Dawn and Mo join Matt to review 4 shows available this week. First, the BBC's latest tense crime drama, Reunion, centres around a deaf man being released from Prison. Next, Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate shine in Disney+ dramedy, Dying for Sex. Based on the podcast...
Matthew Gurney, Lara Peake, Anne-Marie Duff, Eddie Marsan and Rose Ayling-Ellis lead the cast of William Mager's new drama. The BBC have announced that Matthew Gurney, Lara Peake, Anne-Marie Duff, Eddie Marsan and Rose Ayling- Ellis will star in upcoming thriller...
THE events featured in The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe are so barmy that if they hadn’t really happened, this drama would be billed under the category ‘fantasy’. A faked death, an insurance scam, hiding within plain sight, a romantic journey to the other side of the...
We get angry about From Darkness, equally dull BBC cop drama River and why we've completely lost faith in The X Factor.
The full cast has been announced for a new crime drama River written and created by Abi Morgan who most recently brought us The Hour. Stellan Skarsgård has been cast in the lead role as John River a brilliant police officer whose genius and fault-line is the...
Written and created by award-winning Abi Morgan, and produced by Kudos, RIVER is a brand new six-part drama series commissioned for BBC One. John River is a brilliant police officer whose genius and fault-line is the fragility of his mind - a man haunted by the murder...
Anybody who has watched Channel 4 over the past month or so know that they have acquired the rights to the Paralympic Games and will present live coverage later this month. It is the BBC though who have commissioned a single drama looking at the intriguing story of...
The opening half-an-hour of Criminal Justice was astonishing. Astonishingly acted, astonishingly observed and astonishingly original. Two ostensibly disparate narrative threads began: a handsome, erudite barrister delivered an eloquent, and damning, soliloquy at the...
Did we like it? Channel 4's tenuous grip on credibility receives a shot in the arm with this amazing, serious drama set in the 1970s – a bit like Life on Mars with many more layers of depth but without any of the laughs, not even a hint of a smile. It's not a flawless...
Did we like it? An often relentless and entertaining adaptation of the classic adventure yarn, which was further buoyed by Rupert Penry-Jones and Lydia Leanard in the lead roles. What was good about it? • Even though the original novel by John Buchan has been so...
Did we like it? The cast, script and dialogue segue together like a star scooping up interstellar dust to form a life-giving, glaring sun. But the locations, so crucial in this Dickens novel, appeared a little sanitised and don’t reflect the scything satire of the...
Did we like it? We didn’t just like it, we adored it. A profound, flawlessly acted drama which dealt with universal themes with a subtle yet illuminating dexterity. What was good about it? • The perfect casting. In the lead roles, Damian Lewis was astounding as the...