Across eight instalments last year, from March to May, the nation was gripped with the mystery surrounded the murder of eleven year old Danny Latimer. Delivering a slow burn and achieving rare ‘appointment TV’ status, the drama kept us guessing right up until the end when 9 million viewers tuned in for the finale. Working … >
Maybe it’s joke fatigue – the audience’s funnybones worn down by a lathe of relentless puns – but it tends to be the case with A Touch of Cloth that the second half feels a little less punchy and fresh than the first. It happened in Series 1, it happened more so in Series 2 … >
The new series of New Tricks will begin later this month. The crime drama’s 10-part eleventh series starts at 9pm on Monday 18 August on BBC One. Episode 1 sees Gerry Standing’s youngest daughter getting married to a solicitor, while newly divorced Sasha Miller is forced to work with her ex-husband, DAC Ned Hancock and … >
A second series of Swedish crime drama Arne Dahl will begin filming soon. Based on the crime novels of Jan Arnald, Arne Dahl‘s ten-part first series began airing in the UK on BBC Four last April. > Buy Series 1 on DVD on Amazon. Series 2 will comprise of ten one-hour episodes and will air … >
The producer of New Tricks has revealed that Tamzin Outhwaite’s character “brings something slightly different to the dynamic” in the crime drama’s new series. New Tricks returns to BBC One later this month for a 10-part eleventh series. EastEnders star Tamzin Outhwaite was introduced as DCI Sasha Miller at the end of Series 10, joining … >
Well if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, and no one’s taken the tool-kit to A Touch of Cloth. Charlie Brooker and Daniel Maier’s police procedural parody once more turns your television into a Naked Gun of puns and fires relentlessly at your face until you bleed laughter or your sense of humour is shot … >
A creative collaboration between Erin Kelly and the show’s creator Chris Chibnall, Broadchurch: The Official Novel is published on Thursday 14 August by Little Brown, priced £7.99. > Read our review. To celebrate , we’ve got copies of the book to give away to five of our Twitter followers! For a chance to win, just … >
If you’ve ever read Alan Partridge’s autobiography ‘I, Partridge’, you’ll remember the chapter where he details his detective series, ‘Swallow’. It’s a morass of cop cliches and odd ideas; a police procedural from the Monkey Tennis mind. BBC One’s pilot for the police comedy drama Walter seems to have come from the same place, but … >
Charlie Brooker’s crime drama spoof A Touch of Cloth returns for a third and final series next month. Starring John Hannah as DCI Jack Cloth and Suranne Jones as DI Anne Oldman, A Touch of Cloth III: Too Cloth for Comfort airs at 9pm on Saturday 9 August and 9pm on Sunday 10 August on … >
BBC Two has released the first trailer for the new series of crime drama The Fall. The X-Files star Gillian Anderson returns as Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson, alongside Jamie Dornan as serial killer Paul Spector, for a six-part second series later this summer. Watch the trailer… The story picks up immediately from where Series 1 … >