Ken Stott plays a father of three who is dismissed after 30 years on the docks. As the strike seeps into the personal relationships of the dockers, tensions mount when the management recruit scab Ricky Tomlinson.
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Never Never
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John Simm and Sophie Okonedo star in this gritty two-part drama by award-winning writer, Tony Marchant, about the harsh and everyday realities of debt on an ordinary housing estate in Britain
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Fallout
1 Episode
A policeman returns to the estate where he grew up to investigate the murder of a young boy. Lennie James stars in this powerful drama about race and law and order.
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The Wilsons
6 Episodes
Comedy drama about a deeply dysfunctional family from South London. Ray, a friendly but hopeless fifty-something, is a widower with three daughters, two sons and a drink problem.
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Double Lesson
1 Episode
The fictional story of a secondary school teacher who, one Monday afternoon, attacks a pupil in his class
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Buried
8 Episodes
Lennie James starts in this hard-hitting drama about the daily struggle for survival in HMP Mandrake, a men's prison
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The Mark of Cain
1 Episode
Bafta award-winning writer Tony Marchant and director Marc Munden's provocative, graphic and moving drama about a group of young British soldiers in Iraq
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Honeymoon
1 Episode
A woman sets off on her honeymoon, but troubling events over the course of one night make her question who her new husband really is...
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Red Riding
3 Episodes
A thrilling trilogy of films based on David Peace's cult noir novels about Yorkshire during the 1970s and 80s. Welcome to a world of paranoia, corruption - and the terrifying legacy of the Ripper murders...
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Skins
48 Episodes
Irreverent comedy drama from the makers of Shameless, which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol
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90210
4 Episodes
Prepare to revisit the hottest postcode in the USA. The kids from West Beverly High might be rich and privileged, but they've always got some drama going on...
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Desperate Housewives
4 Episodes
Dark comedy drama exploring the complicated reality behind the apparent domestic bliss of a group of housewives in a fictitious American suburb
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Shameless
10 Series, 113 Episodes
Paul Abbott's critically acclaimed, offbeat drama about the rollercoaster lives and loves of the dysfunctional Gallagher clan
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This Is England
2 Series, 7 Episodes
This Is England revisits the characters of Shane Meadows' multi award-winning hit film. Acclaimed director Shane Meadows' first ever television series follows the lives of Shaun, Lol, Woody and their gang of friends.
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No Angels
10 Episodes
Critically acclaimed comedy drama following four young nurses struggling to cope with life, death and lunacy on the wards of St Margaret's Hospital
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Saving Grace
3 Episodes
Academy Award winner Holly Hunter stars in gritty drama Saving Grace as Grace Hanadarko, a fast-living and headstrong Oklahoma City police detective set on a path of self-destruction
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Fresh Meat
8 Episodes
Comedy drama series from the creators of Peep Show about the hilarious, and often painful, truths of being a student