Tag: Jeremy Swift

‘Inspector George Gently’ guest stars announced for Series 8

Downton Abbey actress Lesley Nicol will guest star in the new series of Inspector George Gently. Four new feature-length films are currently being filmed in Durham and the North East, starring Martin Shaw as Gently and Lee Ingleby (Our Zoo) as Bacchus. Episode 1, ‘Do Not Go Gently’, sees Gently investigating a rape of a … >

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Rewind: ‘The Smoking Room’ revisited

In all likelihood, there is no way that BBC Three’s short-lived and quietly hilarious sitcom The Smoking Room will ever make a comeback. Can you imagine a whole show based around smoking being commissioned these days? It’s been barely a decade since the show ran, and it managed to catch the very tail end of … >

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