Lilies COMPLETE S01
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0813734/
Tough, sexy, funny and heartbreaking, Lillies details the lives of Iris, May and Ruby Moss – Catholic sisters coming of age in a dockland terraced house. Familial love sustains them, and their fortunes are bound to those of their brother and their father. Set in the years immediately following the First World War, Lilies pulls no punches in its storytelling. It depicts a sensual, vivid and sometimes savage universe – where life is lived on a knife-edge of poverty, fuelled by various kinds of love. Dadda, the family’s charismatic and mercurial father married very young, is now widowed, and his struggle to nurture his unruly children proves both moving and comic.
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The Assassination Run COMPLETE mini series
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215391/
While attending Oxford University, Mark Fraser is recruited as an agent by Department Six of British Intelligence. In time he becomes one of their top "eliminators." After several years, he resigns in disgust, marries his girlfriend, Jill Marshall, and retires to the Scottish Highlands. While shopping one afternoon, Jill is kidnapped by five German terrorists and brought to Spain. When Mark receives a telephone call from the terrorists, instructing him to assassinate a right-wing German publisher, he is forced to employ his old skills as a hit man to ensure Jill’s safety. The series depicts Fraser’s attempts to find and rescue Jill — knowing that the terrorists are unlikely to let her remain alive once he has fulfilled their demands.
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Warren COMPLETE S01
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt9643158/
An original comedy series about the life of Warren Thompson, a pedantic driving instructor who believes the world is against him. Martin Clunes will star as Warren, who is forced to move from the south up to Preston when his partner Anne’s father falls ill. Warren suddenly finds himself living in an area he doesn’t like, doing a job he’s not emotionally cut out for and looking after two teenager stepsons he didn’t want. Or they would be his step sons, if only he’d get on and marry Anne. Warren does love Anne, and despite everything, Anne always sees the good in Warren – what other people find irritating about him, she finds sweet and funny. But Warren has a way of knowing best and speaking his mind that inevitably leads to conflict, chaos and disaster for those around him and most especially for himself. Warren doesn’t embrace the concept of growing old gracefully. He’s quite happy to keep railing against the world and trying to right perceived wrongs against him. There are no happy …
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