Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting, The Full Monty, 28 Weeks Later) has been cast as guest series lead in the new series of Line of Duty. The BAFTA-winning actor will play Detective Constable Shaun Massie in the next instalment of Jed Mercurio’s hit crime thriller when it...
Jed Mercuiro's new drama has its main cast. Trinity, will star Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Richard Madden, and Marcia Gay Harden The Loki and Bodyguard actors will lead Trinity, a high-stakes drama from Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio. The eight-episode series follows a valiant...
This year the BBC turns 100. Fundamental to Britain and funded by licence fee payers, the BBC has garnered a worldwide reputation for quality. For this special post highlighting the highlights of the corporation's massive contribution to television, I've decided to...
ITV’s Head of Drama, Polly Hill has commissioned six-part crime thriller Payback, produced by Jed Mercurio’s HTM Television, starring Morven Christie, Peter Mullan and Prasanna Puwanarajah, and written by acclaimed screenwriter Debbie O’Malley. A compelling...
Daniel Mays (Mrs Biggs, Public Enemies, Made In Dagenham) is confirmed to join the cast of Line Of Duty. Series three is written by Jed Mercurio, made by World Productions for BBC Two and pits AC-12 against their most dangerous adversary yet. Mays will play Sergeant...
Welcome back to another look back at the week in TV and as always we have quite an eclectic bunch of shows so let's get started. We're kicking off with a new drama from Sky One which, just like their other productions, doesn't scrimp on the budget. I was quite excited...
In the latest podcast we discuss Sky's glossy new medical drama Critical, find out why Gary is enjoying The Casual Vacancy and Matt hates painting!
Warning: Sky1’s brand new medical drama Critical, from the pen of Jed ‘Line of Duty ’Mercurio, is not for the faint of heart. However, if you can get over the open heart surgery, the lashings of blood and the scalpel’s eye view of a man having his chest...
So we've done it! We've reached the end of the year. 2014 wasn't as packed as last year, but when it was good, it was very good indeed. Sherlock - Series 3 (January 2014, BBC1) 2014 began with one of the most anticipated returns in a long time when we all sat round to...
BBC One have announced that Jed Mercurio, best known for penning hit crime drama Line of Duty, will be adapting the latest screen incarnation of DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. Mercurio's adaptation of the novel will be one of four 90-minute adaptations of...
As well as being Easter Sunday, today marks the fiftieth anniversary of BBC Two which broadcast its opening night on the 20th April 1964. Although said opening night was plagued with problems BBC Two has since gone on to produce some of the nation's most loved...
BBC Two have taken to twitter to confirm a third and fourth series of the critically acclaimed drama series Line of Duty. Creator and writer, Jed Mercurio, says: “We’re profoundly grateful to the fans who not only watched Line Of Duty but also made it such a...
Late as usual, this week's Matt on the Box is focusing on a programme that is at the moment a frontrunner for Best British TV show of 2014. It doesn't take too much guesswork to deduce that that programme is the brilliant Line of Duty which came to an end last week....
With one of the podcast team struck down with illness Matt & Gary look at the final of Line of Duty and get frustrated by Will I AM, disagree on W1A and are left cold by The Widower.
In our latest podcast we debate the updated iPlayer and the praise for Silk and Line of Duty continues.
World Productions Sometimes a drama series provides a powerful opening episode only to provide further instalments that really don't deliver. This isn't true of Line of Duty, which we were gushing about even before it started airing. After that first episode we were...
As the end credits rolled following the first episode of Line of Duty's second series I sat in front of the screen open-mouthed. Because my job is to watch a lot of television, I'm rarely surprised by any of the twists that TV dramas offer. That wasn't the case with...
Back in 2012 Line of Duty became one of the most critically-acclaimed drama series of the year. The programme focused on DCI Tony Gates (Lennie James), a well-respected officer with a loyal team and the best crime figures on the force. The story that followed saw...
Keeley Hawes has said she was unsure what to make of her latest character in the second series of Line of Duty which starts this February on BBC2. The highly anticipated second series sees Hawes play Detective Inspector Lindsay Denton. Denton appears to be...
What to say if you liked it The return of the medical drama where back-stabbing, back-biting and the swallowing of bitter pills among the staff is added to the gory injuries and troublesome illnesses faced by the patients What to say if you disliked it Must we really...