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The Victim is a gripping, contemporary legal thriller told through the eyes of the plaintiff and the accused. Set in Edinburgh, within Scotland's unique legal system, the show offers a constantly surprising and twisting perspective on who is really 'the victim'.

A group of Brits as they leave dreary post-war Britain in 1956 to embark on a life-altering adventure on the other side of the world. For only a tenner, they have been promised a better house, better job prospects and a better quality of life by the sea in sun-soaked Australia. But life down under isn't exactly the idyllic dream the new arrivals have been promised. Struggling with their new identity as immigrants, we follow their triumphs and pitfalls as they adapt to a new life in a new country, far from Britain and familiarity.

DCI Banks is a detective series based on the award-winning novels by Peter Robinson. A two-part pilot, Aftermath, introduced viewers to the tenacious DCI Alan Banks and his associate, DS Annie Cabbot, as they investigated a serial killer.

Stephen Mangan plays Dirk Gently in an adaptation of the novel for BBC.

Screw is prison as never seen before - the uncensored, terrifying and often darkly funny reality of life as a prison officer in an all-male prison in 21st century Britain.

The Lovers follows Janet, a foul-mouthed, hilarious, Belfast supermarket worker who couldn't give a shit about anything much at all, including her life, and Seamus, a handsome, self-centred, political broadcaster with what looks to be a perfect London life and a celebrity girlfriend. So when Seamus unexpectedly drops into Janet's world (literally over the wall and into her backyard) they instantly clash - and yet also find themselves inextricably drawn to each other...

Northern family story centering on the new-found love between grandparents of two different families.

This show is presented by Claudia Winkleman. Eight people battle it out to be crowned the country's best amateur sewer.

Toast of Tinseltown (w/t) follows Steven Toast as he moves to Hollywood and attempts to become a movie star. Sequel series of "Toast of London".

Following his wife Libby's suicide, sex addict, door-to-door beauty product salesman and self-professed lothario Bunny Munro finds himself saddled with a young son and only a loose concept of parenting. Together with nine-year-old Bunny Junior he embarks on an epic and increasingly out-of-control road trip across Southern England as the two struggle to contain their grief in very different ways.

Stonehouse was a high-flying politician in the Labour Party in the 1970s but was involved in an extramarital affair, had financial problems and had acted as a spy for the Czech Secret Service, which took its toll and led to him faking his death and fleeing to Australia. He was eventually found and brought back to England by British detectives.

The Great British Bake Off returns with five special episodes for Stand Up To Cancer. In each episode of The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer Sandi Toksvig and Noel Fielding are joined by four different celebrities all aiming to impress judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith with their baking skills.

An American executive has found the perfect sales job in Britain. But he knows nothing about the culture in the UK and nothing about sales.

The Witchfinder is set in 1647 and fear of witchcraft is rife. Puritanical Christianity, deep-seated superstition and a willingness to scapegoat outsiders have created a tinderbox of suspicion in which few are safe. In this environment, witchfinding has flourished, as self-appointed witch experts achieve hero status by investigating accusations of witchery and extracting confessions. A failing witchfinder transports a suspected witch across 1640s East Anglia to a trial that could change his fortunes forever. But his captive is the worst possible travel companion: an inquisitive, uncouth woman whose ability to prick his pomposity and ask uncomfortable questions turns a straightforward journey into a life-changing ordeal.

A Town Called Malice follows the Lords, a crime family of petty thieves from South London who have fallen to the bottom of the criminal food chain. And they're not happy about it.

Follows the deaths of Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Martin in the village of Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire, and the extraordinary events that unfolded in the following years.

It will follow Mrs Sidhu, a recently widowed high-end caterer who solves murders and other crimes among the affluent residents of the English county of Berkshire.

A police detective working in the British countryside during World War Two.

This is a provocative, audacious thriller that puts women's lives at the heart of a gripping, insightful story about the values we live by and the choices we make.

A group of ordinary Brits go on the run and film their own adventures as they take extreme measures to try to evade capture from expert hunters. Where they go will be up to them but with a team of Hunters seeking them out and tracking them down, they be truly tested.

The show follows Shaun as he comes to the realization that he'll have to do something with his life after his final school exams.

This series follows a group of elite wives from Cheshire as they go about living their high-rolling lives.

The Hughes family work and love and fight like every other family. Then their youngest son is diagnosed with autism and they don't feel like every other family anymore.

Morse (played by the late John Thaw) is not the ideal policeman, his superiors think. He is prickly and sarcastic, a bachelor, an Oxford graduate, an intellectual snob, and he doesn't always follow protocol strictly as he should. But he gets results.

Will Burton is a talented junior barrister who specialises in helping get people out of tight legal corners, giving him the nickname, The Escape Artist. Much to the annoyance of his courtroom rival, Maggie Gardner, he is in high demand, as he has never lost a case.