Having established a familiar yet different status quo in Season 4’s two-part opening story, it was back to business for Ripper Street in this solid second episode. ‘Some Conscience Lost’ won’t go down as a classic, but it’s an assured outing that takes the traditional case-of-the-week formula from previous seasons and adds considerable complexity to … >
Emilia Fox returns to BBC One as Forensic Pathologist Dr. Nikki Alexander for a new season of long-running crime drama Silent Witness. Nikki is joined by Forensic Scientist Jack Hodgson (David Caves), Forensic Lab Scientist Clarissa Mullery (Liz Carr) and Forensic Pathologist Dr. Thomas Chamberlain (Richard Lintern). > Buy Season 18 on DVD on Amazon. … >
And we’re off! In true Silent Witness style this latest two-part story gets off to an impressively violent start when ex-con David Sellars is found murdered in his flat. It’s a rather energetic and vicious stabbing with significant wounds made to David’s face and which thrusts the Lyell team into the murky world of released … >
A few weeks into the latest season of BBC One’s Death in Paradise and DI Humphrey Goodman (Kris Marshall) and the Honore police team are called in to investigate the death of a runway model, who is killed during a fashion show where everyone appears to have a cast iron alibi. “Can you think of … >
Douglas Henshall is back as DI Jimmy Perez and looks set for another thrilling season of crime drama in BBC One’s adaptation of Ann Cleeves’ novels. Taking on a new case following a few weeks break on the mainland, before he has even sat at his desk Jimmy finds himself in amongst it again. A … >
Having made the transition to Amazon Prime in supremely confident style with its third season, the grim and gritty Whitechapel drama is back for a fourth run. Clocking in at a mammoth, movie-length 130 minutes, this double-bill opener starts off on very shaky ground. The central characters start the season off in vastly different situations, … >
Following on from last week’s Season 5 opener, we return to Saint Marie where the retiring Governer of the island is maliciously poisoned at her own leaving party with cyanide, with the only person to have been in contact with her is the Commissioner himself. “I don’t suppose you know what Governer Bamber was drinking?” … >
I expect the Midsomer Constabulary scores very highly in the police performance charts, given the ‘always get their man’ attitude that has prevailed there for nearly twenty years. But the force’s zero tolerance policy towards unsolved murders has not always been so rigidly followed – and ‘The Incident at Cooper Hill’ revolves around a murder … >
It’s a politically charged outing this week as the Lyell team investigate the murder of Amir Aziz, a Muslim man with a strong connection to the community. Before the main thread of the story begins we’re taken to Bosnia, in 1995, where a young Sarah Begovic witnesses the murder of her father. It’s a harrowing … >
Crime drama Endeavour is back for a third season. Evans (The Last Weekend) returns as the young Detective Constable Endeavour Morse in four new 120-minute films, but which familiar faces are set to return after the shocking and tragic events at the end of Season 2? > Buy the complete Season 1-2 box set on … >