Channel 5 and Acorn TV are joining up for a new French-set crime drama, The Reluctant Madame Blanc. The new six-part series follows Jean White (played by Sally Lindsay, who also co-wrote the series), a renowned and respected antiques dealer, running a successful business in leafy Cheshire with her husband, Rory. Jean learns that Rory…
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REVIEW Spiral (S8 E3&4/10)
With Gilou still in the chokey, and Laure’s murder case going nowhere fast, this season hasn’t got off to a stellar start – can the Parisian po-po pull something out of their hats for this final season of Spiral? When last seen, Gilou was cosying up to killer Cisco, when he should have been thinking more…
REVIEW DNA (S1 E3&4/8)
Danish series DNA continued apace tonight, with two new episodes that really bedded in and provided some intense procedural thrills and spills. As we suspected at the end of episode two, in Poland Julia’s boyfriend Tadek was indeed killed in a motorcycle accident. Back in Copenhagen, there was chaos. It was established that items of…
BBC orders Jimmy McGovern prison drama with Sean Bean and Stephen Graham
Sean Bean and Stephen Graham are to reunite onscreen in a new prison drama from Jimmy McGovern for BBC One. Time is a three-part series and will be produced by BBC Studios Production. It begins filming in Liverpool this autumn. Seen through the eyes of two very different men, Time is described as “a visceral…
New Life On Mars series gets title
A few weeks ago we brought you news that the creators of Life On Mars and Ashes To Ashes – Matthew Graham and Ashley Pharoah – had revealed that they were working on the third iteration of beloved supernatural-tinged procedural. During a live watch-along of Life On Mars, Graham issued a number of tweets that revealed…
Agatha Raisin renewed for a fourth series
There’s a flurry of activity circling around Acorn TV and Sky’s cosy crime drama, Agatha Raisin. The series, which stars Ashley Jensen as a high-flying London PR woman who relocates to a sleepy Cotswolds village, has been renewed for a fourth series. The British Comedy Guide quotes a Sky source, who says: “Series four is…
Vicky McClure to star in the new ITV thriller from Line Of Duty creator’s production company
Production for series six of Line Of Duty is well underway, but news reaches us that Jed Mercurio’s production company HTM Television has been greenlit by ITV to produce a new high-octane thriller. Counter terrorism policing and the terrifying work of the Metropolitan Police Bomb Disposal Squad are the breath-taking backdrop for Trigger Point, starring…
Netflix releases first trailer for series two of Altered Carbon
Series one of Altered Carbon was an in an interesting addition to the crime drama genre, and mixed Blade Runner-style sci-fi with traditional noir. Based on the classic cyberpunk noir novel by Richard K. Morgan, the series is an intriguing story of murder, love, sex, and betrayal, set more than 300 years in the future. Society…
REVIEW: The Outsider (S1 E1&2/10)
Stephen King has had something of a television renaissance in recent years, after a somewhat middling patch of mini-series duds in the late 80s and early 90s (The Langoliers, anybody?). Hot on the heels of the critical success around Mr Mercedes comes The Outsider, another twisting tale of murder and mystery which kicks off with…
First trailer released and US transmission date confirmed for Megan Abbott’s Dare Me
We’ve been keeping an eye on the adaptation of Megan Abbott’s superb novel, Dare Me. The story is based on the world of American cheerleading. The main characters are Addy, the 16-year-old narrator, her friend Beth and the cheerleading coach. The friendship between Addy and Beth goes back to their childhood. Beth is manipulative and…
Walter Presents to launch on S4C with The Stockholm Requiem
We’ve been waiting for Swedish drama The Stockholm Requiem and had it booked in for next year. But now we’re hearing that Welsh broadcaster S4C – the original home of Welsh-language hits like Hinterland/Y Gwyll, Keeping Faith/Un Bore Mercher and Hidden/Craith – has struck a deal with international drama streamer Walter Presents that will see…
The 10 Best Crime Dramas This Week (Monday 7th – Sunday 13th October)
It’s (finally) for the one many of you had been waiting for: series seven of French stalwart, Spiral. Aside from the big news, and with two big new releases the following week, we still have the series finales of ITV’s A Confession and BBC One’s The Capture to get through, too. And, the last ever…
