Our Zoo, is a six-part BBC drama based on the inspiring story of founder George Mottershead and his family in the 1930s.
When George Mottershead, an ex-serviceman still struggling to come to terms with the effects of the Great War, finds a monkey locked up in a quarantine cage, it sparks an idea that becomes a life-long mission. He dreams of building Britain’s first zoo without bars.
Soon, he starts buying up unwanted animals. But George lives with his parents Lucy and Albert Mottershead, his wife Lizzie and his daughters Mew and June. The family home is bursting at the seams and something has to change. George spies a large, rambling and rundown estate in the countryside. It’s the perfect spot for his zoo. From struggling to win over the hostile locals, to coaxing two bears off a hillside, and working out the best way to transport a dozen penguins, this series follows the ups and downs faced by the Mottershead family as they try to get George’s idea off the ground. Funny and tender, Our Zoo shows anything is possible with dogged determination and a little recklessness.
George Clark’s Amazing Spaces
George Clarke looks at the extraordinary world of small builds and meets the people who are creating amazing places to live and work in unpromising spaces. George also undertakes a small-build property project of his own, buying a dilapidated caravan for just 300 pounds, with the aim of transforming it into a stunning second home for his growing family.
No Escape
Owen Wilson, Lake Bell and Pierce Brosnan star in the intense thriller No Escape. American businessman Jack Dwyer (Owen Wilson), wife Annie and their two young daughters arrive in Southeast Asia to begin a new life only for Jack to realise that his company has landed him and his family in the middle of a political uprising. With armed rebels pouring into the city, ordered to kill foreigners on sight, Jack must find a way to save himself and his loved ones from the chaos erupting all around them.
Now Add Honey
Caroline Morgan is delighted when her sister Beth brings her movie star daughter, Honey Halloway home to Australia for a family visit. But when Beth is suddenly sent to rehab, Caroline is forced to have Honey move in with the family in the not so glamorous suburbs. Honey struggles with life without an entourage, and her cousins, Clare and Harriet, struggle with a movie star hogging the bathroom. But after Honey leads Caroline to uncover a family secret, Caroline struggles most of all, as her life quickly falls apart. Now Add Honey is an uplifting, laugh-out-loud, family comedy that celebrates women and girls being who they want to be. It stars Robyn Butler, Portia de Rossi, Lucy Fry, Lucinda Armstrong Hall, Philippa Coulthard and Hamish Blake.
