BBC Four’s imported French police drama Spiral reaches the halfway point of its third season this week, maintaining its ability to disturb and distress but never disappoint with its unstinting gore and unending bleakness.
As guiltily enthralling as your neighbours having a screaming row in their back garden, unaware that you’re peeking through a hole in the fence, BBC Four’s French police drama series Spiral is not exactly enjoyable; it’s hard to even define it as entertaining. Yet once you start watching, it’s increasingly difficult to stop.
The actual title of Spiral, BBC Four’s imported French police drama, is Engrenages, which literally translates as ‘cogs’ or ‘gears’ – and if your stomach can stand the gore and your heart can stand the shocks, watching the show will give your own cogs and gears as thorough a grinding as they’ve had since the climax of The Killing.
Misfits creator Howard Overman’s Dirk Gently drama will return to BBC Four next year for three 60-minute episodes.
Danish crime drama The Killing and French police series Spiral will both return to BBC Four later this year, the channel has announced.
Theo James, star of Sky Living’s supernatural drama Bedlam, will join Maxine Peake (Shameless, Silk) and Matthew McNulty (Misfits, Five Days) in BBC Four’s new adaptation of Room At The Top.
New one-off BBC Four drama We’ll Take Manhattan, starring Doctor Who‘s Karen Gillan, is “an intimate love story that plays out against the backdrop of Britain on the cusp of huge social and cultural change”, says the executive producer.
Doctor Who star Karen Gillan has been cast in a new one-off drama for BBC Four. We’ll Take Manhattan will explores the explosive love affair between photographer David Bailey and 1960s supermodel Jean Shrimpton.
Women In Love, a two-part dramatisation of the D.H. Lawrence novels Women In Love and The Rainbow, traces the complex lives of two sexually-liberated sisters living in the early years of the twentieth century.
A new clip has been released from BBC Four’s upcoming adaptation of Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gentlly by Misfits writer Howard Overman.