The actual title of Spiral, BBC Four’s imported French police drama, is Engrenages, which literally translates as ‘cogs’ or ‘gears’ – and if your stomach can stand the gore and your heart can stand the shocks, watching the show will give your own cogs and gears as thorough a grinding as they’ve had since the climax of The Killing.
The second season of Nurse Jackie demonstrates quite how wonderful and under-rated this show is. Edie Falco was consistently one of the best things about The Sopranos over its six season tenure and so a starring TV vehicle for the actress was warmly welcomed when Nurse Jackie premiered in 2009.
Joining the gang in the Olympic Deliverance Team this week is Dave Wellbeck; an athlete who won two consecutive silver medals at the Olympics in the Noughties.
There are not many complete Patrick Troughton stories left in the world, but those that remain are held as glimmering icons of a bygone, genuinely classic era of Doctor Who.
A new époque is ushered in at ad agency Sterling Cooper as Mad Men goes from strength to strength with its fourth season, set in the heart of the swinging sixties.
With a heralding cry of ‘Fantastico!’, CBBC presents a fast-paced and action-packed new drama series following the adventures of the young Leonardo Da Vinci and his friends in fifteenth century Florence.
1973’s four-part ‘Carnival Of Monsters’ comes just on the wrong side of ‘classic’ Jon Pertwee and as such is unlikely to be sleeping in the memories of many baby-boomers – no giant green maggots or Sea Devils here – but it’s still a sharply defined adventure.
The Doctor, Tegan and Turlough arrive in 1980s London, finding themselves embroiled in a plot involving some old villains and a couple of guest stars from the world of light entertainment.
It seems that you can’t keep a good vampire/werewolf/ghost show down at the moment – so, as regular as clockwork, here’s the third series of Being Human!
Unlike the elegant and suave spies from across the Atlantic, the British secret service in the 1960s and 1970s was a far more uncool and grimy place on screen – more realistic perhaps, but usually second best in popularity.