BBC loves up daytime with films.

TV movies - the traditional genre of schmaltzy tales of triumph over tragedy from the American mid-West - are to be given a UK spin as part of a new BBC drive to bring stories of 'love and self-fulfilment' to its daytime schedule, writes Leigh Holmwood

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