Amazon renews Bosch for a final seventh series

One of the more enjoyable crime series of recent years has been Amazon’s adaptation of Michael Connelly’s best-selling Harry Bosch series. And now there’s bittersweet news from the streaming service: it has renewed the show for a seventh series, but that seventh series will be the last. The Hollywood Reporter says: “Bosch will sign off…

Godfather Of Harlem renewed for a second series

It’s a source of some frustration that US series Godfather Of Harlem has not been picked up by a UK broadcaster yet, despite the series finishing in American two months ago. News reaches us that the series has already been recommissioned for a second series. Set in the 1960s, Godfather Of Harlem tells the true…

Sky Atlantic orders adaptation of CJ Skuse’s Sweetpea

Sky Atlantic has ordered a new eight-part adaptation of CJ Skuse’s celebrated Sweetpea novel. It tells the story of Rhiannon, your average girl next door, who is living quietly with her boyfriend and little dog. By day her job as an office manager is demeaning and unsatisfying. By evening she dutifully listens to her friends’…

BBC One orders new Harry and Jack Williams Australian-set thrille The Tourist

The Missing and Baptiste creators Harry and Jack Williams are never short of an idea or three, and BBC One has picked up their next one. The six-episode The Tourist follows a British tourist who, in the glowing red heart of the Australian outback, is pursued by a vast tank truck trying to drive him…

ITV to strip new thriller Flesh And Blood across a week

ITV is set to strip its new four-part thriller Flesh And Blood Monday to Thursday. Imelda Staunton, Francesca Annis, Russell Tovey and Stephen Rea will star in the ‘darkly witty and gripping’ drama created and written by Sarah Williams, which explores family dynamics and modern relationships as they spiral towards a tragedy and possible crime….

Sky Atlantic drops first trailer for series two of Save Me

The yellow puffer jacket is on its way back. Sky Atlantic’s Save Me – which reached our top five in 2017’s best crime dramas – is set to return in a short while, complete with Lennie James in the title role as anti-hero, Nelly. And now we have a trailer. At the end of series…