A foot-stomping visit to the BBC vaults for disco classics.
Elbow frontman and broadcaster Guy Garvey lifts the lid on two decades of TV gold – with era-defining musical performances, long lost studio appearances and revealing interviews that have remained on the shelves for decades. The series is centred around shows which were made by ITV companies around the country – from Tony Wilson and Granada TV’s So It Goes to Tyne Tees’ ground-breaking Channel 4 series The Tube and LWT’s The London Weekend Show - chronicling not just changing musical tastes but evolution in the UK’s social and cultural history too. The series travels from Punk and New Wave to the birth of ‘Madchester’.
A severe and authoritarian father is on the verge of an existential crisis when his children are not able to fulfill his expectations and image of "strong and tough men" that he wishes for all of them. Will he be able to straighten the lives of his sons? Or will he have to learn that each of them have already clipped their own wings?
Monkey,Monk and the Monsters Go West is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en. It is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. In English-speaking countries, the work is widely known as "Monkey", the title of Arthur Waley's popular abridged translation.
Almost Live! was a local sketch comedy television show in Seattle, Washington, USA, produced and broadcast by NBC affiliate KING-TV from 1984 to 1999. A re-packaged version of the show also aired on Comedy Central from 1992 to 1993, and episodes aired on WGRZ-TV in the late 1990s. The show was broadcast on Saturday nights at 11:30, pushing Saturday Night Live back to midnight. The show is now aired in reruns by the Seattle NBC affiliate following Saturday Night Live.
Beautiful Cooking is a Hong Kong variety show broadcast on TVB. The show began broadcasting on May 28, 2006 hosted by Ronald Cheng, Alex Fong and Edmond Leung. The second season began broadcast from April 5, 2009.
Two college roommates, now facing quarter-life struggles, navigate the unspoken depths of their chemistry. A bold attempt by one risks unsettling their bond.
Side by Side is a British sitcom starring Gareth Hunt and Louisa Rix that was broadcast for two series from 1992 to 1993. It was written by Richard Ommanney, who had also written Three Up, Two Down.
Carlos Sainz has turned 59 years old. While the rivals of his generation have already hung up their helmets, he continues at the highest level, year after year. His story is an example of perseverance. A two-time World Rally Champion and three-time Dakar winner, his ambition knows no bounds. We live with him through his most exciting year, including Carlos Jr.’s debut as a Ferrari F1 driver.
Taonga is a New Zealand documentary series about New Zealand art and artists that debuted in 2006.
The life of the hereditary diplomat Pyotr Andreyevich Luchnikov is a cycle of events. But he is mainly busy not with establishing international relations and working in the Foreign Ministry, but with sorting out relations and fulfilling the desires of the numerous women who surround him. The trouble-free Luchnikov rushes between wives, former and current, mother, mistresses in several countries, children, grandchildren and an endless number of unfamiliar beauties. Having completely perverted himself, Luchnikov decides to start life from scratch. The last straw for him is the arrival of a new employee - a young and lively girl Inga with a stutter, a difficult character and a father who is Luchnikov's sworn enemy.
It is yet another winter. Cheng Man, the sister of a strong woman in the venture capital world, was in Shanghai and was about to take her daughter to Sanya for the New Year. However, she flew back to her hometown in Dongbei after a series of incidents. Kong Lingqi, the founder of the company who intends to save corporate financing, also followed Cheng Man to Dongbei, trying to change Cheng Man's mind. After some twists and turns, the two finally released their suspicions. The frustrated sister Cheng Shu's homestay in her hometown in Dongbei is facing bankruptcy. The big order that fell from the sky turned out to be from her ex-boyfriend Wei Qi. Liao Ran, who has the dream of being a Michelin star chef, was roped in by the proprietress to fill the hole. The three of them go through yet another emotional twist as it goes on. Their niece, Cheng Miao, who is about to graduate, went home for the Chinese New Year.
Bettany Hughes sets out on an epic journey across continents and back in time to trace the hidden and often controversial history of women in religion