Dignity

Gia Summers is ready to start again with a promising new job, a new lakeside neighborhood, and a brand new home! After moving in, Gia soon forms an unexpected friendship with her next door neighbor, firefighter and single dad Jim Dunlap, whose love for barbecuing is equalled only by Gia’s passion for cooking. At work, Gia’s new boss seems more interested in approving plans that benefit his upcoming run for town mayor than anything that could genuinely help the community – and there are definitely some things that the place needs, like a new playground for the local kids, and a gym for the fire station. Luckily for this small town however, they’ve got Gia and Jim. Together, these two will stop at nothing to raise the funds these projects so desperately need – and in the process, just maybe cook up a little romance of their own! TV MOVIE / ROMANTIC COMEDY

Written by T Booker James Directed by Christie Will Starring Tegan Moss, Devon Alexander, Christopher Russell, Loretta Walsh, Sarah Surh, John Cassini, Laura Soltis. Produced by Barbecue Productions, Inc in association with Johnson Production Group, Inc

Toni was once an up-and-coming musical theatre star, but after the sudden and unexpected death of her husband Ben, she gave up on her dream. Now Toni is a young mother and widow struggling to pay back Ben’s outstanding gambling debts to a ruthless gangster. That’s how she meets Tom; an enforcer for the Berlin underworld with a history of violence. These two lost souls couldn’t be more different, but in that moment something inside them changes forever. Suddenly Toni’s falling in love again, and in the process finding the strength to overcome her grief, and the confidence to return to the stage. Meanwhile Tom is helping Toni take care of her adorable little girl Matti, and realizing that real strength comes from leaving your heart open and vulnerable to the ones who really matter. But just as the two of them dare to believe their love has a chance, a dark secret from the past threatens to destroy everything. TV MOVIE / ROMANCE

Written by Jytte-Merle Böhrnsen Directed by Granz Henman Starring Sarah Engels, Christopher Patten, Yuna Bennett, Karmela Shako, Lutz Blochberger, Stefan König, Nikeata Thompsen

ITV Studios Germany Fiction (Germany)

An ex-cop, blinded by an explosion, seeks justice by any means necessary

A bomb blast took ex-cop Alexander Haller’s eyesight, but the criminal underworld shouldn’t underestimate him. His instincts are as sharp as ever, and he never stops until he gets justice – even if that means sometimes behaving a little unconventionally. In ‘The Blind Detective 4’, a state prosecutor is murdered – and the date of the explosion that rocked Haller’s life all those years ago is found next to the corpse – Haller must revisit his old cases to find a connection. There is one investigation that stands out in particular, where a teacher was suspected of strangling his student. But the more Haller re-examines the evidence, the more convinced he becomes that they caught the wrong man. When psychoanalyst Weiser narrowly avoids becoming the new killer’s latest victim, Haller must race against time to stop the mysterious maniac, and put right a longstanding miscarriage of justice. In ‘The Blind Detective 5’, during the opening of an art exhibition, the wealthy owner of a prestigious private bank is poisoned with a toxic mix of cocaine and cyanide. While trying to save him, Haller’s sister Sophie suffers lifethreatening injuries herself. On the hunt for the killer, Haller uncovers disturbing secrets in the lives of the dead banker and his glamorous high-society wife. At the same time, his investigation brings him to the Koberer Inn, the number one meeting place for coachmen and traditional horse-drawn carriages in Vienna. It’s up to Haller to discover how these two very different worlds could collide with such deadly results and unmask a killer as cunning as they are ruthless! TV MOVIES / CRIMES

Written by Jacob Groll, Vorlage von Lars Albaum (Movie 4), Hans Henner Hess (Movie 5) Based on the idea by Ralph Werner and Wolfgang Wysocki Directed by Jano Ben Chaabane (Movie 4), Katharina Mückstein (Movie 5) Starring Philipp Hochmair, Andreas Guenther, Patricia Aulitzky, Jaschka Lämmert, Michael Edlinger Produced by Tivoli Film for ARD Degeto (Germany)