Wow. What have we just witnessed? For the next six weeks we’ll be reviewing the sophomore season of BBC One’s least accurately titled drama, Happy Valley. We’re going to assume that you’ve already seen it (the first season was on top of many people’s list of top telly back in 2014), but if you haven’t … >
BBC One has announced that the new season of Happy Valley will begin next month. Sarah Lancashire (Last Tango In Halifax) returns as police sergeant Catherine Cawood for six new episodes, with Katherine Kelly (Mr Selfridge), Julie Hesmondhalgh (Cucumber), Shirley Henderson (Jamaica Inn) and Amelia Bullmore (Scott & Bailey) joining the cast. Season 2 starts … >
BBC One has released a brief trailer for the new season of Happy Valley. Six new episodes of Last Tango in Halifax writer Sally Wainwright’s crime drama began filming in Yorkshire last August. Sarah Lancashire (Last Tango In Halifax) returns as police sergeant Catherine Cawood, with Katherine Kelly (Mr Selfridge), Julie Hesmondhalgh (Cucumber), Shirley Henderson (Jamaica … >
The new season of Happy Valley has started filming this week in Yorkshire. Sarah Lancashire (Last Tango In Halifax) returns as police sergeant Catherine Cawood for six new episodes, with Katherine Kelly (Mr Selfridge), Julie Hesmondhalgh (Cucumber), Shirley Henderson (Jamaica Inn) and Amelia Bullmore (Scott & Bailey) joining the cast. The official synopsis for Season … >
Cucumber stars Julie Hesmondhalgh, Con O’Neill and Vincent Franklin will join Sarah Lancashire in the new season of Happy Valley. Six new episodes of Sally Wainwright’s drama will air on BBC One in 2016. The first season of Happy Valley pulled in a weekly consolidated audience of almost 8 million and an average overnight audience of … >
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. … >