In a 2007 interview, Scream franchise director Wes Craven said, ‘Horror is very close to comedy. It’s a lot of talking about the forbidden in a way that is entertaining and the timing is very similar.’
From the pen of acclaimed crime writer Anthony Horowitz (Foyle’s War, Collision) comes this sleek five-part psychological legal thriller, broadcast across one week on ITV1 earlier this year.
Shooting has begun on the eighth and final series of BBC One con drama Hustle, with guest stars set to include former EastEnders and Spandau Ballet star Martin Kemp.
A group photo of all the dwarves from Peter Jackson’s upcoming The Hobbit movies has been released, featuring Aidan Turner (Being Human) and Richard Armitage (Spooks) in costume.
Nobody ever said that cop shows had to be realistic to be effective. Okay, they did, and in some cases they were almost certainly right, but the maxim doesn’t apply to BBC One’s Luther.
It’s difficult to imagine how a Doctor Who story inspired by Terry Gilliam’s Brazil and J.G. Ballard’s High Rise could possibly work in the over-lit, under-financed confines of the BBC during the 1980s. It should come as no surprise, then, that it doesn’t.
Idris Elba reprises his role as DCI John Luther, the near-genius murder detective, in a new four-part series of Luther on BBC One this summer.
After five nights of misleading flashbacks, misremembered evidence and mystifyingly un-barrister-like behaviour, the verdict is in on Anthony Horowitz’s suffocation-in-Suffolk psychodrama.
Set amidst the iconic landscapes of modern Edinburgh, new BBC One crime drama Case Histories brings Kate Atkinson’s novels to screen, starring Jason Isaacs as former soldier and policeman Jackson Brodie.
In the penultimate part of Anthony Horowitz’s ITV1 thriller, DS Taylor becomes more and more concerned about DI Wenborn’s attitude but his superior’s cavalier approach leads them to the supplier of the gun used to kill Philip Spaull.