"Dalgliesh is a serious attempt by Channel 5 to assert itself as one of the big players in the realm of drama and it succeeds on every score."Contributed by Will Barber-Taylor The gentlemen detective is a genre of fiction that emerged during the late 19th century...
Inspired by real events, The Serpent tells the remarkable story of how the conman and murderer Charles Sobhraj (Tahar Rahim) was brought to justice. Posing as a gem dealer, Sobhraj and his girlfriend Marie-Andrée Leclerc (Jenna Coleman) travelled across Thailand,...
In the second series of His Dark Materials, Lord Asriel (James McAvoy) has opened a bridge to a new world, and, distraught over the death of her best friend, Lyra (Dafne Keen) follows Asriel into the unknown. In a strange and mysterious abandoned...
Whilst eating, Lyra witnesses one of her fellow captives being taken away and it soon becomes apparent that this is a regular occurrence and one that Lyra begins to wonder whether she will soon be subjected to the same as she is measured and photographed by agents of...
Beginning with Lyra (Dafne Keen), Lee Scoresby (Lin Manuel Miranda), Ioerek (Joe Tandberg) and the Gyptians moving towards to land where the Witches say that the Magisterium are keeping the missing children, Balvanga, in hopes of attacking and freeing the children....
The episode begins with Texan aeronaut Lee Scoresby (Lin Manuel Miranda) and his daemon Hester (Cristela Alonzo) searching for Iorek (Joe Tandberg), an armoured bear that saved Lee’s life. Lee arrives in a spectacular sequence involving his balloon and it is a wonder...
Resuming the story from the previous episode’s cliff hanger in which Lyra (Dafne Keen), is wandering the streets of London after her discovery that Mrs Coulter (Ruth Wilson) is behind the Gobblers who snatched her friend Roger and is similarly taken by the nefarious...
Picking up from the previous episode, Lyra (Dafne Keen) and Mrs Coulter (Ruth Wilson) arrive in London. Lyra, though overawed by London and her new surroundings, is not unaware of her motivation to travelling to London – to find her friend Roger (Lewin Lloyd)....
His Dark Materials is a very British piece of fiction. Like Doctor Who or the work of Wells, it has a deeply British sensibility to it. This is not simply because most of its first episode is set in Oxford amongst the dreaming spires of a world like our own but one...
Murder is an obsession. It is an obsession that television has had since it was created. Early series revolved around real detectives, the most notable being Detective Superintendent Robert Fabian whose series Fabian of the Yard detailed to audiences what real crimes...
Reviewing a drama that is based on real-life is always a difficult task. Many of the people who feature in this drama are either real people or else based on real people. It is particularly difficult to discuss a drama that is based on a real-life event with such...
Drama is a strange word. Classically, it has been used to refer to a type of theatre or performance – a type of fiction that has driven television for the past seventy years in one form or another. It also has a much more modern appropriation – many young people will...
A strange thing is happening in the world of streaming services. The huge success of Netflix has meant other broadcasters want their own slice of the streaming space. Disney will soon be removing all of its content from Netflix and plonking it all on its own Disney +...
Following the seeming failure of her relationships with Miss Walker (Sophie Rundle) and Mariana Lawton (Lydia Leonard), Ann Lister sets off for Europe. As she travels through France and Denmark, meeting Queen Marie of Denmark (Sofie Gråbøl), Miss Lister seems unaware...
With Miss Walker (Sophie Rundle) having decided to go to Scotland to improve her health by staying with her sister Elizabeth (Katherine Kelly) and brother in law, Captain Sutherland (Derek Riddell), Ann Lister seems more determined than ever to leave Shibden and...
Returning home to Shibden after her attack at the hands on one of Christopher Rawson’s (Vincent Franklin) men, Ann Lister (Suranne Jones) ensures that she doesn’t interrupt Marianne’s (Gemma Whelan) reception of Mr Abbott (John Hollingworth). Realizing that she will...
Things truly come to a head in the fifth episode of Gentleman Jack. As the secret relationship of Ann Lister (Suranne Jones) and Ann Walker (Sophie Rundle) becomes more well known, tensions rise between the two. Though Miss Lister is easily able to see off the...
After Mrs Priestly (Amelia Bullmore) discovers the relationship between Ann Lister (Suranne Jones) and Ann Walker (Sophie Rundle) it soon becomes apparent that pressure is mounting on Ann Walker to reject her relationship with Lister by both her family and Reverend...
After attending the marriage of her former lover Vera Hobart (Jodhi May), Ann Lister (Suranne Jones) decides to go to the Lake District to begin her relationship with Ann Walker (Sophie Rundle). Whilst Lister and Walker begin to express their love for one another,...
Following her return to Shibden Hall, Ann Lister (Suranne Jones) decides to restore her ancestral home’s ailing fortunes and to court Ann Walker (Sophie Rundle) a wealthy heiress who feels constrained by her family. However, Miss Lister’s attempts to reopen her coal...
“Shabby little Shibden” exhales Anne Lister (Suranne Jones) in the first episode of Gentleman Jack. Shibden is anything but shabby – to visit Shibden Hall is to be truly transported back to Lister’s time. Its remarkable oak-panelled rooms are full of life and history...
Line of Duty has, over six episodes, teased and tantalised us as to who “H” is and whether Superintendent Hastings (Adrian Dunbar) is “bent”. Hastings has been the rock of AC-12 since the series began in 2012 and the possibility that he is behind the Organised Crime...
Following the attack on the Eastfield Depot and John Corbett’s (Stephen Graham) murder of DCS Lester Hargreaves (Tony Pitts), AC-12 are out to bring down Corbett and the Organised Crime Group that he’s embedded in. Corbett, however, resists Steve Arnott’s (Martin...
The twists and turns of Line of Duty are enough to make anyone say Jesus, Mary and Joseph at the shock Jed Mercurio elicits from his audience. Last week, audiences were on tenterhooks as PS Jane Cafferty (Sian Reese-Williams) identified the corrupt police officer who...