It’s January 1995, you’re lying on your living room floor in baggy jeans and checked shirt, fiddling with a plectrum on a leather choker around your neck, Sound Garden’s Superunknown in your Walkman. You’re whining gently because the final episode of My So-Called Life...
The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe brilliantly tells this stranger fiction true story that you won’t believe really happend.
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...
First trailer for SAS: Rogue Heroes the new drama from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight
The BBC have released a trailer for their upcoming six-part drama SAS: Rogue Heroes from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight. Filmed on location in the UK and Morocco, SAS: Rogue Heroes is the dramatised account of how the world’s greatest Special Forces unit, the...
Why ‘The Dropout’ stands head and shoulders above the rest in a very crowded field.
*Contains spoilers for the series up to the finale.* The era of Peak-TV appears to be going through a grifter stage right now, and not just any grifter too. Maybe it’s that the stories are high profile, or maybe it’s because television writers are trying to make sense...
Succession star joins wife Keeley Hawes for ITV’s Stonehouse
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...
Cambridge Spies, BBC2, BBC4
For many years the names Philby, Burgess and Maclean (and later, Blunt) were synonymous with treachery in Britain, although you’d hardly know it from watching the first two parts of this dramatisation of their careers as Soviet spies. Instead it portrayed them...