Coming Up

Episodes - Coming Up

• The Animator A talented animator becomes one of his characters and imagines he has been given a contract to kill his boss, who wants to wield the axe on his most successful creations
• Bedbugs (2003) Andrea Arnold's drama about a man who finds love after running away from his pregnant fiancee
• Birds Eye View Birds Eye View, by Sasha Hails. The police are called to a construction site in west London, where a schoolmistress has apparently been kidnapped by a pupil. In the driver's cabin of a crane, the pair spend a strange and magical evening. Starring Charles Mnene and Miranda Raison
• Coming Up: Brussels New series of dramas by emerging film-makers. Twenty-six-year-old Danny (Del Synnott) works in the brutal industry of ticket-touting, where the rewards and the risks are high. He tries to balance this fast and unstable life with his responsibilities as a family man - and on one day his two worlds collide. With Peter Capaldi and Matt King
• Cuckoos (2004) A teenager breaks into a family home and takes the owners hostage, only to end up being held there himself. Drama by first-time director Becky Brazil
• Fierce (2003) The series of short dramas continues with Fierce, by David Hale. Stan returns from Ibiza a different man, but finds his friends on the estate have remained unchanged : but while the same old routine begins to depress him, tension reaches breaking point when he admits he's going out with his mate's 15-year-old sister
• Happy Slapz Short drama by new director Michael Keillor about a group of happy-slapping youths attacking a woman on a bike
• Heavenly Father Father Steve finds a way to communicate with his estranged daughter when he is killed during a father's rights protest and becomes an angel. The pair strike up a friendship, but in the hospital the divorced man's body is revealing his dark secrets
• Karma Cowboys Karma Cowboys by Rae Brunton. A Buddhist debt collector takes an apprentice under his wing, putting him through a series of gruelling trials and sharing his philosophy of life. However, the philosophical hard man is far from amused when his disciple falls in love with his daughter
• Loveless (2003) Short drama directed by Amit Gupta about a clash between two couples sharing a house, revealing how the confrontation leaves one pair shattered but the other stronger than ever
• Loving Ludmilla Loving Ludmilla, a romantic comedy by Paul Berczeller. An illegal immigrant working as a cleaner in an estate agent's office asks her infatuated employer to help smuggle a man she claims is her brother into the country. However, the new arrival is actually her ex-boyfriend - and when old passions are re-ignited, an unusual love triangle develops
• Money Can Buy You Love (2003) Short film about a rent boy who falls in love with a high-class prostitute and learns first-hand what money can and cannot buy
• Naked (2003) Dramas by first-time directors and writers, beginning with Emma Million's wry comedy Naked, about a man who finds it hard to cope with the antics of his naturist girlfriend : especially when he's invited to her parents' nude 30th wedding anniversary party
• Only Girls Short drama about a practical joke taken to extremes when three teenage girls decide to trick their friend into thinking she's dead
• A Paradise Adventure Black comedy about a man who unwittingly pays for an assisted suicide during a time in which everything seems to be going wrong in his life. However, he soon has a change of heart, and discovers it's not too easy to go back on a signed contract. Last in series
• Pillow Talk Pillow Talk, by William Sutcliffe. A man overhears his girlfriend talking about him in her sleep - and doesn't like what she's saying. With only a week to go before their wedding, he resolves to become a better person. With Cavan Clerkin and Daisy Donovan
• Randomer Drama about teenage joyriders Hannah and Stella, who are faced with a moral dilemma when they discover a baby in the back of their stolen car
• Re-ignited Short drama, written by Holly Phillips, about a man's consuming desire to be a father
• Repeat After Me (2004) No synopsis available
• Rockabye Rockabye, by Tam Hoskyns. Claustrophobic drama in which dark family secrets emerge when a young man turns up at a respectable home with news of their missing son, leaving the stranger wondering whether he can stop history repeating itself once more
• Service Councillor Reg Merrion is propositioned by a nervous man who begs him to reconsider rejecting a bribe. When he refuses, it triggers a disastrous sequence of events
• Sick (2003) Drama about Neil, who consults his doctor on a weekly basis, each time with a different set of symptoms. The medics try to work out whether he is really ill, or if his interest lies solely in getting drugs
• Snowman (2004) Drama about an Afro-Caribbean teenager on the verge of adulthood, whose only hope of salvation from a spiral of self-destruction is a girl called Nasree
• Stir It Up Romantic drama about a shy teenager who lives and works in the family B&B, where she falls for her mother's toy boy - a 19-year-old scuba diver she met in Barbados
• Take My Heart (2004) Take My Heart, by 17-year-old Aaron Noel. Short, lyrical drama about two teenage boys who strike up an unlikely friendship
• Tame Short drama about a boy who decides his brother needs fresh air, a walk in the woods - and a bullet in the head
• The Trial New series of dramas and comedies by writers and directors new to TV. Four convicted murderers, all of whom protest their innocence, take part in a drug trial in return for their freedom. However, they are unaware the pill they swallow is a genetically modified worm which feeds on human guilt, with alarming consequences - including confessions and death
• Victoria (2003) Rupert Jones and Dominic McHale's short drama revealing how a chance encounter forces a man to re-evaluate his relationship with his girlfriend
• Viva Liberty Viva Liberty, Dishad Husain and Alex McDonald's comedy about British Muslim Woody, who is arrested over an incident involving a water pistol while on holiday in the US. He is sentenced to detention in the country's notorious Camp Liberty, where the facility's director takes an instant dislike to the new arrival - and when he is thrown into solitary confinement, Woody begins to wonder if he is as innocent as he claims
• The Window Comedy drama. Two women married to the same man form an unlikely friendship and decide to follow their own dreams when their Nigerian chief husband cheats on them both - to the benefit of the local charity shop's window