John McKay introduces ‘We’ll Take Manhattan’
Written and directed by John McKay (Life On Mars, Robin Hood), We’ll Take Manhattan stars Karen Gillan in her first lead role since starring as Amy Pond in Doctor Who.
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Written and directed by John McKay (Life On Mars, Robin Hood), We’ll Take Manhattan stars Karen Gillan in her first lead role since starring as Amy Pond in Doctor Who.
Following the huge success of the original cult Danish crime series Forbrydelsen, fans were rightly suspicious of Veena Sud’s American remake.
The Slap, an eight-part drama adapted from the novel of the same name by Christos Tsiolkas, explores the intriguing notion that a seemingly harmless moment can have devastating repercussions.
Based on the best-selling novel by Christos Tsiolkas, BBC Four has acquired the rights to The Slap, a new eight-part Australian drama series.
European police procedurals are very much in vogue at the moment following the surprise success of Denmark’s The Killing, but where this Paris-set series suffers somewhat from a surfeit of characters and plot lines.
It may seem like sacrilege to some devotees of the late author, but not everything Douglas Adams produced was of the high quality as witnessed in the earlier instalments of The Hitch Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.
After six scintillating Saturdays’ worth of murder, mayhem and malheur, French crime drama Spiral concludes with a double-bill that untangles the criss-crossing cat’s cradle of storylines and brings the series to a grim but gripping conclusion.
In the concluding double-bill of the bleak, bloody and brilliant French crime drama, Captain Laure Berthaud and her team are closing in on Ronaldo Fuentes; but will Vincent Brémont and his Crime Squad help or hinder the CID’s progress?
‘Three years in Seine-Saint-Denis would make any policeman corrupt,’ says Crime Squad Superintendent Brémont (Bruno Debrant) in this week’s double-episode of police drama Spiral, but it’s highly unlikely it takes anyone in the French justice system that long.
Despite a profound inability to work together without breaking the law, making horrendous cock-ups or screaming at each other, Captain Laure Berthaud (Caroline Proust) and her CID team finally start making some progress in their pursuit of the titular killer this week.