This is ITV Playhouse's adaptation of M.R. James Casting the Runes. Starring Children of the Stones' Iain Cuthbertson it's a supernatural battle between a TV journalist and a notorious self-styled Aleister Crowley-like figure (Cutherbertson). Also includes the ITV Schools adaptation of Mr. Humphrey's and a biopic of M.R. James called His Inheritance and A Pleasant Terror.

At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant to rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal is to take find out more...

Cockney safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is released from prison after serving a 12-year sentence for refusing to snitch. Eager to collect his reward from suave, psychotic mob boss Mr Fontaine, Dom heads to southern France with his only friend and accomplice Dickie. Dom is a drug fuelled, sex obsessed, self-regarding, over compensating sociopath…all good, but find out more...