Showtime releases first trailer for Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s City On A Hill

We got a bit excited when we brought you news of City On A Hill last year. Showtime’s crime drama – exec produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon – stars Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge. The story tells is set in the early 1990s, where Boston was rife with violent criminals emboldened by local…

REVIEW: 35 Awr (S1 E5/8)

Up until now, Welsh-language crime drama, 35 Awr, has been content to concentrate on the 12 jurors who have been tasked with trying to figure out who killed Heulwen. They’ve been manoeuvred expertly like chess pieces by writer Fflur Daffydd – they’ve been placed in confrontational situations and slowly but surely revealed secrets of their…

Series two of La Peste finishes filming, releases plotlines

Series one of Spanish-language historical thriller, La Peste (The Plague), won plaudits when it aired on BBC Four last year (not least from us – we included it in our top 20 best crime dramas of the year), and now news reaches us that series two is on its way. According to Variety, the series…