The Bridge releases the first scene from series three online

It’s fitting that the 600th post on this site features one of the best of the contemporary Scandinavian crime dramas, certainly one my personal favourites… The Bridge (or Broen if you will). With the third series immiment (in Sweden and Denmark, at least), PR and marketing activity has ramped up significantly over the past few…

The 10 Best Crime Dramas This Week (Monday 31st August – Sunday 6th September)

I write this on a Bank Holiday Monday. A really wet and miserable Bank Holiday Monday at the end of an August that has been pretty rubbish weather-wise. This means only one thing – might as well sit in front of the telly and watch loads of crime drama, which, thankfully, shows no sign of…

Review: Agatha Christie’s Partners In Crime (S1 E6/6), Sunday 30th August, BBC1

Tommy and Tuppence have made little progress with their investigations into a missing weapons scientist – their main suspect has been killed, and now a note has arrived threatening atomic devastation. So is the mysterious ‘N’ actually one of the guests in the Sans Souci hotel?

Review: Ripper Street (S3 E5/8), Friday 28th August, BBC1

Susan having shot Reid and killed Capshaw to cover her own crimes, she now nurses Reid who hovers between life and death as Whitechapel goes to hell. We always had the feeling that Reid would at some stage get written out of the series, so with his daughter now saved, we were a bit surprised that…

Interview: Amanda Redman, The Trials Of Jimmy Rose

Amanda Redman is one of our most consistent and best-known actresses, and she’s certainly no stranger to crime drama after starring in New Tricks for so long. But in ITV’s new three-part drama The Trials Of Jimmy Rose, which starts this Sunday (30th August), she plays a very different role – the wife of an…

Interview: Ray Winstone, The Trials Of Jimmy Rose

This Sunday (30th August), UK viewers will be treated to a new three part series that stars the great Ray Winstone and Amanda Redman – the first time the pair have appeared onscreen together since the cult 2000 film Sexy Beast. It tells the story of an armed robber who has spent more time in…

BBC4 confirms The Bridge, Arne Dahl to return this autumn; Beck to air for the first time

There has been much activity up in Edinburgh at the annual TV festival during these past few days but even though the likes of Martin Freeman and Armando Iannucci were giving good seminar, I’ve had my eye on one man and one man only – BBC4 Contoller, Cassian Harrison. I’ve known for the past few…

Review: Hannibal (S3 E12/13), Wednesday 26th August, Sky Living

Though Will Graham’s family have escaped death at the hands of the Red Dragon, the deranged killer is still a threat, all the more because he has become the pawn of an even greater force, Hannibal; Francis Dolarhyde has become Hannibal’s ‘agency in the world’. With Hannibal unwilling to reveal what he knows of Dolarhyde –…

Review: Witnesses (S1 E6/6), Wednesday 26th August, Channel 4

Within the blink of an eye, this excellent French series found itself at its conclusion – five episodes of fast-moving, multi-layered police procedural with two intriguing characters at its heart had left me breathless, and desperate to find out who was behind the murders of four men. There was lots to tie up and not a…

Hans Rosenfeldt AMA highlights: Definitely no Martin Rohde, open to more series, new English-subtitle trailer

It really feels like the third series of The Bridge – Broen III – is around the corner, if only because the PR activity has really ramped up. We’ve had images, trailers and now, on Saturday, showrunner Hans Rosenfeldt took to Facebook to hold an AMA with fans of the show. As ever with these…

Review: Agatha Christie’s Partners In Crime (S1 E5/6), Sunday 23rd August, BBC1

With nuclear scientist Worthing missing, “partners in crime” Tommy and Tuppence are investigating his boarding house which is stuffed with sinister characters. Tuppence has been caught by the smooth Major Khan, who forces her to admit that she’s a spy – what was her plan exactly if he was the Russian agent ‘N’? But he says…

The 10 Best Crime Dramas This Week (Monday 24th August – Sunday 30th August)

Blimey, when is there a quiet week in the world of crime drama? Judging by this summer, never. We’ve had a plethora of new stuff over the past few months – during a traditionally quiet time in TV land – and the fun is set to continue this week. There are three new series this…