2007 British television series directed by Simon Curtis and Steve Hudson

HBO TV series

"Twisted Tales" Is A Dark And Stylish Comedy Drama Series. With Intense Scripts Written By A Mix Of Established Writers And Upcoming Talent, Each Story Is A Self-Contained Episode With A Mysterious Twist. The Tales Set Out To Spook The Brain And Tickle The Funny Bone, So Be Prepared To Expect The Unexpected.
The Series Is Very Closely Related To "Spine Chillers", An Earlier BBC 3 Series. In Effect, Twisted Tales Is A Rebranded Second Series Of The Earlier Successful Production.

In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching University Challenge, a college quiz show. At Bristol he tries out for the Challenge team and falls under the spell of Alice, a lovely blond with an extensive sexual past.

Forlorn heiress Penelope Wilhern is cursed, and the only way out is to fall in love with someone of suitable stock. But how can she find her soul mate when she's sequestered inside her family's estate with only her parents to keep her company. This untraditional fairy tale about a girl who bucks convention to create her own happy ending.

A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.