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.
Suranne Jones (A Touch of Cloth) and Lesley Sharp (Starlings) return to ITV as crime-fighting duo Scott and Bailey for a third series.
The second episode of Doctor Who’s new run pulled in a respectable 5.5m (28.8%) viewers on Saturday, but was slightly down on the previous weekend’s opening episode.
Stressed out looking after the kids during the Easter school holidays and need some quality viewing to unwind with in the evenings?
We’ve got bundles of the latest BBC TV boxsets (including Silent Witness Series 15-16, Ripper Street, Yes Prime Minister, Call the Midwife Series 2, Heading Out and Death in Paradise Series 2) to give away to two of our Twitter followers!