If you didn’t know that season 7 of Slow Horses had already wrapped production, you’d be forgiven for thinking season 6 was the last hurrah for Jackson Lamb (Sir Gary Oldman) and his Slow Horses. It feels like an ovation in the theatre of Slough House as characters...
Forgive me father for I have sinned. I assumed Channel 4’s nun and priest romantic drama Falling was going to be a titillating romp of lustful temptation and sweaty cassocks. But instead what we got was a beautiful contemplation on the nature of love, sacrifice and...
In his surprise mega-hit Baby Reindeer, comedian, writer and star of the show Richard Gadd mined his own trauma to write a show that became an instant hit on Netflix and started a conversation about mental health, sexual abuse and what it means to be a man. Before...
Blue Lights creators Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn have been commissioned to write a brand new drama for the BBC. D-Notice is a British political thriller set in the world of investigative journalism. Not many people know what a D-notice is. But Declan...
Channel 4 has commissioned brand new original drama Wrong Move (6x60’) written and created by Ben Edwards (Coma, Miss Scarlet & The Duke), produced by BAFTA-winning production company Roughcut Television (Little Disasters, Coma, Big Boys) and distributed by...
Channel 4 announces new drama adaptation Close to Home with Anthony Boyle, Jessica Reynolds, Seamus O’Hara and Oisín Thompson as lead cast Channel 4 has commissioned Close to Home, a new four-part drama series produced by the multi-Academy Award, Golden...
Michaela Coel joined by Thandiwe Newton, Maxine Peake, Danny Sapani and Ncuti Gatwa for new BBC drama First Day on Earth as filming begins Coel will write, star and serve as an executive producer on the series coming to BBC iPlayer and BBC One. ilming is...
Lorraine Ashbourne, Lindsay Duncan, Robert Glenister, Robert Lindsay, Lesley Manville, David Morrissey and Claire Rushbrook return to James Graham’s BBC drama Filming has started on series three of the award-winning Sherwood – the critically acclaimed Nottinghamshire...
In Waiting For the Out a prisoner asks philosophy teacher Dan what job you can get with a degree in philosophy. Dan’s reluctant answer of “this” reflects the way philosophy is often depicted as an educational pyramid scheme - you learn it only for the purpose of...
TV in 2025 has been a mixed bag. Mostly that's because a lot of our favourite shows or shows we'd been anticipating didn't live up to our expectations. Notably, the second season of The Last Of Us, I'm still not sure what happened there. The third season of The White...
Throughout our lives, we all make mistakes. Sometimes they’re tiny little things that niggle at us for as long as we remain conscious, preying on our insecurities and anxieties. Other times, we don’t even realise we’re making those mistakes, actions so burned into us...
When menopausal, lonely, bereft school teacher Beth (Joanna Scanlan) decides to take her own life, she’s interrupted by a call from her brother. It’s a call that many women of a similar age will recognise. A brother who didn’t bear the brunt of care responsibilities,...
It’s getting colder, darker, and I am dreading winter. Thank goodness for the return of Blue Lights. Whilst the squalid corridors of Blackthorn police station lack the sunshine I am craving, the BAFTA-winning series is fast securing a status alongside the likes of...
Writer and creator Steven Knight is bringing a new generation of Shelbys to the screen. Much-loved series Peaky Blinders will return with a bang to the BBC and Netflix, telling the story of a new generation of Shelbys, from writer and creator Steven Knight. The two...
There is nothing better in the world of Slow Horses than when Head Horse Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) has his proteges around him, is 12 steps ahead of them, and is - as the young folk say - reading them to filth. While the opening episode of season 5 had the Horses...
As the nights draw in, and the end of the year looms, there are particular British certainties - the heating will go on, Strictly will dominate Saturday evenings, and Slow Horses will return to raise the bar for TV with aplomb. It’s supremely comforting to know that...
The BBC has revealed first look pictures for Half Man, the original six-episode drama from the multi award-winning Richard Gadd (Baby Reindeer, Against The Law). Filming recently wrapped and took place in and around Glasgow. Gadd and BAFTA award-winning actor Jamie...
Sky and HBO today announce WAR, a bold new legal thriller from the creator of Lupin and Hijack, starring Dominic West (The Wire, The Crown) as tech titan Morgan Henderson and Sienna Miller (Anatomy of a Scandal, American Sniper) as his estranged wife, international...
In addition to the new trailer, the BBC confirms that Riot Women will air on BBC iPlayer and BBC One this October. The BBC and BritBox have released a trailer for Riot Women, which provides the first glimpse at the brand-new drama series from the multi-BAFTA...
Channel 4 has commissioned a six-part drama series, Army of Shadows, written by the BAFTA award-winning Ronan Bennett (The Day of the Jackal, MobLand, Top Boy) and co-produced by STUDIOCANAL (Families Like Ours, Playing Nice) and Two Cities Television (Blue Lights,...
Produced by Hartswood Films, part of ITV Studios, and written by Steven Moffat (Sherlock, Dracula, Inside Man), Channel 4 has commissioned Number 10, a drama about the most famous address in the world. 10 Downing Street. There’s a Prime Minister in the attic, a coffee...
Today, Netflix announced a second season of the gripping crime procedural series Dept. Q has been commissioned – an adaptation of Jussi Adler-Olsen’s novels. Season 2 will be filmed and set in Edinburgh following the success of the location in the first series....
The multi-award-winning and eight-time Academy Award nominated actress Glenn Close (Fatal Attraction, The Wife) will star as the lead in Channel 4’s new drama Maud (w/t), written by Nina Raine and Moses Raine (Donkey Heart). Developed and produced by Playground for...
ITV’s Director of Drama, Polly Hill, has commissioned The Blame, a gripping new series set to have audiences on the edge of their seats. Produced by acclaimed Quay Street Productions (part of ITV Studios), written, developed for television and executive produced by...