Season 2 of HBO’s space liner bound comedy Avenue 5 has been a long time coming. The show, which stars Hugh Laurie and Josh Gad, comes from Armando Iannucci (Veep, The Thick of It) and dropped its first season back in early 2020. Understandably, the second run has taken a while… the world’s been a … >
Zadie Smith’s 2012 novel does not lend itself easily to a screen adaptation. It’s a woozily beautiful essay of deceptively simple parts, demanding to play linguistic games with the reader in such apparently simple scenes as a boy fishing a telephone out of his pocket, or two children answering the question ‘Who’s your best friend?’ … >
A trailer has been unveiled for BBC Two’s upcoming adaptation of White Teeth author Zadie Smith’s novel NW. The 90-minute drama has been adapted by director Saul Dibb (Bullet Boy) and writer Rachel Bennette (Bel Ami) with Mammoth Screen, the makers of Poldark and Parade’s End. Nikki Amuka-Bird (Luther, Small Island) and Phoebe Fox (A View From The Bridge, Life In Squares) lead the cast … >
The cast been announced for BBC Two’s upcoming adaptation of White Teeth author Zadie Smith’s novel NW. The 90-minute film will be adapted for TV by director Saul Dibb (Bullet Boy) and writer Rachel Bennette (Bel Ami) with Mammoth Screen, the makers of Poldark and Parade’s End. Nikki Amuka-Bird (Luther, Small Island) and Phoebe Fox (A View From The Bridge, Life In Squares) will … >
Consider, if you will, the carnival of monsters that Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith have presented throughout their career. A cavalcade of grotesques with strange voices, horrible wigs, and a variety of prosthetics. All very impressive, to be sure, but what they don’t get enough credit for is the so-called ‘normal’ characters: a collection of … >
Even in a modern entertainment world where America, France and even Denmark are routinely exporting excellent psychological police thrillers as if there’s a NATO surplus, Neil Cross has proved with this show that British television hasn’t forgotten how to make them either.
In the final instalment of Series 2, DCI John Luther has to balance resolving the desperate dilemma that his concern for Caroline and Jenny Jones has led him into with stopping the destructive violence of two twins whose competitive spirit is only matched by their capacity for chaos.
One of the (many) great things about Luther is the bad guys. Despite their diabolical schemes and vicious acts of mass murder, they’re not bald-headed men in secret lairs. Instead, they’re frighteningly ordinary-looking young men.
In the third instalment of Luther’s new series, DCI Luther is faced with a man committing acts of horrible brutality and wanton destruction, seemingly at random, while DS Gray becomes ever more concerned about the integrity of her superior officer.
The second instalment of the new series sees what started as a fairly narrow story opening up around John Luther (Idris Elba) as he searches for salvation amid the wreckage of his private life and the darkness that his life as a policeman brings him into incessant contact with.