‘Shirley’ review
Bolstered by a wonderful soundtrack and a fine recreation of the smoky clubs and hostile theatres of the late fifties and early sixties, Shirley is a compelling story of a contradictory star.
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Bolstered by a wonderful soundtrack and a fine recreation of the smoky clubs and hostile theatres of the late fifties and early sixties, Shirley is a compelling story of a contradictory star.
From the pen of acclaimed crime writer Anthony Horowitz (Foyle’s War, Collision) comes this sleek five-part psychological legal thriller, broadcast across one week on ITV1 earlier this year.
Misfits actress Ruth Negga and Scott & Bailey star Lesley Sharp will head the cast of BBC Two’s new one-off drama about the life of singer Dame Shirley Bassey.
After five nights of misleading flashbacks, misremembered evidence and mystifyingly un-barrister-like behaviour, the verdict is in on Anthony Horowitz’s suffocation-in-Suffolk psychodrama.
In the final part of Anthony Horowitz’s ITV1 thriller, the trial of Martin Newall opens; but can Will Travers save his old friend from prison before DI Mark Wenborn establishes beyond all doubt that the barrister killed his former client Philip Spaull?
In the penultimate part of Anthony Horowitz’s ITV1 thriller, DS Taylor becomes more and more concerned about DI Wenborn’s attitude but his superior’s cavalier approach leads them to the supplier of the gun used to kill Philip Spaull.
In the third part of Anthony Horowitz’s ITV1 thriller, DI Wenborn learns the connection between Will Travers and the murdered Philip Spaull – but will the policeman’s personal problems have a bearing on his investigation?
In the second part of Anthony Horowitz’s ITV1 thriller, barrister Will Travers meets his former university friend Martin Newall and agrees to take on his case – in spite of the weight of evidence against him.
Any drama serial being broadcast over five consecutive nights has to work very hard to hook the viewer immediately and maintain a decent level of either excitement, intrigue or both from the opening credits onwards.