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Everyone has a Tully Dawson - the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, Jimmy and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the climax of their youth - a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicentre of everything that inspires them in working-class Britain. There, against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded, a vow is made: to go at life differently. Thirty years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has the worst kind of news, and a request that will test their friendship, love, and loyalty to the limit... Mayflies is a memorial to youth's euphoria and to everyday tragedy. A tender goodbye to an old union, it discovers the joy and the costs of love.

Moz is a small-time (hash only) drug dealer. He rarely sets foot outside the confines of his squalid Manchester flat he shares with his long-suffering girlfriend Nicki. He's a lazy slob basically - as Nicki comments, "Jesus, Moz. I've seen coma victims with more 'get-up-and-go'".

Two gay friends, Vince and Stuart, live on a cocktail of sex, drugs and clubbing. They are both 29, and Stuart is the type of guy who cops off every time he goes out. One night, he spots 15-year-old Nathan, and brings him back to his apartment where they make love.

Married to Wesley for 25 years, Bel has spent the last 18 years as a homemaker and mum to their twins, but having just waved them off to university, now has a void in her life. Enter Teddy , brother-in-law and long-time best friend, begging her to step in and rescue the family business - a down-at-heel beauty salon in Manchester's Northern Quarter. Like Bel, it could do with a bit of a face-lift. And possibly a clear-out, since it employs her high-maintenance family: mother Ivy-Rae, sisters Leanne, Tina and Heidi. Into the mix comes beautiful 20-something Personal Trainer Lorelei who seems to have caught Wes's eye... can Bel reconcile the demands of her business, her warring family and the problems in her marriage?

Set in the north of England in Manchester, this series focuses on DCI Janine Lewis (Caroline Quentin) as she tries to juggle the responsibilities of her job with being there for her four children. And to make matters worse, her ex-husband Pete and his girlfriend Tina are trying to create the perfect family with Janine's children while she tries to get results at work, interfering with the time that she can spend with the kids. At work Lewis is helped by her all male colleagues DI Richard Mayne (Ian Kelsey), DS Butchers (Paul Loughran) and DS Shap (Nicholas Murchie). Her work mates don't make things easy for Janine, often bending the rules to get results, leaving her to cover for them.

On the day that England took on Scotland in the 1966 European Championship, Daniel Cotton is trying to get his Dad and brother talking again. However when the three are caught up in a IRA explosion in a local pub, everyone's lives are changed.

With unparalleled and intimate access, this four-part series follows Manchester's murder detectives over the course of a year as they try to unravel complex cases in dramatic real time.

Educating Greater Manchester is a documentary series filmed at Harrop Fold Secondary school in Salford. It is a school at the heart of a changing community, dealing every day with everything that gets throws at them.

The cameras follow the 999 work of Greater Manchester Police who are England's second largest police force and are responsible for protecting 2.7 million people.

Early Doors is set in a small pub in Manchester where daily life is bound up in the issues of love, loneliness, and blocked urinals. Regular drinkers Joe and Duffy pass the time with landlord Ken and his police officer cronies.

Gary Barlow will lead the search for a band to star in a new stage show featuring the songs of Take That.The show will see Gary search for performers to take part in a competition to find a new band to star in a stage show featuring the music of the popular group.The start of the eight-week competition will be filmed in Salford in front of a live audience. The public can apply for tickets to watch the recordings.It's fitting that the search is starting in Salford as Take That were formed in neighbouring Manchester and the city is considered the 'spiritual home' of the band.Let It Shine will be shown on BBC One on Saturday nights and will be presented by Graham Norton and Mel Giedroyc.Each week, Gary will be helped by three judges in his search for the best new talent the country has to offer.

The Midland Hotel in Manchester is arguably the grandest hotel in the north of England. Standing majestically in the heart of the city since 1903, it has seen kings and queens grace its grand foyer and stars from music, cinema and television fill its bedrooms and bars.

Meet the people living and working in the eye of Manchester's remarkable housing boom.