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Manufacturer: ITV DVD
Starring: Jemima Rooper, Alex Kingston, Lindsay Duncan, Gemma Arterton, Hugh Bonneville
Directed By: Dan Zeff

A BBC costume drama that focuses in on author Jane Austen as she heads towards her 40s, Miss Austen Regrets is a fine piece of television, grounded by a terrific performance from Olivia Williams (best remembered still for her supporting role in The Sixth Sense). Miss Austen Regrets finds the title character at a point where her writing career has already proved to be a ...

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Olivia Williams, Greta Scacchi, Hugh Bonneville, Jack Huston

Screenwriter Andrew Davies describes Tipping the Velvet, his adaptation of Sarah Waters's acclaimed novel of lesbian love, betrayal and redemption in Victorian England, as "Pride and Prejudice with dirty bits". This three-part BBC production chronicles with relish the story of Nan Astley (Rachael Stirling, the ravishing image of her mother, Diana Rigg), barely 18, and certain that ...

Manufacturer: Contender Entertainment Group
Starring: Rachael Stirling, Keeley Hawes, Anna Chancellor, Jodhi May, Hugh Bonneville
Directed By: Geoffrey Sax

Daft, summer-schedule-filling fun from the BBC, Bonekickers is a muddled drama series that brings a team of people together to try and solve some ancient mysteries with a bit of modern know-how. Naturally, the team have their conflicts along the way, and naturally there are twists and turns as they go about their work. But not much that you won?t see coming. For it doesn?t take long ...

Manufacturer: ITV DVD
Starring: Julie Graham, Anthony Green, Shauna Macdonald, Tamzin Merchant, Sam Spiegel
Directed By: Sarah O'Gorman, James Strong, Nick Hurran

Manufacturer: Metrodome Distribution
Starring: Edward Woodward, Hugh Bonneville, Patrick Malahide, Penelope Wilton, Sarah Smart

A literary academic whose novels met with widespread commercial acclaim, the work of Iris Murdoch has a depth and elusiveness difficult to capture on screen. So for Iris, his first film as a director, Richard Eyre avoids the problematic novels and instead alternates the two phases of Murdoch's life as related by her widower John Bayley in his books Iris: A Memoir and Elegy for ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Starring: Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville, Eleanor Bron
Directed By: Richard Eyre

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Frances O'Connor, Claire Hackett, Adam Cooper, Hugh Bonneville, Eileen Atkins
Directed By: Tim Fywell

The Gathering Storm is a fictionalised portrayal of Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine during their wilderness years of the 1930s. It deservedly won numerous awards, including an Emmy, BAFTA and Golden Globe in recognition of Albert Finney's wonderful central performance. Equally deserving were those for all aspects of the production design: period wardrobe, set dressing and use of ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Albert Finney, Vanessa Redgrave, Jim Broadbent, Linus Roache, Lena Headey
Directed By: Richard Loncraine

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Adrian Lester, Sophie Okonedo, Mark Strong, Catherine Tate, Polly Walker
Directed By: Ed Blum

Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Starring: Hugh Dancy, Romola Garai, Hugh Bonneville, Jodhi May, Edward Fox
Directed By: Tom Hooper