Politicians. When they’re not looking like grey and greasy clones of themselves on 24-hour news channels, or being phone-hacked while trying to claim oxygen as an expense, they’re generally busy just being cardboard excuses for people in suits. But in the constituency of TV, where policies don’t matter, political figures are far more attractive. Even … >
Back in the days when Children’s ITV was good – when it actually existed – there were periods when its output equalled and even surpassed that of its BBC rival.
The BBC have released new details of what to expect from the second series of BBC Two’s The Hour, which began filming in London this week.
The BBC have announced that Peter Capaldi, Hannah Tointon and Tom Burke will join the cast of BBC Two’s The Hour for its second series.
If the opening instalment of this likeable adaptation of Denise Mina’s novel overdid the ‘80s retro and the Raintown-esque Glaswegian backdrops, the concluding part matches the wistful nostalgia with dark good humour and a seedy, side-street splendour.
In the concluding part of the drama adapted from Denise Mina’s novel, Paddy Meehan delves deeper into the past to try and find a connection between the deaths of Brian Wilcox and Thomas Dempsey.
Written and directed by David Kane from the novel by Denise Mina, The Field of Blood is a thriller so smothered in nicotinic, 1980s nostalgia it could almost be called ‘Fag-ashes to Fag-ashes’.
Based on a bestselling book of the same name by Kate Summerscale, ITV1’s The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher recounts the true story of a tragic murder in a Victorian household in Wiltshire.