AIMéE-FFION EDWARDS, MIRIAM PETCHE, AASIYA SHAH AND DANIEL MAYS PLAY THE LEADING ROLES IN THE DRAMA** ITV’s Director of Drama Polly Hill has commissioned a four-part true crime drama, Believe Me, written by BAFTA and RTS award winning screenwriter Jeff Pope MBE, and...
When it came time to compile our Best of the Year piece two things struck me. The first was that wasn't one BIG show that resonated with people in the same way Normal People and I May Destroy You did in 2020 or It's a Sin and Mare of Easttown last year. The second was...
In the third episode of The Walk-In Robbie Mullen (Andrew Ellis) breaks down. He tells Matthew Collins (Stephen Graham) he's never had any friends before. "They're my mates." Collins put his arm around him and assures him they're not his friends. The...
ITV’s Head of Drama, Polly Hill, has commissioned a five-part drama, The Walk- In, which is the true story of how a Neo-Nazi plan to kill an MP was foiled by an inside man. Written by Oscar nominated and BAFTA multi award-winning screenwriter, Jeff Pope, the drama is...
In our latest Podcast Gary and Matt praise Educating The East End, wonder why they're sticking with The X Factor and debate whether they're too old for Glue.
It was heavily promoted, stars one of the country's biggest female actors and is written by a BAFTA winner. So perhaps it's no great surprise that overnight ratings for ITV's latest biopic Cilla drew impressive figures. According to the overnights the first of the...
With such real-life dramas as Appropriate Adult, The Widower and Lucan to his name you'd be forgiven for thinking that Jeff Pope can only deliver programmes that focus on the darker side of life. However his latest work, a dramatisation of the early life of Cilla...
Two years ago Sheridan Smith really became a household name thanks to her performance in the wonderful ITV drama Mrs Biggs for which she eventually won a BAFTA award. Smith later collaborated with Mrs Biggs writer Jeff Pope on The Widower which aired on ITV earlier...
They say the old ones are the best, but in the case of Tommy Cooper the jokes are so old I’d almost forgotten someone once had to write them. But as David Threlfall expertly played through one of Tommy’s routines, I realised that many of his jokes were known to me as...
ITV have released the first trailer for their Tommy Cooper biopic Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This. David Threlfall takes the role of the iconic comedian with Amanda Redman as his wife DoveITV has today confirmed commission of a single film about...
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.
ITV have announced the other principal cast members who will join Sheridan Smith in Jeff Pope's three-part drama series based on the life of the legendary Cilla Black. Aneurin Barnard, best known for his roles in The White Queen and Moonfleet, will star opposite Smith...
© ITV There’s no combination more enticing than the pairing of Reece Shearsmith and Sheridan Smith. ITV’s The Widower has been widely publicised by the channel (it’s even got its own printed elevator), and it’s definitely one to watch out for but while this is so,...
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Remember Bob Martin? Michael Barrymore played a game show host. A little bit of critical acclaim. A lot of audience indifference. Its creators Bob Mills (the guy who did the fantastic In Bed With MeDinner years ago) and Jeff Pope have bounced back from that flop to...