Playhouse Presents (2012)
Playhouse Presents is a series of self-contained TV plays, made by British broadcaster Sky Arts. The series started airing on 12 April 2012, on Sky Arts 1. Each episode is written by a different writer and stars a different cast. The four-part adaptation of A Country Doctor's Notebook was also broadcast on the strand in December 2012. Sky Arts have announced that they are ordering a five-part spin-off of the third play, Nixon’s The One. They say the full cast, including Harry Shearer as Nixon and Henry Goodman as Kissinger, will return for the series run, which will be filmed in September 2012. The series will broadcast in 2013. The second series began airing in April 2013 featuring Kathy Burke, Frances Barber, Julia Davis, Idris Elba, Anna Friel, Rebecca Front, Stephen Graham, David Harewood, Ian Hart, Sharon Horgan, Mathew Horne, Suranne Jones, Kylie Minogue, Vanessa Redgrave, Peter Serafinowicz, Matt Smith, Johnny Vegas, Marc Warren, Jack Whitehall and Reggie Yates.
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Episode 1 - The Dog Thrower
Release Date: 2014-05-01Lonely man Jonah begins throwing his dog in the air and catching him after witnessing a charismatic man doing the same in a local park.
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Episode 2 - Nosferatu in Love
Release Date: 2014-05-08While on location in the Czech Republic for a remake of the vampire classic, our tormented lead flees the set in full Dracula costume. Teaming up with petty crook Fonso, his revenge against his director and his wife will involve his best acting talents - and twelve thousand rats.
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Episode 3 - The Cruise
Release Date: 2014-05-15Mobile Hairdresser Jacky is one week from her silver anniversary dream cruise. But is husband Andy's hesitation just simple concern - or are darker forces at play?
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Episode 4 - The Nightshift
Release Date: 2014-05-22Two contrasting police officers tries to get through a long nightshift in South-East London.
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Episode 5 - Foxtrot
Release Date: 2014-05-29Strippers Badger and the androgynous Fox, who poses as a boy, have kidnapped Ezra, a punter who injured one of their colleagues, and have him prisoner in a hotel room.
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Episode 6 - Space Age
Release Date: 2014-06-05Dudley and John are two old men who gain a new lease of life thanks to a voluntary space mission.
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Episode 7 - Damned
Release Date: 2014-06-12Two stressed social workers struggle to keep control of their private lives and chaotic office.
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Episode 8 - Timeless
Release Date: 2014-06-19Drama about the burgeoning relationship between a World War II widow and her great-granddaughter.
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Episode 9 - King For a Term
Release Date: 2015-07-09In 1980s Hackney nine-year old Akuna's proud father sees him as the next Eddy Grant, but Akuna is asthmatic, which means he must attend a special school for children with disabilities and before long he has fallen foul of sadistic teacher Mr Grimme, who labels him Asthma Boy. Akuna however, with the help of a cheeky Scots fellow student, soon leads the rest of the class into humiliating Mr Grimme, making Akuna King for a Term