Centuries before the world's oceans became a global trade highway, Chinese seafarers set sail to faraway lands to exchange commodities. Now, Historian Sam Willis retraces the golden era of maritime trade to uncover a legacy that culminated in one of the greatest armadas of all time, and discover parallels between the world then and now.
After her bittersweet success in series one, Karen has been promoted to Detective Inspector and seemingly given the authority she has long been fighting for. Just as she’s getting into the swing of her powerful new role, she is assigned an infamous unsolved case that will put her under intense scrutiny; from her boss, from the media, and ultimately, from sinister forces that would rather the past stayed in the past.The 1984 case of Catriona and Adam Grant has confounded investigators and intrigued the public like no other. Catriona, the charming young heiress to a vast oil fortune, and her two year old son Adam, were brutally kidnapped at gunpoint outside a fish and chip shop in Fife. The ransom notes that followed stirred up an uncontrollable press storm, but when the culprits fell silent, the police faltered, and Catriona and Adam were never seen again.Now, a man’s body has been discovered, with indisputable links to the original kidnap. With the first piece of evidence in decades, Karen must assemble an unbeatable team alongside her sincere and lovable sidekick DC Jason ‘Mint’ and the brilliant – but romantically complicated – DS Phil Parhatka. With the international renown of the kidnap and the constant pressure from Catriona’s father, Sir Broderick Grant, the team take on the biggest challenge of their careers to date. As Karen delves deeper into what happened in the autumn of 1984, political grudges and painful secrets reveal themselves, and it soon becomes clear… the past is far from dead.
In the 1980s, with Germany divided between East and West, Alfred Herrhausen, a visionary banker on the board of directions at Deutsche Bank, calls for the cancelation of developing countries’ debts and sends a shockwave through the Western world. Brilliantly portrayed by Olivier Masucci (DARK), Herrhausen: the Banker and the Bomb is a gripping, fast-paced thriller.
Starring and executive produced by Tom Holland, “The Crowded Room” is a gripping, 10-episode limited series that stars Holland as Danny Sullivan, a man who is arrested following his involvement in a shooting in New York City in 1979.
A captivating thriller told through a series of interviews with curious interrogator Rya Goodwin (Amanda Seyfried), Danny’s life story unfolds, r...
The third season renewal of the Prime Video series ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ is yet to be officially confirmed by Amazon, but seems like internally it has been greenlit as it is currently preparing to begin production.Coming to the production schedule, ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ Season 3 will begin filming on June 5, 2023, in Wilmington, North Carolina, and will take more than five months to officially wrap up on November 6, 2023. Jesse Peretz, Jeff Chan, and Erica Dunton will be the directors involved in the third season.