Even in a modern entertainment world where America, France and even Denmark are routinely exporting excellent psychological police thrillers as if there’s a NATO surplus, Neil Cross has proved with this show that British television hasn’t forgotten how to make them either.
Based on author Michel Faber’s best-selling romp of a novel, this lavish BBC Two adaptation presents Victorian London as a hellish, heady brew of filth, degraded innocence and hypocrisy.
That age-old question writers can’t help asking – what would you do for love – crops up again in this new two-part existential drama about a normal couple facing a terrible, life-changing decision.
BBC One’s business entertainment series The Apprentice is back for a seventh series, as a new line-up of corporate contenders face Lord Sugar in the battle for boardroom supremacy. We’ve picked out ten teasing lines from the fourth episode!
The Walking Dead is a perfectly admirable stab at attempting to transfer superlative source material to our screens in as entertaining a way as possible, yet it just can’t compare to the comic.
One of the most truly entertaining shows of recent years, Spartacus: Blood And Sand is a blood-soaked boob fest from US cable channel Starz (new home to Torchwood) which mixes the best elements of sandals and swords in a gladiatorial arena.
British born actor James Frain (Prime Suspect, 24) joined the cast of the award winning series True Blood in Season 3, playing the dangerously sexy vampire Franklin.
BBC One’s business entertainment series The Apprentice is back for a seventh series, as a new line-up of corporate contenders face Lord Sugar in the battle for boardroom supremacy. We’ve picked out ten teasing lines from the third episode!
“Cancer is not a gift; cancer is not a passport to a better life.” So says Laura Linney as Cathy, the lead in the US channel Showtime’s new dark sitcom, The Big C. Kinney’s line, in rebuke to some happy-clapping Bible support group members, could also be taken as a rejection of possible preconceptions about this show.
If you grew up any-time between the late sixties and the early nineties, the chances are you may remember a curious clutch of kitsch science fiction shows under the stable of the prolific TV and film producer Irwin Allen. No? Well, how about the names Lost In Space, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea and this release, Land Of The Giants?