Downton Abbey

Midwives in East London in the 1950s, experience the growing pains of life and love.

Great Performances brings the best in the performing arts from across America and around the world to a US television audience. It presents a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.

(Season 2) Jim is beginning to move forward after the loss of his wife 18 months ago. Nudged/corralled into it by his daughter Kim, he's gently stepping back into the world of dating - even if his heart isn't fully in it. That changes when he meets Nicola, a visitor to the island. Could this connection be the start of something for the lonely detective? Well, nothing comes easy for Bergerac, because at the same time, a shocking murder sets his next big case in motion: a groom is found dead in his hotel room during a wedding reception, which is traditionally the worst start to a marriage. With a killer potentially hiding among the guests and with his new love interest a possible suspect, the leather-jacketed detective is pulled into a case involving police corruption, dark family secrets, and some major twists.

Two worlds are about to collide: Patience Evans, a young autistic woman, works in a clerical role, in the basement of the City of York police station, filing investigation records. She is an enigma; a profoundly intelligent, self-taught criminologist, able to spot clues that others simply do not see. Yet her talents go unnoticed. A chance meeting with Detective Inspector Bea Metcalf opens a door into a whole new world for her. Bea can see potential in Patience and her innate deductive skills, as well as the similarities she shares with her own son Alfie. Together, Bea and Patience form an unlikely but brilliant team for solving the most complex of murders committed within the historic city of York.

The drama follows a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community where the shadow of World War II is casting a dark cloud over their lives. The isolated village couldn't feel further away from the impending bloodshed and battlefields and yet it is not immune from the effects of war. As the conflict takes hold, and separates the women from their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers, the women find themselves under increasing and extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world.

Professor Jasper Tempest is obsessed with cleanliness, structure and order. But his genius for solving crimes means he constantly has to get his hands dirty, helping the police to crack their most difficult cases.