The new season of Cornish period drama Poldark continues on BBC One next weekend. In the second episode of Season 2, the election results are announced and Unwin is tied for the second seat but the mob has reached boiling point and Unwin Trevaunance (Hugh Skinner) is attacked. Elizabeth (Heida Reed) travels to Bodmin knowing if she does not she … >
Poldark is back this autumn with ten new episodes of the Cornish period drama. In the first episode of Season 2, George Warleggan (Jack Farthing) is building his case against Ross (Aidan Turner) so Pascoe forces Ross to prepare a will in case the worst happens – while Demelza (Eleanor Tomlinson) visits their neighbour Ray Penvenen (John Nettles) to gain … >
The Musketeers return to BBC One for a third season to face their greatest challenge. After four years, a war-torn Paris has become a powder keg ready to explode. Refugees have flocked to the city in search of sanctuary. Food is scarce. Black market profiteering is rife. But the city’s governor, Phillipe Feron (Rupert Everett), is … >
BBC One’s new period spy drama The Secret Agent stars Toby Jones, Vicky McClure and Stephen Graham. From the makers of Line of Duty, the three-part series is adapted by Tony Marchant (Garrow’s Law) from Joseph Conrad’s classic thriller. The cast also includes Tom Goodman-Hill (Humans) and David Dawson (Ripper Street). Episode 1 Sunday 17 July 2016, 9pm > Read our review. London, … >
Brief Encounters is a new ITV drama about the early days of the Ann Summers party plan business. Set in the early 1980s, the six-part series is created and written by Fay Rusling and Oriane Messina (Green Wing, Me & Mrs Jones) and inspired by chapters in Jacqueline Gold’s memoir, Good Vibrations. The cast includes Penelope Wilton (Downton Abbey), Peter Wight … >
BBC One’s The Living and the Dead is a new supernatural drama from the creators of Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes. Directed by Alice Troughton (Merlin, In the Flesh), the six-part series stars Colin Morgan (Merlin, Humans) and Charlotte Spencer (Glue). Episode 1 Tuesday 28 June 2016, 9pm > Read our review. Somerset 1894. When a pioneering … >
New Blood is a bold new seven-part investigative drama for BBC One, written by Anthony Horowitz. Two junior investigators come together against a new breed of criminal – the uber-rich and powerful corporations, individuals and governments who hide behind legitimate facades. Stefan is played by Mark Strepan, Rash by Ben Tavassoli, DS Sands by Mark Addy, … >
About a Boy writer Nick Hornby has adapted Nina Stibbe’s award-winning book Love, Nina for BBC One. The five-part series is a fictionalised adaptation of author Nina Stibbe’s letters home to her sister. > Like Love, Nina on Facebook. Love, Nina is a charming, laugh-out-loud culture clash drama series about a young nanny from Leicester finding her feet in … >
BBC Two’s multi-award-winning gangster epic Peaky Blinders returns for a third season. The six new episodes see Tommy Shelby pulled into the glamorous and dangerous world of international intrigue in 1920s Britain, putting his entire organisation and family at risk, and forcing him to question everything about his own ambitions and desires. > Buy the … >
Created by Kay Mellor (The Syndicate, Band of Gold, Fat Friends), BBC One’s baby drama In the Club is back for a second season. The six new episodes will feature “more secrets, heartbreak, comedy and pathos”. New characters in Season 2 will include Shelly (Gemma Dobson), a pregnant surrogate who has rented out her womb to gay partners … >