Aventuras y desventuras de los trabajadores de una oficina veterinaria en la década de los años 40 en Yorkshire.
Louisa Durrell, viuda con cuatro hijos, no termina de encajar en la fría localidad inglesa de Bournemouth. Su día a día se reduce a cuidar de la casa, dejarse la pensión en deudas y gastos que apenas puede asumir y ver cómo sus hijos se quejan de todo sin dar palo al agua. Louisa decide cortar por lo sano y buscar una nueva oportunidad en el lugar más inesperado: la recóndita y paradisíaca isla griega de Corfú.
Historia inspirada en el exitoso libro #Girlboss, basado en la vida de Sophia Amoruso, fundadora del gigante online de la moda Nasty Gal. La serie se centra en Amoruso (Brit Robertson) quien empezó a vender ropa vintage en eBay y, con solo 28 años, construyó un imperio multimillonario en el sector textil.
Beautiful People is a British comedy drama television series based on the memoirs of Barneys creative director Simon Doonan. The series takes place in Reading, Berkshire, in 1997, where thirteen-year-old Simon Doonan and his best friend Kylie dream of escaping their dreary suburban surroundings and moving to cosmopolitan London "to live amongst the beautiful people." The first episode aired on BBC Two on 2 October 2008 and recorded overnight ratings of 1.5 million viewers and positive critical reaction. Episodes are self-contained, but do follow a loose story arc throughout the course of each series. The second and final series finished airing on 18 December 2009.
Esta divertida, cruda y por momentos desgarradora comedia se sumerge en el frenético día a día de un médico residente del ala de obstetricia y ginecología de un hospital. Semanas de 97 horas, disponibilidad 24/7, decisiones de vida o muerte y un tsunami diario de fluidos corporales compensados por unos ingresos inferiores a los de un parquímetro. Adam dobla turnos, se enfrenta a diagnósticos surrealistas, batalla contra la constante burocracia, carga con responsabilidades que no le competen y trata de sobrevivir al pánico de equivocarse, mientras su vida personal empieza a desmoronarse inevitablemente.
Tras escapar de una relación de maltrato, una joven madre encuentra trabajo como asistenta mientras lucha por cuidar de su hija y crear un futuro mejor para las dos.
Twenty years old and from Leicester, Nina moves to North London in 1982, to care for the two young boys of a working single mother, George, the editor of a London literary review.
One By One is a British television series made by the BBC between 1984 and 1987.
The series, created by Anthony Read, followed the career of international veterinarian David Taylor and his work caring for exotic animals at zoos in Britain, from the 1950s to the 1970s. Each series was set during a different decade, with exteriors filmed at Dudley Zoo, Chester Zoo and Knowsley Safari Park. Thirty-two episodes were made in total.
Rob Heyland starred as Turner, while other major cast members included James Ellis, Sonia Graham, Peter Gilmore, Heather James, Catherine Schell, Peter Jeffrey, Andrew Robertson and Christina Nagy.
Miniseries based on the 1977 autobiography by Philip Caputo about his service in the United States Marine Corps in the early years of American involvement in the Vietnam War.
Young Gerald explored his passion for the animal kingdom with his inspirational tutor, Dr Theodore Stephanides. The backdrop was sunshine, happiness and the love and laughter of a doting, slightly eccentric family
The adventures of two married game wardens in Kenya. George Adamson and Diana Muldaur live with their adopted lioness Elsa the Lioness, where they protect the animals in the surrounding area from all sorts of danger, both natural and human.
A dramatization of Vera Brittain's 1933 autobiography Testament of Youth---a memorial to a generation devastated by WWI--- chronicles her experiences as a nurse in London and Malta and at the front lines in France. It opens with 18-year-old Vera, the genteel daughter of a paper-mill owner, nurturing 'hopes of escaping from provincial young ladyhood.' Her plan is to attend Oxford.
Annie and Peter Mayle decide, in their own words, to take the plunge: they quit their jobs as a tax investigator and an advertising executive and move to Provence in the south of France. Their experience in their first month go from outstanding to downright puzzling. They adore the food and wine but do encounter amusing cultural barriers from the lengthy discussion every time they go to the butcher, to the plumber who promises to come back but is unseen for the the next month. They also learn that their old friends in England are lining up to visit them in the summer.
In 1930s England, an orphaned girl and her lovely aunt raise an abandoned seal pup.
Historical drama adapted from the diary of the famous British travel-writer Maria Graham who arrived in Chile in 1822 just as the country was becoming independent from Spain. She is a woman coming to terms with her husband’s recent death: In her discovery of this breathtakingly beautiful country, its people and its customs, she learns to live again.
Based on August Strindberg’s autobiographical novel about his marriage to Siri von Essen. She was married when she met him, but abandoned her husband, became Strindberg’s mistress and later his wife.
Año 1939, Guy Grouchback (Daniel Craig), un inglés que vive en Italia, vuelve de su exilio para alistarse y luchar en la Segunda Guerra Mundial junto con la armada británica. Tras las líneas enemigas, varios de sus compañeros de guerra morirán en honor a su país.
At 15, Melissa Moore discovered that her beloved father was the prolific serial killer known as "Happy Face." Jumping off from Moore's true-life story, her father contacts her to take credit for another victim, pulling her into an extraordinary investigation of her father and his crimes. As she discovers the impact her father had on his victims' families, she must face a reckoning of her own identity.
Repasa la vida del gimnasta olímpico barcelonés Gervasio Deferr, quien se alzó como una institución del deporte español a comienzos de los años 2000 al encadenar dos imponentes distinciones: sendas medallas de oro en salto de potro en los Juegos Olímpicos de Sídney de 2000 y en los Juegos Olímpicos de Atenas de 2004.