In this week’s episode, the second season of Fortitude slows its pace and focuses on its living residents. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Eric survived his encounter with Tavrani the taxidermist, who pulled a gun on the acting sheriff last week. After his attempted escape is foiled by Ingrid, Tavrani’s interrogation reveals a potentially supernatural element to the killing. … >
This week’s episode is surprisingly gore free, but delivers a terrifying set piece when a stray polar bear enters Fortitude’s primary school and traps a child inside. The sequence is a chilling call back to the series’ very first scene, in which an intoxicated Henry Tyson accidentally shot Billy Pettigrew instead of the polar bear … >
“Life is hard in Fortitude,” says series creator Simon Donald, and after the events of Season 1, it’s difficult not to agree with him. Sky Atlantic’s Arctic horror series Fortitude returns for its second season, revealing the aftermath of the prehistoric wasp attack that threatened to tear the town apart and setting out new threats … >
Sky Atlantic has announced a number of high-profile cast additions for the second season of Fortitude. Set in a fictional community located on Svalbard in Arctic Norway, the psychological thriller series launched in January 2015 and is Sky Atlantic’s biggest drama commission to date. Season 1 has been sold to over 170 territories around the … >
The first of two double-bills on Sky Arts marking the 150th anniversary of HG Wells’ birth treats us to atmospherically creepy adaptations of ‘The Late Mr Elvesham’ and ‘The Devotee of Art’, with Ray Winstone providing onscreen narration as the author. In ‘The Late Mr Elvesham’ we’re introduced to Edward George Eden, a poor medical … >
One of the neat things about the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and its award-winning stage adaptation is its ability to subvert expectations, a trick neatly pulled off in BBC One’s latest Imagine… documentary, My Curious Documentary. Although it does what it says on the tin, charting the production’s rise from the … >
The National Theatre’s production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time will be broadcast live from London to cinemas throughout the UK and worldwide next month.
Despite the pervading gloom, Thirteen Steps Down is certainly watchable, and compelling enough to keep viewers hanging on for the second episode.
Luke Treadaway (Attack the Block) stars as the psychologically imbalanced Mix Cellini in ITV1’s new psychological thriller, Thirteen Steps Down.
Primeval creator Adrian Hodges will adapt psychological thriller Thirteen Steps Down for ITV1, based on the novel from Ruth Rendell.