LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE
(Thursday 20th at 16:30, Friday 28th at 08:30 and 10:30 and Saturday 29th at 08:30 on True Movies 2 and on True Movies 1 on Sunday 23rd at 12:30, 14:30 and 16:30)
This
heart-warming, six-hour mini-series pays tribute to one of the most popular
family shows of all time. Like the 1970s
original, this adaptation takes as its source the beloved autobiographical
books by Laura Ingalls Wilder about growing up on the rugged American frontier
during the nineteenth century. It opens
with the arrival of the Ingalls family at Walnut Grove, Plum Creek, Minnesota
in 1870 – father Charles (Cameron
Bancroft, Codename: Eternity),
mother Caroline (Erin Cottrell, Love’s Long Journey) and daughters Laura
(Kyle Chavarria) and Mary (Danielle Ryan Chuchran) – and moves
ahead in time as the young girls come of age.
Direct by David L Cunninhga, 2005
TILL WE MEET AGAIN
*MINI SERIES*
(Saturday 22nd at 20:00, Sunday 23rd at 20:00 and 22:00, Wednesday 26th at 14:00 and 20:00, Thursday 27th at 14:00 and 20:00 and Friday 28th at 14:00 and 20:00 on True Movies 2)
Top British stars
Hugh Grant and Michael York are joined by Friends’
Courteney Cox in this lavish
two-part mini-series based on Judith
Krantz’s best-seller, which covers four decades in the lives of three
remarkable women. The action starts in
1913 as French singer Eve de Lancel (Lucy
Gutteridge, Love in a Cold Climate)
embarks on a successful showbiz career.
She marries champagne heir Paul de Lancel (York) and gives birth to two daughters,
‘Freddy’ (Cox) and Delphine (Mia Sara,
Legend). Mother and daughters are destined to endure
many trials and tribulations as they experience three wars and an infinite
number of romances. The beautiful
Delphine becomes a movie star, while Freddy goes her own way to become a
renowned stunt pilot and aviatrix and falls in love with the dashing ‘Mac’
Maguire (Barry Bostwick, Scruples). Family intrigues abound, including battles
with their devious half-brother, Bruno (Grant), as Freddy and Delphine find
their lives swept from the boudoir to the battlefield as the great events of
the 20th century unfold. Also
starring Bruce Boxleitner, Juliet Mills, Maxwell Caulfield and Denis
Arndt.
Directed by Charles Jarrott, 1989