Judi Dench novel "Esio Trot" (1990), in which a retired bachelor falls in love with his widowed neighbour, played by Dench, who keeps a tortoise as a companion after the death of her husband, First broadcast on BBC One on New Year's Day 2015, it became one of the most-watched programmes of the week, and earned Dench her first Best Actress nomination at the 2016 International Emmy Awards. On her performance, "Telegraph"s Michael Hogan commented: "We've grown accustomed to seeing Dench in forbidding roles, but here, she recalled her footloose, flirtatious side, displayed in sitcoms as "A Fine Romance" and "As Time
Creature Features the 1970s, the films of Amicus Productions and Tigon British Film Productions, which included "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors" and "The House That Dripped Blood", became popular features on the shows. "Creature Features" also aired many "nuclear monster" and "space alien" science fiction movies. Created in the 1950s, these movies generally featured giant mutant monsters or aliens from outer space terrorizing Earth. These included "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman", "The Amazing Colossal Man", "Them!", "Tarantula", "The Thing from Another World", "It Came from Outer Space", "The War of the Worlds", and "Forbidden Planet". "Creature Features" usually aired on Friday