The Killing Times’ Euro 2016 Of Crime Drama: Trapped (Iceland) v The Fall (Northern Ireland)

We’re starting the last round of group matches today (hurrah!) and to kick off there’s a huge game in Group A, which will decide who goes into the quarter-finals. Spiral has already booked its place, but who will come second? It’s down to Iceland’s Trapped and Northern Ireland’s The Fall. Two great shows and two great shows who have won one, and lost one. So who’s it going to be? Iceland or Northern Ireland? Trapped or The Fall? Andri or Stella?

Filming starts on BBC’s Rochdale sexual abuse drama

The BBC never shies away from the dramatisation of a harrowing true story (mind you, ITV doesn’t either). We know that there’s a Shannon Matthews drama (starring Sheridan Smith) on the way, and now the network has announced that filming has started on a drama that also explores a particularly shocking and awful true-life set of crime.

The Killing Times’ Euro 2016 Of Crime Drama: The Killing (Denmark) v Falcón (Spain)

We’re enjoying Danish drama Dicte over on More4 at the moment, and if The Killing hadn’t happened Dicte surely would have been Denmark’s representative in this tournament. Alas, it’s the wily old favourite, The Killing, that’s here and currently doing very well. It has already qualified for the quarter-final, but will be wanting to put on a show for its fans in its final group game, against winless Falcón.

Trailer: Spotless, Netflix

Anything that appears on Netflix is worthy of consideration, so Spotless could be a must-watch when it starts this Friday. It’s set in London, has some recognisable faces and sounds intriguing. Ticks all the boxes, then.

Review: Dicte (S1 E4/5), Friday 24th June, More4

Apologies for the delay in writing this review, but the little (and odd combination) of an EU referendum and its inevitable fall-out and lots and lots of football (the European Championship, no less) meant that my mind wasn’t really on crime drama or casting a critical eye over it. But now, looking for a distraction or two from the world, I took the opportunity to dig back into Danish crime series Dicte. And, wouldn’t you know it, this fourth episode of the five-episode series, was the best yet.

The Killing Times’ Euro 2016 Of Crime Drama: Happy Valley (England) v Salamander (Belgium)

We’re back to Group C in the Euro 2016 Of Crime Drama, and even though the England football team went out of the tournament last night, their crime drama counterparts are still going strong and look likely to progress to the quarter-finals. One more win and Happy Valley is in!

The Killing Times’ Euro 2016 Of Crime Drama: The Bridge (Sweden) v Shetland (Scotland)

So we trundle on in the Euro 2016 Of Crime Drama, and yesterday Spiral eased through a tough group top of the table and unbeaten. Now we move onto Group B, where there’s a tasty fixture in the offing: Sweden’s The Bridge takes on Scotland’s Shetland. Could there be the tournament’s first big upset on the cards?

Mammon appeals for funding ahead of season three

Norwegian political crime drama, Mammon, which features the adventures of journalist Peter Verås, has already completed two series of world-traversing series, and creator Gjermund Eriksen has assured us that a third series is on its way. Or at least he’d like there to be. And, to be honest, we’d like to see that too – Verås and co involved themselves in interesting stories that are a good watch. The next time, according to Eriksen, is to secure funding…

Sky Atlantic reveals first trailer from Fortitude season two

Fortitude was a big-budget, wow-cast crime/horror mash-up from 2014 and it was good, if completely barmy stuff, telling the story of a small community in Iceland who slowly went insane after some ancient virus was disturbed and began to wreak havoc in the 21st century. We all know that’s returning in early 2017 for a second series, and now Sky Atalntic has released the first trailer from the new run.

The Killing Times’ Euro 2016 Of Crime Drama: Spiral (France) v Mammon (Norway)

Some seasoned pundits are calling Group A the ‘group of death’ and we can see why – Spiral, The Fall, Trapped and Mammon are all fighting for two places in the quarter-finals. We head back to this group today to check in with one of the tournament favourites, Spiral, who are unbeaten at the moment.