‘Scott & Bailey’ creator: Series 2 is ‘quite a lot darker’
Writer Sally Wainwright has revealed that the second series of ITV1’s Scott & Bailey launches with “probably one of the darkest stories we’ve ever told”.
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Writer Sally Wainwright has revealed that the second series of ITV1’s Scott & Bailey launches with “probably one of the darkest stories we’ve ever told”.
Bolstered by a wonderful soundtrack and a fine recreation of the smoky clubs and hostile theatres of the late fifties and early sixties, Shirley is a compelling story of a contradictory star.
Misfits actress Ruth Negga and Scott & Bailey star Lesley Sharp will head the cast of BBC Two’s new one-off drama about the life of singer Dame Shirley Bassey.
ITV1 have announced that Suranne Jones and Lesley Sharp will reunite for a second series of police drama Scott & Bailey, to be shown on the channel next year.
BBC Two’s recent The Shadow Line is a serial sodden with blood: seven hours of claret-splattered, frequently flamboyant, occasionally preposterous and completely compulsive television.
A complete and unexpurgated knowledge of the truth is what DI Jonah Gabriel (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and the viewers who have followed his exploits through every twist and bloodstained turn of this expansive, intricately-plotted thriller deserve; and happily, it’s precisely what they get.
Christopher Eccleston and Chiwetel Ejiofor star in Hugo Blick’s seven-part conspiracy thriller The Shadow Line, coming to BBC Two in May, which delves into the heart of human morality.
After several weeks of soul-searching and self-doubt, DI Jonah Gabriel (Chiwetel Ejiofor) finally establishes which side of the line he was on before being shot in the head – and who his real enemies are.
Over the course of its first four episodes, The Shadow Line has matured from an overwrought, rather confused melodrama plagued with florid verbosity into one of the BBC’s best thrillers in a very long time. In the fifth instalment, it gets even better.
BBC Two’s increasingly fascinating police drama reaches and passes its halfway stage in this episode, yet neither DI Jonah Gabriel (Chiwetel Ejiofor) nor Joseph Bede (Christopher Eccleston) appear much closer to accomplishing their respective goals than they were in the hours after the death of gangster Harvey Wratten.