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Episode 17: Cutbacks. Liz is willing to do anything to avoid cutbacks at T.G.S., while Jack is forced to fire his personal assistant and hire Kenneth as his part-time assistant.
Episode 18: Jackie Jormp-Jomp. Jack tries to turn an accidental obituary for Jenna into a marketing opportunity for her Janis Joplin-based biopic. Meanwhile Liz makes friends with a group of single women while away from work for sexual harassment.
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1999)

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Scrooge is a miserly old businessman in 1840's London. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Marley, his dead business partner. Marley foretells that Scrooge will be visited by three spirits, each of whom will attempt to show Scrooge the error of his ways. Will Scrooge reform his ways in time to celebrate Christmas?
Well-received version of an extremely familiar morality tale.

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A COCK AND BULL STORY (2005)

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Director Michael Winterbottom is out to film the unfilmable novel: an adaptation of Laurence Sterne's sprawling 18th Century masterpiece of digression, �The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'. What begins as a seemingly straightforward attempt to recreate the frenetic novel - starring Steve Coogan as the title figure and Rob Brydon as his Uncle Toby - quickly derails into a behind-the-scenes document of the film's actual production. A funny, biting and occasionally touching ode to find out more...

A GOOD WOMAN (2005)

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Set during the 1930's on the Amalfi coast, a chosen summer haunt for the rich and the beautiful, rarely is the air not thick with gossip, but on this occasion Robert Windemere and his beautiful young wife are the focus of discussion. Rumour has it Robert provides an allowance Mrs Erlynne, a woman with a reputation to be well avoided, while his wife is not as dismissive of other men's attentions as it is felt she ought. Adapted from Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's fan, A Good Woman is a lushly vi find out more...

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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (BBC) (1981)

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This BBC producion has won high praise for outstanding sets, atmospheric music and for all-round exuberance and that touch of magic. Like most BBC productions this is the definitive study version. find out more...

AFTERNOON DELIGHT (2013)

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ALMOST CHRISTMAS (2013)

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AN IDEAL HUSBAND (1999)

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Sir Robert Chiltern is a happily married Government minister, but all of this looks set to change when the scheming Mrs Chieveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Whilst Chiltern wrestles with his conscience, his wife Gertrude and closest friend, the urbane Lord Goring, the pivotal figure in the play and never short of a witty retort, conspire to thwart Mrs Chieveley's plans. One reason why the material has stood the test of time so well is because the issues of moralit find out more...

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AN IDEAL HUSBAND / LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN (1985)

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'An Ideal Husband' (1969) revolves around the lives of two men, sucessful political figure Sir Robert Chiltern and his friend the uninspired but utterly charming Lord Arthur Goring. Chiltern's life is perfect thanks to the help of his loving and brillant wife Gerturde and the support of his quick witted sister Mabel. Goring's life is one of lounging, flirting with Mabel, and avoiding his father's instance that he should marry. The world of these men is turned upside down by the arrival of an old find out more...

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AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (1956)

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Michael Anderson had the bright idea of collecting hundreds of stars together way before Robert Altman thought of it and here they all are, in glorious technicolour. Niven is suberb, as always, as the impeccable Fogg who, for a wager, tries to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days! Hop on a sailing railroad across The West! Be attacked by fierce prairie Indians! Rescue a Princess in India! Sail a burning Atlantic paddle-wheeler! Fight bulls in Spain! Romp through Paris! Won Best Picture at 1956 Ac find out more...