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A horrific murder that upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney's Office when one of its own is suspected of the crime.

Adolescence tells the story of how a family's world is turned upside down when 13-year-old Jamie Miller is arrested and charged with the murder of a teenage girl who goes to his school.

The series will follow a troubled detective and an enigmatic arson investigator as they pursue the trails of two serial arsonists.

Sweetpea tells the story of Rhiannon, your average girl next door, who is living quietly with her boyfriend and little dog. By day her job as an office manager is demeaning and unsatisfying. By evening she dutifully listens to her friends' plans for marriage and babies. Rhiannon never complains, smiling through it all with reserves of serenity and a sparkling wit. She has become skilled at keeping it together. Being normal. But behind this mask is a ferocious power lying dormant, and a long-buried secret that Rhiannon wishes she could forget. When a chance encounter with a stranger leads to a shocking act of violence, Rhiannon's mask slips completely and she is forced to confront the darker side she has long kept hidden. The girl everyone overlooks might just be able to get away with murder.  

Little Disasters centers on four friends who were thrown together while expectant mothers with little in common apart from their due dates. When Jess takes her baby daughter to hospital with a head injury she can't explain, close friend and on-duty A&E doctor Liz is forced to make the excruciating decision as to whether to call social services on her friend. The decision sets of a chain of events that show how a moment can fracture and nearly destroy families and friendships.

Set against a sweeping Cornish landscape, two couples discover that their toddlers were switched at birth in a hospital mix-up, and face a horrifying dilemma: do they keep the sons they have raised and loved, or reclaim their biological child?

A cat-and-mouse thriller about a policeman haunted by a case he failed to solve.

The Listeners centres around Claire, a popular English teacher, who begins to hear a low humming sound that no one else around her can hear. This seemingly innocuous noise gradually upsets the balance of her life, increasing tension between herself and her husband, Paul, and daughter, Ashley. But despite multiple doctors, no obvious source or medical cause can be found. But when she discovers that a student of hers, Kyle, can also hear the sound, the two strike up an unlikely and intimate friendship. Finding themselves increasingly isolated from their families, friends and colleagues, they fall in with a disparate group of neighbours, led by a charismatic couple, Jo and Omar, who also claim they can hear The Hum - and who believe it could be a gift, heard only by a "chosen few."

Set on Merseyside, the drama focuses on a group of teens from disparate backgrounds, each of whom could have committed a crime, along with their parents - who give equal cause for suspicion.

A gripping five-part drama that follows a tense police surveillance investigation into a tight knit Manchester community and explores whether it is ever possible to observe the lives of others with true objectivity and zero effect.

Set in the wealthy neighbourhood of Bishopscourt, Cape Town, Hansen gets caught up in the ugly underbelly that lies beneath the picturesque beauty of the city, dragging her back to a turbulent past. Following her estranged brother's murder in his luxury home, her world plunges deeper into chaos when her brother's teenage children become prime suspects for the crime, as she finds herself at loggerheads with Bell.

The story of I-na, who was the only witness and suspect of a murder case, and 10 years later becomes a profiler and uncovers the hidden truth with Han Sam, a police officer who suspects her as a suspect.

The story of disparate individuals who are trapped in a web of ill-fated entanglements.

Tells the story of two men named Sang Joon, who was running a motel in a rural area during the summer of 2000, and Young Ha, who was running a pension alone in the forest during the summer of 2021.

Two years ago, the death of Naoto Watari's parents left him as the sole caretaker for his younger sister Suzushiro "Suzu" Watari and forced him to move in with their aunt. So devoted is he to Suzu that he refuses to join clubs or even hang out with anyone, earning him snide comments and the title of "siscon" at his new school. But as long as Suzu is safe and happy, Naoto doesn't care what everyone else says. However, his sneering classmates may turn out to be the least of his worries. The sudden transfer of a girl named Satsuki Tachibana brings back traumatic memories from his past-a past she had a hand in making so unpleasant. Nasty secrets, unknown to Naoto, begin to surface with her arrival, threatening his new life.

In Coma, Simon, a devoted family man, finds himself at a breaking point as his neighbourhood falls victim to the terrorising antics of a group of teenagers, led by the menacing 17-year-old Jordan Franklin, and his questionable companions. Simon and his wife, Beth, are desperate to move their young daughter to a safer area away from the threatening atmosphere. When Simon's frustration reaches its peak and he confronts Jordan outside his own home, a split-second decision changes everything.   

After turning 60, a wealthy woman suddenly falls in love with an attractive and much younger man, but her family raises doubts about his intentions.

Out of day-to-day life, filled with love and joy and color, emerge some powerful passions that interrupt the picture. Pathological love, jealousy, and evildoing bring unwanted tragedy for every man kills the thing he loves.

On the edge of death, Sheng Shao You meets someone who seems like his exact type: a delicate white lotus kind of beauty, the kind you'd want to pluck, keep in a vase, and admire forever.But turns out, this boy isn't just a harmless little lily. He's a ghost orchid, rare and unpredictable, with charm that's deadly, elegant, and darker than expected.When obsession meets something untamable, who's really going to end up devoured?

In a small town near Rome, Elena, a teenage girl disappears. Who is she? What happened to her? This is the story of the two faces of adoration - one striving for dedication; and the other for possession. And how it is sometimes hard to recognise the right one.

Two detectives unravel a dark conspiracy involving murders linked to a centuries-old secret society's nefarious plan.

In 1996, world chess champion Garry Kasparov faced Deep Blue, IBM's supercomputer. A year later, it's the revenge match. For the first time in history, Kasparov will have to bow to the computer.

A surrogacy deal goes wrong when pregnant Nicole changes her mind about giving best friend Tessa the baby she is carrying for her. The ensuing emotional rift splits the small New Zealand town of Kaikōura - already physically torn apart from a recent earthquake.

It fuses drama and fantasy in one of the most enigmatic coordinates on the planet: the Pacific pole of inaccessibility, that is, the point in the ocean furthest from the mainland.

After Naomi Shaffer is kidnapped in South Africa on business, Dominic King, a kidnap and ransom negotiator, is given the responsibility for making sure she makes it back home.