TV SERIES
GERMAN WEDDING TV
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Format: 4 x 45 min TV series
1957. A small seaside British town gets in uproar, when the eldest son of one of the prominent citizens is going to marry a German girl. The town has heavily suffered under German air attacks during the War and the local mood is still very anti German. Things get worse when it becomes clear that the wedding will take place in town and that the German family is coming over to make it a big event. The locals don’t understand that the groom’s family seems to be in full support of the marriage. The story takes place during the week before the wedding and things get more and more confused as it will become clear that most of the leading characters in both families and many of the local citizens have secrets and agendas of their own. The wedding day will go through messy and unexpected twists and turns.
WILD DAFFODILS TV
Genre: Fantasy Fiction
Format: 4 x 45 min TV series
“Wild Daffodils” is an adventure film for an adolescent audience in the mainstream fantasy genre. Jack Storm, a sixteen-year-old Grammar School student is fascinated by the Roman history of Colchester where he lives. He is an ardent amateur archaeologist and in his spare time always on the hunt for remains of the Roman presence in the Colchester area. Despite his serious approach of studying and archaeological research, Jack is far from a nerdy type. He is a handsome looking, sportive guy and is particularly fond of his weekly martial arts training sessions together with his best friend Mike. Both have a karate black belt and are anxious to reach higher grades. Mike has no real interest in Jack’s hobby to find Roman sites or artefacts, but he is every now and then happy to accompany his friend on a searching trip. One day, they are in a forest where wild daffodils grow everywhere. Hearing cries for help, they find an old man trapped under branches in a ditch. When they have rescued him, the old man tells the boys a fantastic and magical tale about an old Roman temple that once must have been somewhere in this forest. The boys find his story hard to believe, but Jack cannot resist the urge to start searching for the remains of the temple. On the brink of giving up, one late evening he manages to find the place where it once must have been and unearths the black altar stone. On the stone is an engraving that says in Latin that one can only pass during full moon and when surrounded by flowers. Jack has found the stone in the middle of a circle of wild daffodils and the moon is full. He steps over the stone and the next moment he finds himself in the same forest in 70 AD near Colonia Victricensis as Colchester was called at that time.
His friend Mike has become worried in the meantime when Jack did not show up for his karate class that evening. He knows what Jack was after that day and starts looking for him in the forest to find only the altar stone and stumbles over it by accident.
The boys arrive separately in Roman Colchester. A spectacular adventure follows. They get involved in a feud in the Roman garrison that puts their lives at risk, but they also find friends and even love. Will they survive and most of all will they be able to return to their own time?
VIEWS AND SOUNDS
Genre: Thriller
Format: 4 x 45 min TV series
Lily Stillman is a handsome, but a bit overweight DCI in Liverpool.
Her big passion is good food, but that doesn’t distract her from her zeal to be the best investigator in the CID of the famous city. Her superiors think she’s pretty good, but rather weird at the same time.
Lily is charged with the investigation of the horrifying murder of City Councillor Ruben Berry, who on a foggy morning has been found crucified near one of the corner posts of Goodison Park. Other than being a staunch Everton fan, Mr. Berry was a very active politician with Climate Change and Environment in his portfolio. Shortly after the start of her investigation Lily meets Juan Mendes, a very rich Brazilian entrepreneur, who is in town together with his business partner Manuel Ferreira to see if they can buy Liverpool’s second most famous football club. She also gets acquainted with Mr. Berry’s widow Riana, who doesn’t seem stricken with grief, but is a very likeable woman with whom she gets along well. However, that changes when DCI Stillman finds out by coincidence that Juan Mendes and Riana Berry have met before and apparently had an affair. This happened when Mr. Berry went to Brazil as a member of a committee that was to investigate the destruction of forests in the Amazon area by a Company, owned by Juan Mendes and his partners. This information leads obviously to long hearings of Juan Mendes and his lawyers at the CID headquarters, which go nowhere, also because Mendes has a solid alibi and no relationship anymore with Riana Berry. During the interrogations Lily starts to like the charming Brazilian. When her Superiors have decided that there is no case whatsoever against Mr. Mendes, he requests politely for an update every now and then. During the ongoing murder investigation Lily frequently meets him. Instinctively she feels that he has a hidden agenda and reminds herself constantly to be careful. On the other hand, she finds his fascination for her beloved Liverpool and his obsession for good food very enjoyable. Mendes likes to talk to DCI Stillman about philosophy, politics, love, sex and life in general. In a day’s journey through Liverpool the two of them are confronted with many weird and sometimes gruesome situations. At the end the inescapable truth is waiting.