Actor Rafe Spall (Desperate Romantics, Pete Versus Life) plays Jay Wratten, Wratten’s nephew and a key player in the drugs cartel, in Hugo Blick’s seven-part conspiracy thriller The Shadow Line.
Like the drugs at the heart of the late Harvey Wratton’s empire, The Shadow Line has become addictive in a slow, almost sneaky manner. After an unhurried, take-it-or-leave it start, it has insidiously built up to the point where now, three episodes in, it has become impossible to break free of its grip.
The principal problem with The Shadow Line is its identity crisis. At times, it’s a fascinating noir-ish thriller; at others, it feels like an unwieldy Shakespearian melodrama that has somehow lost its way en route to the RSC and found itself on the telly instead.
The BBC have released a new trailer for their Original British Drama this Summer, featuring previously unseen clips from Torchwood, Doctor Who, Page Eight, Luther, Case Histories, Luther, The Shadow Line, The Hour and The Night Watch.
Appropriately, given that it begins with the discovery of a body, the opening episode of The Shadow Line moves at a pace that’s almost funereal, although that isn’t to say it’s boring.
BBC Two have released a new trailer for the channel’s Original British Drama this Spring, featuring clips from United, The Shadow Line, The Crimson Petal And The White, The Hour and The Night Watch.
Chiwetel Ejiofor plays DI Gabriel in The Shadow Line, Hugo Blick’s sophisticated and gripping conspiracy thriller which delves into the heart of human morality, coming to BBC Two in May.
Created by Jimmy McGovern (Cracker, The Street), legal drama Accused will return to BBC One for a second series of four episodes in 2012.
Russell T Davies, one of the UK’s foremost writers of television drama such as Doctor Who, Queer As Folk, Years And Years, Casanova, Cucumber, and It’s a Sin, has written a memoir to be released this autumn. Titled The Queerest of Folk: A Life in Television, the television writer and showrunner will take readers through … >
From Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart to his daughter Kate, UNIT protects the Earth. Now, UNIT Eras – Hostile Universe sees them stepping up when the Doctor is out of the picture. The Doctor’s friends at UNIT have been dealing with “…the odd, the unexplained, anything on Earth, or even beyond,” since the late 1960s. Across … >