Acorn TV November 2024 highlights…
Whitstable Pearl – Acorn TV Original
The Whitstable Pearl restaurant is thriving and so is Pearl’s (Kerry Godliman) detective sideline. After a short hiatus, DCI Mike McGuire (Howard Charles) returns to Whitstable, reenergized, and determined to make progress in his quest for self-healing.
He and Pearl continue to make a formidable team as they work through various cases together – Pearl never needing Mike’s help as much as he needs hers! As cracks start to show in Pearl and Tom’s relationship, and Mike finally comes to terms with how his wife died, will Pearl and Mike acknowledge their deep feelings for one another?
19-2
Award winning police drama follows the lives of Nick Barron (Adrian Holmes) and Ben Chartier (Jared Keeso) of the Montreal Police Department. Barron, a veteran of the force, has just returned from a three-month leave after the death of his partner.
Chartier has just arrived in town to restart his life. Unwillingly, they are paired as partners and must put their differences and personal struggles aside for the greater good of the city. With tragic and difficult events in their past, the partners learn to lean on each other to get through their daily responsibilities of being cops in Montreal.
Mysterious Creatures
Brenda Blethyn and Timothy Spall headline this family drama inspired by the true story of two parents whose adult daughter suffers from an unknown ailment that makes her behavior highly erratic, and occasionally destructive.
Bill and Wendy Ainscow love their daughter Lisa (Rebekah Staton) unconditionally, but that doesn’t mean that she’s easy to live with. Lisa suffers from an undetermined mental illness that leaves her prone to emotional outburst, compulsive spending, and open hostility, all of which have made life excruciatingly difficult for her increasingly desperate parents.
When Britain’s mental health services declare that Lisa is well enough to live at home, her parents are forced to resort to desperate measures to ensure that their troubled daughter is given the best care possible.
The Grey Man
Based on the Andy McNab novel, the story of Kevin Dodds, a browbeaten deputy bank manager who eventually fights back, giving his wife the perfect anniversary present and exacting mild revenge on his tyrannical boss at the same time. Starring Daniel Ryan and Olivia Colman.
