Spooks: Goodbye
(Spoiler alert: Do not read further if you have yet to watch the final episode) “HARRY Pearce…” The poignant last ever episode of Spooks has just finished. There will be no more. Nicola Walker summed...
View ArticleThe Jury: Julie Walters
WHAT will your verdict be? Back in January 2002 I attended the launch of a new ITV1 drama series called The Jury. Written by Peter Morgan, whose subsequent credits include The Last King Of Scotland,...
View ArticleThe Killing 2: Sofie Grabol at BAFTA
“I don’t think he did it.” Sarah Lund (Sofie Grabol) is back in a second series of The Killing, which begins on BBC4 at 9pm on Saturday Nov 19, with the second episode at 10pm. The first season of this...
View ArticleDownton Abbey: Series Three
WHO lives? Who dies? And who gets married? Those questions are answered in the final episode of Downton Abbey series two on ITV1 at 9pm this Sunday. With ITV having confirmed a few minutes ago that...
View ArticleThe Jury 2011
“I just felt like writing another one.” Award-winning Peter Morgan talking about The Jury, which begins on ITV1 at 9pm tonight. “A trial brings people together in a way that really intrigued me.” Peter...
View ArticleMoving On 3
MISSING your Sunday night slice of Rob James-Collier in Downton Abbey? Well, you can see the former Coronation Street star in series three of BBC1’s acclaimed Moving On. Along with the likes of Fay...
View ArticleThe Cafe: Ralf Little
CHRISTMAS may have been cancelled for The Royle Family but Ralf Little and Craig Cash are still about to cause a TV stir. This year’s BBC1 festive special has been axed because writers Craig and...
View ArticleAccused: John Bishop
COMEDIAN John Bishop is to star in BBC1’s hard-hitting drama Accused. The award-winning stand-up plays a troubled father called Peter in the second series of Jimmy McGovern’s show. Liverpool-born John,...
View ArticleDownton Abbey: Christmas Special
ITV has released the first photo from the much anticipated feature length Downton Abbey Christmas Special. (Click on the image to enlarge) L-R: NIGEL HAVERS as Lord Hepworth, SAMANTHA BOND as Lady...
View ArticleWithout You: Anna Friel
ANNA Friel is sitting in a hotel suite high above London’s Berkeley Square. In a cinema several floors below we’ve just seen a cast and crew preview of her new ITV1 drama series Without You. It’s late...
View ArticleStrictly Come Downton Abbey
STRICTLY Come Downton is set to waltz off with the Christmas Day TV ratings glitterball. Downton Abbey stars will be tripping the light fantastic in their feature length ITV1 special which includes...
View ArticleTitanic: First Photos
HERE are the first official photos of ITV1′s Titanic, one of the television drama events of 2012. To be screened in the UK and around the world – including ABC Network in America – in the spring....
View ArticleLost Christmas: Eddie Izzard
A terrified six-year-old girl called Milly stands shaking in her pyjamas in the middle of a frozen canal. As a fireman makes a desperate attempt to save her from the cracking ice. It’s a...
View ArticleDownton Abbey: Christmas Launch
THE Christmas tree is being decorated as the house prepares for the festive season. Before the Granthams hand out presents to their servants for Christmas Day 1919. Welcome to the Downton Abbey...
View ArticleDoctor Who: Farewell Amy and Rory
WE knew it was going to happen sooner or later. But it’s sad news all the same. Doctor Who stars Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill, who play Amy and Rory Pond, are to leave the show in the next series. …...
View ArticleFast Freddie, The Widow And Me
IT was the first week of Wimbledon in June when I met up with Laurence Fox in London. To talk about his festive TV drama filmed in the spring. Also interviewing co-star Sarah Smart later in the summer....
View ArticleEternal Law: Matthew Graham
IT’S a television drama about angels who smoke and drink. And has won the blessing of the Archbishop of York John Sentamu. But Eternal Law co-creator Matthew Graham said church officials at York...
View ArticleShameless: Angeline Ball
“I cannot be weak,” protests Frank Gallagher as Shameless returns tonight. The new – ninth – series begins with two extended episodes screened at 10pm over consecutive nights. With many Chatsworth...
View ArticleThe Mystery Of Edwin Drood
“IT’S not a challenge you could turn down. You’ve got half a novel. “My wife calls me, ‘The man who’s finished off Dickens.’ “Which I think is unfair.” The Mystery of Edwin Drood director Diarmuid...
View ArticleCoronation Street: Farewell Becky
(Mild spoilers, including pics) ALL TV soaps go through peaks and troughs. Like waves on the shore, they take time to flow towards moments of crashing brilliance. Footprints in the sand captured on...
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