‘Happy Valley’ Season 2 start date confirmed

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 … >

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Watch first teaser for ‘Happy Valley’ Season 2

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 … >

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‘Happy Valley’ story hints revealed for second season

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 … >

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‘Cucumber’ stars join ‘Happy Valley’ cast for Season 2

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 … >

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‘Cucumber’ Episode 8 review

And so we come to the final episode of Cucumber: the one which, following the events of Episode 7, didn’t seem strictly necessary. Was it worth it? No, but we’ll come to that later. Before that, there is the matter of Henry’s attempts at social engineering, and the fact that – having clearly read too … >

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‘Cucumber’ episode guide

Queer as Folk writer Russell T Davies returns to Channel 4 with Cucumber, a new drama series exploring the passions and pitfalls of 21st century gay life. > Order Cucumber on DVD on Amazon. Cucumber follows 46 year old Henry, played by Vincent Franklin (The Thick of It, Twenty Twelve) and his long-suffering boyfriend Lance, … >

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‘Cucumber’ Episode 7 review

In this penultimate episode of Cucumber, Russell T Davies doesn’t give us what we expect. There’s no knock at the door for Henry or Marie – no sudden, shocked bewilderment at news only half-comprehended. Instead, the action begins on the day of Lance’s funeral and we follow Henry going through the motions of thanking guests … >

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‘Cucumber’ Episode 6 review

Well, you can’t say we weren’t warned. In the opening sequence of this episode, the caption clearly reads, ‘Lance Edward Sullivan, 1966 – 2015’. There was the possibility that this could have been a piece of Russell T Davies misdirection, in the spirit of Rose Tyler’s ‘This is the story of how I died’. But … >

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‘Cucumber’ Episode 5 review

‘I hate gay men,’ said Henry (Vincent Franklin) in Cucumber’s opening episode last month. ‘It’s all ‘Hi!’ and ‘Oh my God! Look at you!’’ It was the kind of comment that was all whipped cream with knives: the kind of frothy acerbity which – following on from a titillatingly phallic opening sequence – wolfishly opened … >

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‘Cucumber’ Episode 4 review

Finally, after years spent traversing the space-time vortex, Russell T Davies gets to write a scene of two men, sat at a table, talking about relationships. As Henry (Vincent Franklin) opens up to newcomer Leigh (Phaldut Sharma) about his fears of sex and fears of men, the character visibly softens, beginning the journey perhaps towards … >

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