After the best part of a year, The Walking Dead is back with all the sweeping elegance, subtle human drama and heart-stopping shocks that made it the finest television series of 2010.
Philip Glenister returns to BBC One as Harry Venn, a struggling solicitor with an insalubrious past, in this promising four-part thriller from Ronan Bennett and Walter Bernstein.
After a promising premiere, Merlin falls back into some bad habits with this follow-up.
After last week’s slightly slow story, Spooks springs back to form with a relentless pace and one of its finest episodes not just in this series, but its entire ten year run.
The second of Series 5’s three two-part tales opens with a jinxed Native American totem pole and an unusual rainstorm over London: a downpour of trout.
After some faltering early steps – poised precariously between enthralling paranormal drama and trying-too-hard teenage vom-com – The Fades has finally found the right balance.
In the second part of Series 5’s opening story, Sarah Jane and her Scooby gang continue to protect the life of an innocent.
Downton Abbey has played this cat and mouse game with us so many times before that we no longer know what’s misdirection and what’s just saggy plotting.
‘Oh that man,’ River Song says, wine glass in hand, the same old glint in her eye, ‘he’s always one step ahead of everyone.’ We all know who she’s talking about, of course, but she could just as easily be referring to the man who has led us on a stunning, season-long dance and left … >
The fluctuation in quality between the apocalyptic and the adolescent in the opening instalment of The Fades was not, it seems, merely just the throes of a troubled birth.