You probably can’t tell because there aren’t two halves of two corpses lying across the fourth paragraph of this review, but we’re at the halfway point of Sky Atlantic’s continental murder marathon. The homicide hump.
Director Paul Greengrass (Green Zone, The Bourne Supremacy) has a habit of making movies that blend his documentary-maker’s sensibilities with his interest in the political situations of the day, leading to films that are both intelligent and unique twists on the action/thriller norms.
Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman and her unconventional team of ex-detectives are back on BBC One for a tenth series of New Tricks.
Tony Basgallop is a talented man. And a cruel writer. Indeed, we might never forgive him for luring us into his dramatic attic three Sundays ago. Because as we’ve been stumbling through the shadows trying to guess the murderer, he’s been busy sharpening his final script into an arrowhead; all so he can fire it right into our heart.
BBC One’s new four-part whodunit, What Remains, concludes next weekend, starring David Threlfall in his first role since Frank Gallagher in Shameless.
“Feminism always gets associated with being a radical movement – good. It should be.” So said Canadian actress Ellen Page in a recent Guardian interview, and now another spiky actress, Sherlock’s Louise Brealey, throws her fist in the air with her first play, Pope Joan.
The White Queen, a ten-part adaptation of Phillipa Gregory‘s historical novel series, The Cousin’s War, airs on BBC One this summer.
Max Beesley, Philip Glenister, John Simm and Marc Warren return to Sky1 for a third series of Mad Dogs.
From award-winning science fiction writer Alastair Reynolds, Harvest of Time is published by BBC Books on 6 June (£16.99 hardback), featuring the Third Doctor. JT Colgan’s Dark Horizons (£12.99 hardback) is also out now.
The perfect gifts for Father’s Day, we’ve got sets of both books to give away to three of our Twitter followers!
‘Last of the Gaderene’ represents the Third Doctor adventure in BBC Books’ Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Collection. Written by Mark Gatiss in 2000, before his career as a screenwriter for the new series, it remains his most recent Who story in prose.