The sci-fi anthology drama of our time, Black Mirror tells a collection of tech-paranoia stories imagining the impact of technological developments on people’s lives.
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Roopesh Parekh is producer and the series will be distributed by NBC Universal International Distribution. A must-watch for crime drama fans.
From Bodyguard‘s Jed Mercurio, it’s addictive viewing. Matt Strevens and Sam Hoyle are the Executive Producers for BBC Studios, and Ben Irving is the Executive Producer for BBC One. There’s a lot of nightmares in these five series, alongside the odd sunnier and more hopeful tale. Wells’ classic sci-fi title. Whatever the motivation, Dynasties was wonderful, telling complex stories of the animal kingdom with beautiful photography. On Netflix, meanwhile, BoJack Horseman used its fifth season for even more audacious explorations of depression. It boasted the young Colin Morgan, Bradley James, Katie McGrath and Angel Coulby, with Anthony Head and Richard Wilson providing the gravitas. Read more, Yes, at last! The BBC Drama trailer includes a first-look of BBC One’s landmark adaptation of Les Misérables by Andrew Davies, which stars Dominic West as Jean Valjean, David Oyelowo as Javert and Lily Collins as Fantine, alongside Adeel Akhtar and Olivia Colman as Monsieur and Madame Thénardier. The other shock was remembering how recent it all was. Please continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. What have we been missing all this time? Charting the fight of female workers at Ford Dagenham for equal pay. A second series has been commissioned. Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh in Killing Eve Composite: BBC. If you have yet to see it, please do not watch it with your parents or children on Boxing Day and then write in to complain. I wouldn't go that far but it's certainly at the top. Read our spoiler-filled reviews here. Jenna Coleman returns to the channel in Jacquelin Perske’s adaptation of psychological thriller The Cry. His Patrick could be brilliant, witty, cruel and pitiful, sometimes in the same smack-addled sentence. She might not be the comic creation we need, but she is the one we deserve right now. Here she turned her hand to a spy thriller, an adaptation of Luke Jennings' novels about a beautiful assassin, Villanelle (Jodie Comer), and the MI6 agent given the task of hunting her down, Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh). It’s the tale of Uhtred of Bebbanburg, a Saxon raised by Vikings who returns to England to reclaim the birthright his scheming uncle stole from him, but who has countless other adventures on the way. Press (6x60’) is a Lookout Point, BBC Studios, Deep Indigo production, co-produced with Masterpiece, for BBC One. The War of the Worlds (3x60’) is a Mammoth Screen drama for BBC One. The series is directed by Sally Wainwright and Sarah Harding, and Executive Producers are Sally Wainwright, Faith Penhale and Laura Lankester for Lookout Point, Ben Irving for BBC One, and Francesca Orsi and Kathleen McCaffrey for HBO.
There are celebrity fans, merchandise, tie-in bars, an actual festival… It’s the story of the Shelby family, led by brilliant blue-eyed-boy Tommy (Cillian Murphy) from the slums of 1920s Small Heath to the upper echelons of British society, which turns out to be every bit as full of criminals and hoodlums. Instead, the Sky Atlantic series brought them convincingly to life. Find details of Drama and Literature programmes to listen to now on Radio 4. Whatever the motivation, Dynasties was wonderful, telling complex stories of the animal kingdom with beautiful photography.
Drama to get your pulse racing from across the BBC. If it’s cold and weird you like your thrillers, then you, friend, are in luck; Sky’s Fortitude is the coldest and weirdest of them all. Bodyguard (6x60') is produced by World Productions for BBC One. I wouldn’t go that far but it’s certainly at the top. The spin-off set in San Francisco is well worth a look too.
The 50 best TV shows of 2018: the full list. Starring Shaun Evans as the young Morse, with Roger Allam as his colleague DI Fred Thursday, each short series tells a continuing crime story. Revisit the noughties with Keeley Hawes, Matthew Macfadyen, Nicola Walker and the gang. Read more. Episode 8 — The Bridge, Series 4 As Henrik and Astrid attempt to bond, Saga gets a breakthrough in the case. Before he was Game of Thrones baddie Ramsay Snow, Iwan Rheon was Misfits‘ Simon, an introvert who – along with a gang of others – developed superpowers during a mysterious storm. Access exclusive energy deals! Succession, by comparison, felt alive. Lennie James's missing-child thriller Save Me looked as though it might be a paint-by-numbers affair.
When Hercule Poirot returned to screens played by Kenneth Branagh in 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express, and by John Malkovich in 2018’s The ABC Murders on BBC One, it was a reminder of how much we loved Agatha Christie’s Belgian detective. A short fifth series recently aired, revisiting the stories of Alan and Celia (Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid), two childhood sweethearts who reconnect in their 70s, and the families of their two daughters Caroline (Sarah Lancashire) and Gillian (Nicola Walker). The gaffer floating down the Lagan in a bubble! From Vanity Fair to War of the Worlds, from Luther to Victoria, from The Little Drummer Girl to Bodyguard – here's what we'll be watching this autumn. It stars Aidan Gillen (who went on to play Littlefinger in Game of Thrones), Craig Kelly, and Charlie Hunnam (who later played Jax Teller on Sons of Anarchy), and all 10 episodes are available to stream. Catherine Cawood, a no-nonsense police officer whose tragic family history leads her into conflict with James Norton’s monstrous ex-con Tommy Lee Royce. Ed Cumming names the best series of 2018, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. A European billionaire's venture to put the first people on Mars faces crisis on arrival. When does Vanity Fair air on TV? A classic of the crime drama, starring John Thaw as Colin Dexter’s detective inspector (portrayed as a younger man by Shaun Evans in Endeavour – see above). Read more about the series here. Vicky McClure, Martin Compston and Adrian Dunbar play the police in charge of sniffing out wrong’uns in the force. Lear divides his kingdom with tragic consequences. Trust, the drama about the last days of Getty family, proved that it was possible for a series built on this premise to have actors, scenery, direction, script etc, etc, and still somehow fall short. Arguably the best film spin-off TV show ever made, the three series that followed Shane Meadows and Jack Thorne’s 2006 feature This is England were superlative drama. Sally (Catherine Shepherd) was already surrounded by monsters: her loser of a boyfriend (Alex MacQueen) and tricky colleagues played by Julian Barratt and Felicity Montagu.
Who is H?! At an age when most of us are long past doing anything, David Attenborough is still changing our expectations of what a nature documentary can do. Swedish and Danish police join forces to investigate when a body is found on a bridge. A smart script kept us guessing right up to an ending that denied us the closure we had expected. This six-part political BBC thriller was all anybody could talk about in August 2018. Andrew Garfield and David Morrissey are among the casts of these three feature-length films about conspiracy, abuse and a fight for the truth. Written by Anna Symon.
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Already have an account with us? Set in a Bristol Secondary School, it’s a funny look at staff room chaos with a down-to-earth sense of humour (in its first couple of series at least). Read why we love it here. With talk of a revival on the cards by creators Matthew Graham and Ashley Pharoah, there’s no better time to revisit both series. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! It’s about a centuries-old alien travelling through space and time with a succession of companions, saving the Earth and defeating villains and having complex survivor guilt/falling in tragic love/wearing trainers with suits (depending on the iteration). The government is still up to a lot of nonsense, but the days of this kind of cover-up, for these reasons, is surely over. Tense drama based on a true story of British soldiers facing terror in Afghanistan. This Whitechapel-set detective show has a great cast, involving serial storytelling and a proper ending. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Luckily there were also gales of laughter. That was the first surprise in this smooth, stylish BBC retelling of the Jeremy Thorpe scandal. First look Les Misérables images released. Remember back when there was a new Doctor Who spin-off for every day of the week? Another classic, Jimmy McGovern’s Cracker is the story of a brilliant forensic psychologist played by Robbie Coltrane. Like The Rolling Stones, he has been on his farewell tour since about 1970, but unlike Jagger & Co, the returns are not diminishing. Read more about it here. In flashback we saw Patrick's childhood in the shadow of his monstrous father David (Hugo Weaving), and the decades of self-loathing and substance abuse that followed. Michael Sheen stars as Brian Clough in the story of his 44 days in charge of Leeds United.
She might not be the comic creation we need, but she is the one we deserve right now. Invisibility, mind-reading, immortality… this group of community payback youths got them all, resulting in high jinks, death, sex and four series of engrossing adult fantasy created by Howard Overman. Or perhaps it's simply that the writer of Killing Eve was Phoebe Waller-Bridge, star of Fleabag, Star Wars and one of the country's outstanding new talents. All episodes of the sci-fi/fantasy police procedural, which sees John Simm’s DI Sam Tyler hit by a car in 2006 and wake up in 1973, are available to stream. Rose Tyler meets a mysterious stranger called the Doctor, and realises Earth is in danger. At an age where most of us are long past doing anything, David Attenborough is still changing our expectations of what a nature documentary can do. Another national obsession when it first arrived, Broadchurch was a genre-making ITV series whose legacy is the reason that all murders committed in UK crime dramas since 2013 have taken place within 100 metres of a moody clifftop and/or beach-front ice cream parlour. Instead it was a gripping start to Sky Atlantic's impressive run, with James taking the lead as Nelly, the womanising bum who gains a new lease of investigative energy when his estranged daughter Jody vanishes. All 10 series of this British intelligence thriller about a bunch of MI5 officers getting into espionage-based mischief/being horribly injured were recently made available on iPlayer. One of the first ‘Lazarus’ TV series killed off by a traditional channel and then resurrected by a streaming service, 19th century crime drama Ripper Street was cancelled at the end of its second series on the BBC, then revived by Amazon for a further three. The Cry (4x60’) is produced by Synchronicity Films and written by Jacquelin Perske. Great fights, great characters and a superlative third run with a beating political heart. You can also choose to be emailed when someone replies to your comment. We can thank Jesse Armstrong, co-creator of Peep Show, and his all-star line-up of British writers, including Lucy Prebble, Tony Roche and Georgia Pritchett.
They made the Roy family expats themselves, and you could hear the old aristocratic froideur in every withering put-down. Drama to get your pulse racing from across the BBC.
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What have we been missing all this time? If you’re brand new to it, perhaps start with ‘San Junipero’ and go from there.
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