REVIEW: Waco (S1 E5/6)

Episode five of this excellent series – which retells the fateful siege of Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas in 1993 – feels like the slight calm before the storm. We’ve seen how politics within David Koresh’s compound and outside in the FBI compound has frayed minds and temperaments. And even now, there’s a sense that…

Additional cast added to series three of Tin Star

Series three of Tin Star – the final series – is currently filming in Liverpool, and the Sky crime drama has announced additions to the cast. Ian Hart, Tanya Moodie, Joanne Whalley and Kerrie Hayes have all signed on. It picks up after Jack and Angela revealed the truth to their daughter Anna. Thousands of…

Netflix names date and releases trailer for Unbelievable

True crime dramas are all the rage these days, and there’s another one incoming to Netflix. Unbelievable is an eight-episode drama, based on Pulitzer Prize-winning article An Unbelievable Story of Rape, stars Kaitlyn Dever as Marie Adler, an 18-year-old woman living in housing for at-risk youth who reports being raped by a masked intruder in…

Agatha Christie’s The Pale Horse begins filming and announces cast

We know that the next BBC adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel will be Sarah Phelps’ The Pale Horse. Now we know who’s going to be in it. The Pale Horse follows Mark Easterbrook as he tries to uncover the mystery of a list of names found in the shoe of a dead woman. His…