2008 British television series debuts

Only Connect

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 8

The fiendishly difficult quiz show in which two teams of three contestants have to find the connection between seemingly unrelated clues, where patience and lateral thinking are as vital as knowledge.

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Sunshine

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 8

Sunshine is a three-part comedy drama that began on 7 October 2008 on BBC1 from the co-writers of The Royle Family and Early Doors. These co-writers, Craig Cash and Phil Mealey, also appear in the ser...

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Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 8

Richard Hammond looks at the connections behind the greatest feats of engineering.

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Apparitions

Series Age rating: 16 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 7.9

Apparitions is a BBC drama about Father Jacob Myers, a priest of the Roman Catholic Church, played by Martin Shaw, who examines evidence of miracles to be used in canonisation but also performs exorci...

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The Story of Maths

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 7.9

Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, escorts you through the most important of all intellectual disciplines: Mathematics, the Empress of the Sciences.

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Merlin

Series Age rating: 10 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 7.9

The unlikely friendship between Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers, and Prince Arthur, heir to the crown of Camelot.

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Bizarre ER

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 7.9

Series about eye-watering cases which come through the doors of British A&E departments.

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Wallander

Series Age rating: 13 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 7.8

This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in the apparently sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in Skane, southern Swed...

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Being Human

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2009 IMDB Rating: 7.8

The central premise of Being Human is that various types of supernatural beings exist alongside human beings, with varying degrees of menace; that three of these supernatural beings are opting to live...

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