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It was a world of airships and alchemy, clockwork carnivals, pirates, lost cities, a rigid Watchmaker who controlled every aspect of life, and his nemesis, the ruthless and violent Anarchist who wanted to destroy it all. Anderson and Peart have returned to their colourful creation to explore the places and the characters that still have a hold on their imaginations.

Even if you think you don't know him, you know him. Few in the Hollywood orbit have had greater influence; few have experienced more humiliating failure in their lifetime. Thanks in part to the biopic directed by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp, and bearing his name, Ed Wood has become an icon of Americana. Perhaps the purest expression of Wood's théma - pink angora sweaters, over-the-top violence, and the fraught relationships between the sexes - can be found in his unadulterated short stories.

Barbara is a major in the Salvation Army - but she's also the daughter of Andrew Undershaft, a man who's made millions from the sale of weapons of war. The real battle, however, rages between between the devilish father and his idealistic daughter as they answer the question: does salvation come through faith or finance? This sparkling comedy traverses family relations, religion, ethics and politics - as only Shaw, the master dramatist, can!

Harold and Fred watch television. They become the characters they watch. 1985. Inside a dingy apartment on the ninth floor of a dilapidated apartment building in downtown Los Angeles, Harold & Fred, two working-class English expatriates, sit on a shabby couch mesmerized by an old television set, in this bitter-sweet black comedy drama.Harold is wrapped in a dirty bathrobe. Fred is gaunt and pale, wearing a stained woman’s off-the-shoulder cotton dress....

Poet, novelist, critic and campaigner Walter Scott invented the historical novel and shaped the world’s image of Scotland. His tales of heroism, romance and adventure were hugely successful, outselling Jane Austen and Lord Byron, and are still popular today. Included here are adaptations of five of the best-loved books in his ‘Waverley’ series, as well as two bonus programmes.

Während New Orleans weiter von einer mysteriösen und grauenhaften Mordserie erschüttert wird, unternimmt Dracula einen Versuch, in den Schlangentempel einzudringen, der gerade erst in den trockengelegten Sümpfen entdeckt wurde. An seiner Seite befindet sich Bastien Lavache, der von Zweifeln geplagte Sonderermittler. Beide folgen sie den Spuren eines Wesens, über das in der Stadt nur mit vorgehaltener Hand gesprochen wird: der weiße Wurm! Während es oben in den Straßen nicht mehr sicher ist, tauchen Dracula und Lavache in die Unterwelt ab.

Die Ereignisse in New Orleans spitzen sich immer weiter zu. Dracula kann nicht verhindern, dass er von seinem ärgsten Feind Van Helsing überwältigt und in das Zellengefängnis im Sheriffbüro gesperrt wird. Doch es gibt noch Hoffnung: Theodora Sachs ist Draculas Verbindung zur Außenwelt. Sie wird zu seinem verlängerten Arm. Währenddessen geschieht das Entsetzliche: Eine gefährliche Kreatur, die die Stadt bedroht, ist wieder erwacht und hat einen Weg in die Freiheit gefunden.