While I don’t yet know whether The Undeclared War is BAFTA magnet Peter Kosminsky’s best work, after watching the opening episode, I am prepared to say it is his most intelligent and timely. Cybersecurity is a major subject in modern society as technology relentlessly...
The BBC confirm second series of Sherwood.
As the critically acclaimed Sherwood finishes its much talked about run on the BBC tonight (28 June) it has been confirmed that it will return for a second series with filming set to take place in 2023. Sherwood launched to over 6 million viewers on the BBC (7-day...
BBC drama Sherwood tells a uniquely British story about what happens when we let politics divide us.
The BBC's new crime drama Sherwood is brilliant. A starry cast, tackling a uniquely British story with an intriguing central mystery that feels tied to its surroundings rather than tacked on to keep viewers interested. The residents in this former mining village are...
Spooks at 20: A look at the show that took risks few shows would.
You can’t beat a catchy slogan. ‘MI5, Not 9-to-5’ exclaimed the trailers and advertising promotion for a new BBC spy drama that promised to bring slick intelligent thrills to prime time British television. Brilliantly produced teaser trailers dotted the BBC for weeks...
Heartstopper allows us to reflect on our own high school days while giving the floor to todays teens
“Do you ever feel like you’re only doing things because everyone else is, and you’re scared to change?” This kind of sentiment is something often reflected among teenagers and young adults as they try to find their way in the world and who they are. This feeling is...
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...
Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends gets air date on BBC Three & Hulu
Sally Rooney's romantic drama Conversations with Friends will arrive on BBC Three on Sunday 15th May, the same day it arrives on US streaming platform Hulu. The series, made by the same people who made 2020's Normal People, follows Frances (Alison Oliver), a...
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...
Daisy May Cooper to lead Rain Dogs for BBC One
The BBC have confirmed further details of Cash Carraway's new eight-part series starring Daisy May Cooper of This Country. Rain Dogs, co-produced by HBO and Killing Eve Production Company Sid Gentle Films is billed as a, is a wild and punky tale of a mother’s love for...
Top Boy delivers its best series yet.
Holy shiiiii.… wow. Those were my words (or thereabouts) when the second Netflix series of Top Boy ended, literally, with a bang. Taken from Paul Hirons of The Killing Times. Read more from The Killing Times here News From The Killing Times Long-time readers know how...
ITV confirm more of Irvine Welsh’s ‘Crime’
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,...
First Look at Half Bad coming to Netflix in 2022.
Netflix has released the first image for Half Bad, a new series from Giri/Haji creator Joe Barton. The eight-part series is based on the trilogy of books from Sally Green. Jay Lycurgo (Titans, The Batman, I May Destroy You), Nadia Parkes (Domina, Starstruck) and...
The final series of legal drama The Split is coming in April.
Set in the fast-paced, complex world of London’s high-end divorce circuit, The Split, from acclaimed writer Abi Morgan is to end with its final series next month. Following the messy lives of the three Defoe sisters, Hannah (Nicola Walker), Nina (Annabel Scholey) and...
First look at the BBC’s adaptation of Dolly Alderton’s Everything I Know About Love.
The BBC have released the first images for the upcoming BBC drama Everything I Know About Love. The images show Emma Appleton (Maggie), Bel Powley (Birdy), Marli Siu (Nell), Aliyah Odoffin (Amara) and Connor Finch (Street) in Dolly Alderton’s Everything I Know About...
ITV’s ‘Holding’ is a warm and engaging thriller.
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 confirm Nicola Walker’s replacement in Unforgotten
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...
First look at Sean Bean and Nicola Walker in Stefan Golaszewski’s drama Marriage for BBC One
The BBC have released images for their upcoming drama Marriage, which stars Unforgotten's Nicola Walker and Sean Bean who will portray a married couple from Mum writer Stefan Golaszewski’s for his first prime time drama. The four-part drama sees married couple Ian...
How Russell T. Davies revolutionised TV queerness
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...
First Look at ITV’s adaptation of Graham Norton’s ‘Holding’ coming in March.
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 unveil trailer for thriller ‘Our House’
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 confirm series 4 of ‘The Bay’ for 2023.
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)...
Eddie Izzard & Gemma Arterton to lead ‘Culprits’ for Disney+
Disney+ have announced the cast for upcoming UK original drama Culprits. The eight-part drama follows what happens after a heist, when the crew have gone their separate ways, but are being targeted by a killer one-by-one. Joining the previously announced Nathan...
‘This is Going to Hurt’ proves there’s Pleasure in Pain
We've all known someone in the office who has had "you don't have to be mad to work here but it helps" emblazoned across their coffee mug but in the case of Adam Kay it was his humour that got him through his days working for the NHS. A defence tool he utilised to...
What’s On: February 2022
Our Picks for February 2022. January has spoilt us. Four Lives, The Responder, Anne, Euphoria, and The AfterParty all brilliant shows that will stay with us until the end of the year. February's highlights are a bit thinner on the ground, but Pam & Tommy from HULU...