Lewis will not be returning after the current season’s finale airs. Starring Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox, the Inspector Morse spin-off launched in January 2006 and the show’s ninth season concludes at 9pm on Tuesday 10 November on ITV with the second part of ‘What Lies Tangled’. > Buy the complete Season 1-8 boxset on … >
Two thirds of the way through the series, BBC One’s River is holding its own in the drama stakes, as it strikes a near perfect balance between the conflicted mental state of our main protagonist and the investigation into his police partner’s death. Unlike previous instalments, where there has been a third police related plot … >
Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar star as detectives investigating a ‘cold’ murder case of 39 years ago in Unforgotten. The cast of ITV’s new six-part crime drama also includes Trevor Eve (Waking the Dead), Bernard Hill (Wolf Hall), Ruth Sheen (Our Girl), Tom Courtenay (Little Dorrit), Gemma Jones (Bridget Jones’s Diary), Brian Bovell (Death in … >
If you subscribe to the old adage of not speaking ill of the dead, then part one of ‘What Lies Tangled’ may not be for you. Its unusually long opening montage ends with the explosive death of one Professor Adam Capstone and almost before the good folk of the Oxfordshire Constabulary Pathology department have picked … >
Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox are back for a new season of Lewis. Six new episodes of the long-running crime drama will see Whately and Fox reprising their roles as Detectives Robbie Lewis and James Hathaway, alongside Angela Griffin (Mount Pleasant) as Detective Sergeant Lizzie Maddox. > Buy the complete Season 1-8 boxset on Amazon. … >
‘It’s like trying to grab hold of fog!” These are the words of DI Cassie Stuart (Nicola Walker) to DS Khan (Sanjeev Bhaskar) after yet another frustrating interview with one of the gang of four suspects. She may be frustrated by the poor memories of informants recalling events of nearly 30 years ago, but the … >
With the main plot points of BBC One’s River explained and explored over the first couple of episodes, the object of focus becomes the life (and death) of the title character’s ex police partner, Stevie (Nicola Walker) and the secrets that she left behind, that River is slowly beginning to uncover. With last week’s revelations … >
Full marks to Angela Griffin as DS Maddox when she almost gets away with the line, “It says here under occupation he was a Practicing Alchemist” in the concluding part of ‘Magnum Opus’. Despite the absurdity of the comment she gives it the same lightness of touch that less convoluted police dramas would give to … >
A set of new promotional photos for BBC One’s new police drama Cuffs has been released. Starring Amanda Abbington (Sherlock) and Ashley Walters (Top Boy), the eight-part series was filmed on location in Brighton, Shoreham-by-Sea and surrounding areas this summer. Written by Julie Gearey (Prisoners’ Wives, Secret Diary Of A Call Girl), Cuffs begins at … >
Brighton is a city that is difficult to get a bead on. It’s either the unkempt town notoriously savaged by a ‘Sun Says’ column a few years back, or it’s the cheerful, brightly coloured party trick beloved of hen parties and misfits. Most of the time, of course, it’s both at the same time. So … >