Philip Jackson

Journalist Catherine Heathcote is making a documentary about schoolgirl Alison Carter, who vanished in 1963. What secrets will she uncover?

When Phil Cope (Malcolm Terris), the manager of the England football team, suffers a heart attack during the qualifying rounds of the World Cup, the Football Association opts to replace him with Norwich FC manager Mike Bassett (Ricky Tomlinson). Followed everywhere he goes by a documentary crew, Bassett gets off to a rocky start when his boys lose to Poland, and he doesn't fare much better in games against Belgium and Slovenia. The press are against him, and the country as a whole seems to have little hope for the national team, but can Bassett do the impossible and turn the lads' game around?

Dawn French is joined by a host of guest stars in these darkly comic parodies of the murder genre. Dawn gives death a much needed comic makeover in these deliciously macabre tales.

When 18-year-old Charlie discovers her parents have hidden her real father from her, she sets off to Scotland with a homeless companion to find him.

Patrick is a warm, open, twenty-six year old virgin schizophrenic. Pills and his mother's protection means Patrick is no threat to himself or others. Until he falls in love. Maura is Patrick's obsessive mother and her need to control her son blinds her to the reality that sometimes the only thing more damaging than hate is misguided love.

Four short dramas depicting life in lockdown and what families are going through after weeks of isolation.

While working on a movie set, Sir Laurence Olivier’s assistant becomes enamored with Marilyn Monroe and helps her escape from the pressures of fame.

Riveting and charming, this drama follows a female crime-busting duo as they solve murders in the sleepy suburban town of Middleford, England.

An English community gets testy when a refuge family is granted a plot of land on which to grow vegetables.

Out of the blue, the washed-up hero of a cult 1980s Sci-Fi series is offered to headline a fan club cruise of unknown mayhem around the Greek Isles.

England’s new envoy to Ireland yearns to make her mark uniting the two nations while making peace with her son, who blames her for his dad’s murder.

In a one-off celebratory programme, Agatha Christie: 100 Years Of Poirot and Miss Marple, and with access to the Christie estate archives, we explore her ten most iconic works in chronological order; from Murder on the Orient Express to And Then There Were None and Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, these timeless depictions remind us of another age, and also the brilliance of her literature.

Virgil Oldman (Geoffrey Rush) is a solitary, cultured man whose reluctance to engage with others, especially women, is matched only by the dogged obsessiveness with which he practices his profession as a high-end antiques dealer. One day Virgil receives a phone call from a mysterious young heiress, Claire (Sylvia Hoeks), who asks him to evaluate some family works of art. It will be the beginning of a relationship that will change his life forever...

Ewan McGregor and Pete Poslethwaite star in this typically British award winning comedy about a Yorkshire mining town turning to music for inspiration when faced with the loss of its way of life.

When a man falls in love with the fiancé of his best friend, he must decide between protecting his friendship or pursuing the woman of his dreams.

World-class stars Michael Caine (Hannah and Her Sisters), Brenda Blethyn (Secrets and Lies) and Ewan McGregor (Star Wars: Episode I, Trainspotting) deliver acclaimed performances in an inspirational story about a painfully shy young woman and how the power of music leads her to an amazing transformation!

An insurance investigator goes to an isolated spot in Minnesota to deal with a poor couple that stands to inherit a fortune after a suspicious death.

Set in the 1920s, Sarah (Janet McTeer) and her younger lover (JJ Feild) travel to an ivory trading post deep in the Malaysian jungle. The influence of the couple's high hopes and obvious love for each other on the small strained group of inhabitants unleashes greed, murder and madness: a tragedy where everyone is the victim of each other's broken dreams. This Dogme 95 inspired costume drama also stars Olympia Dukakis, Brenda Fricker, Tony Maudsly and Philip Jackson. The Intended is directed by Danish filmmaker, Kristian Levring and was co-written by leading lady, Janet McTeer. Shot with digital video, this film premiered at the 2002 Toronto Film Festival.