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 … >
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 next month. We’re re-united with Kieren Walker in the now seemingly PDS-friendly world of Roarton. Our hero is keeping his head down, working soul-destroying shifts in the Legion pub and … >
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 … >
Inspector Morse prequel Endeavour returns to ITV for a second series of four new 2-hour films, starring Shaun Evans as young Morse, alongside Roger Allam as his senior Detective Inspector Fred Thursday. Episode 1: ‘Trove’ Sunday 30 March 2014, 8pm > Read our review. May 1966. DC Endeavour Morse returns to Oxford City Police … >
Sky1’s The Smoke is a new drama series about a team of London firefighters, from the makers of Spooks and Broadchurch.
CultBox attended a lavish screening of the first episode of Game of Thrones‘ fourth season at The Guildhall in London last night. ‘Two Swords’ airs in the UK at 2am on Monday 7 April on Sky Atlantic, simulcast with its premiere in the US, and is repeated at 9pm that evening. To whet your appetite, … >
Legal drama Silk returns to BBC One for a third series and feelings run high when a murder trial close to home sends shockwaves through Shoe Lane Chambers.