New on
BBC Prime in July, 2008:
Low Winter Sun
Premiered: Friday, 4 July 2008 at 20h30
Frank Agnew is a police detective who kills for revenge and naively believes he's engineered the perfect crime, by drowning a man in a tank of live lobsters.
TVSA's Low Winter Sun Minisite.
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Derren Brown: Trick Of The Mind 2 (Rebroadcast)
Premiered: Sunday, 6 July 2008 at 19h30
All six episodes in the second season aired back-to-back in a three-hour marathon.
Derren Brown uses his unique powers of psychological illusion, misdirection and showmanship to amaze magic fan Stephen Fry with one of his favourite tricks.
TVSA's Derren Brown: Trick Of The Mind 2 Showpage.
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The Long Firm
Premiere date: Friday, 18 July 2008 at 20h30
Meet Harry Starks, lord of the Soho underworld scene in the sixties. He's no ordinary crime boss: he's an intelligent, complex Judy Garland-loving man who yearns for something more than the rough and tumble of criminal life.
For those who've come into his realm over the years - from the penniless Lord with a predilection for young boys to the beautiful actress Ruby, who is helped by Starks but eventually deprives him of the one thing he truly loves - life will never be the same again.
As Harry negotiates the changing years, including a stretch in prison and a final, vengeful murder, the power of his personality captivates all around him, and also brings them into subterfuge and danger.
Starring: Mark Strong (Prime Suspect, Henry VIII), Derek Jacobi (Gladiator, Gosford Park), Phil Daniels (Quadrophenia, Chicken Run), Lena Headey (Ripley’s Game, The Gathering Storm).
Based on the novel of the same name by Jake Arnott.
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