‘Stonemouth’ trailer: BBC Two’s new Iain Banks adaptation

BBC Two has released a trailer for Stonemouth, a new romantic mystery based on Iain Banks’ best-selling novel. The first TV adaptation of Banks’ work since his death in 2013, the two-part drama is written by David Kane (Shetland) and stars Peter Mullan, Christian Cooke and Charlotte Spencer. Stonemouth begins at 9pm on Thursday 11 … >

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‘Shetland’ will return for Series 3

BBC One has recommissioned Scottish crime drama Shetland for a third series. Starring Douglas Henshall as DI Jimmy Perez, Shetland is adapted from Ann Cleeves’s successful Shetland quartet crime novels and will return six new 60-minute episodes. Christopher Aird, BBC Head of Drama Production Scotland, commented: “Shetland is a really distinctive crime series that has … >

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‘Shetland’ review

Shetland has a high bar to leap given the TV crime competition lately, especially the previous week’s Mayday and of course ITV’s epic Broadchurch.

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