SF0218 All-New Gripping Dramas!
A humorous selection of titles suggesting new TV drama and documentaries. For example, English Murder Mystery, Clean Kill, Snow Angel.
An episode in which we’ve taken alternative song titles and applied them to a schedule for the fictitious Sombrero Broadcasting channel.
Self-Destruct
Documentary series. Professor Ferdinand Cox analyses the reasons why some of us press the button marked self destruct.
Bye Bye
World War One drama. We follow three families as their loved ones depart for the Western Front and the ramifications of their departure.
Cut Glass Hammer
A fly-on-the-wall documentary series following a month in the life of Sothebys auction house, its auctioneers and patrons.
Snow Angel
All-new Scandi-Noir. A daughter from a privileged Stockholm family dabbles in the cocaine trade with devastating consequences.
Look a Ghost
Adaptation of Henry James’ timeless ghost story ‘The Turn of the Screw’. Do the children really see apparitions?
I swear that I could die right now
The words spoken as Lizzie Underwood lies back in the arms of her lover Brent Underhill come to have a tragic significance. All-new crime drama.
Scarecrows
To the fields and broads of Norfolk where there’s something sinister in agri-baron Greg Turnbull’s lower pastures.
Method Actor
Documentary series analysing the pros and cons of the method acting school. Includes rare interview with Daniel Day-Lewis and previously unseen footage of Marlon Brando in rehearsal.
Clean Kill
Thriller. The code of honour surrounding the blood feuds of the Mani Peninsula in southern Greece. What constitutes a ‘clean kill’?
Weight of that Weekend
Twenty years ago a group of school leavers celebrated the end of their final exams together off the coast of Northumberland. They all swore to secrecy about the events of that weekend – until a long lost schoolfriend dramatically reappears.
Say My Name
Vampire six-parter. There is a tradition in Whitby that a vampire can be evoked if you utter his secret name. Unwittingly Naomi Renfrew does just that …
The View from Your Room
21st-century Korean update of E M Forster’s classic portrayal of a young woman in the restrained culture of Edwardian-era England, relocated to Seoul.
English Murder Mystery
A humorous satire on the conventions of 1930s English middle class whodunnits. Expect vicars, butlers and colonels – with a glass or two of sparkling cyanide.
Blunt Instruments
Continuing our murder mystery satire theme, comically inept cat burglars William and Harry bungle their way through a series of escapades.
Be Careful
The US mini-series sensation starring Zoe Kravitz, Nicole Kidman and Matthew McConaughey. Sure, it’s fun in the AirB&B they’ve hired for their 50ths in the middle of Montana Badlands. But be careful if you step outside …
