It tells the story of Chiquinha Gonzaga, a revolutionary musician who marked the history of music in Brazil, and challenged the social standards of her time. Chiquinha was raised very comfortably and had an excellent education provided by his father, Jose Basileu, who expected his daughter to be a lady of the imperial court. But after listening to songs played in a black yard and influenced by friends, such as composer Joaquim Callado, Chiquinha begins to make compositions mixing polka and lundu. By imposition of her father, Chiquinha is forced to marry Jacinto, with whom she has three children. However, Jacinto forbids her to play, and she decides to separate from her husband, going against social standards. Chiquinha, then, fights for his freedom to play and will live with the great love of his youth, João Batista de Carvalho Jr., with whom he has a daughter, Alice.
After the breakdown of the old government, and with it the First Republic, Italy changed for good in 1994. Spinster Leo is all too aware of this. He pushed hard to see Berlusconi get elected Prime Minister. He knows it's not easy to win power, but holding on to it verges on the impossible. By the same token, it seems equally impossible for populist politician Pietro to change. Even now that he has an office at the Prime Minister's premises in Rome, he still can't cast off his old bad habits. Nor can he forget the only woman he has ever loved. A former TV starlet now turned politician and Congresswoman, Veronica has to decide who the man of her life is going to be. She has realized she no longer wants to be just a woman on the arm of powerful men. It is the start of her own push for power.
Meet Andrea, Mia, Emma, Olivia and Stephanie. They're five best friends. And they're on a heroic mission: to save Heartlake City from wily swindlers.
Willa's Wild Life is a French/Canadian/American animated television series that first aired on ABC2 in 2008, then on Qubo and Nickelodeon Canada in 2009. The show is based on Dan Yaccarino's book An Octopus Followed Me Home. It is about a 9 year old girl named Willa who has some very unusual pets. She has, so far, acquired a giraffe, two elephants, an alligator, and many more exotic animals.
He's known for his quirky catchphrases, flamboyant fashion, and ridiculing famous faces on the award winning Celebrity Juice - but tonight Keith Lemon is going back to his sketch show roots, sending up celebrities in his brand new programme The Keith Lemon Sketch Show. With impersonated celebrities such as our very own Phillip and Holly and Eamonn and Ruth, plus Ant & Dec and Jonathan Ross, is there anyone Keith won't tease? Let's find out!
The SOKO Stuttgart team investigates analytically and with sensitivity in the likeable state capital. The exciting cases of the series lead them to bizarre crime scenes and to different milieus.
10 year old Max and his best friend Sharkdog - half shark, half dog, all appetite. Blissfully unaware of his own strength, stealth and general sharkiness, Sharkdog often leaves a trail of chaos in his wake.
17-year-old Audrey slips into a coma when she is found unconscious on the road of a small town, in the middle of the night. 16 years later, the impossible happens: she wakes up. Everything has changed around her, and her friends and family are no exception. She must relearn to live again in a time she no longer understands.
Clone is a 2008 BBC Three comedy series starring Jonathan Pryce and Mark Gatiss, centred on the creation and education of the world's first human clone. Its first series of six 30-minute episodes premiered on 17 November 2008.
Josh Gates sets off on a quest to find the Yeti, a legendary man-ape living in the high altitude of the Himalayas.
Nara goes to visit Rain Castle Hotel and Resort which is owned by her boyfriend Rain. Strange things to start to happen as Rain has a secret of his own and perhaps a dark and dangerous past.
The adventures of an average family; a boy, a girl, a dog, a cat, a mouse and ..err, a piece of cheese. What could possibly go wrong?
Water Life captures extraordinary locations and intimate animal behavior never before seen on film. Two years in the making, this groundbreaking series takes viewers on an unprecedented visual journey to aquatic ecosystems on five continents to reveal how water shapes and sculpts the landscape and provides food and refuge for an astonishing array of species.
Bridal producer Suzu Miyazaki is reunited with Haruna and Kento, a couple who had postponed their wedding due to the effects of Corona. When she hears of their earnest desire to hold a ceremony, she vows to do her best to support them. However, a disagreement over the limit on the number of guests, followed by the sudden intrusion of their mother, leads to a series of disturbances. And then a string of guests call to inform them that they won't be attending... Will the wedding be canceled?
There are bizarre, very unusual and extremely shocking activities that, despite the risk and associated dangers, are just legal in South American countries. Sue Perkins is eager to take advantage of this, and enjoys experiencing these adventurous yet dangerous challenges. In this way she hopes to defy and hopefully cover up her middle age.
The series follows the adventures of Scooby-Doo and the Gang through the eyes of 15 children and their imaginations. Each story begins in the real world and transitions to the stop motion animated imagination of a child.