He’s swapping Doc Martin for much darker territory in a hard-hitting drug dealing drama. ITV has announced a new six-part thriller to tackle the subject of county lines drug dealing. Out There will star Martin Clunes as a farmer forced to confront the dark forces seeping into his rural community when his livelihood, homestead and family … >
Sharpe author Bernard Cornwell’s historical fiction trilogy is getting the adaptation treatment. Last year we watched with interest as Bad Wolf, the production company formed by Jane Tranter and Julie Gardener were acquired by Sony Pictures Television. The Cardiff-based production company has been responsible for the BBC’s adaptation of Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, as … >
Martin Clunes will reprise the part of DCI Sutton in a second series of Manhunt for ITV, announced today. Martin Clunes is once more starring as the former London Metropolitan Police detective, DCI Colin Sutton. Manhunt II: The Night Stalker, a four part drama, is the real life story of the police pursuit of a notorious … >
Stephen Moyer and Zoe Tapper have joined the cast of Safe House. Four new 60-minute episodes of the drama will begin filming in Wales, Liverpool and Manchester later this month. The thriller series launched on ITV last April, averaging 6.5 million viewers and a 24% share. Season 1’s Christopher Eccleston, Marsha Thomason and Paterson Joseph were all originally due to return for … >
BBC One’s new true crime drama Rillington Place has begun filming in Scotland. Written by Ed Whitmore (Silent Witness) and Tracey Malone (Born To Kill), the three-part drama is based on the real-life multiple murders undertaken by John Christie in Notting Hill in the 1940s and 1950s. The subsequent tragic miscarriage of justice, which led … >
The second season of Safe House has begun filming in the Lake District. ITV’s thriller launched last April, averaging 6.5 million viewers and a 24% share. > Buy Season 1 on DVD on Amazon. Doctor Who star Christopher Eccleston, Marsha Thomason and Paterson Joseph will all return for the new four-part story. Written by Ed … >
BBC One has announced the commission of a new true crime drama from Silent Witness writer Ed Whitmore and Born To Kill writer Tracey Malone. Rillington Place is based on the real life multiple murders that took place around the late 1940s/early 1950s at the notorious address in Notting Hill. The three 60-minute episodes will … >
Doctor Who star Christopher Eccleston will return to ITV next year for a new season of Safe House. The suspenseful event thriller launched in April, featuring Eccleston alongside Nicola Stephenson, Jason Merrells, Marsha Thomason and Paterson Joseph. Season 1 averaged 6.5 million viewers and a 24% share of the audience, winning its scheduling slot for … >
‘We’ve found our man,’ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle announces midway through the final episode of ITV’s three-part drama Arthur and George. When the main character says something like this with an impenetrable air of confidence whilst there are still twenty five minutes of a finale left, you know there’s a plot twist yet to come. … >
Martin Clunes (Doc Martin) stars as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in Arthur & George. ITV’s new three-part adaptation of Julian Barnes’s novel, based on an intriguing series of genuine events in the life of the novelist and physician who created the detective Sherlock Holmes, is written by Ed Whitmore (Silent Witness, Waking The Dead). The … >