The Hothouse Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• Cold Calling

  Cold Calling. Julia Darling's surprising and touching comedy about an attractive widow and a door-to-door salesman, starring Charlie Hardwick and Trevor Fox

• The Dark Lantern

  David Soul stars as the projectionist in a mysterious cinema where an antiquated magic lantern screens disturbing tales of murder and mayhem. Live action drama based on the folk legend of The Long Pack, with animation by Rob and Jan Jefferson

• Girls' Club

  New series of short dramas, beginning with Girls' Club, the comical misadventures of three women as they struggle to revive the flagging fortunes of a Newcastle nightclub. Georgia Taylor and Paul Loughran star

• Harry and the Hormones

  Trapped in a dead-end job, fortysomething Harry sets out to recapture the glory days of his Seventies youth as lead singer with punk band the Hormones. Comedy drama, starring Sean Hughes

• Heroes of the Revolution

  Heroes of the Revolution. Max Adams debunks history's myths and discovers the true inventors of the locomotive and the miner's lamp

• The Meanest Men on the Planet

  Former world champion boxer Glenn McCrory goes in search of the most formidable contenders in the ring, travelling to Las Vegas to discover the truth behind the legend of Sonny Liston and meeting the fighter who has inherited the title of 'meanest man on the planet' : Mike Tyson

• Reps

  Comedy drama, in which a group of naive kitchen salesmen are whipped into shape by exuberant leader Bradley Walsh

• Year of the Tiger

  Tony Glover's drama about a restaurateur in Newcastle's Chinatown struggling to deal with debts, family strife and the loss of his wife. Last in series