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Julia Louis-Dreyfus returns for a second season in her Emmy winning role as Vice President Selina Meyer in VEEP. As midterm elections loom, Vice President Meyer is scoring higher ratings than the President in several popularity polls, which she hopes will boost her influence and help her curry favor with the chief executive. But despite her best intentions, even the most banal actions can set off unexpected and often disastrous consequences. Her staff...
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Season three begins with Selina, eying a promotion, courting Iowa caucus voters at a signing for her new book, 'Some new beginnings.' Soon, Selina and her staff, are back in D.C. for Mike's wedding, learn that Secretary of Defense Maddox is resigning; setting Selina up for a possible run in the presidential primaries against Maddox and her nemesis, war-vet Danny Chung.
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Former Senator Selina Meyer was a charismatic leader and a rising star in her party with her eye on the White House, then she became Vice President. VEEP follows the whirlwind day-to day existence of Vice President Meyer as she puts out political fires, juggles a busy public schedule and demanding private life, and defends the President's interests, even as she tries to improve her dysfunctional relationship with the Chief Executive.
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Former Senator Selina Meyer has accepted the call to serve as Vice President of the United States. The job is nothing like she imagined and everything she was warned about. 'Veep' follows Meyer and her staff as they attempt to make their mark and leave a lasting legacy, without getting tripped up in the day-to-day political games that define Washington.
14) State of play
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When D.C. reporter Cal McCaffrey is assigned to investigate the murder of an assistant to an up-and-coming politician, he uncovers a conspiracy that threatens to bring down the nation's power structures. In a town of spin-doctors and wealthy power brokers, he will discover one truth: when fortunes are at stake, no one's integrity, love, or life is safe.
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Before I say goodbye: Prominent politican "Mac" MacDermott has been grooming his granddaughter, Nell, to follow in his footsteps. Unfortunately, Nell's architect husband is under investigation for an alleged real estate and construction scam. When he and several business associates die in an explosion aboard his boat, a distraught Nell is determined to clear his name.
I'll be seeing you: Patricia Collins is called to the morgue to identify a body....
16) Philomena
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Judi Dench stars in the story of Philomena Lee, mother to a boy conceived out of wedlock and given up for adoption. Nearly 50 years later, Philomena meets Martin Sixsmith, a former BBC reporter looking for his next big story. Together, they embark on a journey to locate her long lost son. As the pieces of the puzzle come together, the unlikely travel companions form a comic and heartwarming friendship. Based on the 2009 investigative book by Martin...
17) Tanner '88
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During the 1988 presidential campaign, Democratic hopefuls spiritedly canvass the country, jostle for their party's nomination and the honor of opposing Republican Vice President George Bush. Then Senator Jack Tanner suddenly emerges from the shadows of a lengthy political hiatus to challenge candidates such as Al Gore, Jesse Jackson, Gary Hart, and Michael Dukakis. Tanner is a fictitious presidential candidate who goes out on the campaign trail to...
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Scope and content: Three radio scripts about Andrew Jackson's life for the program, "Cavalcade of America," sponsored by the DuPont Manufacturing Company. The scripts also include ads for DuPont and its products.
"The Gorgeous Hussy," starring Paulette Goddard and based upon a book of the same name by Samuel Hopkins Adams, tells about the so-called "Eaton Affair" (or "Petticoat Affair"). When recently widowed Peggy Timberlake married Jackson's Secretary...
19) Scoop
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While inside of a magician's magic cabinet, aspiring journalist Sondra Pransky is visited by the ghost of a dead reporter who has received a very hot tip in the afterlife. He tells Sondra about a rising young politician named Lord Peter Lyman who may be the notorious tarot card serial killer. With the magician in tow, Sondra sneaks her way into Lyman's life. Sondra finds increasing evidence that the tip from the ghost is true, but finds herself falling...
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