Production begins on BritBox thriller, Crime The thriller adapted from the best-selling novel by Irvine Welsh, begins production this week in Edinburgh and Glasgow for a duration of twelve weeks. Marking Welsh’s first adaptation for television, Crime will be exclusive to BritBox and will be available to subscribers in the latter half of 2021. It … >
Just over a year since it was greenlit, ITV has released the first trailer for the upcoming Unforgotten series three. The show returns to our screens in July – with ITV now confirming a July 15th start, at 9pm – and here’s the trailer… March 2017 ITV has announced the commission of a third season of Unforgotten. … >
Rellik‘s proving to be the kind of competent, grimace-to-the-drizzle, crime drama that the BBC’s been doing well for decades, but the longer it goes on the more it exposes its biggest problem: time. And I’m not talking about the scheduling – although it’s being well-beaten by its 9pm rival, Liar, over on ITV – nor … >
Filming has started on the next season of ITV’s Inspector Morse prequel series Endeavour in and around Oxford and the South East. The popular detective drama will return in 2018 with an extended run of six new feature-length films. Previous seasons have comprised four stories. Shaun Evans will be back as the recently promoted Detective Sergeant Endeavour Morse, alongside Roger … >
Filming has begun on the next season Shetland on location in Shetland, Glasgow and Norway. Douglas Henshall, Alison O’Donnell, Steven Robertson, Mark Bonnar and Julie Graham will all be back in the six new episodes. Adapted from Ann Cleeves celebrated novels, Shetland launched on BBC One in March 2013. Henshall returns as DI Jimmy Perez, with new … >
A lot was riding on this final instalment of Broadchurch Season 3, from resolving the particular storyline at hand – the assault on Trish Winterman, the investigation into which has dominated the series since its opening story – to giving a satisfying sense of finality to the overall arc of the programme as a whole, … >
ITV Encore’s new female-led crime thriller has begun filming in Bolton and the North West. Described as “a dark and compelling thriller with a tortured female detective at its heart”, Bancroft will “explore what happens when heinous crimes, long buried, come back to haunt us.” The four-part series is created and written by Kate Brooke (Mr Selfridge, … >
Rowan Atkinson returns to ITV as legendary French fictional detective Jules Maigret in a new Maigret mystery this Easter. Adapted by Stewart Harcourt from Georges Simenon’s story, ‘Night At The Crossroads’ also stars Aiden McCardle (Mr Selfridge), Shaun Dingwall (Death In Paradise), Lucy Cohu (Broadchurch) and Leo Starr (Lewis). Buy ITV’s first two Maigret adaptations on DVD here. Solving the … >
The fact that Mark Latimer turns out to be alive after all, after the high drama ending of last week… isn’t actually a disappointment, somewhat to my surprise. Plenty of suicide plans don’t come off, for one thing, so there is a certain bathetic realism to it in that respect, but perhaps more importantly the … >
Having been a little underwhelming in recent weeks, this week’s Prime Suspect 1973 finale thankfully gives the show a good send-off. We pick up where we left off, reprising last week’s explosive climax to the accompaniment of Tubular Bells; and where we might have anticipated drawn out scenes of bedside vigils, to the beep-beep accompaniment … >