Julie Fernandez

Carole Mackay is an unashamedly outspoken and wealthy entrepreneur. Her online business selling all things festive has earned her a fortune, as well as the nickname 'Christmas Carole'. But her success hasn't made her a better human being. In fact, it's made her worse. The truth is that Carole is a monumentally mean person. Positively Scrooge-like. And, just like Ebeneezer, she doesn't love Christmas at all. But this Christmas Eve, Carole's past, present and future are about to collide. Will some rather familiar Christmas spirits help her discover the true spirit of Christmas?

Eldorado was a British soap opera that ran for only one year, from 6 July 1992 to 9 July 1993. Set in the fictional town of Los Barcos on the Costa del Sol in Spain and based around the lives of British and European expats, the BBC hoped it would be as successful as EastEnders and replicate some of the sunshine and glamour of imported Australian soaps such as Home and Away and Neighbours. A co-production between the BBC and independent production company Cinema Verity, Eldorado aired three times a week in a high-profile evening slot on the mainstream channel BBC1, filling the slot vacated by Terry Wogan's chat show Wogan, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7.00pm. In spite of a high-profile advertising campaign on television, radio and in the press preceding the launch, the programme was not initially a popular hit with viewers and critics. Ratings improved with a radical overhaul, but it was eventually cancelled by the new controller of BBC1, Alan Yentob.

David Brent dirige à sa façon une usine de papier, la Wernham-Hogg Paper Company, à Slough. Ses plaisanteries tombent à plat. Ses ambitions d'être un bon patron se soldent par de tristes ratages et ses employés s'adaptent à son incompétence en développant entre eux les relations d'amitié, voire d'amour, de mépris et d'indifférence propres au monde du travail.

Sept étrangers de différents horizons - des personnes qui n'interagiraient jamais normalement - sont obligés de travailler ensemble pour rénover un centre communautaire abandonné. Ils n'aiment pas le travail physique subalterne et ils s'en veulent l'un à l'autre. Mais lorsque l'un d'entre eux est entraîné dans le monde dangereux du crime organisé, ils s'unissent d'une manière qu'aucun d'entre eux n'aurait cru possible.