‘The Syndicate’ Season 3 Episode 4 review: Battle lines are drawn

Things really do begin to hot up in The Syndicate this week as secrets are revealed and battle lines begin to be drawn. And not just between the staff and the family of Hazelwood Manor, but between Lord and Lady Hazelwood themselves, who implode spectacularly as they ‘celebrate’ their 25th wedding anniversary. The tension between … >

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‘The Syndicate’ Season 3 Episode 1 review

Returning to BBC One for a third season is In the Club creator Kay Mellor’s wonderful comedy-drama, The Syndicate. However, where previous seasons have focused on how a collective lottery win has affected the lives of a supermarket staff and colleagues in a hospital, this time round it’s a sort of Upstairs, Downstairs setup, as … >

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‘The Syndicate’ returns: Lenny Henry in Season 3 trailer

BBC One has released the first trailer for the new season of The Syndicate, written by In The Club creator Kay Mellor. The drama returns with an all-new cast, including Lenny Henry, Anthony Andrews (The King’s Speech), Alice Krige (Spooks) and Elizabeth Berrington. > Buy Season 1 on DVD on Amazon. Kay Mellor teased last year: “The … >

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Lenny Henry joins BBC One’s ‘The Syndicate’ for Season 3

The third season of BBC One drama The Syndicate, written by In The Club creator Kay Mellor, has started filming in Yorkshire. The all-new cast will include Lenny Henry, Anthony Andrews (The King’s Speech), Alice Krige (Spooks) and Elizabeth Berrington. The Syndicate launched on BBC One in March 2012 and Season 2 concluded in April 2013. Kay … >

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‘In the Club’ will return for Season 2 in 2015

Kay Mellor’s pregnancy drama In The Club will return for a second six-part season on BBC One next year. The first season launched this August, reaching a live peak of five million viewers. On the news of a second series, Kay Mellor said: “I’m absolutely delighted for Rollem to be commissioned to produce a second … >

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‘In the Club’ Episode 6 review

Finales always have a lot to wrap up, and usually not a lot of time to do it in. Very often they have to tie up many dangling plot threads whilst enticing us with reasons to stay watching incase these characters should return. In the final episode of Kay Mellor’s maternity comedy dama, In The … >

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‘In the Club’ Episode 5 review

As we hurry towards the finale, this penultimate episode of In the Club highlights all the women’s lives in order to reach conclusions next week. However, while all the characters’ lives and stories are touched upon, to varying degrees, this episode truly belongs to one couple and the journey they’ve had to get their happy … >

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