Movies & TV Shows/Series by Talkback Thames at a glance

31 movies and TV shows/series found (page 1/2):

The X Factor(2004-2018)

2.6/5 (with 42 votes)

The X Factor is a British television music competition to find new singing talent, contested by aspiring singers drawn from public auditions.

Never Mind the Buzzcocks(1996-2015)

29min per episode | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 24 votes)

Never Mind the Buzzcocks is a comedy panel game show with a pop and rock music theme. The show is infamous for its dry, sarcastic humour and scathing, provocative attacks on the pop industry.

With Phill Jupitus, Noel Fielding, Daisy May Cooper

The Apprentice: You're Fired!(2006-)

30min per episode

2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

The Apprentice: You're Fired!, sometimes named You're Fired!, The Apprentice: You're Hired! or You're Hired!, is a British television show made by the BBC and filmed at Riverside Studios as a spin-off from the reality TV hit The Apprentice. It was hosted by Adrian Chiles from 2006 to 2009, and Dara Ó Briain took over as host in 2010 after Chiles' move to ITV. The programme airs in a 30 minute slot after each episode of The Apprentice finishes. It was originally shown on BBC Three, but moved to BBC Two in 2007. Its format is similar to that of Big Brother's Little Brother and Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two. The final episode of each series is renamed "The Apprentice: You're Hired!" and involves interviews with the winner, the runner-up and Lord Sugar himself, and a reunion with all of the former candidates.

With Romesh Ranganathan

Great British Railway Journeys(2010-)

30min per episode | Documentary

3.8/5 (with 5 votes)

Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook. Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country to see how the railways changed us, and what of Bradshaw's Britain remains.

QI(2003-)

30min per episode | Comedy, Talk-Show

4.0/5 (with 109 votes)

Comedy quiz show full of quirky facts, in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are 'quite interesting'.

Directed by Ian Lorimer - With Alan Davies

The IT Crowd(2006-2010)

| 22min per episode | Comedy

4.1/5 (with 614 votes)

Two I.T. nerds and their clueless female manager, who work in the basement of a very successful company. When they are called on for help, they are never treated with any respect at all.

With Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Matt Berry, Noel Fielding, Chris Morris, ...

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Take Me Out(2010-2019)

50min per episode | Reality-TV, Comedy

3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Paddy McGuinness tries to find 30 single girls a date and hopefully in the process the man of their dreams. But can our single boys do enough to turn them on and win themselves a date?

The Apprentice(2005-)

1h per episode | Reality-TV

2.8/5 (with 13 votes)

British version of the reality competitions series that sees young entrepreneurs compete in several business tasks, attempting to survive the weekly firings in order to become the business partner of one of the most successful businessmen.

With Alan Sugar, Nick Hewer, Margaret Mountford, Karren Brady

Canada's Got Talent(2012-)

Reality-TV

Canada's Got Talent is a Canadian reality talent show series that debuted on the City television network on March 4, 2012, and is part of the global Got Talent franchise. Canada's Got Talent features singers, dancers, magicians, comedians, and other performers of all ages competing for a cash prize.

The Bill(1984-2010)

25min per episode | Crime, Drama

3.4/5 (with 18 votes)

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.

With Billy Murray, Tony O'Callaghan, Christopher Ellison, Mark Wingett, Eric Richard, Kevin Lloyd, ...

All Star Family Fortunes(2006-2014)

30min per episode | Kids & Family, Comedy, Reality-TV

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The second series of All Star Family Fortunes began on ITV on 27 October 2007. It ran for ten weeks and aired every Saturday night, with the exception of the last two episodes which aired on 25 December 2007 and 5 January 2008 respectively. Although the final episode of the series aired in 2008, it can still be counted as part of the 2007 series.

The Sinking of the Laconia(2011)

1h 30min per episode | Drama, War & Politics

3.3/5 (with 14 votes)

The true story of the Allied ship Laconia, sunk in WWII by a German U-Boat, which then surfaced against orders to rescue the civilian crew

Directed by Uwe Janson - With Andrew Buchan, Brian Cox, Ken Duken, Lindsay Duncan, Matthias Koeberlin, Thomas Kretschmann, ...

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Glorious 39(2009)

2h 9min | War, Drama, History, Thriller

3.0/5 (with 35 votes)

A mysterious tale set around a traditional British family on the eve of World War Two. Oblivious to the looming shadow of World War II, the wealthy Keyes maintain a confident façade in the British countryside until daughter Anne becomes an unexpected pawn. Her accidental discovery of secret recordings creates a rift in the family.

Directed by Stephen Poliakoff - With Romola Garai, Bill Nighy, Julie Christie, David Tennant, Christopher Lee, Charlie Cox, ...

Minder(2009)

0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Archie Daley's a bit of a rogue, always up for some dodgy dealings in the hope of making a nice little earner, but sometimes it can cause him to lose his moral compass, which is where Jamie usually steps in to put him right.

Squeamish!(2011)

21min per episode

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Gideon's Daughter(2005)

1h 45min | TV Movie, Drama

3.0/5 (with 13 votes)

Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson star in a story of grief and celebrity, set in the intense spring and summer of New Labour's election victory and Diana's death. Nighy is a PR guru who has to stop and re-evaluate his world when his daughter threatens to leave his life, perhaps as revenge for his serial infidelities. Richardson plays a mother trying to bury her grief in an unconventional way after the loss of her young son.

Directed by Stephen Poliakoff - With Emily Blunt, Bill Nighy, Tom Hardy, Miranda Richardson, Ronni Ancona, Joanna Page, ...

Thank God You're Here(2008)

1h per episode | Comedy

UK-produced partially improvised comedy based on the original Australian show with the same name. In the show, four guests are placed into a scene they have no knowledge about and have to improvise. The series is hosted by Paul Merton, who also acts as judge and performs his own improvised scene.

With Paul Merton

The Talent Show Story(2024-)

1h per episode | Documentary

The Talent Show Story is a British television documentary series about the history of British television talent shows. The series comprises five episodes and was broadcast on ITV from 7 January to 4 February 2012. It is narrated by Victoria Wood. It was co-produced by Shiver Productions and Thames.

Joe's Palace(2007)

1h 48min | Drama

3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

A drama centered on the relationship between Elliot, a strange and wealthy Londoner, and Joe, a teenager who takes care of an empty house Elliot owns.

Kevin McCloud and the Big Town Plan(2008)

45min per episode | Documentary

Kevin McCloud follows an innovative community-led regeneration scheme in Castleford.

Sex: How To Do Everything(2009)

45min per episode | Documentary

1.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Sex: How To Do Everything is Channel 5's ten-part series featuring renowned sexperts Em & Lo. Each episode is full of information, interviews and how-to demonstrations from various models illustrating a variety of different techniques, from the ordinary to the super-scandalous. The series is designed to get you having better sex and more of it.

Four Rooms(2011-)

50min per episode | Reality-TV

3.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Four Rooms is a British television series that began airing on Channel 4 on 24 May 2011. The show, which is currently hosted by Anita Rani sees members of the public attempt to sell their valuable and collectible items in exchange for a cash offer from one of the four dealers.

Holy Flying Circus(2011)

1h 29min | TV Movie, Comedy, Drama

3.2/5 (with 12 votes)

A fantastical re-imagining of the events of 1979, when Monty Python made Life of Brian and the debate about what is an acceptable subject for comedy was blown wide open.

Directed by Owen Harris - With Darren Boyd

Friends & Crocodiles(2005)

1h 49min | Drama

2.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Paul Reynolds is a Gatsby-like figure: owner of a magnificent house, the host of great parties, and a collector of interesting people. He persuades Lizzie Thomas, a secretary at a local estate agent's, to come and work for him as his assistant, to bring some order to his chaos. He inspires her with his enthusiasm and imagination, and frustrates her with his apparent carelessness and destructiveness, which culminates in her calling the police as one of his parties is attacked by local troublemakers, seemingly with his tacit approval. But their paths are destined to cross again and again as Lizzie, with the help of some of the people that she met at Paul's house, rises through the changing landscape of corporate Britain. This is the tale of a meaningful and powerful relationship that isn't a love story; it's about those rare people who profoundly influence and shape our lives.

Directed by Stephen Poliakoff - With Damian Lewis

The Yellow House(2007)

1h 13min

John Simm stars as Vincent Van Gogh in The Yellow House, a feature-length drama that tells the moving human story of the most influential and explosive housemates in art history. For just nine weeks, in late 1888, Van Gogh and Gauguin share a home, The Yellow House, in Arles, southern France.

The IT Crowd Manual(2014)

49min | Comedy, Documentary

4.1/5 (with 7 votes)

This behind-the-scenes documentary features interviews with the creators and cast of the cult comedy "The IT Crowd", plus chats with celebrity fans.

The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall(2008)

1h 30min | Drama, Thriller, Mystery

3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

After Tom Hurndall is shot in the head in Gaza, his parents Anthony and Jocelyn arrive in Israel wanting to know how it could have happened. They expect sympathy and cooperation from the Israeli authorities, but are instead met with an official explanation that fails to tally with any eye-witness accounts, and a wall of silence. When an Israeli army report attempts to whitewash the incident, the Hurndalls decide the only way to establish the truth is to launch their own investigation into the shooting, a process which brings them face to face with both the Open-Fire regulations of the Israeli army in Gaza, and the soldier who pulled the trigger.

Directed by Rowan Joffé

Regan(1974)

1h 17min | Action, Crime, TV Movie, Drama

Rough, tough and politically incorrect in the way that only the best 70's dramas can be, Regan was a pilot film for The Sweeney - one of the major television successes of the last fifty years. Featuring John Thaw as the irascible Detective Inspector Regan and Dennis Waterman as his loyal 'oppo' Detective Sergeant Carter, Regan was an immediate critical and ratings hit, resulting in four series of The Sweeney and two successful feature films. Jack Regan is a good copper, but his tough, intuitive style is becoming unfashionable in a Scotland Yard seeking a new image. When a policeman is mysteriously murdered, Regan breaks all the rules to find the killer - but he finds there are men in the Flying Squad prepared to break him.

Beauty(2004)

49min | TV Movie, Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

Tom Fitzhenry is an ugly and reclusive aristocrat who lives on his own in a large mansion. He despairs of ever having a relationship with a woman... until Cathy comes into his life when she and her father come to repair the house's ageing plumbing.

Poisoned(2005)

46min | Documentary, History

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A documentary about the poisoning of political opponents by Russia. Focuses on specific cases of politically motivated assassinations by poisonings, including the attempted murder of Victor Yuschenko, the candidate and eventual President of Ukraine, using the deadly Dioxin. The film explains that Russia has not stopped this activity and its "Lab X" is still in operation. Originally created for the UK by FremantleMedia's production company talkbackTHAMES, "Poisoned" aired on Sky One in April 2005. (This documentary was made before the well-publicized poisoning by Russia of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006.)

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