Counsels writers Bryan Elsley and Gillian McCormack

Counsels – BBC commissions new Glasgow legal drama

Counsels follows five young lawyers who find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow. The BBC has commissioned a new high-stakes legal drama, from Scottish writers Bryan Elsley (Skins) and Gillian McCormack. Set and filmed in and around Glasgow, Counsels comes from producers Balloon Scotland (Clique) and will air on BBC One. Here’s … >

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Lockerbie: A Search for Truth

Lockerbie: A Search for Truth – full trailer

Colin Firth & Catherine McCormack play Jim and Jane Swire.  Updated 11/12/24: Full trailer released. With the impactful series set to be one of the first major dramas of the year, Sky have released a full trailer for Lockerbie – A Search for Truth. The two minute promo focusses on Jim Swire (Colin Firth) and … >

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Colin Firth

Lockerbie – Colin Firth to lead the Sky & Peacock limited series

The show examines the 1988 Lockerbie disaster and the subsequent search for justice.  Sky have announced the casting of Colin Firth (Operation Mincemeat) in their upcoming five-part dramatization of the Lockerbie disaster. The series draws on the book The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice by Jim Swire and Peter Biddulph. It tells the … >

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Vigil Series 2 - Amy Silva (Suranne Jones), Kirsten Longacre (Rose Leslie)

Vigil – BBC reveals first look images for Series 2

The show swaps its submarine setting for a weapons testing site and the closed ranks of the RAF.  After its highly successful first series in 2021, Tom Edge’s Vigil was an unsurprising recommission for the BBC. In addition to attracting over 13 million viewers for its launch, it scooped up an international Emmy and a … >

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