Projects with status: Complete

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Stress Maniacs - psychobabble game show where three real stressed-out contestants compete for a luxury break. Re-birthed into 'suspended animation', they enter the animated world of Cameron Ripple - evangelical relaxation guru and game show host. The show climaxes with the winner reaching Ripple's 'Ranch on High'!

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The first feature for director Peter Capaldi and producer Ruth Kenley-Letts. Written by Peter Capaldi.

Strictly Sinatra stars Ian Hart as Toni Cocozza, a Scottish-Italian club crooner obsessed by Frank Sinatra, who falls in with a group of local gangsters in the hope that they will make him a star. But there is a price to pay. As he is drawn by the glamour of the gangsters, in particular the Las Vegas stories of their leader Chisholm (Brian Cox), Toni begins to betray Bill (Alun Armstrong), his best friend and accompanist, and Irene (Kelly Macdonald), the local girl he loves.

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Bombers, dragsters. Time pivots around this strip of tarmac. A merge with profound parallels. As the battles continue, ghosts of the past smile on.

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Following a successful job interview in London, Alison asks her old school friends to leave their Brighton homes to flatshare up in the capital. Taryn already commutes to London where she works as a graphic designer while aimless, unemployed Charlie agrees to sleep on the inflatable sofa in the lounge.

Over the course of the next three months there will be enough sex, death, poetry and daytime television to try the patience of even the closest friends.

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Four people tell stories about growing up queer in a small English village.

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Julie (Sienna Guillory) is the young English nanny hired by wealthy Italian couple Mirella and Alessandro Cenci (Alice Krige, Derek de Lint) to take care of their baby son Claudio. Julie is soon accused of attempting to seduce Alessandro, however, and when baby Claudio dies in a mysterious fire at the family home, the finger points at the young outsider.

As the witch-hunt intensifies, Julie's only hope lies in the hands of defence lawyer Gabrieli (Mark Strong). Although still grieving the recent loss of his wife, Gabrieli is persuaded to take on Julie's case by his friend and fellow lawyer Isabella Flores (Frances Barber).

Julie's guilt hangs in the balance, but when further unexplained fires begin to blaze, the young nanny's involvement seems irrefutable and she is jailed for suspected arson. Together with a former psychiatrist Mother Frances Matteo (Charlotte Rampling) and Dr. Roberto Fallaci (David Schofield), an expert in the supernatural, Gabrieli fights to prove the girl's innocence. In a final unveiling of shattering events from Julie's past, the unnerving truth is revealed.

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Dedication. Commitment. Consummation. A High Priestess of Pain and her Devoted Disciple immerse themselves in Holy Slaughter. Tastes Like Tuna brings you the edited highlights.

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A mini cab appears and Alistair assumes that his disaster of an evening is over - only to discover that it is just beginning.

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The morning after the night before, a rapid spiral of increasingly disastrous telephone conversations chart the certain ruin of young Phil's day as he attempts to fib his way out of one scrape after another.
 

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Ireland, 1780. The eldest sons of wealthy families stand to inherit everything, and with this comes the pick of the attractive society brides. But the younger brothers get nothing. So a group of these financially challenged gents come together to form The Abduction Club their plan: take attractive, wealthy girls captive for one night and persuade them to marry.

Saddled up, wearing masks, they set off to abduct their would-be brides from under their fathers' noses. But what happens when their intendeds do not succumb to their impoverished proposals?

Maybe its time to take off the masks and turn on the charm!

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Masquerading as a public warning film for viagra this is not one for the kids. A woman is dragged across hill and dale by the dog she is having sex with.

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Gary and Tom have been friends since birth. They have many shared experiences and developed similar outlooks on the world. A world, which they feel, is quick to reject anything that does not appear to fit in. A superficial world. Gary and Tom feel they are misfits because they have no desire to conform.

At college together, studying courses that they have long lost their enthusiasm for, on the last day of the autumn term, 6 months before their final exams, they decide to leave it all behind.

However taking advantage of their media studies course they record their last day for prosperity. Intending to repay the cruel instigators of their often humiliating time spend studying, they line up a dazzling array of practical jokes, pranks and wind-ups.

Attempting to conceal their actions and avoid the attention of a potentially violent gang of "popular" students proves just a little bit too much, with disturbing consequences, ensuring that their last day leads to "The Big Finish" that they weren't exactly looking for.