The fifth episode of BBC One’s New Blood opens with a very stylish recapping of last week’s events. The selection of ‘previously…’ moments is intercut with the next stage of the story, which in this case is the shocking massacre of a poor innocent teddy bear collection in the hunt for a missing antique. The … >
Big Finish’s latest set of post-apocalyptic tales based on Terry Nation’s 1970s TV series Survivors takes the action forward two years after the plague, and finds yet more moral and ethical challenges for Greg Preston (Ian McCulloch) and Jenny Richards (Lucy Fleming). As before this is aimed at an adult audience, and is as dark … >
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 … >
With all of the main characters, old and new, highlighted in last week’s dramatic Season 2 opener, this week’s In the Club takes a more central look at Roanna (Hermione Norris) and Diane (Jill Halfpenny) as they deal with their own personal dramas. “I suppose we all have to make choices in life sometimes. We … >
James Nesbitt stars in ITV’s new four-part thriller, The Secret; the true story of a Sunday school teacher and a respectable dentist who formed a murderous partnership. The location: a seaside town in Northern Ireland in 1991. The scene: two bodies in a carbon monoxide filled car. A former nurse Lesley Howell, and a police officer Trevor … >
Unashamedly swaggering back into the Thursday night BBC Two drama slot that still has the cordite smell and police tape of Line of Duty hanging around it, you might think Peaky Blinders has big boots to fill. But Peaky Blinders doesn’t give a fuck about boots. It’s striding in, sitting down, taking off its razor-blade … >
WE ADVISE NOT READING THIS REVIEW UNTIL YOU’VE SEEN THE MOVIE AS IT CONTAINS PLOT SPOILERS. Captain America’s come a long way. Over the course of six movies, Steve Rogers has transformed from a scrawny New Yorker with ambitions to join the army into the world-famous captain of the Avengers, and his meteoric rise in universe … >
Claire Danes delivers another phenomenal performance as Carrie Mathison in the fifth enthralling season of the acclaimed drama Homeland. The game may have changed for Carrie, but this season is as tense and dramatic as ever. > Buy Season 5 on DVD on Amazon. To celebrate the release of The Complete Fifth Season on Blu-ray™ and DVD … >
Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat have revealed that the new season of Sherlock will be the climax of “the story we’ve been telling from the beginning.” Directed by Rachel Talalay (Doctor Who, The Flash), the first of three new feature-length episodes began filming earlier this week. > Here’s everything we know about Season 4 so … >
The cast has been announced for the second season of BBC One’s Ordinary Lies. Filming has begun in Wales on six new episodes of Shameless writer Danny Brocklehurst’s acclaimed drama series from the makers of Happy Valley and Last Tango In Halifax. The first season launched on BBC One in March last year, averaging a … >