Sheridan Smith’s new three-part drama Black Work finally starts this Sunday after heavy trailing from ITV for what seems like an age. Smith plays the tough and feisty Jo Gillespie, a Leeds constable whose husband (also a police officer) is killed whilst he’s undercover. With information regarding the killing being thin on the ground, Jo … >
ITV has released a trailer for Black Work. The new three-part drama stars Sheridan Smith as a policewoman determined to find out why her husband was killed. > Order Black Work on DVD on Amazon. Black Work begins at 9pm on Sunday 21 June on ITV. Watch the trailer… As she battles to stay strong … >
To celebrate FremantleMedia International’s release of BBC One’s recent Jamaica Inn adaptation on DVD on Monday 26 May, we’ve got DVDs to give away to five of our Twitter followers! For a chance to win, just follow @CultBoxTV on Twitter and tweet the following text: Follow @CultBoxTV and RT for a chance to win 5 … >
If you haven’t enjoyed the first two episodes of Jamaica Inn – and one look at a newspaper will give you the hint that a few people fall into that camp – then there’s nothing in the final part that will change your mind. So you may as well go outside and enjoy the fresh … >
Easter’s over. And after a long weekend stuffing yourself with chocolate eggs and lamb you might not be feeling quite yourself. Well, the good news is that you’re not alone: everyone in the second part of Jamaica Inn is struggling with who they are. And it isn’t even Easter there yet. They’re only just having … >
Adapted by Emma Frost (The White Queen), BBC One’s new three-part adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s classic gothic novel Jamaica Inn airs this Easter, starring Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey), Matthew McNulty (The Paradise), Sean Harris (The Borgias) and Shirley Henderson (Southcliffe). Set in 1821 against the forbidding backdrop of windswept Cornish moors, the story … >
In 1930 Daphne Du Maurier stayed at Jamaica Inn in Cornwall. She loved the atmosphere and history of the place so much that she wrote a fictionalised historical novel set there. A whole bloomin’ book about Jamaica Inn. Nowadays the best you get is a sloppily-written rant about the sheets on a certain travel site. … >
The BBC has announced that The Paradise has been recommissioned for a second series.
The second episode of The Paradise builds on the strengths of the first, but without necessarily rectifying its weaknesses.
Does the first episode of The Paradise differentiate itself enough to find its own niche in the already cluttered world of television costume dramas?