Hugh Bonneville
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Language
English
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"A moving, laugh-out-loud memoir from one of today's best-loved British actors, whose credits include Downton Abbey, Notting Hill, and Paddington. From getting his big break as Third Shepherd in the school nativity play, to navigating Highclere Castle's complex Labrador policies, to bizarre Hollywood encounters, Hugh Bonneville creates a brilliantly vivid picture of a career on stage and screen. What is it like working with Judi Dench and Julia Roberts,...
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English
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Bonneville started his career at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, understudying Ralph Fiennes as Lysander, one of the four lovers in A Midsummer Night's Dream. He and Fiennes meet up again to try to untangle the extraordinary plot of one of Shakespeare's most enduringly popular plays, a great comedy of love and enchantment.
3) To Olivia
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Language
English
Description
The story of the tumultuous marriage between actress Patricia Neal and renowned writer Roald Dahl.
4) Silent Hours
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Language
English
Description
Private detective John Duval, an ex-lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy and Naval Intelligence, finds himself the prime suspect in a police hunt for a sexual killer when three women are brutally murdered
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Drag SOS ; 4
Language
English
Description
The Family Gorgeous visit the West Midlands, home turf for the head of the Family Cheddar, where they meet Sam who wants to reclaim her confidence, as well as a rugby team captain named Matthew.
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Series
Drag SOS ; 5
Language
English
Description
Can The Family Gorgeous help Dominique rediscover her self-confidence by becoming an intergalactic space queen? They also meet Jacob who recently came out to his family, and a 61-year-old trans woman named Alison.
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Drag SOS ; 2
Language
English
Description
The Family Gorgeous head to the Suffolk town of Ipswich to find three locals in need of a dose of fabulous in their lives, including a grumpy farmer, a wife who wants to show her husband how wonderful he is, and an individual with a dream.
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Drag SOS ; 3
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English
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In the Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough, The Family Gorgeous help a fitness instructor named Mark be less of a control freak, as well as David who has missed out on caring for his mom, and Fleur who seeks to rediscover her confidence.
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Drag SOS ; 6
Language
English
Description
Can The Family Gorgeous assist ex-dancer Ashley in rediscovering the person he once was? Or what about Christian who suffers from anxiety and hopes drag might build his confidence, and Chloe who wants to find her inner drag diva?
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Series
Drag SOS ; 1
Language
English
Description
In Dover, The Family Gorgeous are on a mission to bring a touch of glamour to a single mom named Abbey, to a student named Nico, and a budding drag queen named Owen with the goal of training the three for a show-stopping drag performance.
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English
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Paddington doesn't intentionally turn his friend's wedding into an uproar by getting the wedding ring stuck on his paw. Nor does he mean Mr Curry to slip on his marmalade sandwich in the middle of an important gold shot. But these sorts of things just happen to a bear like Paddington!
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Language
English
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In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Everyone there speaks Turkish, though they write it in Greek letters. It’s a place that has room for a professional blasphemer;...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Description
Season two returns as the Great War rages across Europe, and not even the serene Yorkshire countryside is free from its effects. The men and women of Downton are doing their part both on the front lines and the home front, but the intensity of war only serves to inflame the more familiar passions of love, loss, blackmail, and betrayal.
14) Born to royalty
Publisher
Bbc Worldwide
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Millions of people watched Prince William and Catherine Middleton's wedding on April 29, 2011. Nineteen months later, the couple announced that they were expecting their first child-the future King or Queen. In this documentary, celebrate the birth of William and Kate's baby with a fascinating portrait of the life that lies ahead for the child who is born to reign. This is a commissioned feature-length celebration charting the history of the Royal...
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
All seven episodes from the first series of the Edwardian costume drama following the lives and loves of those above and below stairs in a stately home prior to the outbreak of WWI. The Grantham family, long time custodians of Downton Abbey, face a crisis when the heir to the estate dies on the 'Titanic'. With his three daughters unable to inherit by law, Robert Crawley (Hugh Bonneville), the current Earl of Grantham, must try and marry his eldest...
18) The Cazalets
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Three generations of the Gazalet family in the shadows of WWII.
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English
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Description
The War is over and a long-awaited engagement is on, but all is not tranquil at Downton Abbey as wrenching social changes, romantic intrigues, and personal crises grip the majestic English country estate for a third thrilling season. In the wake of World War I, Robert, Earl of Grantham, sticks to his duty to maintain Downton more firmly than ever.