Abi Morgan

Victoria Wood's Secret List features more than 20 sketches from the comedian's vast array of work. The sketches - chosen by Victoria herself - were discovered on a list in one of her personal notebooks after her untimely death. With a career spanning more than 40 years and crossing every possible genre, Victoria has a back catalogue that's bulging with sublime comedy moments, and Victoria Wood's Secret List promises viewers a unique opportunity to see the very best bits of Victoria's work that she loved the most.

After 43 years together, Helen finds out her husband is leaving.

No início do século XX, após décadas de manifestações pacíficas, as mulheres ainda não possuem o direito de voto no Reino Unido. Um grupo militante decide coordenar atos de insubordinação, quebrando vidraças e explodindo caixas de correio, para chamar a atenção dos políticos locais à causa. Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan), sem formação política, descobre o movimento e passa a cooperar com as novas feministas. Ela enfrenta grande pressão da polícia e dos familiares para voltar ao lar e se sujeitar à opressão masculina, mas decide que o combate pela igualdade de direitos merece alguns sacrifícios.

In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about a unique body of work and a lifelong struggle to make films on his own terms. On day one of a Mike Leigh film, there is no script, no story and the actors do not know if they will even be in the final film. It is a process that has yielded some of cinema's most celebrated performances, and Leigh's new film Mr Turner is already winning critical acclaim. Actors including Jim Broadbent, Eddie Marsan, Sally Hawkins, Lesley Manville and James Corden give fascinating insights into the director and his distinctive method of working.

Nelly é assombrada por seu passado. Suas lembranças nos levam de volta no tempo para acompanhar a história de seu relacionamento com Charles Dickens, com quem ela descobriu uma cumplicidade emocionante, mas frágil. Dickens — famoso, controlador e emocionalmente isolado dentro de seu sucesso — se apaixona por Nelly. Conforme Nelly torna-se o foco da paixão de Dickens e sua musa, o preço para ambos é o segredo, e para Nelly, uma vida de "invisibilidade".

Lovesong intricately weaves the story of a couple in the first stages of their life together with the same couple as they approach the end of this story. A delicate mix of storytelling and physical theatre, this production was captured by Digital Theatre live at the Lyric Hammersmith, London.

Cinebiografia de Margaret Thatcher, ex-Primeira Ministra britânica, que retrata desde a sua infância até o período mais impopular do seu governo, em 1982, quando ela tentava salvar sua carreira nos 17 dias que antecederam a Guerra das Malvinas.

Brandon é um novaiorquino de 30 anos que não consegue controlar sua vida sexual. Não bastasse os efeitos do seu vício em sexo, Brandon terá que se entender com as cobranças diárias de seu chefe, David, e, nesse meio tempo, amadurecer a relação com a sua irmã, Sissy.

It's July 1981, the Royal Wedding of Charles and Diana. In a small Welsh town where her fifteen-year-old daughter Tammy has organized a street party, Linda Caddock recently made redundant and married to wannabe singer and all-round dreamer Johnny, fears for the future. Neighbour Alan wants her to run off with him. But who will she choose?

Debbie, a working class single mother from Leeds, moves her family to Bradford, where they find themselves in an ethnic minority. Daughter Leah must adapt to being the only white girl at school.

Nazneem, uma jovem de Bangladesh, chega na cidade de Londres em 1980, deixando para trás sua querida irmã e sua casa, para viver nova vida em um casamento arranjado. Trancada entre as quatro paredes de sua casa, e com um casamento nada amoroso com Chanu, ela sente que sua alma está morrendo aos poucos. Sua irmã Hasina, no entanto, continua a viver sua vida em Bangladesh, se envolvendo em uma aventura atrás da outra. Nazneem se esforça para aceitar seu novo estilo de vida, e manter sua cabeça afastada dos problemas, mas ela logo irá descobrir que a vida não pode ser evitada – e é forçada a confrontar isso no dia em que o jovem Karim bate à sua porta.

Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas presents a long overdue assessment of the rich heritage television drama has to offer. Channel 4 invited over 200 of Britain's top television drama professionals – writers, directors, producers and commissioners – to take part in an exclusive poll to discover what they consider the finest dramas ever produced.

Chris Maurer is killed the day after his 21st birthday and his grieving mother, Angela Maurer, is unable to come to grips with that fact. She is taken advantage of by a self-interested journalist who only cares about getting a front-page story and she is completely dissatisfied with the way the police are handling the case. A local shopkeeper tries to help her through these trying times, but to no avail. The police arrest Chris' friend Ryan McGuinness, after they learn Chris may have spent the night with Ryan's girlfriend but Chris also had a testy relationship with his brother-in-law. The Good Samaritan who found Chris bloodied and beaten on the sidewalk agrees to participate in a reconstruction of the crime. In the end, a simple slip of the tongue reveals the identity of the killer and then the motive for the murder.

Trina Lavery returns home to Stoke after 20 years, to look after her ill mother. She learns that Bernard Cleve is also living in Stoke. Bernard was accused of killing Trinas best friend many years ago but was never convicted. Another girl is killed and Bernard is again a suspect. Trina thinks he is innocent but places herself in danger in trying to prove it.

Sebastian Schipper is adapting Jessica Stern's bestselling memoir "Denial: A Memoir of Terror". The project will be Schipper's English-language debut. It is a deeply personal memoir of her and her sisters's rape, when they were teenagers, by an unknown assailant and of Stern's attempt, decades later, to investigate the unsolved crime and address her own trauma surrounding it.