Jennifer Luckraft

Deric Longden and his wife, Aileen, come to terms with the fact that his mother, Annie, is getting too old to live on her own. Annie suffers her first stroke and a nursing home is the obvious solution, but which one and where?

L'action se déroule dans l'aile G de la prison pour femmes de Larkhall. Nous suivons le quotidien des condamnées mais aussi celui des membres du personnel. La série met en lumière les difficultés que représente la vie dans une prison pour femmes, autant au niveau pratique qu'humain. Elle n'hésite pas à aborder un certain nombre de thèmes polémiques comme par exemple le fait que les autorités britanniques continuent d'utiliser des gardiens de sexe masculin dans les ailes féminines ou bien les traumatismes liés à la séparation des détenues d'avec leurs enfants pourtant parfois nés en prison pendant le temps de leur incarcération. Les conflits entre les détenues et les gardiens sont le quotidien de Larkhall et les directeurs qui se succèdent doivent gérer aussi bien les dérapages des gardiens que les humeurs des détenues. Les conflits liés aux abus de pouvoir exercés sur les détenues ou entre les membres du personnel perturbent régulièrement la gestion de la prison.

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 all the cases the police deem too minor.

Children's Ward is a British children's television drama series produced by Granada Television and broadcast on the ITV network as part of its Children's ITV strand on weekday afternoons. The programme was set – as the title suggests – in Ward B1, the children's ward of the fictitious South Park Hospital, and told the stories of the young patients and the staff present there. Aimed at older children and teenagers, Children's Ward was a long-lived series for a children's drama, starting life in 1988 as a contribution to the Dramarama anthology strand, "Blackbird Singing In The Dead of Night", then first broadcast as a series 1989 and running from then until 2000. The series was conceived by Granada staff writers Paul Abbott and Kay Mellor, both of whom went on to enjoy successful careers as award-winning writers of adult television drama. At the time, they were both working on the soap opera Coronation Street, and had recently collaborated on a script for Dramarama. Abbott, who had been through a troubled childhood himself, had initially wanted to set the series in a children's care home rather than a hospital, but this was vetoed by Granada executives. During the course of its run, however, Children's Ward won many plaudits for covering difficult issues such as cancer, alcoholism, drug addiction and child abuse in a sensitive manner. The programme won many awards, including in 1996 a BAFTA Children's Award for Best Drama, won by an episode in which a serial killer lures children to him via the internet and is – highly unusually for children's television – not eventually caught.