Bbc Two TV Series - Page 14
ScreenPlay
1986
star 6Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993. Numerous episodes were produced including one named "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" starring Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie.The First Team
2020
star 6.8The misadventures of three young football players Mattie, Jack and Benji, at a fictional Premier League club with terrifying team hard-man Petey, mercurial Italian manager Cesare and eccentric chairman Mark Crane.Hippies
1999
star 7.4Swinging London, 1969. From his flat in Notting Hill Gate, Ray Purbbs edits an 'underground' (that is, counterculture) magazine, Mouth, assisted by his fellow hippies Alex, Jill and Hugo. Ray is passionate about protest, ludicrously enthusiastic about every hip trend and convinced he is (or could be) a major player in the battle between the Establishment and the alternative society. Alex - though he comes from a wealthy background and seems more interested in golf than altering society - is coolness personified, a man so laid-back he seems to exist outside of reality. Jill embraces all the new-found liberty afforded her gender and claims to espouse free love, though this attitude doesn't stretch to her 'boyfriend', Ray, long been deprived of her carnal interest. Hugo is spectacularly vague, almost brilliant in his obliqueness. Led by Ray, the quartet jump on every trendy bandwagon and comprehensively fail to make the slightest bit of difference in all they do. The gang are pretty useless at everything - in fact, thThe Mash Report
2017
star 5.3Satirical and surreal news show. Nish Kumar and a cast of hilarious correspondents keep you up to date with everything that has happened - or not happened - this week.Mandy
2020
star 7.6Mandy is a woman with dreams. Big dreams. Most of all she dreams of breeding Doberman Pinchers. But there are hurdles to overcome before that dream can become a reality. In the series we'll see her go on a health kick, rent out her small back bedroom on Airbnb and attempt a series of short-lived jobs in the modern gig economy.Charlie Brooker's Yearly Wipe
2010
star 8.7Charlie Brooker takes a comedic look back at the hectic events of the previous year.There She Goes
2018
star 8.4Comedy drama that shines a light on the day-to-day life of a family looking after their severely learning disabled girl, Rosie.Life In Squares
2015
star 6.8The three-part series centres on the close and often fraught relationship between sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, and Vanessa’s sexually complicated alliance with gay artist Duncan Grant as they, and their group of like-minded friends, navigate their way through love, sex and artistic life through the first half of the 20th century.Insert Name Here
2016
star 7Comedy panel show about people with the same first name, hosted by Sue Perkins.Through the Keyhole
1987
star 6David Frost wanders into celebrities' houses and a panel of celebrities has to guess who the famous homeowner is.Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland
2023
star 8.5Twenty-five years on from a peace agreement being reached, Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland shares intimate, unheard testimonies from all sides of the conflict.The Robinsons
2005
star 5.7The show's central character is a divorced reinsurance actuary, Ed Robinson, who realises that reinsurance is not his passion and decides to rethink his life.Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
1990
star 6.7Seven-year-old Jess is removed from her peculiar Pentecostal home and sent to school.Ooh La La!
1968
Ooh La La!
1968
Series based on the short French farces written by Georges Feydeau, Eugène Labiche, Marc Michel and Sacha Guitry. All of them include mistaken identities and impeccable timing.Parole
2023
star 5As futures hang in the balance, what would you decide? An eye-opening look at Britain's parole boards, making complex, life-changing decisions for prisoners - and their victims.Defending the Guilty
2018
star 7Will Packham is an idealistic pupil barrister - or idealistic for now. Can Will hold onto his principles and prove he has what it takes?The Beechgrove Garden
0000
Gardening show that celebrates Scottish horticulture and growing conditions.Great Railway Journeys
1980
star 7Great Railway Journeys, originally titled Great Railway Journeys of the World, is a recurring series of travel documentaries produced by BBC Television. The premise of each programme is that the presenter, typically a well-known figure from the arts or media, would make a journey by train, usually through a country or to a destination to which they had a personal connection. There were four series broadcast on BBC Two between 1980 and 1999, with the shorter series title being used for all but the first. In 2010 a similar series also aired on BBC Two, Great British Railway Journeys.Summer of Rockets
2019
star 6.4Samuel, a Russian-born Jewish inventor who specialises in the development of hearing aids, is tasked with a secret mission by MI5 to use his technological expertise to contribute to western Cold War efforts. Following the tensions of the space race and the first hydrogen bomb test, Samuel's efforts factor in to the emergence of the modern world.
