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MotherFatherSon
Available May 31st
This thrilling drama features Richard Gere in his first major television role for 30 years. From bestselling author and Emmy-nominated writer Tom Rob Smith (The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story).
Max owns one of the world’s most influential media empires. Information is his trade: he holds dark secrets on everyone, and uses his power ruthlessly. His son Caden is editor of Max’s mouthpiece, The National newspaper. But Caden is crumbling under the pressure of his father’s expectation, numbing his pain with cocaine and intense anonymous sex.
Cleaning Up
Available now
The characterful drama focuses on an ordinary working class woman, Sam, who is caught between two worlds – the everyday life of a devoted and loving Mum and the darker, dangerous world of insider trading.
Sassy office cleaner Sam is one of an invisible army of cleaners on a zero hours contract who mop, sweep and vacuum in the early hours. Struggling with an on-line gambling addiction, Sam realises she has access to lucrative Stock Market information which if used correctly could be the answer to all her prayers. Starring BAFTA award winning actress Sheridan Smith.
Death in Paradise - S8
Available now
The smash-hit whodunit returns. Detective Jack Mooney is starting to get to know the people and places of Saint Marie. But there’s little time for sightseeing, as there are some fiendishly clever murders to solve.
From a local radio DJ murdered while live on air to a zookeeper killed by a poisonous dart, Jack and his team have their work cut out. Energetic officer Ruby Patterson – the commissioner’s niece – is a new face on the team.
Shakespeare & Hathaway - S2
Available Apr 12th
The highly unlikely and hugely entertaining detective duo are back on the case in pretty tourist town Stratford-Upon-Avon. Foul play festers at the local tennis club and a pedigree pooch is held for ransom.
Fraud, extortion, vice, identity theft and corruption lurk beneath the town’s idyllic surface. Welcome to the birthplace of the Bard – where fact is stranger than fiction and low-life criminals get caught up in deliciously high drama.
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