Caroline Waldron

While in the middle of nowhere, a diffident man sees someone approaching. It's a girl. A pretty one. Suddenly self-conscious, he's determined to make a good impression. How will the encounter go? With life-changing joy or crushing embarrassment? Take a wild guess...

Unemployed Glaswegian thespians Mickey and Joe decide to quit Scotland and make a fresh start for themselves in Los Angeles. But their arrival in the US doesn't bring any change to their fortunes, and after a failed attempt to find acting work in Tinseltown, the unlucky twosome end up in Las Vegas, where they lose all their money at the gaming tables. When they are then approached by a gangster who suggests that they rob a local casino, the hapless Scots think they must be due a change in their fortunes and decide to give it a try.

Cette série met en scène les mésaventures d’Edina et Patsy, deux Londoniennes quadragénaires, grandes consommatrices d’alcool et de drogues diverses. Edina, qui dirige sa propre société de relations publiques, entretient des rapports difficiles avec sa fille, Saffron, qu’elle juge trop sérieuse. Patsy, journaliste de mode anorexique (« elle n’a rien avalé de solide depuis 1973 »), tabagique et nymphomane, vit plus ou moins aux crochets d’Edina, sa seule amie.

Molly Pargeter is a forty-something wife and mother of three girls, who leads a stable but dull life in 1980s West London. She feels overweight and there is no passion in her relationship with her husband Hugh, who is secretly seeing another woman. For most of her life she has found escape in detective novels and books on art, especially about the fifteenth century Italian fresco painter Piero Della Francesca. Then in a newspaper's small ads Molly sees the details of a villa in Tuscany, Italy to let and after travelling to Italy to view the villa "La Felicita" she decides to take it for the family's August holiday.

Six part BBC adaptation of the novel for children by Philippa Pearce. Tom Long is staying at his Aunt and Uncle's. When their grandfather clock strikes 13, he discovers a portal to the Victorian age, where he meets an orphan girl named Hattie.

A comedy that started in 1991 as a pilot, Murder Most Horrid stars Dawn French as various characters, as she embarks on a different mystery every episode. In one way or another she is involved with murder - either committing the crime herself or even getting bumped off herself!