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...
Dougray Scott will return as troubled detective, Ray Lennox, in a second series of the original crime thriller, Crime, adapted from the best-selling novel by one of Scotland’s greatest-ever writers, Irvine Welsh. Produced by Buccaneer Media and Off Grid Film and TV,...
ITV’s latest murder mystery drama comes with a high pedigree. Holding is based on the best-selling novel by Graham Norton and stars a slew of big TV names led by Conleth Hill (Game of Thrones, Car Share), Siobhan McSweeney (Derry Girls) and Charlene McKenna (Ripper...
ITV have today confirmed who will star alongside Sanjeev Bhaskar in the fifth series of the acclaimed crime drama Unforgotten. The series, from Mainstreet Pictures and created by Chris Lang, follows the work of a police unit as they uncover crimes from the past. Each...
One of the scenes I remember most vividly from Cucumber, Russell T. Davies' underrated 2015 mini-series - which could somewhat reductively be called Queer as Folk for the 21st century - is a sequence in which three characters, all men, all queer, get ready for a night...
ITV have confirmed that the life and times of disgraced Labour minister John Stonehouse is to be dramatised for ITV by acclaimed writer John Preston with BAFTA award-winning and Emmy-nominated Matthew Macfadyen (Succession, Quiz) in the leading role and co-starring...
ITV have released the first trailer for their adaptation of Graham Norton's novel, Holding. Set in the insular fictional village of Duneen, West Cork, on the edge of Ireland, a place with its own climate and rhythms, Holding, written by Dominic Treadwell-Collins and...
ITV have released the trailer for their upcoming thriller Our House from Simon Ashdown. Tuppence Middleton (Downton Abbey, Shadowplay, War and Peace) and Martin Compston (Line of Duty, The Nest, In Plain Sight) play estranged husband and wife Fi and Bram Lawson as...
ITV and Tall Story Pictures, part of ITV Studios, have confirmed the commission of a fourth series of the hit Morecambe based drama, The Bay, written by Daragh Carville (Being Human, The Smoke, Cherrybomb). The third series saw Marsha Thomason (Cobra, White Collar)...
ITV make a LOT of crime dramas. Even when their dramas aren't specifically in the crime genre they like to have us guessing about who did what to who. A recent example of this was their under-appreciated black comedy Finding Alice. It was, as it turned out, a story...
ITV detective drama, Ridley, starring Adrian Dunbar in the title role, has begun filming in Lancashire. The retired detective, who is now working in a consultancy role, resumes his partnership with his former protégée, DI Carol Farman, played by Bronagh Waugh...
Our Picks for January 2022. The Apprentice Thursday 6th January 2022 BBC One - Alan Sugar returns to the boardroom for a 16th series of the reality competition which will be its first since 2019. Airing Weekly. Screw Thursday 6th January 2022 Channel 4 - Six-part...
It's another BIG News Roundup*Amazon Prime Video has set the return date for their award-winning comedy-drama The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. The long-awaited fourth season will begin on Feb. 18, with two episodes debuting each week for four weeks. The fourth...
*Filming has started on three-part drama Crossfire for BBC One. The series stars Keeley Hawes (Finding Alice, It’s A Sin) Created and written by Louise Doughty (author of Apple Tree Yard), her first original series for television, Crossfire is set in a luxurious...
ITV have confirmed the ten celebrities entering the Welsh Castle for the upcoming series of I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! They include former Strictly judge Arlene Phillips, Presenter Richard Madeley and Footballer David Ginola. They will be joined by...
Welcome back to another look back at the week in TV news. *Saturday saw Netflix celebrate Stranger Things Day with a host of events over the fantasy show's social platforms. The big reveal was a new trailer, which saw Millie Bobby Brown's Eleven's new life...
* BBC One and Netflix have released first look images of miniseries Inside Man, a new thriller from Steven Moffatt. The four-part drama follows a prisoner on death row in the US, a Vicar in a quiet English town, and a maths teacher trapped in a cellar, as...
Another BIG News Update...*It has been announced that seven of the UK's biggest soap operas and continuing dramas will be uniting to help highlight climate change. Casualty, Coronation Street, Doctors, EastEnders, Emmerdale, Holby City and Hollyoaks have each filmed...
*Netflix have confirmed Stay Close, the new Harlan Coben drama will arrive on New Years' Eve.The eight-part thriller questions how much you really know someone. Three people living comfortable lives each conceal dark secrets that even the closest to them would never...
A Look back at possibly the most important and influential British crime drama of the 90s'"I rehearsed the death of my father for years. I even got a little bored. I knew all my lines but he was still alive!" Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerlad Cracker 'The Mad Woman in the...
It's time for another BIG News Update. *HBO has released the first trailer for Game Of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon which is expected in 2022. The highly-anticipated series bsed on George R.R. Martin’s “Fire & Blood,”is set 300 years before the events...
It's another BIG news Update*Channel 4 has commissioned an eight-part crime thriller Suspect (w/t) which is an adaptation of the original Danish series. The 8 x 30’ drama stars James Nesbitt, Joely Richardson, Anne-Marie Duff, Richard E....
In 2014, Channel 4 launched a spin-off to 24 Hours in A&E. Like the show it spun off from, 24 Hours in Police Custody used fixed rig cameras to go inside the Custody suits to give viewers unprecedented access to the work of Luton and Bedfordshire police....
Nicola Walker and Sean Bean are to star together in new four-part drama Marriage. The series comes from Stefan Golaszewski, the writer behind Mum and Him & Her. Marriage sees married couple Ian (Bean) and Emma (Walker) negotiate the ups and downs of...