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January

• 1st Jan – The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (Amazon Prime movie) – English artist Louis Wain rises to prominence at the end of the 19th century for his surreal cat paintings that seemed to reflect his declining sanity.
• 2nd Jan – Call The Midwife (Series 11) – The eleventh series of the popular show that chronicles the lives of a group of midwives living in East London in the late-1950s to late-1960s.
• 3rd Jan – Father Brown (Series 9) – Series inspired by the stories of GK Chesterton; a Catholic priest has a knack for solving mysteries in his English village.
• 14th Jan – The Tragedy of Macbeth (movie) – A Scottish lord becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he will become the next King of Scotland, and his ambitious wife supports him in his plans of seizing power.
• 14th Jan – Save The Cinema (movie) – Set in a small Welsh town in the 1990s, Save the Cinema is a feel-good story based on the efforts of one woman bringing together a community to save the local cinema.
• 21st Jan – Munich: The Edge Of War (Netflix movie) – A British diplomat travels to Munich in the run-up to World War II, where a former classmate of his from Oxford is also en route, but is working for the German government.
• 21st Jan – Nightmare Alley (movie) – An ambitious carny with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist who is even more dangerous than he is.
• 21st Jan – Belfast (movie) – A young boy and his working class family experience the tumultuous late 1960s.A young boy and his working class family experience the tumultuous late 1960s. Directed and written by Kenneth Branagh.
• 25th Jan – The Gilded Age (Sky Atlantic series) – A look at life of millionaires living in New York during the 1800s by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes
• 27th Jan – Hotel Portofino (BritBox series) – A classic whodunit mystery, as the characters go about their lives in 1920s Italy, when Benito Mussolini’s brand of fascism was on the rise.

February

• 1st Feb – My Best Friend Anne Frank (Netflix) – This story is based on the memoirs of Frank’s friend Hannah Goslar.
• 4th Feb – The Eyes of Tammy Faye (movie) – An intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Baker.
• 11th Feb – Death on the Nile (movie) – While on vacation on the Nile, Hercule Poirot must investigate the murder of a young heiress.
• 18th Feb – The Marvellous Mrs Maisel (Series 4 – Amazon Prime) – A housewife in 1958 decides to become a stand-up comic.
• 25th Feb – The Duke (movie) – In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60 year old taxi driver, steals Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London.
• 25th Feb – Vikings: Valhalla – Series 1(Netflix) – Follow-up series to ‘Vikings’ set 100 years afterward and centering on the adventures of Leif Erikson, Freydis, Harald Hardrada and the Norman King William the Conqueror.
• 25th Feb – Cyrano (movie) – Too self-conscious to woo Roxanne himself, wordsmith Cyrano de Bergerac helps young Christian nab her heart through love letters.
• 27th Feb – Peaky Blinders (Series 6) – The sixth and final series about a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby.

March

• 2nd Mar – Against The Ice (Netflix movie) – Battling extreme hunger, fatigue and a polar bear attack, Denmark’s Alabama Expedition find their ship crushed in the ice and the camp abandoned. Hoping to be rescued, they must fight to stay alive.
• 6th Mar – Outlander Series 6 (Amazon Prime) – An English combat nurse from 1945 is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743.
• 6th Mar – The Ipcress File (mini-series) – A new six-part adaptation of Len Deighton’s classic espionage novel.
• 8th Mar – The Witchfinder (mini-series) – A comedy about a 17th Century witchfinder and his suspect on a bit of a road trip.
• 9th Mar – The Last Kingdom (Series 5) – As Alfred the Great defends his kingdom from Norse invaders, Uhtred–born a Saxon but raised by Vikings–seeks to claim his ancestral birthright.
• 11th Mar – Grantchester (Series 7) – A Cambridgeshire clergyman finds himself investigating a series of mysterious wrongdoings in his small village of Grantchester.
• 18th Mar – Alice (movie) – A slave in the antebellum South who escapes from her secluded plantation only to discover a shocking reality that lies beyond the tree line.
• 21st March – Sanditon (Series 2) – About Charlotte Heywood, a spirited and impulsive woman who moves from her rural home to Sanditon, a fishing village attempting to reinvent itself as a seaside resort.
• 25th March – Bridgerton (Series 2) – Wealth, lust, and betrayal set against the backdrop of Regency-era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family.
• 31st Mar – Julia (mini-series) – The life of iconic TV chef Julia Child, played by Sarah Lancashire
• Our Flag Means Death (comedy series) – The year is 1717. Wealthy landowner Stede Bonnet has a midlife crisis and decides to blow up his cushy life to become a pirate. It does not go well. Based on a true story.

April

• 8th April – The Outfit (movie) – An expert tailor must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters in order to survive a fateful night. Starring Mark Rylance.
• 10th April – Gentleman Jack – Series 2 (BBC) – A dramatization of the life of LGBTQ+ trailblazer, voracious learner, and cryptic diarist Anne Lister, who returns to Halifax, West Yorkshire in 1832, determined to transform the fate of her faded ancestral home Shibden Hall.
• 12th April – Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (BritBox miniseries) – While golfing on the Welsh coast, Bobby Jones apparently hits a stranger who falls off the the sea cliff. His enigmatic last words are “Why didn’t they ask Evans?”
• 12th April – Derry Girls – Season 3 (Channel 4 series) – The personal exploits of a 16-year-old girl and her family and friends during the Troubles in the early 1990s.
• 19th April – Life After Life (mini-series) – Ursula Todd who dies one night in 1910 before she can draw her first breath. On that same night in 1910, Ursula is born and survives.
• 22nd April – The Northman (movie) – From acclaimed director Robert Eggers, The Northman is an epic revenge thriller that explores how far a Viking prince will go to seek justice for his murdered father.
• 24th April – Gaslit (mini-series) – A modern take on the 1970s political Watergate scandal centering on untold stories and forgotten characters of the time. Starring Julia Roberts and Sean Penn.
• 29th April – Downton Abbey 2 (movie) – A second movie telling the continuing story of the Crawley family, wealthy owners of a large estate in the English countryside in the early twentieth century.

May

• 11th May – Operation Mincemeat (movie) – During WWII, two intelligence officers use a corpse and false papers to outwit German troops. Starring Colin Firth and Matthew McFadyen.
• 13th May – The Essex Serpent (Apple TV) – An adaptation of the bestselling book, it will follow a newly widowed woman, played by Claire Danes, who, having being released from an abusive marriage, relocates from Victorian London to a small village in the county of Essex.
• 14th May – Das Boot – Series 3 (Sky mini-series) – An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in the WWII drama.
• 17th May – Floodlights (BBC TV movie) – The former professional soccer player Andy Woodward revelations about the sexual abuse he suffered as a youth player.
• 20th May – Benediction (movie) – Legendary 20th Century war poet Siegfried Sassoon’s life-long quest for personal salvation through his experiences with family, war, his writing, and destructive relationships goes unresolved, never realizing it can only come from within.
• 31st May – Pistol (Disney+) – Period drama based on the memoir of Steve Jones, the legendary Sex Pistols guitarist who helped usher in a punk revolution in Britain.

June

• 3rd June – Physical (Apple TV series) – A woman struggling in her life as a quietly tortured 1980s housewife, finds an unconventional path to power through an unlikely source: the world of aerobics.
• 10th June – My Name is Leon (TV movie) – My Name is Leon tells the uplifting and incredibly moving story of nine year old Leon, a mixed-race boy whose desire is to keep his family together, as his single-parent mother suffers a devastating breakdown.
• 12th June – Becoming Elizabeth (mini-series) – Elizabeth Tudor, an orphaned teenager who becomes embroiled in the political and sexual politics of the English court on her journey to secure the crown
• 14th June – Miss Scarlett and The Duke (Series 2) – Eliza Scarlet joins forces with a Scotland Yard Inspector to solve crime in 19th-century London.
• 22nd – The First Lady (mini-series) – In the East Wing of the White House, many of history’s most impactful and world-changing decisions have been hidden from view, made by America’s charismatic, complex and dynamic first ladies.
• 24th June – Elvis (movie) – A look at the life of the legendary rock and roll star, Elvis Presley, directed by Baz Luhrmann

July

• 15th Jul – The Railway Children Return (movie) – Follow a group of children who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, where they encounter a young soldier who, like them, is far away from home.
• 15th Jul – Persuasion (movie) – A new adaptation of Jane Austen’s final completed novel. Starring Dakota Johnson.
• 22nd Jul – Where The Crawdads Sing (movie) – A woman who raised herself in the marshes of the deep South becomes a suspect in the murder of a man she was once involved with.
• 22nd Jul – Prizefighter (movie) – At the turn of the 19th century, Pugilism was the sport of kings and a gifted young boxer fought his way to becoming champion of England.
• 27th Jul – Under The Banner of Heaven (Disney+ series) – A devout detective’s faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder seemingly connected to an esteemed Utah family’s spiral into LDS fundamentalism and their distrust in the government.

August

• 5th Aug – Eiffel (movie) – The government is asking Eiffel to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair, but Eiffel simply wants to design the subway. Suddenly, everything changes when Eiffel crosses paths with a mysterious woman from Arun’s past.
• 12th Aug – A League Of Their Own (Amazon mini-series) – Comedy series about the WWII All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
• 26th Aug – Mr Malcolm’s List (movie) – A young woman courts a mysterious wealthy suitor in 19th century England.

September

• 9th Sept – See How They Run (movie) – A desperate Hollywood film producer sets out to turn a popular play into a film. When members of the production are murdered, world-weary Inspector Stoppard and rookie Constable Stalker find themselves in the midst of a puzzling whodunit.
• 11th Sept – The Serpent Queen (mini-series) – Eight part series based on Leonie Frieda’s book “Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France.
• 23rd Sept – Don’t Worry Darling (movie) – A 1950’s housewife living with her husband in a utopian experimental community begins to worry that his glamorous company may be hiding disturbing secrets. Starring Florence Pugh and Harry Styles.
• 23rd Sept – Catherine, Called Birdy (movie) – The movie will follow the adventures of a teenage girl in Medieval England as she navigates through life and tries to avoid the arranged marriages her father maps out for her
• 23rd – A Jazzman’s Blues (Netflix movie) – Tyler Perry’s tale of forbidden love and family drama unravels 40 years of secrets and lies against a soundtrack of juke joint blues in the Deep South.
• 28th – Blonde (Netflix series) –  A fictionalized chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe.
• 29th Sept – The Empress (Netflix series) – Two young people meet. A fateful encounter – the proverbial love at first sight. He is Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary, she is Elisabeth von Wittelsbach, Princess of Bavaria and the sister of the woman Franz is to marry.
• 30th Sept  – Mrs Harris Goes To Paris (movie) – A new adaptation of Paul Gallico’s much-loved novel about a cleaning lady in 1950s London who falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.
• 30th Sept – The Greatest Beer Run Ever (movie) – A man’s story of leaving New York in 1967 to bring beer to his childhood buddies in the Army while they are fighting in Vietnam.

October

• 7th Oct – The Woman King (movie) – A historical epic inspired by the true events that happened in The Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful states of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries
• 7th Oct – The Lost King (movie) – An amateur historian defies the stodgy academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III’s remains, which were lost for over 500 years.
• 7th Nov – Amsterdam (movie) – Set in the ’30s, it follows three friends who witness a murder, become suspects themselves, and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.
• 12th Oct – Candy (Disney+ series) – Candy Montgomery is a 1980s housewife and mother who did everything right – but when the pressure of conformity builds within her, her actions scream for just a bit of freedom. Until someone tells her to shush. With deadly results.
• 14th Oct – White Bird: A Wonder Story (movie) – Centres on a young Jewish girl hidden away by a boy and his family in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
• 14th Oct – Emily (movie) – Emily imagines the transformative, exhilarating, and uplifting journey to womanhood of a rebel and a misfit, one of the world’s most famous, enigmatic, and provocative writers who died too soon at the age of 30.
• 14th Oct – Rosaline (Disney+ series) – A comedic retelling of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” told from the point of view of Romeo’s jilted ex, Rosaline, the woman Romeo first claims to love before he falls for Juliet.
• 16th Oct – The Larkins (ITV series) – A new adaptation of the classic novel “The Darling Buds of May” by H.E. Bates, following the warm-hearted, wheeler-dealing adventures of the iconic Larkin family in the idyllic Kent countryside.
• 21st Oct – My Policeman (movie) – Emma Corrin and Harry Styles star in this romantic movie inspired by the life of E.M. Forster
• 26th Oct – Robbing Mussolini (movie) – A Milanese wartime entrepreneur forms a band of misfits and rogues to stage an elaborate heist of a legendary treasure belonging to Benito Mussolini.
• 28th Oct – All Quiet On The Western Front (Netflix movie) – A young German soldier’s terrifying experiences and distress on the western front during World War I.
• 30th Oct – SAS: Rogue Heroes (BBC1 series) – The six-part drama is based on Ben Macintyre’s SAS: Rogue Heroes book, which charts the creation of the famed Special Forces unit.
• Funny Woman (mini-series) – about a young woman from Blackpool finding her comic voice in the male dominated world of the 1960s sitcom.

November

• 4th Nov – Enola Holmes 2 (Netflix movie) – Now a detective-for-hire, Enola Holmes takes on her first official case to find a missing girl as the sparks of a dangerous conspiracy ignite a mystery that requires the help of friends – and Sherlock himself – to unravel
• 4th Nov – Call Jane (movie) – A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can’t get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.
• 6th Nov – Dangerous Liaisons (mini-series) – A pair of scheming ex-lovers attempt to exploit others by using the power of seduction. TV adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ classic 18th Century novel ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’.
• 9th Nov – The Crown – Series 5 (Netflix series) – The fifth and penultimate instalment of the popular drama that chronciles the political rivalries and romance of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign and the events that shaped the second half of the twentieth century.
• 10th Nov – The English (BBC2 mini-series) – Follows a woman as she seeks revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son.
• 11th Nov – Living (movie) – Set in 1952 London, it depicts a bureaucrat facing a fatal illness.
• 16th Nov – The Wonder (movie) – A tale of two strangers who transform each other’s lives, a psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil. Starring Florence Pugh.
• 17th Nov – 1899 (series) – Multinational immigrants traveling from the old continent to the new encounter a nightmarish riddle aboard a second ship adrift on the open sea.
• 18th Nov – Armageddon Time (movie) – A deeply personal coming-of-age story about the strength of family and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.

December

• 2nd Dec – Lady Chatterley’s Lover (movie) – After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterley is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband’s consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
• 4th Dec – George and Tammy (Paramount Plus series) – A look at the romance between famed country musicians George Jones and Tammy Wynette.
• 8th Dec – A Spy Among Friends (ITVx series) – Based on the New York Times best-selling book written by Ben Macintyre.
• 8th Dec – The Confessions of Frannie Langton (ITVx series) – Based on the popular gothic novel, It explores the beautiful and haunting tale about one woman’s fight to tell her story.
• 9th Dec  – Emancipation (AppleTV movie) – A runaway slave forges through the swamps of Louisiana on a tortuous journey to escape plantation owners that nearly killed him.
• 14th Dec – Vienna Blood – Series 3 (BBC2) – Max Liebermann, a medical student and protegé of Sigmund Freud, helps Detective Rheinhardt in the investigation of a series of disturbing murders around 1900s Vienna.
• 18th Dec – 1923 (Paramount Plus series) – The Duttons face a new set of challenges in the early 20th century, including the rise of Western expansion, Prohibition, and the Great Depression.
• 23rd Dec – All Creatures Great and Small Christmas Special (Channel 5) – Channel 5’s series follows the heartwarming and humorous adventures of a young country vet in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s.
• 24th Dec – Count Magnus (BBC Two) – Set in 1863, Count Magnus tells the tale of the inquisitive Mr. Wraxhall who becomes fascinated by the long-dead founder of a Swedish family, who once made a strange journey to the Holy Land – on most unholy business.
• 25th Dec – Call The Midwife Christmas Special (BBC One) – Chronicles the lives of a group of midwives living in East London in the late 1950s to late 1960s.
• 29th Dec – Marie Antoinette (BBC Two mini-series) – Follows the famed queen Marie Antoinette, who was the last queen of France before the French Revolution.
• 30th Dec – Corsage (movie) – Empress Elizabeth of Austria is idolized for her beauty and renowned for inspiring fashion trends. In 1877 Christmas Empress turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman she starts trying to maintain her public image.
• Great Expectations (BBC mini-series) – Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight turns his hand to Charles Dickens’ thirteenth novel.

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Sometime in 2022

Devotion (movie) – A pair of U.S. Navy fighter pilots risk their lives during the Korean War and become some of the Navy’s most celebrated wingmen.

The Gallows Pole (mini-series) – The Gallows Pole, based on the novel of the same name by Benjamin Myers, fictionalises the remarkable true story of the rise and fall of David Hartley and the Cragg Vale Coiners.

Stonehouse (mini-series) – A British politician who faked his own death.

Tom Jones (mini-series) – Tom Jones is a man in his early life trying to find a place in the world.

The War Rooms (mini-series) – Follows the women who worked in Winston Churchill’s secret bunker in Whitehall, central London.

Series We Are Expecting To Return

• Call The Midwife – Series 11
• Bridgerton – Series 3
• Miss Scarlett and The Duke – Series 3
• Taboo – Series 2
• Victoria – Series 4
• World on Fire – Series 2

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