

overview: A panel of four women discuss topical issues, ranging from daily politics and current affairs to celebrity gossip.

original_name: Loose Women

The Alienist

overview: New York, 1896. Police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt brings together criminal psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, newspaper illustrator John Moore and secretary Sara Howard to investigate several murders of male prostitutes.

character: Maebh Connor

original_name: The Alienist

Safe House

overview: Former police officer Robert and his wife Katy left city life behind them after Robert was injured, whilst trying to protect a witness in his care. The witness, Susan Reynolds was fatally shot. Robert has been struggling with the guilt he feels over the death of Susan. In a bid to put the past behind them, Robert and Katy now run a guest house, hidden away in the idyllic Lake District. A surprise visitor turns up, DCI Mark Maxwell, an ex-colleague and old friend. He suggests that the guest house is perfectly positioned to operate as a safe house, Robert is tempted but will Katy agree?

character: Ali

original_name: Safe House

Father Brown

overview: Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.

character: Martha Fitzgibbon

original_name: Father Brown

The Afternoon Play

overview: The Afternoon Play is a British television anthology series of standalone contemporary dramas aired during the afternoons of 2003–07 on BBC One, featuring well-known actors in one-off stories. A daytime drama strand showcasing a variety of genres, from comedy to mystery, it was part of a long tradition of afternoon plays on BBC Radio 4, which would go on to influence the television version.

character: Nicola Passmore

original_name: The Afternoon Play

Clocking Off

overview:
Clocking Off is a British television drama series broadcast on BBC One for four series from 2000 to 2003. It was produced by Red Production Company, and created by Paul Abbott. Effectively an anthology programme that followed the lives of a group of workers at a Manchester textile factory, with each episode focusing on the private life of a different character.

How much do you know about the person working next to you? From the outside, life at Mackintosh Textiles appears to run smoothly, but in a community with so many secrets to hide, things are far from straightforward. In six powerful, self-contained dramas, everyday life is fractured by tumultuous marriages, snatched passions, disappearing spouses, and gang harassment.

character: Suzie Davidson

original_name: Clocking Off

The Hack

overview: Set between 2002 and 2012, the drama deftly interweaves two real life stories, the uncovering of phone hacking at the News of the World, and running parallel, the investigation into the unsolved murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan.

character: Cynthia Edmonds

original_name: The Hack

Holby City

character: Julia Fitzjohn

The Siege

overview: 30 April 1980. Six armed Iranians belonging to the country's Arab minority stormed the embassy in London, taking 26 people hostage to demand greater autonomy for the Arab province of Khuzestan.

original_name: The Siege

origin_country: FR GB

City Lights

overview: In "City Lights", Howie and Colin witness a gangland shooting and have to join the Witness Protection Scheme, leading to the forced relocation of their families to London.

original_name: City Lights

Out of the Blue

overview: Ambitious DS Franky Drinkall's life is turned upside down when he is diagnosed with epilepsy. His refusal to accept his condition leads him into a downward spiral and ultimately to his demise. DS Rebecca Bennett gives an ever-present emotional charge as she finds herself the subject of both PC Holder's and DC Allen's affections.

character: Lucy Shaw

original_name: Out of the Blue

The Chase

overview: Set around the employees of Yorkshire's 'Chevin Chase Veterinary Surgery', sisters Anna and Sarah Williams couldn't be more different: hardworking mother Anna runs the clinic with her father, while glamourous Sarah left for London years ago. A wedding brings them all together, but long-simmering secrets may soon tear them apart.

character: Sarah Williams

original_name: The Chase

Waterloo Road

overview:
Waterloo Road is a British television drama series set in a comprehensive school of the same name, first broadcast on BBC One on 9 March 2006, and concluding its original run on 9 March 2015. It was recommissioned in 2021, and resumed starting 9 January 2023.

At the failing comprehensive school, and later academy of the same name, the professional and personal lives of the students and staff are examined. Affairs, scandals, blackmail and many, many headteachers. Who said education was easy?

title: The Rainbow

overview: Born to a rich landowner in the waning days of the Victorian era, Ursula Brangwen grows into a beautiful young woman full of imagination and ambition. The free-spirited Ursula begins to feel trapped by her prim surroundings, but her life changes when she has an erotic experience with Winifred, a bisexual teacher. From then on, Ursula puts all of her passion and creativity into the pursuit of sexual fulfillment. But her insatiable quest becomes a source of anguish.

title: Kiss and Tell

overview: An undercover police officer must prove that a lonely man's missing wife was murdered.

title: Christmas Lights

overview: Robson Green and Mark Benton co-star in Christmas Lights, a one-off comedy drama for ITV1 centred on two lifelong friends who have always competed with each other. The festive season brings on new challenges and takes their rivalry to extremes resulting in the two friends forgetting what Christmas is really about. Can anything bring them to their senses?

title: Stone

overview: A young woman's discovery that her father was a transgender woman makes her rethink her childhood.

title: Clash of the Santas

overview: Christmas sequel to hit comedies, City Lights and Northern Lights. Follow the ups-and-downs of bickering best friends Colin and Howie at the World Santa Championships.

title: All In The Game

overview: A passionate manager is torn apart between loyalty to his son, a dodgy football agent, and his hometown club. This football drama gives you insight to the dark side of the game.

title: The Final Frame

overview: When the notorious rock star, East, is murdered on stage at an Animal Rights benefit gig, young filmmaker Hadi captures vital evidence on videotape. He finds he has possession of the most sought-after footage in the TV industry - and the most lethal.

title: The Walk

overview: Charity walkers raising funds for cancer research by crossing the Sahara Desert argue and squabble over their relationships in the past. However when one of their number gets lost each walker begins to put their life in perspective and make decisions on where their real priorities lie.

title: Gladiatress

overview: Three unlikely heroines set out to thwart a Roman invasion and save Celtic Britain in their own unique and outrageous style.

title: Nits

overview: A 7-year-old boy (Jonathan Mason) struggles to understand why his mother, newly returned from hospital, isn't giving him the attention he craves.

title: Tales from the Lodge

overview: Tales From The Lodge is a fresh take on the portmanteau horror-comedy genre. An isolated lodge somewhere in England. Five old university pals, now nudging 40, gather for a weekend to scatter the ashes of their friend, Jonesy, who drowned himself in the lake three years earlier. They settle in for a fun evening, entertaining each other with stories of murders, ghosts, zombies and possessions, but as day turns to night, the gang become aware of another horror story unfolding around them - And this one is real.

title: The Last Yellow

overview: Two losers try to lift themselves out of the mire by letting their fantasy world take over their lives.

title: The Rainbow

title: Kiss and Tell

title: Christmas Lights

title: Stone

title: Clash of the Santas

title: All In The Game

title: The Final Frame

title: The Walk

title: Gladiatress

title: Nits

title: Tales from the Lodge

title: The Last Yellow


Holliday Grainger

biography: Holliday Clark Grainger (born 27 March 1988), also credited as Holly Grainger, is an English screen and stage actress. Some of her prominent roles are Kate Beckett in the BAFTA award-winning children's series Roger and the Rottentrolls, Lucrezia Borgia in the Showtime series The Borgias, Robin Ellacott in the Strike series, DI Rachel Carey in the Peacock/BBC One crime drama The Capture and Estella in Mike Newell's adaptation of Great Expectations.

The Royal

overview: Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.

character: Carole Green

original_name: The Royal

M.I. High

overview: A team of undercover teenage spies working for the fictional British secret intelligence agency MI9 who have to balance their school life with their jobs as secret agents.

character: Leah Retsam

original_name: M.I. High

Robin Hood

overview: Robin of Loxley returns to England after 5 years of fighting in the crusades alongside King Richard. After losing his estates and being branded an outlaw, he takes on the title of Robin Hood and assembles a ragtag band of outlaw companions. Together they steal from the rich and give to the poor - all the while avoiding and outwitting their enemies Sir Guy of Gisborne and the evil Sheriff of Nottingham.

character: Meg

original_name: Robin Hood

Demons

overview: Luke Rutherford is your average teenager - until his dead father's best friend, Rupert Galvin turns up to reveal his secret destiny: he's the great-grandson of Abraham Van Helsing, the infamous vampire hunter. Luke is set to inherit the family mantle as a warrior against the supernatural entities that lie deep beneath the streets of modern-day London.

character: Ruby

original_name: Demons (The Last Van Helsing)

Blue Murder

overview: Blue Murder is a British crime drama television series based in Manchester. Shown on ITV from 2003 until 2009 when it was cancelled by the network, it starred Caroline Quentin as DCI Janine Lewis.

character: Jess Burgess

original_name: Blue Murder

(All Quiet on the) Preston Front

overview: All Quiet on the Preston Front (or the shortened Preston Front as it became known for series two and three) was a BBC comedy drama about a group of friends in the fictional Lancashire town of Roker Bridge, and their links to the local Territorial Army infantry platoon. It was created by Tim Firth and ran from 1994 to 1997.

character: Kirsty

original_name: (All Quiet on the) Preston Front

Dis/Connected

overview: Dis/Connected is a BBC Three drama pilot, written by Howard Overman. It starred Holliday Grainger, Cloudia Swann, Aml Ameen, Bradley James, Laura Aikman, Katrina Rafferty and Lucy Evans.

character: Jenny

original_name: Dis/Connected

Patrick Melrose

overview: A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.

character: Bridget Watson-Scott

original_name: Patrick Melrose

character: Lady Gravesend

The Borgias

overview: Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where he proceeds to commit every sin in the book to amass and retain power, influence and enormous wealth for himself and his family.

character: Lucrezia Borgia

original_name: The Borgias

Johnny and the Bomb

overview: Johnny Maxwell stumbles upon a time machine when he helps an old woman, but little does he know that his journeys back to 1941 cause a chain of events which alter history. Johnny and his friends must go back in time to reverse the changes and save his own existence.

character: Rose Bushell

original_name: Johnny and the Bomb

Bonnie & Clyde

overview: Clyde Barrow, a charismatic convicted armed robber, sweeps Bonnie Parker, an impressionable, petite, small-town waitress, off her feet, and the two embark on one one of most infamous bank-robbing sprees in history.

character: Bonnie Parker

original_name: Bonnie & Clyde

Waking the Dead

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

character: Nicola Bennet

original_name: Waking the Dead

The Stolen Girl

overview: Mother of two, Elisa, allows her daughter, Lucia, to go on an impromptu sleepover with her new best friend Josephine after meeting Josephine's mother, Rebecca, at her beautiful home. But when Elisa arrives to collect Lucia the next day, the house turns out to be an empty luxury rental and Lucia has been abducted.

character: Rebecca

original_name: The Stolen Girl

Strike

overview: A war veteran turned private detective operates out of a tiny office in London’s Denmark Street. Although wounded both physically and psychologically, his unique insight and background as a military police investigator prove crucial in solving complex crimes that have baffled the police. Based on the bestselling novels written by J.K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

character: Robin Ellacott

original_name: Strike

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

overview: A diverse anthology of ambitious, moving tales inspired by Philip K Dick's short stories.

character: Honor

original_name: Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

Roger and the Rottentrolls

overview:
Roger and the Rottentrolls is a children's comedy television series made for ITV by The Children's Company, which combined puppets with live action human actors. It was first broadcast on 1 January 1996.

Written by Tim Firth, it was based on characters created by Gordon Firth directed by Julian Kemp and executive produced by Robert Howes.

The first series won the 1997 BAFTA for "Best Children's Entertainment Show", beating the Ant and Dec Show. Later series were nominated for awards from both BAFTA and the Royal Television Society.

character: Kate Beckett

original_name: Roger and the Rottentrolls

Sparkhouse

overview: The relationship between childhood sweethearts, a farmer's daughter and boy from a rich family, turns tumultuous in this modern interpretation of Wuthering Heights.

character: Older Lisa Bolton

original_name: Sparkhouse

Merlin

overview: The unlikely friendship between Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers, and Prince Arthur, heir to the crown of Camelot.

character: Sophia

original_name: Merlin

Five Daughters

overview: The stories of five young women who were tragically murdered in Ipswich in 2006.

character: Alice Clennell

original_name: Five Daughters

The Capture

overview: When soldier Shaun Emery's conviction for a murder in Afghanistan is overturned due to flawed video evidence, he returns to life as a free man with his young daughter. But when damning CCTV footage from a night out in London comes to light, Shaun's life takes a shocking turn and he must soon fight for his freedom once again.

character: DI Rachel Carey

original_name: The Capture

Fairy Tales

overview: Four contemporary adaptations of classic fairy tales, Rapunzel, Cinderella, The Emperor's New Clothes and Billy Goats Gruff.

character: Leeza Gruff

original_name: Fairy Tales

Waterloo Road

character: Stacey Appleyard

original_name: Waterloo Road

Any Human Heart

overview: Logan Mountstuart, writer and adventurer, narrates his life, from the Paris of the twenties to the eighties in London, passing through the New York of the fifties.

character: Tess Scabius

original_name: Any Human Heart

Above Suspicion

overview:
Above Suspicion is a British crime drama programme starring Kelly Reilly as Anna Travis, a rookie detective determined to prove herself in the male-dominated police department by solving a trail of gruesome murders left by an unknown serial killer.

Each series is based on a novel by Lynda La Plante: Above Suspicion (2009), The Red Dahlia (2010), Deadly Intent (2011), and Silent Scream (2012).

character: Sharon Bilkin

original_name: Above Suspicion

Where the Heart Is

overview: In the small, fictional Yorkshire town of Skelthwaite is an engaging story of life, love, family and people’s ever-changing fortunes in rural England. Set against the rugged landscape of Yorkshire, it follows the busy professional and family lives of District Nurses, as they bring nursing and emotional care to young and old alike. The first four series concentrates on the lives of district health nurses Peggy Snow and Ruth Goddard. The story expands to focus on the lives of more Skelthwhaite residents, particularly those related to the nurses as well as those employed in a local toilet tissue factory.

character: Megan Boothe

original_name: Where the Heart Is

New Street Law

overview: Follows two rival barristers' chambers in Manchester, England, contrasting defence Jack Roper's struggling firm with his former mentor, prosecutor Laurence Scammel's more established chambers, and exploring their personal and professional rivalry through complex legal cases.

character: Katie Lewis

original_name: New Street Law

Deutsch

biography:
Holliday Grainger (* 27. März 1988 in Manchester, England) ist eine britische Schauspielerin, die für ihre vielseitigen Rollen in Film und Fernsehen bekannt ist. Sie begann ihre Karriere bereits als Kind und etablierte sich später als gefragte Darstellerin in historischen und dramatischen Produktionen.

Grainger wurde durch ihre Rolle als Lucrezia Borgia in der Serie The Borgias (2011–2013) einem internationalen Publikum bekannt. Zudem spielte sie Estella in der Verfilmung von Great Expectations (2012) und übernahm die Rolle der Anastasia Tremaine in Cinderella (2015). Weitere bedeutende Filmauftritte hatte sie in The Riot Club (2014), The Finest Hours (2016), in dem sie Miriam Webber verkörperte, My Cousin Rachel (2017)  und Tell It to the Bees (2018).

Im Fernsehen überzeugte sie als Robin Ellacott in der Krimiserie Strike (2017–2024) und als DCI Rachel Carey in The Capture (2019–2022). Ihre Darstellungen zeichnen sich durch emotionale Tiefe und starke Charakterentwicklung aus, wodurch sie sich als eine der führenden britischen Schauspielerinnen ihrer Generation etabliert hat.

Neben ihrer Film- und Fernsehkarriere ist Grainger auch auf der Theaterbühne aktiv und hat sich als vielseitige Künstlerin bewiesen. Sie lebt mit ihrem Partner, dem Schauspieler Harry Treadaway, und ihren Kindern in England.

普通话

荷丽黛·格兰杰

biography: 荷丽黛·格兰杰（Holliday Grainger，1988年3月27日-），英国影视及舞台剧演员。其代表角色包括：荣获英国电影学院奖的儿童剧集《罗杰与腐烂巨魔》中的凯特·贝克特、Showtime剧集《波吉亚家族》中的卢克雷齐娅·波吉亚、《斯特莱克探案集》系列中的罗宾·埃拉科特、Peacock/BBC One联合出品的犯罪剧集《真相捕捉》中的雷切尔·凯里警探，以及迈克·内威尔执导的《远大前程》改编作品中的艾丝黛拉。

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iso_3166_1: CN

english_name: Mandarin

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iso_3166_1: KR

english_name: Korean

普通话

霍利迪·格蘭傑

biography: 霍利迪·克拉克·格蘭傑（1988 年 3 月 27 日出生），亦以霍莉·格蘭傑之名見稱，是英國影視及舞台劇演員。其代表角色包括：榮獲英國電影學院獎的兒童劇集《羅傑與腐爛巨魔》中的凱特·貝克特、Showtime 劇集《波吉亞家族》中的盧克雷齊婭·波吉亞、《斯特萊克探案集》系列中的羅賓·埃拉科特、Peacock/BBC One 聯合出品的犯罪劇集《真相捕捉》中的雷切爾·凱里警探，以及邁克·內威爾執導的《遠大前程》改編作品中的艾絲黛拉。

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Holly Granger
Holly Grainger
هالیدی گرینجر
هالی‌دی گرینجر

title: Jane Eyre

overview: After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

title: Anna Karenina

overview: In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

title: Bel Ami

overview: Georges Duroy travels through 1890s Paris, from cockroach ridden garrets to opulent salons, using his wits and powers of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth, from a prostitute’s embrace to passionate trysts with wealthy beauties, in a world where politics and media jostle for influence, where sex is power and celebrity an obsession.

title: Great Expectations

overview: Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

title: The Scouting Book for Boys

overview: Thomas Turgoose (This Is England) stars as David, a young boy who lives a carefree life on a coastal caravan park with his best friend Emily (Holliday Grainger). When David learns that Emily is being forced to move away, he helps her hide out in a remote cave on the beach. But as David watches the police close in on his missing friend, their innocent secret takes on a life of its own. When the real reason Emily wants to escape comes to light, David's world is shattered. Swept up in a situation out of his control, and with his feelings for his best friend growing stranger by the day, David is forced to take action.

title: Tulip Fever

overview: An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.

title: The Riot Club

overview: Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one evening.

title: The Finest Hours

overview: The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.

title: Mickey 17

overview: Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.

title: Lady Chatterley's Lover

overview: An early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeeper. Jed Mercurio’s adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic.

title: Magnificent 7

overview: Inspired by the life of Jacqui Jackson, the story follows a self-sacrificing mother of seven children, four of whom are, in one form or another, autistic.

title: The Bad Mother's Handbook

overview: Karen Cooper wants to domineer her family and believes she's its pillar. In fact she does everything wrong. Thus she messes up all their lives and futures, rather then help her loved-ones.

title: Home

overview: As thousands of men, women and children attempt to get into Europe, a comfortable English family sets out on what appears to be a holiday.

title: The Missing Postman

overview: When Dorset postman Clive Peacock is forced into early retirement, the years ahead look bleak. But on his last day in the job, in a moment of unexpected rebellion he makes a decision that will change his life. As he makes his final collection from the postbox in the small seaside town where he lives, he decides to deliver the letters himself, by hand, no matter the destination. Mounting his trusty bicycle, he sets off on what proves to be an odyssey of self-discovery. Pursued by the police and lionised by the media, Clive becomes both a fugitive and a reluctant hero.

title: Awaydays

overview: On the Wirral in the grim early years of Margaret Thatcher's premiership, the opportunities for thrill seeking young men looking to escape 9 to 5 drudgery are what they've always been: sex, drugs, rock n' roll, fashion, football and fighting.

title: Colette

overview: Holliday Grainger provides a raw, emotional performance as Colette, a 16-year-old who finds it hard to love.

title: Goblin?

overview: Elizabeth has got her hands full with her boyfriend Harry, who's convinced there's a Goblin in the wardrobe. It's either the wrong relationship, or the wrong wardrobe.

title: My Cousin Rachel

overview: A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.

title: Halo of Stars

overview: Set against the backdrop of a small traveling circus, a European clown and his 5-year-old daughter lead each other through the everyday mysteries of love, magic and loss. Based on the long poem “The Clown” by Anthony Lucero.

title: Robot & Scarecrow

overview: A love story between a robot and a scarecrow who meet and fall for each other at a summer music festival.

title: Tell It to the Bees

overview: Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the bee keeper brings his mother Lydia into Jean's world.

title: The Illustrated Mum

overview: Two sisters cope with the unpredictable behaviour of their depressed, alcoholic mother. Based on the novel by Jacqueline Wilson.

title: Animals

overview: Longtime friends and party lovers Laura and Tyler navigate life and love in Dublin, Ireland but find themselves drifting apart when Laura becomes engaged.

title: Cinderella

overview: When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters. Never one to give up hope, Ella's fortunes begin to change after meeting a dashing stranger in the woods.

title: Demons

overview: Luke Rutherford's ordinary life ends when Rupert Galvin reveals Luke's destiny as Van Helsing's great-grandson, a supernatural warrior battling entities lurking under modern London.

title: Jane Eyre

title: Anna Karenina

title: Bel Ami

title: Great Expectations

title: The Scouting Book for Boys

title: Tulip Fever

title: The Riot Club

title: The Finest Hours

title: Mickey 17

title: Lady Chatterley's Lover

title: Magnificent 7

title: The Bad Mother's Handbook

title: Home

title: Awaydays

title: Colette

title: Goblin?

title: The Missing Postman

title: My Cousin Rachel

title: Halo of Stars

title: Robot & Scarecrow

title: Tell It to the Bees

title: The Illustrated Mum

title: Animals

title: Cinderella

title: Demons


David McMillan

Sleepy Hollow

job: Story

overview: Ichabod Crane is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers.

department: Writing

original_name: Sleepy Hollow

Lucifer

job: Writer

overview: Bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, Lucifer Morningstar abandoned his throne and retired to Los Angeles, where he has teamed up with LAPD detective Chloe Decker to take down criminals. But the longer he's away from the underworld, the greater the threat that the worst of humanity could escape.

original_name: Lucifer

name: DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story

overview: This series examines the gruesome and horrific true crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer and the systemic failures that enabled one of America’s most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous spree in plain sight for over a decade.

job: Supervising Producer

department: Production

name: Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story

overview: The story of the Menéndez brothers, who were convicted in 1996 of murdering their parents José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menéndez.

job: Executive Producer

Dexter: New Blood

overview: 10 years after Dexter went missing in the eye of Hurricane Laura, we find him living under an assumed name in the small town of Iron Lake, New York.  Dexter may be embracing his new life, but in the wake of unexpected events in this close-knit community, his Dark Passenger beckons.

original_name: Dexter: New Blood

title: Jury Duty

overview: When jobless Tommy Collins discovers that sequestered jurors earn free room and board as well as $5-a-day, he gets himself assigned to a jury in a murder trial. Once there, he does everything he can to prolong the trial and deliberations and make the sequestration more comfortable for himself.

character: Friendly Falafel Employee

original_title: Jury Duty

title: The Last Boy Scout

overview: Somewhere in Los Angeles, the city of broken dreams, a stripper is murdered. Now, the private detective she had hired and her ex-footballer boyfriend are going to find her murderer... if they don't kill each other first. But the more they dig, the deeper they become enmeshed in a web of extortion, blackmail and corrupt politics hidden beneath the surface of professional football.

character: Kid (as David L. McMillan)

original_title: The Last Boy Scout

title: Scrambled

overview: When a doctor visit reveals her fertility may be in jeopardy, thirty-something Nellie Robinson stares down the barrel of a future without options and decides to freeze her eggs.

character: Groomsman

original_title: Scrambled

title: Signal Hill

overview: Lawyer Johnnie Cochran takes on a police brutality case in 1981 in which a young college student dies under suspicious circumstances in police custody.

original_title: Signal Hill

title: Jury Duty

media_type: movie

title: The Last Boy Scout

title: Scrambled

title: Signal Hill

Sleepy Hollow

media_type: tv

known_for_department: Writing


Angie Chiu Nga-Chi

biography: Angie Chiu Nga-Chi (Chinese: 趙雅芝; born 15 November 1954) is a Hong Kong actress, and was the third runner up in the 1973 Miss Hong Kong pageant.

狀元花之笑看良緣

character: Li Jiaohong

original_name: 狀元花之笑看良緣

original_language: zh

新孽海花传奇

original_name: 新孽海花传奇

乱世不了情

original_name: 乱世不了情

Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre

overview: The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber is a Hong Kong television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel of the same title. The series was first broadcast on TVB Jade in Hong Kong in 1978.

character: Zhou Zhiruo

original_name: 倚天屠龍記

original_language: cn

Ace Actress

character: 名誉校长

original_name: 我是女演员

The Other Side of the Horizon

original_name: 魔域桃源

All In The Family

original_name: 家家有本難唸的經

Point of No Return

overview: Point of No Return is a 30-episode TVB drama broadcast between November 2003 and December 2003. It is a story about a family shipping business and various love triangles set in Guangzhou, China, in the 1920s. This series again saw Julian Cheung and Charmaine Sheh as an on-screen couple after their partnership in Return of the Cuckoo, and as with previous occasions, their on screen chemistry was praised by audiences.

original_name: 西關大少

The Reincarnated Princess

original_name: 觀世音

The God of Sabre

original_name: 刀神

Move On

original_name: 乘風破浪

Vanity Fair

overview: Vanity Fair is a TVB television series, premiered on January 2, 1978. Theme song "Vanity Fair" composition by Joseph Koo, lyricist by Wong Jim, arrangement by Joseph Koo and Choi Tak Choi, sung by Paula Tsui.

original_name: 大亨

Chinese Folklore

overview: 《民間傳奇》adapted dozens of famous Chinese folk tales, dramas, and myth legends, such as "The Butterfly Lovers" and "Chang'e Flying to the Moon". These stories show the joys and sorrows of ancient Chinese people, and celebrate the righteous and kind while condemning evil. The endings are not always perfect, but justice eventually prevails and evil-doers get what they deserve. The show is a classic in Chinese TV history, often broadcasted during holidays, and remains unsurpassed to this day.

original_name: 民間傳奇

It Takes Three

character: 老若翩

original_name: 三相逢

This Generation

original_name: 江湖小子

Gary's Angels

original_name: 黃金約會

Good Morning Mother In Law

original_name: 奶奶早晨

The Hawk

overview: The Ding family has been in the business of catching criminals for generations, and their descendants are honored as "Flying Eagles". A mysterious person hires Ding Lan to investigate the whereabouts of the remnants of the "Baiyue Sect" at a high price. While investigating, Lan falls into his mother's scheme and is arranged to marry wealthy young lady Ni Tian'er. Unexpectedly, Lan disappears without a trace, which makes Tian'er furious and determined to seek revenge. Lan meets Zhao Ling and his father Zhao Hongyi, who is known as the "Sage of Martial Arts", at the Zhejian Mountain Villa. Lan respects him, but accidentally discovers that his wife Shui Ru is the mastermind behind the "Four Evils" gang. The mysterious person who entrusts him with the case is Wei Jinglun, the manager of the villa. Lan meets the beautiful courtesan Susu and pursues her passionately, only to find out later that she is actually Tian'er. On the day when Lan and Tian'er get married again...

character: 倪天兒

original_name: 飛鷹

On the Road (Sr. 3)

original_name: 向世界出發 第三輯

The Sacred Commandment

original_name: 武林聖火令

The Detectives' Adventures

overview: The first reality show on detective stories adapted from classic IP. Every episode is based on a classic IP drama. MCs are able to adapt and act out the classic stories in the real scenes. The detective group includes seven MCs, who are encouraged to obtain clues from the unreasonable scripts and amusing games.

character: 骊山圣母

original_name: 萌探探探案

The Adventurers

overview: The Adventurers is a TVB television series, premiered in 1980. Theme song "The Adventurer's", and the sub theme song "The Sentimental Debts" composition and arrangement by Joseph Koo, lyricist by Wong Jim, sung by Jenny Tseng.

original_name: 衝擊

秦始皇与阿房女

character: 阿房

original_name: 秦始皇与阿房女

New Legend of Madame White Snake

overview: New Legend of Madame White Snake (Chinese: 新白娘子傳奇) is a 1992 TV series starring Angie Chiu and Cecilia Yip. It is based on the Chinese folk legend Legend of the White Snake. First shown on Taiwan Television in 1992, the series was broadcast on China Central Television in 1993 and became a major hit.

character: Bai Suzhen / Hu Meiniang

original_name: 新白娘子传奇

Warriors of the Yang Clan

overview: Based on the historical exploits of the Yang military family during the Song Dynasty, this drama begins as war between China and the neighboring Liao kingdom is about to begin.

character: Shu Sai Hua

original_name: 杨门虎将

The First Love

original_name: 無花果

All The Wrong Shoes

original_name: 福星高照

The Flying Fox Of Snowy Mountain

overview: Based on a wuxia novel of the same name by Jin Yong, The Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain tells a story of a swordsman name Wu Fei who grows up and goes in search of his Father's murderer to avenge him. Along the way he faces trials and turbulence, and finds out there is more to his father's death than what he was told.

original_name: 雪山飛狐

Make Bitter Qianlong

character: 程淮秀

original_name: 戏说乾隆

Up Idol

original_name: 我们来了

The Bund

overview: The Bund is a Hong Kong period drama television series first broadcast on TVB in 1980. It is praised as the Godfather of the east and spawned several sequels, remakes and film adaptations. The theme song of the series, performed by Frances Yip, also became a memorable Cantopop hit.

character: 冯程程

original_name: 上海灘

Master of Destiny

overview: Kwan Yeuk-nam is a powerful woman. After her husband committed suicide due to a business failure, she single-handedly raised her three sons to adulthood, all whilst establishing her business empire, Sun Hon Lik. Now ready to retire, she is prepared to pass down her empire to her three sons.

character: Mok Nga-man

original_name: 風雲天地

The Yang's Saga

overview: The Yang's Saga is a 1985 Hong Kong miniseries based on a series of novels and plays titled Generals of the Yang Clan. The series is a grand production by the television station TVB. The original broadcast period on TVB Jade was from 23 to 28 September 1985, within the night time slot for Enjoy Yourself Tonight. Starring the Five Tiger Generals of TVB, the drama also featured the largest star-studded cast in Hong Kong television history, including many of the industry's current top award-winning global and cinematic stars.

original_name: 楊家將

Three Stooges Go Undercover

character: 苏小妹

original_name: 癲鳳狂龍

Imperfect Love

overview:
The drama is shot from the perspective of women and tells a story about finding light in the darkness and embracing hope in motherhood.

Lin Xu Zhi is a woman who doesn’t have a past. She was adopted and is still scarred from being abandoned by her birth mother. She’s an elementary school teacher that realizes one of her female students is receiving abuse from her mother. Her maternal instincts kick in, and she impulsively decides to bring the girl into her own care. In caring for the young girl, named Xiao Ou, two broken souls find solace in each other.

character: Zhong Hui

original_name: 不完美的她

Memories Beyond Horizon

overview:
“Memories Beyond Horizon” is a Chinese reality TV show , created to spotlight emerging domestic talent in film and TV.  Produced in collaboration with Zhejiang Television, Alibaba’s Youku video service, and Hong Kong’s TVB, the show features veteran film and television figures mentoring a group of 18 artists from both the mainland and Hong Kong. Each episode focuses on reinterpreting iconic scenes from classic Hong Kong films such as “Infernal Affairs” and “New Dragon Gate Inn” for their acting challenges.

Among the mentors are renowned Hong Kong directors and actors, including Yee Tung-sing and Francis Ng Chun-yu, while participants include graduates from professional acting schools, industry veterans, and individuals known for modeling, singing, or high-profile relationships.

original_name: 无限超越班

诗画中国

original_name: 诗画中国

京华烟云

character: 姚木兰

original_name: 京华烟云

Night in the Greater Bay

overview: A Chinese variety program focusing on the running a "dai pai tong" restaurant located in the Greater Bay Area, witnessing the development of the country, promoting food and cultural exchanges between Guangdong, Macau and Hong Kong.  A spin off variety show from 2021's popular "Call Me By Fire" from Hunan station, the five Hong Kong based members - Jordan Chan, Julian Cheung, Michael Tse, Jerry Lamb and Edmund Leung, are selected to jointly operate a Hong Kong-style food stall in Guangzhou. Through immersive filming, the program will record the daily events around the 5 members, the preparation of food, songs and entertainment to heal the anxiety of the diners with sincere communication and an optimistic attitude towards life.

original_name: 大湾仔的夜

Chor Lau-heung

overview: A Hong Kong adaption of Gu Long's Chu Liuxiang novel series.

character: 蘇蓉蓉

original_name: 楚留香

The Killer

original_name: 大江南北

The Switch

original_name: 雙面人

Conflict

overview: Conflict is a TVB television series, premiered on October 2, 1978. Theme song "Conflict" composition and arrangement by Joseph Koo, lyricist by Wong Jim, sung by Jenny Tseng.

In Love and War

overview: In Love and War is a TVB television series, premiered in 1981. Theme song "In Love and War" composition and arrangement by Joseph Koo, lyricist by Wong Jim, sung by Adam Cheng.

The Radio Tycoon

overview: The Radio Tycoon is a TVB television series, premiered in Hong Kong in 1983.

name: The Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain (Digital Remaster)

original_name: 雪山飛狐 (數碼修復版)

倚天屠龍記 (數碼修復版)

original_name: 倚天屠龍記 (數碼修復版)

Ride the Wind

overview: A chinese variety show which features 30 female celebrities all over 30 years old who must compete to debut in a seven-member girlsband.

普通话

赵雅芝

biography:
　　赵雅芝，电视巨星，表演艺术家，“赵雅芝现象”缔造者，曾引发万人空巷的观剧热潮。1982年因楚留香的轰动被称为港台第一女星，1993年因白娘子的热播被称为华人第一女星，「亚洲第一美女，最能代表中国美的美女」。

　　1978年主演《倚天屠龙记》成名，1980年主演《上海滩》《飞鹰》《女黑侠木兰花》收视率80%以上，1982年在美国旧金山出席电视节目交流，1985年《观世音》获纽约国际电视节金奖，1991年在故宫实景拍摄《戏说乾隆》获金鹰奖优秀合拍片奖，1992年《新白娘子传奇》掀起全国热潮，2012年白玉兰奖压轴颁奖 ，2013年受中国妇联邀请第十届女性成功论坛发表演讲。

　　赵雅芝被评为十三个五年规划的中国星。

普通话

趙雅芝

biography:
趙雅芝，香港女演員，1970 至 80 年代無綫電視「四大花旦」之一。趙雅芝以俏麗脱俗的古裝扮相稱著，曾主演多套經典香港電視劇與台灣電視劇。

1973 年，趙雅芝參加無綫電視舉辦的首屆香港小姐競選，並獲得第四名。1975 年，因嚮往演藝圈工作而辭去空勤一職，加入無綫電視戲劇組；開始參演無線電視劇集。

趙雅芝加入無線電視後，開始接拍多部電視劇。其中包括《乘風破浪》裏的施淑楓，《大報復》裏的韋婷，《大亨》裏的朱敏芝，《倚天屠龍記》裏的周芷若，《楚留香》裏的蘇蓉蓉，《上海灘》飾演馮程程。其中趙雅芝與鄭少秋合演的 1978 年《倚天屠龍記》使趙雅芝開始走紅。1978 年《倚天屠龍記》是趙雅芝的第一部古裝武俠劇。也是因為她演的 1978 年《倚天屠龍記》讓香港觀眾看到她美麗的古裝扮相。過後趙雅芝演不少古裝武俠劇, 例如 1979 年《楚留香》、《刀神》、1981 年《飛鷹》使不少觀眾公認她為當時「古裝第一美人」的稱號。其中趙雅芝與鄭少秋主演的 1981 年《 飛鷹》讓趙雅芝獲得 2011 年新加坡新傳媒華語劇 50 年《古裝美女第一名》。趙雅芝也憑著在 1979 年《楚留香》和 1980 年《上海灘》的精湛演出更讓她在港台東南亞紅透半邊天，達到演藝生涯的高峯。

其後，趙雅芝亦在多部電視劇中擔任女主角，從 1970 年代始至 1980 年代仍聯續成為無線電視旗下當家花旦。1985 年，趙雅芝與無線電視合約期滿，因為家中有三個兒子需要全心撫養，趙雅芝選擇退隱江湖，結束與無線電視 12 年之賓主關係。在台灣製作人的優厚待遇和配合寒暑假檔期的情況下，偶爾會去台灣拍戲，拍戲貴精不貴多，演出過《京華煙雲》、《戲説乾隆》、《新白娘子傳奇》等戲劇。

1976 年，出演電影《半斤八兩》女主角，1979 年，趙雅芝與狄龍合作電影《教頭》、與爾冬升合作電影《英雄無淚》、拍攝許鞍華導演的經典電影《瘋劫》。其後，亦在《彈指神功》及《風鈴中的刀聲》中飾演蓉蓉一角。

2002 年，趙雅芝重返無線電視。趙雅芝首部回歸作為《西關大少》，再次與劉松仁合作，飾演善良慈祥秘書「伍玉卿」一角。2003 年，趙雅芝拍攝完畢後，隨即離開無線電視。偶爾於無線大型節目以嘉賓出場，近期，趙雅芝在無線大型節目以嘉賓出場的節目為《萬千星輝頒獎典禮 2009》以及《2012 年度香港小姐競選》。

also_known_as:
趙雅芝
Zhao Yazhi
赵雅芝
Angie Chiu Nga-Chi
Chao Ya-Chih
Angie Chiu
Chiu Nga-Chi

title: Money Crazy

overview: Ducky is hired by Rich Chen to transport the "diamonds" he stole from Uncle Pai Mary. Uncles Tough Guy and Mary would like to get the diamond from Ducky, so they volunteer to relieve Ducky of his responsibility.

title: The Private Eyes

overview: The kingpin of the Manix Private Detective Agency and his fellow detective solve cases together.

title: The Daring Kung Fu Refugee

overview: Hong Kong cops investigate a jewelry heist.

title: For Whom to Be Murdered

overview: Two young men from Singapore make holiday in Hong Kong. One of them dreams about a murder. After witnessing a murder they become the targets of some gangsters. Can they outfight the thugs or will the murder dream become a reality?

title: Sword with the Windbell

overview: David Chiang is backed into a corner. He must fight his way out to face the ultimate sword duel with the master of swords, Tien Peng.

title: You Deserve To Be Single

overview: Li Zheng and Li Ying are two brothers the owners of a dating agency called "True Love Club". The business is going very well, but everything changed when Xiao Feng is passed by a sweet love, who is interested in the agency to prove the relationship with their supposed "future wife", the beautiful psychiatrist Fei. What they do not know is that this regular case ends up in an unexpected and fun mess.

title: The Kung Fu Instructor

overview: Two rival clans have unsuccessfully tried to hire the master of the good clan to teach his clan. Not willing to take no for an answer, they frame the master for a dirty deed that he didn't commit, which forces him to kill a man in battle. The townspeople attempt to kill him and he is forced to flee to the evil clan.

title: Showtime

overview: Shanghai, 2009. After four years of studying, a group of dance students are wished well by their teacher as they start rehearsals for their graduation performance. Meanwhile, 5 members of a 1936 Shanghai theatre troupe, lead by Master Liu, are transported into the present to broaden their horizons.

title: Heroes Shed No Tears

overview: Kao is given a mission by his elderly master to take a cursed sword and solve petty squabbles between skilled martial masters.

title: The Secret

overview: A tangled murder mystery unfolds amid a complex love triangle. As conflicting witness accounts emerge, the truth about the victim and key suspects is revealed, leading investigators down a dark and twisty path where nothing is as it seems.

title: The Tough Kung Fu Kid

overview: Shao Chan has the worst luck. It's so bad, he ends up in jail by accident. He escapes after learning of a buried fortune. He hopes finding it will change his luck. However, he learns it's another scheme, this one could cost him his life.

title: 2024影视音乐盛典

title: The Banquet

overview: Developer Tsang Siu Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer Boss Hung has secured the other two. Both aim to buy all four so they can knock them down and build hotels.

title: First Night Nerves

overview: Yuan Xiuling, a former star and has-been actress plans to return to the spotlight of the theater a year after her philandering husband died. She decides to star in Two Sisters, written and directed by transwoman An Ouyang. But, her biggest rival, He Yuwen, a rising actress, also stars in the play. Yuwen plans her theatrical debut through it. During the preparation of the play, such a drama unfolds at the backstage as much as on stage. With the opening night at Hong Kong’s City Hall Theater just seven days away, tensions at rehearsal increase and tempers flare as actresses Xiuling and Yuwen’s buried resentments rise to the surface.

title: The Bund

overview: After losing everything, a young man rebuilds his life and finds love in 1920s Shanghai -- all while rising to power in an organized crime syndicate.

title: The Challenger

overview: After losing his title of king of gamblers, Asia's top card player holds a contest in the hopes of restoring his reputation and his wealth that was cheated from him.  Awesome tricks, fists and kicks galore.

title: On Trial

overview: Danny Chan stars as a rich kid, Po, who excels in music. Without the support of his father, who thinks his younger brother Paul (Paul Chung) is doing much better, Po decides to launch his music career alone. On the contrary, Wing (Leslie Cheung) comes from a poor family, but he lies to friends about that. The two boys have been real good friends before Po discovers Wing's family situation, triggering his inferiority complex…

title: The Bund Part II

title: 深圳卫视超级歌会

title: 启航2026——中央广播电视总台跨年晚会

original_title: 启航2026——中央广播电视总台跨年晚会

title: 新白娘子传奇演唱会 杭州场

original_title: 新白娘子传奇演唱会 杭州场

title: Money Crazy

title: The Private Eyes

title: Sword with the Windbell

title: For Whom to Be Murdered

title: The Daring Kung Fu Refugee

title: You Deserve To Be Single

title: The Kung Fu Instructor

title: Showtime

title: Heroes Shed No Tears

title: The Secret

title: The Tough Kung Fu Kid

title: 2024影视音乐盛典

title: The Banquet

title: First Night Nerves

title: The Bund

title: The Challenger

title: On Trial

title: The Bund Part II

title: 深圳卫视超级歌会

title: 启航2026——中央广播电视总台跨年晚会

original_title: 启航2026——中央广播电视总台跨年晚会

title: 新白娘子传奇演唱会 杭州场

original_title: 新白娘子传奇演唱会 杭州场

original_name: 雪山飛狐 (數碼修復版)

倚天屠龍記 (數碼修復版)

original_name: 倚天屠龍記 (數碼修復版)