After CBS axed the show US fans demanded another series. So, short and sweet, Season 2 offers up some answers to the questions left hanging in the balance at the end of Season 1. From its more humble beginnings, as a tale about a small town dealing with disaster, 'Jericho' evolves into a political commentary on governmental power and activity - based on conspiracy theory of course. find out more...

DS Beauchamp is taken hostage during a prison riot, following which both the prisoners and hostages are treated in the same hospital, a hospital that soon plays host to yet another string of relentless murders, only this time it isn't Red who needs to confront the past - it's Kate. find out more...

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A wonderful portrait of Ian Dury - he the polio crippled lyricist and front man for punk icons The Blockheads and a self-pitying, class conscious, angry, supremely talented loud mouth - struggling to relate to his pre-teen son and familial duties.
'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll' is a top notch drama about a real life person, warts, foul language and all, and you neither need to love his music, punk generally nor, indeed, any form of music to appreciate this gem of a film. find out more...

Revolving around a group of teenagers, as they get to grips with the issues of race, religion, sexuality, drugs, food disorders and what constitutes a really good party, "Skins" is a well received British drama which, despite the young cast, has a distinctly raunchy and adult theme. find out more...

Episode 5, Chris; Chris gets expelled, Tony goes swimming and Jal leaves Chris. find out more...

Episode 9, Cassie; Chris has a subarachnoid haemorrhage and Cassie goes to New York. find out more...

The Wordsmith himself, Alan Bennett, brings 6 more monologues to the screen depicting simple suburban lives in all their normally unexpressed intricacy with the characters inhabited by some of the very best actors in British Television. Thoughtful, insightful, touching, witty and perceptive, very few writers have Bennett's warmth and understanding. find out more...

A genre defying little oddity from writer/director Mitchell Lichtenstein that follows the story of Dawn, the teenage spokesperson of a high school chastity league, whose burgeoning sexuality reveals a unique (and voracious!) anatomical anomaly. find out more...

A film dominated by one performance, Forest Whitaker's turn as the infamous dictator Idi Amin. When young Scotsman Nicholas Garrigan becomes his personal physician few of us doubt that it will inevitably end in tears, but Amin, as is so often the way with monsters, has considerable charm to go with his paranoid genocidal tendencies and the naïve Garrigan is seduced. However Garrigan's role is ambiguous; is he just dumb or is he willingly looking the other way? The film also reverses the typical find out more...