1824年成立的皇家全国救生艇协会（Royal National Lifeboat Institution）是提供救生服务的慈善组织，现有5000名志愿者，近200年来共营救超过14万人。
The tragic toxic waste case in the East Midlands and three mothers fighting for the justice for the rates of upper limb defects in babies born in Corby were subsequently found to be three times higher than those of children born.
Jan enrols on a creative writing course where she catches the eye of the handsome tutor Stephen,who not only regards her as an excellent pupil but has a personal interest in her as well. Charlie,meanwhile,following an accident on the site wonders whether she is cut out for building work after all and,whilst Grandad and Gravy make an unexpected find as they dig for buried treasu...
Starlings follows the lives of a typical working-class family who live in Derbyshire. Granddad has recently moved in, following an incident at the old folks' home. Rather than see him unhappy, Terry and his kind-hearted wife, Jan, decide to move his father into their already crammed family home.
时代在向前行进，唐顿庄园则依然维持它表面的平静和不变。大表哥Matthew（丹史蒂文斯 Dan Stevens 饰）继圣诞夜求婚成功后，开始和Mary（米歇尔道克瑞 Michelle Dockery 饰）筹划着婚礼。Edith（劳拉卡尔迈克尔 Laura Carmichael 饰）依然在为自己的幸福拼搏着。Sybil（杰西卡布朗-芬德利 Jessica Brown-Findlay 饰）怀着身孕和小司机布兰登（艾伦里奇 Allen Leech 饰）回到唐顿准备参加Mary的婚礼。
看似顺利的唐顿庄园，也潜伏着令人不安的因素。老爷（休博内威利 Hugh Bonneville 饰）被告知投资失败，唐顿庄园可能将没有资金维持；另一方面，Matthew成了前未婚妻拉维尼娅父亲的遗产继承候选人，顺位在他前面的二人因为各种原因都丧失了继承的条件，Mat...
该剧是英国ITV出品的古典剧，由荣获奥斯卡的金牌编剧Julian Fellowes一手打造， 明星云集的演员阵容极其耀眼。
第一季的故事从1912到1914年第一次世界大战爆发。Grantham的伯爵的头衔及产业只能由男性继承人同时继承。现任伯爵Robert通过迎娶了极富有的Cora才让产业得救，同时她的巨额财产按照契约永久的成为伯爵资产的一部分。没有子嗣的伯爵只能让侄儿Patrick成为法定继承人（即大女儿Mary的未婚夫）。可Patrick却在泰坦尼克号事故中丧生，而他们的远房亲戚Matthew将继承他们的一切，包括伯爵夫人的个人巨额财产。围绕财产的继承问题，Mary和Matthew的情感纠葛，Grantham一家和仆人们的关系，会发展会怎样的故事呢？
本剧和HBO《继承之战》有相似的基调。故事横跨纽约和伦敦两地，聚焦一个英国黑人家庭，以及这个家庭的野心，和他们面对不幸时的反应。
白手起家的Stephen Richards建立了一个美妆帝国，他总能如愿以偿、点石成金，就连抛弃第一任妻子和Nina、Simon两个孩子，对他来说也成了一件好事。Stephen与更年轻的第二任妻子Claudia安顿了下来，有了另外三个孩子：Alesha、Gus和Wanda ，成年后的Nina和Simon则在纽约成功打拼出了自己的一番事业。
但当Stephen经历了一场中风后，他的两个世界开始碰撞崩塌，秘密与谎言浮出水面，商业帝国的未来危在旦夕。
Set in 1870s England, the story tells of Annabella Lagrange and the terrible secret her wealthy parents have kept from her. When she finally learns the truth, she runs away and eventually finds solace in the company of her family's former groom, a young Irishman with the very Spanish name of Manuel Mendoza. Together they travel the Northumbria countryside from job to job in his...
