Channel 4’s conspiracy thriller Utopia returns for a second six-part series. Rose Leslie, Ian McDiarmid and Tom Burke are among the new cast members, joining original cast members Fiona O’Shaughnessy (Jessica Hyde), Alexandra Roach (Becky), Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Ian), Adeel Akhtar (Wilson Wilson), Oliver Woollford (Grant), Paul Higgins (Dugdale), Neil Maskell (Arby) and Geraldine James (Milner). … >
Josh Hartnett (Lucky Number Slevin), Eva Green (Casino Royale) and Timothy Dalton (James Bond) star in Sky Atlantic’s chilling new psychological thriller, which weaves together the origin stories of some of literature’s most frightening figures. Written, created and executive produced by John Logan (writer of Gladiator, Hugo and Skyfall), and executive produced by director Sam … >
Teen comedy-drama Youngers returns to E4 for a new eight-part series this summer. Episode 1: ‘Divided Ain’t Cool’ Wednesday 7 May 2014, 7.30pm In the months since the Youngers’ fallout at the Avengerz Krew concert, Jay (Calvin Demba) has discovered an impressive new dedication to his music and is now recording tracks with producer … >
PDS (Partially Deceased Syndrome) sufferer Kieren Walker continues his struggle to find acceptance in the second series of BBC Three’s zombie drama In the Flesh. Series 2 propels us back to the hotbed of Roarton nine months on, where the living and the undead have reached a fragile peace. Partially Deceased Syndrome sufferer, Kieren (Luke … >
Based on the books by Benjamin Black, the pseudonym of award-winning Irish writer John Banville, BBC One’s new three-part drama Quirke stars Gabriel Byrne in the title role. Episode 1: ‘Christine Falls’ Sunday 25 May 2014, 9pm Late autumn in Dublin 1956, and city pathologist Quirke – we never get to know his Christian name … >
Last Tango in Halifax writer Sally Wainwright returns to BBC One with new drama series Happy Valley. The six-part “shocking crime thriller” stars Sarah Lancashire (The Paradise) as police sergeant Catherine Cawood. Episode 1 Tuesday 29 April 2014, 9pm “I’m Catherine, by the way! I’m forty-seven, I’m divorced, I live with my sister – … >
Crime drama Vera returns to ITV this spring for a fourth series, starring Brenda Blethyn as D.C.I. Vera Stanhope and David Leon as her sidekick, Detective Sergeant Joe Ashworth. Episode 1: ‘On Harbour Street’ Sunday 27 April 2014, 8pm D.C.I. Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) investigates the mysterious death of pensioner Margaret Kraszewski (Annabel Leventon) … >
John Simm stars as a man on the run, desperate to clear his name for the sake of his family, in ITV’s new three-part thriller, Prey. Created and written by Chris Lunt, Prey follows Detective Sergeant Marcus Farrow (Simm), a well-liked copper who is wrongly accused and arrested for murder. Narrowly escaping police custody Farrow becomes … >
Sarah Phelps’ epic new BBC One drama The Crimson Field follows the lives of a team of doctors, nurses and women volunteers who work together in a tented field hospital healing the bodies and souls of men wounded in the trenches. Episode 1 Sunday 6 April 2014, 9pm Kitty Trevelyan tries to put the … >
Adapted by Emma Frost (The White Queen), BBC One’s new three-part adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s classic gothic novel Jamaica Inn airs this Easter, starring Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey), Matthew McNulty (The Paradise), Sean Harris (The Borgias) and Shirley Henderson (Southcliffe). Set in 1821 against the forbidding backdrop of windswept Cornish moors, the story … >