Writer Paul Abbott is certainly versatile. From gritty northern factory drama Clocking Off he went south for State Of Play, last year’s glossy thriller about power and politics. Now he’s back in Manchester, for a different kind of drama again, a darkly comic piece...
No-one does political thrillers like the BBC, and in an age when focus-group wisdom prescribes an attention span of two episodes (hence endless ITV two-shot dramas), no-one holds out for a good, old-fashioned six-parter like the BBC, either. Thus we have State Of...
Anything with Tony Garnett in the credits is worth checking out. As a producer, he’s worked on some of TV’s most ground-breaking dramas, from Cathy Come Home in the 1960s to This Life and the wickedly funny Cardiac Arrest in the 90s. That said, he also produced the...