Patrick Marber

The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show produced by ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new series began on Sky Arts from 27 May 2012. Presented by Melvyn Bragg, the show aims to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience.

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With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This mission, should Hunt choose to accept it, plunges him into the center of an international crisis of terrifying magnitude.

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What are the secrets of our favourite TV shows? Famous names from both sides of the camera reflect on making some of the most popular and influential programs of all time.

The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.

The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show produced by ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new series began on Sky Arts from 27 May 2012. Presented by Melvyn Bragg, the show aims to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience.

No synopsis available yet.

No synopsis available yet.

What are the secrets of our favourite TV shows? Famous names from both sides of the camera reflect on making some of the most popular and influential programs of all time.

The trials and triumphs of one of the wealthiest and unhappiest families of the United States, the Gettys. Originally planned to be told over multiple seasons and spanning the twentieth century, the series begins in 1973 with the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, an heir to the Getty oil fortune, by the Italian mafia in Rome.

It's the late 1960s, homosexuality has only just been legalised and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has a secret he's desperate to hide.

The king of sports casual. Alan puts the chat among the pigeons with incisive interrogations, light-hearted entertainment and only one fatality. A-ha!

The king of sports casual. Alan puts the chat among the pigeons with incisive interrogations, light-hearted entertainment and only one fatality. A-ha!

The king of sports casual. Alan puts the chat among the pigeons with incisive interrogations, light-hearted entertainment and only one fatality. A-ha!

The king of sports casual. Alan puts the chat among the pigeons with incisive interrogations, light-hearted entertainment and only one fatality. A-ha!

The king of sports casual. Alan puts the chat among the pigeons with incisive interrogations, light-hearted entertainment and only one fatality. A-ha!

The king of sports casual. Alan puts the chat among the pigeons with incisive interrogations, light-hearted entertainment and only one fatality. A-ha!

A spoof of the British news — including ridiculous stories, patronising vox pops, offensively hard-hitting research and a sports presenter clearly struggling for metaphors. Adapted from Radio 4 series 'On the Hour'.

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The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.

A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.

Jimmy Erskine is the most feared theatre critic of the age. He lives as flamboyantly as he writes and takes pleasure in savagely taking down any actor who fails to meet his standards. When the owner of the Daily Chronicle dies, and his son takes over, Jimmy quickly finds himself at odds with his new boss and his position under threat. In an attempt to preserve the power and influence he holds so sacred, Jimmy strikes a Faustian pact with a struggling actress, entangling them and the boss in a thrilling but deadly web of desire, blackmail, and betrayal.

A man named Ken enters an almost empty underground car park at night. He gets into his van and drives up to the barrier, inserting his ticket into the pay and display machine. Having no response, he kicks it, making the lights go off. He pushes the help button, and a strange voice starts tormenting him for what a bad person he actually is.

Recorded at Liverpool's Neptune theatre. Coogan appears as Paul and Pauline Calf, Duncan Thickett and Ernest Moss, alongside support from John Thomson's Bernard Right On

An American couple travels to a remote, snowbound European town to adopt a child in hopes of saving their marriage. Stranded in an eerie hotel, they encounter a cast of unsettling figures as reality begins to fracture around them.

Lager lout and philosopher Paul Calf records his video diary over New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Accompanied by his friends Fat Bob and Roland and his sister Pauline, he staggers through two days of drinking, fighting and failed sex, in desperate pursuit of his ex-girlfriend, Julie.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, Austria. But Hermann Merz, a factory owner and baptised Jew now married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world. We follow his family’s story across half a century, passing through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. A company of 40 actors represent each generation of the family in this epic, but intimate play.

Spoof video diary. Steve Coogan takes on the roles of downtrodden Paul and the vivacious blonde Pauline Calf, who finally gets herself up the aisle with the man of her dreams. Even a punch-up in the toilet can't spoil her special day.

Two teenagers are drawn together by the Buzzcocks' single 'Love You More' during the summer of 1978.

Two teenagers are drawn together by the Buzzcocks' single 'Love You More' during the summer of 1978.

An updated version of Strindberg’s play examining class and social differences. Julie, the daughter of an MP, seduces her father's chauffeur, despite his being engaged to the maid.

An updated version of Strindberg’s play examining class and social differences. Julie, the daughter of an MP, seduces her father's chauffeur, despite his being engaged to the maid.