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Television shows based on British novels
High Fidelity
Rob Brooks, a female record store owner in the rapidly gentrified neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn revisit past relationships through music and pop culture, while trying to get over her one tru...
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A Very English Scandal
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.
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Murphy's Law
Murphy's Law is a BBC television drama starring James Nesbitt as an undercover police officer, Tommy Murphy.
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American Gods
An ex-con becomes the traveling partner of a conman who turns out to be one of the older gods trying to recruit troops to battle the upstart deities. Based on Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The story of Tess Durbeyfield, a low-born country girl whose family find they have noble connections.
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The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries
The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries is a British detective television series adapted from nine of the Roderick Alleyn novels by Ngaio Marsh. It originally aired between 1990 and 1994. In the pilot episode...
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Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee
Meera Syal stars in this poignant story of friendship, betrayal and cross-cultural conflict based on her hit novel. Three childhood friends, now in their 30s, find themselves at a crossroads & struggl...
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Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her husband, and her pocketbook, this senior sleuth takes on a...
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Noble House
Despite its impressive history and reputation, the international trading company Struan's is in trouble. Overextended by the previous management, new tai-pan Ian Dunross has had to issue public stock...
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Mayflies
A friendship forged between James and Tully in a small Scottish town in 1986. One weekend, they make a vow to each other to go at life differently. But then, 30 years on, half a life away, the phone r...
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