BBC Entertainment

Broadcast on: Defunct
Active from: 01 Sep 2008
Active until: 31 Aug 2015

Shows

Mr. Sloane

Genre: Comedy, Comedy-Drama
Channel: BBC Entertainment
Summary: Comedy-drama which follows a buttoned-down 1960s man undergoing numerous crises in his life, but with hope on the horizon in various forms.
Starring: Nick Frost, Olivia Colman, Peter Serafinowicz

Call the Midwife Christmas Special 2014

Genre: Drama, Specials, Period Drama
Channel: BBC Entertainment
Summary: Chummy and Trixie organise a concert, Patsy takes two pregnant girls to a home which proves to be ill run and Cynthia is conflicted about her future.
Starring: Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris, Miranda Hart

Top Gear: Patagonia Special

Genre: Magazine, Travel, Specials
Channel: BBC Entertainment
Summary: The lads take three V8-engined sports cars on a gruelling 1,600-mile trek through the spectacular landscapes of Patagonia in a quest to reach the southernmost city in the world.
Starring: Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May

Hebburn

Genre: Comedy
Channel: BBC Entertainment
Summary: Based on a true story, this Britcom follows the Pearson family, Joe and Pauline and their son Jack - who secretly married a middle-class Jewish girl, Sarah, in a drunken binge in Las Vegas.
Starring: Vic Reeves, Gina McKee, Chris Ramsey

The Michael McIntyre Chat Show

Genre: Talk Show
Channel: BBC Entertainment
Summary: Stand-up comedian Michael McIntyre tries sitting down for a change as he hosts his very own interview show, promising a mix of laughter and audience participation as each week he meets three celebrities.
Starring: Michael McIntyre

The Musketeers

Genre: Action/Adventure, Period Drama
Channel: BBC Entertainment, BBC UKTV, BBC First
Summary: Set in 17th century Paris, this is a contemporary take on the story about a group of soldiers and bodyguards assigned to protect King and Country.
Starring: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Peter Capaldi

Getting On (UK)

Genre: Comedy
Channel: BBC Entertainment
Summary: Sitcom set in an NHS hospital with an overload of grumpy old people which focuses on the sort of health care that gets swept under the carpet.
Starring: Jo Brand, Vicki Pepperdine, Joanna Scanlan

Pramface

Genre: Comedy, Comedy-Drama
Channel: BBC Entertainment
Summary: Pramface is a British comedy-drama television series created and written by Chris Reddy in which a girl from a middle class family gets drunk and sleeps with a working class boy, who also happens to be younger than her - and gets pregnant, before having to decide whether there are actually feelings there at all or not.
Starring: Sean Michael Verey, Scarlett Alice Johnson, Dylan Edwards

Quirke

Genre: Drama, Miniseries, Period Drama
Channel: BBC Entertainment
Summary: Quirke is a British-Irish period crime drama television miniseries from writers Andrew Davies and Conor McPherson, adapted from the books by the novelist John Banville, and follows the chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue – a charismatic loner whose job takes him into unexpected places as he uncovers the secrets of sudden death in 1950s Dublin.
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Michael Gambon, Geraldine Somerville

Last Tango in Halifax

Genre: Drama, Comedy-Drama
Channel: BBC Entertainment, BBC First
Summary: Celia and Alan are both widowed and in their seventies and when their grandsons put their details on Facebook they rediscover a relationship.
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Anne Reid, Sarah Lancashire