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2010 Latest from Acorn

Time Team 2; Codnor Castle
and Other Digs

Young & old will enjoy the chase of history unearthed

Time Team is the most popular and longest-running history program on television. Join Time Team on an archaeological discovery of Britain’s past. 13 riveting episodes set in diverse locations from Barra in the Western Isles to Dungannon in Northern Ireland. Time Team have only 3 days at each location to excavate, retrieve and unearth history from the Palaeolithic to the Industrial age. Tony Robinson explains, in his "piece to camera", the reasons for the team's visit to the site, and during the dig he enthusiastically encourages the archaeologists to explain their decisions, discoveries and conclusions
 
Hope Spring

It’s been a rough life for Ellie, Hannah, Josie and Shoo - all ex-cons with nothing to show for their lives - but not for much longer.Today won’t be like any other day. Today they embark on the final stage of their long-held plan: To live out the rest of their lives on a beach in Barbados, courtesy of 3million stolen from Ellie’s lying, cheating, violent gangster husband. If all goes to plan ... but it doesn’t. A curel twist of fate finds them on the run, as the glamorous girls end up in hiding in Hope Springs, a remote Scottish village, without passports, without a plan and more or less without hope. If they can just hide their true identities and keep their heads down long enough to make a break for it - but Hope Springs has other things in mind .

Starring: Alex Kingston, Ronni Ancona, Sian Reeves, Christine Bottomley.
 

The Diary of a Nobody

 

First published in 1892, has never been out of print, and Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited) proclaimed it “the funniest book in the world.”

In Andrew Davies (Bleak House, Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jones Diary) new adaptation, this comic masterpiece leaps to life in all its quirky glory. In a riveting one-man performance, Hugh Bonneville (Iris, Lost in Austen) perfectly captures the small mind and large aspirations of Mr. Charles Pooter, who has become one of the most indelible characters in English literature. Pooter lives an utterly mundane life. But that doesn’t keep him from recording it for posterity—in hilarious detail.
 

HALLELUJAH 1 & 2

 

AND CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

 

Saving souls has never been so funny. Before winning three BAFTAs as best actress and earning a lifetime achievement award from the British National Comedy Awards, Dame Thora Hird charmed audiences as a feisty Salvation Army captain who refuses to go gently into retirement in this delightful British sitcom.