Steven Knight’s raucous tale of the SAS in World War II returns soon. The BBC have released a batch of images from series two of SAS Rogue Heroes. The new six-part run of the bombastic show, originally inspired by Ben Macintyre’s best-seller, returns us the action in the Spring of 1943. SAS Rogue Heroes first … >
Channel 4 have set a date for The Great season 3 – it returns on Monday, 8th July, having dropped stateside on Hulu in May. The show is an alternative historical satire which based on the life of Catherine the Great of Russia. Elle Fanning stars as Catherine, with Nicholas Hoult as her husband Emperor … >
Steven Knight’s rollicking tale of the SAS continues with new Rogue Heroes joining the story for series 2 SAS Rogue Heroes made a significant splash when it landed on BBC One last year. After drawing impressive audience figures, including over 9 million viewers for its first episode, the show was swiftly recommissioned for a second … >
Channel 4’s The Great series 1 is a ten-part comedy drama coming on Sunday January 3 at 9pm As Channel 4’s press release puts it: The Great is a satirical, comedic drama about the rise of Catherine the Great from outsider to the longest reigning female ruler in Russia’s history. It’s a modern love story that … >
There was a time when a lock-in at the local pub was something of a treat. But things change. All-day drinking has taken away the nefarious excitement; and when the lock-in is not with other likeminded extracurricular drinkers, but with the murderous landlord now revealed as your long-since adopted son, that’s also likely to take … >
Neil Dudgeon and Gwilym Lee are back for an extended run of six feature-length Midsomer Murders mysteries. Body snatching, UFO spotting and an international cycle race are just some of the weird and wonderful worlds that DCI John Barnaby and DS Charlie Nelson are immersed in for the long-running drama’s eighteenth season. Barnaby and Nelson … >
If anybody wanted to devise a Midsomer Murders drinking game then ‘disgruntled villagers’ should certainly be one cue to take a sip. Last week they were moaning about the sculpture park, this week it’s archaeologists. ‘Saints and Sinners’ starts with the discovery of a skeleton in the ground. It’s not the first body ever to … >
It struck me during ‘A Dying Art’ that it would save an awful lot of trouble if they employed more than two policemen at the Causton constabulary. Most other crime dramas would leave a police liaison officer with the grieving relatives of the murder victim – partly as a point of contact, but also because … >
This week’s Midsomer Murders is set against a backdrop of competitive cycling. With its mix of dodgy-dealings, infidelities and of course murders, ‘Breaking the Chain’ presents a far more dramatic view of the sport than we ever see in the real world. (Well, apart from that huge doping scandal a few years back.) Unfortunately – … >
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 … >