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Power is a British independent producer and distributor headquartered in London, England.
Formed in 1995 by Justin Bodle (CEO), Power is the producer of feature films, TV movies and
big event drama series. Since early 2008 the company has grown into a global operation with field
offices established in Miami and Singapore.
Power's original dramas are available to 240 broadcasters, receiving a global viewership in the millions.
The company also acquires programming from a number of producers and distributors, including a longstanding
output deal with RHI Entertainment
.
Working in partnership with some of the world’s leading broadcasters and television talent, Power contributes
to a wide-range of drama productions. In 2007 NBC Universal
announced the order of Crusoe
,
a 13-part network TV series adaptation of Daniel Defoe
's classic novel.
The deal was the first for over 40 years in which a leading British producer would receive an order directly
from a US network. Production began on Crusoe on May 19, 2008.
This thirteen part series for NBC Universal has wrapped production in North Yorkshire's historic walled city of York
and is currently in production in Plettenberg Bay South Africa. With a cast boasting Sam Neil, Sean Bean, Anna Walton, Joaquim del Almeida and Philip Winchester as Robinson Crusoe. Crusoe is due to premier on NBC on Friday. October 17, 8/7c.
Overwhelming the Barrier, the city is pummeled by torrents of water putting millions of Londoners in fatal harm. Now, Top marine engineer, Rob, with the assistance of his father Leonard Morrison, rush to the aid of his ex-wife and Barrier expert, Sam, as they try to save a city on the brink of a watery annihilation.
This original, action-packed disaster feature, which was optioned, developed and produced entirely by Power, was brought to life with a raised production budget of $30 million without the aid of a US sale. Starring Jessalyn Gilsig and Robert Carlyle
, Flood received a limited theatrical release in the UK in August 2007 before going to DVD and selling over 200,000 copies to date. A TV mini series has since been sold to more than 50 countries worldwide and the disaster series received its UK premiere on ITV in May 2008.
and Stephen Dorff
star in this two part mini series based on the 1984 Franco-Belgian cult comic book series.
When a wounded man is found suffering from amnesia, bearing a tattoo with the roman numerals ‘XIII’ on his neck his search for clues to his identity leads him to discover he is wanted for the assassination of US President, Sally Sheridan.
Written by David Wolkove and Philippe Lyon and directed by Duane Clark
(Cape Wrath, CSI), XIII: The Conspiracy receives its US premiere on NBC in Fall 2008.
, James Purefoy
, Mia Maestro
, Lisa Ray
and Rachelle Lefevre
star in the powerful story of how a corrupt government and deadly secrets culminate in a thrilling race against time. When a grieving mother loses her son to an illegal pharmaceutical trial her desperate want for revenge leads her to the G8 Summit with a vial of small pox infected blood.
. This dynamic retelling charts Gepetto's journey from grumpy old man to fulfilled father as he is dragged on a series of adventures by one of fiction’s most heart-warming characters.
(Crusoe
, Jurassic Park
), Jack Davenport
(Pirates of the Caribbean
) and rising star Romola Garai
(Vanity Fair
). When crime, punishment, love and unparalleled heroism become inextricably linked in an 18th century Australian penal colony, Mary Bryant must Fight for the life of her children, her marriage and herself. This true saga of unsung courage and bravery is dramatically celebrated in this 4 part miniseries.
, comes Jessica, a heart-wrenching story of one woman’s remarkable fight for justice against enormous odds. Based on a true story, Power’s beautiful adaptation stars rising star Leeanna Walsman
(Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
) as Jessica and Sam Neil as Runche, the ne’er do well lawyer assisting Jessica on her courageous and life affirming journey.
’s classic trilogy of novels paints the epic story of a journey from England to Australia where the stark divides of the 19th Century fall on the high seas. This masterfully adapted 3-part series takes us on board the confines of the ship where emotions run high as the freethinking radical, Mr. Prettiman (Sam Neil, Jessica
), garners great influence over young Edmund Talbot (Benedict Cumberbatch
- Hawking
, Dunkirk) in a way that will change his life forever.
- Shameless
, The Magdalene Sisters
) is stunningly depicted in this BBC
Co-produced 4 part series. As we enter Elizabeth’s reign, on the dawn of Mary’s death, we see her plunged into the harsh reality in her role as monarch. However, it is her oxymoronic vulnerability and steely resolve in defying her wiles and adversaries that see Elizabeth become television and history’s most beloved monarch.
(Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) taking the role of the tyrannical womaniser, Henry VIII (TV serial)
. This International Emmy award-winning TV mini series is an epic event that brings Henry’s dramatic private life to light. With an all-star cast of Helena Bonham Carter
(Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film)), David Suchet
(Flood
) and Emilia Fox
(The Pianist (2002 film)
) this BBC
co-produced telling of Henry’s fascinating journey of self-destruction is as compelling as any work of fiction.
depicts the journey of three officers whose capture in Nazi occupied Poland finds them transferred to the infamous, maximum-security prison Camp of Colditz. However, it is they’re heroic escape that founds their bond and cements their place in history. ITV's headline drama of the year, starring Sophia Myles
and Golden Globe nominee Damian Lewis
, provides a fresh take in this gripping wartime epic.
' best selling novel and starring Daniel Craig
, Archangel is a fast paced contemporary mystery, set amongst the frozen landscapes of deepest Russia. Archangel brings to the screen just about the most gripping four-day story of suspense drama that you could ever imagine.
– Doctor Who
), Henriette and her husband, Griming (Rupert Penry-Jones
– Charlotte Gray
, Hilary and Jackie
) and the swan song of the world’s most notorious lothario.
- Flood
), the new appointed King of England and Scotland, by Guy Fawkes
. Co-produced by Box TV Productions and Raging Star Films for the BBC
, Gunpowder’s plot remains one of the most scandalous and remembered events in history.
, Summer House
, Blind Trust
starring Jessica Capshaw
who battles to clear her name after she is accused of double murder: Legacy of Fear, starring Teri Polo
as a police detective hunting the identity of a deadly serial killer who claimed the life of her mother some 30 years earlier; Selling Innocence
starring Mimi Rogers
, in which a young girl becomes entangled in an internet modelling scam with sinister consequences; the ultimate game of cat and mouse in Crimes of Passion with Dina Meyer
and Deadly Isolation, which stars Sherilyn Fenn
as a young widow hunted down by her late husband's murderous associates.
Flood Website flood-london.com
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Formed in 1995 by Justin Bodle (CEO), Power is the producer of feature films, TV movies and
big event drama series. Since early 2008 the company has grown into a global operation with field
offices established in Miami and Singapore.
Power's original dramas are available to 240 broadcasters, receiving a global viewership in the millions.
The company also acquires programming from a number of producers and distributors, including a longstanding
output deal with RHI Entertainment
RHI Entertainment
RHI Entertainment , formerly known as Hallmark Entertainment, is an American producer of television movies and miniseries, founded in 1979 by Robert Halmi Jr. and Robert Halmi Sr. as Robert Halmi Incorporated....
.
Working in partnership with some of the world’s leading broadcasters and television talent, Power contributes
to a wide-range of drama productions. In 2007 NBC Universal
NBC Universal
NBCUniversal Media, LLC is a media and entertainment company engaged in the production and marketing of entertainment, news, and information products and services to a global customer base...
announced the order of Crusoe
Crusoe (TV series)
Crusoe is a television adventure drama based loosely on the novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. The series' 13 episodes aired on NBC during the first half of the 2008-2009 television season. It follows the adventures of Robinson Crusoe: a man who has been shipwrecked on an island for six years...
,
a 13-part network TV series adaptation of Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe , born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain and along with others such as Richardson,...
's classic novel.
The deal was the first for over 40 years in which a leading British producer would receive an order directly
from a US network. Production began on Crusoe on May 19, 2008.
Crusoe
This ambitious adaptation of Daniel Defoe’s masterpiece is a new prime time mini series for a 21st century audience. The drama explores the perils and challenges set in store for the world’s most famous castaway, who is left to survive on a deserted island with little more than his wits. Overcoming marauding militias, hungry cannibals, wild cats, starvation and apocalyptic lightning storms, Robinson dreams of the day he will be reunited with his beloved family.This thirteen part series for NBC Universal has wrapped production in North Yorkshire's historic walled city of York
York
York is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence...
and is currently in production in Plettenberg Bay South Africa. With a cast boasting Sam Neil, Sean Bean, Anna Walton, Joaquim del Almeida and Philip Winchester as Robinson Crusoe. Crusoe is due to premier on NBC on Friday. October 17, 8/7c.
Flood
Timely yet terrifying, Flood is the action packed and award nominated depiction of London under siege by the elements in a cinematic event that predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high tide it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which travels mercilessly down England’s East Coast and into the River Thames.Overwhelming the Barrier, the city is pummeled by torrents of water putting millions of Londoners in fatal harm. Now, Top marine engineer, Rob, with the assistance of his father Leonard Morrison, rush to the aid of his ex-wife and Barrier expert, Sam, as they try to save a city on the brink of a watery annihilation.
This original, action-packed disaster feature, which was optioned, developed and produced entirely by Power, was brought to life with a raised production budget of $30 million without the aid of a US sale. Starring Jessalyn Gilsig and Robert Carlyle
Robert Carlyle
Robert Carlyle, OBE is a Scottish film and television actor. He is known for a variety of roles including those in Trainspotting, Hamish Macbeth, The Full Monty, The World Is Not Enough, Angela's Ashes, The 51st State, and 28 Weeks Later...
, Flood received a limited theatrical release in the UK in August 2007 before going to DVD and selling over 200,000 copies to date. A TV mini series has since been sold to more than 50 countries worldwide and the disaster series received its UK premiere on ITV in May 2008.
XIII: The Conspiracy
Val KilmerVal Kilmer
Val Edward Kilmer is an American actor. Originally a stage actor, Kilmer became popular in the mid-1980s after a string of appearances in comedy films, starting with Top Secret! , then the cult classic Real Genius , as well as blockbuster action films, including a supporting role in Top Gun and a...
and Stephen Dorff
Stephen Dorff
Stephen Dorff is an American actor, best known for portraying Stuart Sutcliffe in Backbeat, Johnny Marco in Somewhere, and for his roles in Blade and Cecil B. DeMented.-Early life:...
star in this two part mini series based on the 1984 Franco-Belgian cult comic book series.
When a wounded man is found suffering from amnesia, bearing a tattoo with the roman numerals ‘XIII’ on his neck his search for clues to his identity leads him to discover he is wanted for the assassination of US President, Sally Sheridan.
Written by David Wolkove and Philippe Lyon and directed by Duane Clark
Duane Clark
Duane Clark is an American television director, producer and screenwriter. He has directed episodes for number of notable television series namely Highlander: The Series, Dark Angel, The Practice, Boston Public, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY and XIII.He is the son of...
(Cape Wrath, CSI), XIII: The Conspiracy receives its US premiere on NBC in Fall 2008.
The Summit
Bruce GreenwoodBruce Greenwood
Bruce Greenwood is a Canadian actor and musician. He is generally known for his roles as U.S. presidents in Thirteen Days and National Treasure: Book of Secrets and for his role as Captain Christopher Pike in the 2009 Star Trek film...
, James Purefoy
James Purefoy
James Brian Mark Purefoy is an English actor best known for portraying Mark Antony in the HBO series Rome.-Early life and work:...
, Mia Maestro
Mía Maestro
Mía Maestro is an Argentine actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Nadia Santos in the television drama Alias, and as Christina Kahlo in Frida.-Life and acting career:...
, Lisa Ray
Lisa Ray
Lisa Ray , born 4 April 1972, is a Canadian actress and former model.-Early life:Lisa Ray was born in Toronto to a Bengali Indian father and a Polish mother and grew up in the suburb of Etobicoke...
and Rachelle Lefevre
Rachelle Lefèvre
Rachelle Lefevre is a Canadian actress. She has starred in the television series Big Wolf on Campus and had recurring roles in What About Brian, Boston Legal, and Swingtown. She played the vampire Victoria in the first two films of the Twilight saga, before being replaced by Bryce Dallas Howard...
star in the powerful story of how a corrupt government and deadly secrets culminate in a thrilling race against time. When a grieving mother loses her son to an illegal pharmaceutical trial her desperate want for revenge leads her to the G8 Summit with a vial of small pox infected blood.
Pinocchio
The popular and classic children’s tale is revamped for a 21st Century audience in this two part mini series starring Bob HoskinsBob Hoskins
Robert William "Bob" Hoskins, Jr. is an English actor known for playing Cockney rough diamonds, psychopaths and gangsters, in films such as The Long Good Friday , and Mona Lisa , and lighter roles in family films such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Hook .- Early life :Hoskins was born in Bury St...
. This dynamic retelling charts Gepetto's journey from grumpy old man to fulfilled father as he is dragged on a series of adventures by one of fiction’s most heart-warming characters.
The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant (ITV)
Written by BAFTA winner Peter Berry (Prime Suspect 6) Mary Bryant boasts a cast of Emmy nominee Sam NeillSam Neill
Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill, DCNZM, OBE is a New Zealand actor. He is well known for his starring role as paleontologist Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III....
(Crusoe
Crusoe
Crusoe may refer to:* Crusoe , a 2008 television series based on the novel Robinson Crusoe* Crusoe , a 1989 film by Caleb Deschanel, based on the novel* Transmeta Crusoe, a computer processor family by Transmeta Corporation...
, Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park (film)
Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. It stars Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Martin Ferrero, and Bob Peck...
), Jack Davenport
Jack Davenport
Jack Davenport is an English actor, best known for his roles in the television series This Life, Coupling and as James Norrington in the Pirates of the Caribbean series. He has also appeared in many other Hollywood films such as The Talented Mr. Ripley...
(Pirates of the Caribbean
Pirates of the Caribbean
Pirates of the Caribbean is a multi-billion dollar Walt Disney franchise encompassing a series of films, a theme park ride, and spinoff novels as well as numerous video games and other publications. The franchise originates with the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction, which opened at Disneyland in...
) and rising star Romola Garai
Romola Garai
Romola Sadie Garai is an English actress. She is known for appearing in the movies Amazing Grace, Atonement, and Glorious 39, and for appearing in the BBC adaptation of Emma.-Early life:...
(Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair (2004 film)
Vanity Fair is a 2004 British-American costume drama film directed by Mira Nair and adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name...
). When crime, punishment, love and unparalleled heroism become inextricably linked in an 18th century Australian penal colony, Mary Bryant must Fight for the life of her children, her marriage and herself. This true saga of unsung courage and bravery is dramatically celebrated in this 4 part miniseries.
Jessica
From Australia’s best selling author, Bryce CourtenayBryce Courtenay
Arthur Bryce Courtenay AM is a South-African-born naturalized Australian novelist and one of Australia's most commercially successful authors.-Background and early years:...
, comes Jessica, a heart-wrenching story of one woman’s remarkable fight for justice against enormous odds. Based on a true story, Power’s beautiful adaptation stars rising star Leeanna Walsman
Leeanna Walsman
Leeanna Walsman is an Australian actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Zam Wesell in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones , for playing Carly Bishop in the Australian film Looking For Alibrandi and for her starring role in the mini-series Jessica.She has been nominated for two...
(Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones is a 2002 American epic space opera film directed by George Lucas and written by Lucas and Jonathan Hales. It is the fifth film to be released in the Star Wars saga and the second in terms of the series' internal chronology...
) as Jessica and Sam Neil as Runche, the ne’er do well lawyer assisting Jessica on her courageous and life affirming journey.
To The Ends of the Earth (BBC)
William GoldingWilliam Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate, best known for his novel Lord of the Flies...
’s classic trilogy of novels paints the epic story of a journey from England to Australia where the stark divides of the 19th Century fall on the high seas. This masterfully adapted 3-part series takes us on board the confines of the ship where emotions run high as the freethinking radical, Mr. Prettiman (Sam Neil, Jessica
Jessica
- Given name :* Jessica , popular first name for girls in many English-speaking countries * Iscah, in the Bible , daughter of Haran...
), garners great influence over young Edmund Talbot (Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch is an English film, television, and theatre actor. His most acclaimed roles include Stephen Hawking in the BBC drama Hawking ; William Pitt in the historical film Amazing Grace ; the protagonist Stephen Ezard in the miniseries thriller The Last Enemy ; Paul...
- Hawking
Hawking
- People :* Stephen Hawking, an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist- Fictional characters :* James "Jim" Hawking, a character from the anime series, Outlaw Star- Other uses :...
, Dunkirk) in a way that will change his life forever.
The Virgin Queen (BBC)
With lavish and spectacular style the life of Elizabeth I (Anne-Marie DuffAnne-Marie Duff
Anne-Marie Duff is an English actress best known for playing Fiona Gallagher in Shameless, and Elizabeth I in The Virgin Queen.-Early life:...
- Shameless
Shameless
Shameless is a British television drama series set in Manchester on the fictional Chatsworth council estate. Produced by Company Pictures for Channel 4, the first seven-episode series aired weekly on Tuesday nights at 10pm from 13 January 2004...
, The Magdalene Sisters
The Magdalene Sisters
The Magdalene Sisters is a 2002 film written and directed by Peter Mullan about teenage girls who were sent to Magdalene Asylums, otherwise known as the 'Magdalene Laundries': homes for women who were labeled as "fallen" by their families or society...
) is stunningly depicted in this BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
Co-produced 4 part series. As we enter Elizabeth’s reign, on the dawn of Mary’s death, we see her plunged into the harsh reality in her role as monarch. However, it is her oxymoronic vulnerability and steely resolve in defying her wiles and adversaries that see Elizabeth become television and history’s most beloved monarch.
Henry VIII
With Ray WinstoneRay Winstone
Raymond Andrew "Ray" Winstone is an English film and television actor. He is mostly known for his "tough guy" roles, beginning with that of Carlin in the 1979 film Scum and as Will Scarlet in the cult television adventure series Robin of Sherwood. He has also become well known as a voice over...
(Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) taking the role of the tyrannical womaniser, Henry VIII (TV serial)
Henry VIII (TV serial)
Henry VIII is a two-part British television serial produced principally by Granada Television for ITV. It chronicles the life of Henry VIII of England from the disintegration of his first marriage to an aging Spanish princess until his death following a stroke in 1547, by which time he had married...
. This International Emmy award-winning TV mini series is an epic event that brings Henry’s dramatic private life to light. With an all-star cast of Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter is an English actress of film, stage, and television. She made her acting debut in a television adaptation of K. M. Peyton's A Pattern of Roses before winning her first film role as the titular character in Lady Jane...
(Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film)), David Suchet
David Suchet
David Suchet, CBE, is an English actor, known for his work on British television. He is recognised for his RTS- and BPG award-winning performance as Augustus Melmotte in the 2001 British TV mini-drama The Way We Live Now, alongside Matthew Macfadyen and Paloma Baeza, and a 1991 British Academy...
(Flood
Flood
A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land. The EU Floods directive defines a flood as a temporary covering by water of land not normally covered by water...
) and Emilia Fox
Emilia Fox
Emilia Rose Elizabeth Fox is an award-winning English actress, known for her role as Dr. Nikki Alexander on BBC crime drama Silent Witness, having joined the cast in 2004 following the departure of Amanda Burton. She also appears as Morgause in the BBC's Merlin beginning in the programme's second...
(The Pianist (2002 film)
The Pianist (2002 film)
The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody. It is an adaptation of the autobiography of the same name by Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman...
) this BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
co-produced telling of Henry’s fascinating journey of self-destruction is as compelling as any work of fiction.
Colditz
Based on true events, Colditz (miniseries)Colditz (miniseries)
Colditz — sometimes mistakenly referred to by its working title Escape from Colditz — is a 2005 British two-part television film produced by Granada Television for ITV, written by Peter Morgan and directed by Stuart Orme. Part one initially screened on that network on 27 March 2005...
depicts the journey of three officers whose capture in Nazi occupied Poland finds them transferred to the infamous, maximum-security prison Camp of Colditz. However, it is they’re heroic escape that founds their bond and cements their place in history. ITV's headline drama of the year, starring Sophia Myles
Sophia Myles
-Early life:Myles was born in London. She is the daughter of Jane, who works in educational publishing, and Peter Myles, a retired Anglican vicar in Isleworth, west London. Her maternal grandmother was Russian, and she refers to herself as "half-Welsh, half-Russian". She grew up in Notting Hill,...
and Golden Globe nominee Damian Lewis
Damian Lewis
Lewis was born in St John's Wood, London, the son of Charlotte Mary and J. Watcyn Lewis, a City broker. His paternal grandparents were Welsh. His maternal grandfather was Lord Mayor of London Ian Frank Bowater and his maternal grandmother's ancestors include Bertrand Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of...
, provides a fresh take in this gripping wartime epic.
Archangel (BBC)
Based on Robert HarrisRobert Harris (novelist)
Robert Dennis Harris is an English novelist. He is a former journalist and BBC television reporter.-Early life:Born in Nottingham, Harris spent his childhood in a small rented house on a Nottingham council estate. His ambition to become a writer arose at an early age, from visits to the local...
' best selling novel and starring Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig
Daniel Wroughton Craig is an English actor. His early film roles include Elizabeth, The Power of One, A Kid in King Arthur's Court and the television episodes Sharpe's Eagle, Zorro and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Daredevils of the Desert...
, Archangel is a fast paced contemporary mystery, set amongst the frozen landscapes of deepest Russia. Archangel brings to the screen just about the most gripping four-day story of suspense drama that you could ever imagine.
Casanova (BBC)
Fast paced and edgy, the mini series alternates between the gripping love triangle involving the young Casanova (David TennantDavid Tennant
David Tennant is a Scottish actor. In addition to his work in theatre, including a widely praised Hamlet, Tennant is best known for his role as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, along with the title role in the 2005 TV serial Casanova and as Barty Crouch, Jr...
– Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
), Henriette and her husband, Griming (Rupert Penry-Jones
Rupert Penry-Jones
Rupert William Penry-Jones is an English actor, best known for his role as Adam Carter in the British television series Spooks, also broadcast under the title MI-5.-Family life:Penry-Jones was born in London on September 22, 1970...
– Charlotte Gray
Charlotte Gray (film)
Charlotte Gray is a 2001 British-Australian-German feature film directed by Gillian Armstrong, based on the novel of the same name by Sebastian Faulks...
, Hilary and Jackie
Hilary and Jackie
Hilary and Jackie is a 1998 British biographical film directed by Anand Tucker. The screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce is based on the memoir A Genius in the Family by Piers and Hilary du Pré, which chronicles the life and career of their late sister, cellist Jacqueline du Pré...
) and the swan song of the world’s most notorious lothario.
Gunpowder
This powerful miniseries documents the politics and prejudice that leads up to the attempt to assassinate James I (Robert CarlyleRobert Carlyle
Robert Carlyle, OBE is a Scottish film and television actor. He is known for a variety of roles including those in Trainspotting, Hamish Macbeth, The Full Monty, The World Is Not Enough, Angela's Ashes, The 51st State, and 28 Weeks Later...
- Flood
Flood
A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land. The EU Floods directive defines a flood as a temporary covering by water of land not normally covered by water...
), the new appointed King of England and Scotland, by Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkes , also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, belonged to a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.Fawkes was born and educated in York...
. Co-produced by Box TV Productions and Raging Star Films for the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
, Gunpowder’s plot remains one of the most scandalous and remembered events in history.
Power Thrillers
Power is co-producing a collection of original mainstream suspense driven thrillers for the US channel Lifetime. Power Thrillers are two-hour movies made for television, each with a focal dynamic female lead. Titles include You Belong to Me, a spine chilling story of a woman desperate to break free from a man’s obsessive love; MistakenMistaken
Mistaken may refer to:* Mistaken Identity, a claim of the actual innocence of a criminal defendant* Mistaken Point , a small Canadian headlandMusic...
, Summer House
Summer house
A summer house or summerhouse has traditionally referred to a building or shelter used for relaxation in warm weather. This would often take the form of a small, roofed building on the grounds of a larger one, but could also be built in a garden or park, often designed to provide cool shady places...
, Blind Trust
Blind trust
A blind trust is a trust in which the fiduciaries, namely the trustees or those who have been given power of attorney, have full discretion over the assets, and the trust beneficiaries have no knowledge of the holdings of the trust and no right to intervene in their handling...
starring Jessica Capshaw
Jessica Capshaw
Jessica Brooke Capshaw is an American actress. She is known for her role as Jamie Stringer in The Practice and for her role as Dr...
who battles to clear her name after she is accused of double murder: Legacy of Fear, starring Teri Polo
Teri Polo
Theresa Elizabeth "Teri" Polo is an American actress known for her role of Pam Focker in the movie Meet the Parents and its two sequels, Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers...
as a police detective hunting the identity of a deadly serial killer who claimed the life of her mother some 30 years earlier; Selling Innocence
Selling Innocence
Selling Innocence is a made-for-TV movie that shows and condemns the exploitation of teens on the web today.The movie is a coproduction between, Edmonton based television production company, ImagiNation, Montreal's Cite-Amerique, and CTV, for their line of TV-movies, collectively known as the CTV...
starring Mimi Rogers
Mimi Rogers
Mimi Rogers is an American movie actress and competitive poker player.-Early life:Rogers was born Miriam Spickler in Coral Gables, Florida, the daughter of Philip C...
, in which a young girl becomes entangled in an internet modelling scam with sinister consequences; the ultimate game of cat and mouse in Crimes of Passion with Dina Meyer
Dina Meyer
Dina Meyer is an American film and television actress, best known for her roles as Dizzy Flores in Starship Troopers and Detective Allison Kerry in the Saw films. She portrayed Mrs. Hong as a recurring guest star on ABC's Scoundrels.-Personal life:Meyer was born in Queens, New York...
and Deadly Isolation, which stars Sherilyn Fenn
Sherilyn Fenn
Sherilyn Fenn is an American actress and filmmaker. She came to international attention for her performance as Audrey Horne on the 1990 cult TV series Twin Peaks...
as a young widow hunted down by her late husband's murderous associates.
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