‘Downton Abbey’: Series 2 preview
Never have I had more of a sense of ‘born in the wrong time’ than I have when stood in the frankly majestic halls of Highclere Castle, better known as Downton Abbey.
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Never have I had more of a sense of ‘born in the wrong time’ than I have when stood in the frankly majestic halls of Highclere Castle, better known as Downton Abbey.
Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman and her unconventional team of ex-detectives are back on BBC One next month for an eighth series of New Tricks.
‘Torchwood located,’ C. Thomas Howell’s nameless assassin announces at the beginning of ‘Escape to L.A.’ – and although, of course, he’s talking about the newly-formed team, he could equally be referring to the show itself.
Filming has now begun on the sixth series of E4’s teen drama Skins in Bristol.
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.
In the fifth instalment of BBC Two’s thriller series, Peter Glickman is finally tracked down by Gatehouse, but the runaway moneyman has a surprise in store for his ruthless pursuer.
ITV1’s new female-led detective series, starring Suranne Jones and Lesley Sharp as Rachel Bailey and Janet Scott, detective constables in the Manchester Metropolitan police, promises a great deal but – on the evidence of this opening hour, at least – delivers very little.
BBC One’s international Emmy Award-winning cold cases crime drama Waking The Dead returns for a ninth and final series next month.
Coming to ITV1 in March, Monroe is a new six-part medical drama series from writer Peter Bowker (Occupation, Desperate Romantics), starring James Nesbitt, Sarah Parish and Tom Riley.
Starring Rupert Penry-Jones (Spooks) and Maxine Peake (Shameless), BBC One’s new legal drama Silk follows the lives, loves and hard cases facing barristers on the front line of criminal law.