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After his fairly lacklustre Doctor Who season 5 I'd started to wonder if Steve Moffat had lost his mojo - thankfully last night's Sherlock (BBC One) proves that's not the case. Witty, fast-paced, well directed and emotionally charged, Sherlock was everything Moffat's debut Who series failed to be. It does however have one thing in common with Doctor Who - great casting. Benedict … [Read more...]
ITV has announced the start of filming on their third adaptation of Lynda La Plante's popular Anna Travis novels. Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent is based on the fourth book in the run and follows adaptations of Above Suspicion and The Red Dahlia. A sixth book entitled Blind Fury was published last month. Kelly Reilly returns as Travis alongside Ciaran Hinds as DCI James Langton … [Read more...]
ITV's major new drama series Identity launches next Monday (July 5th) with former Ashes to Ashes star Keeley Hawes and Queer as Folk's Aidan Gillen starring as detectives working for an elite police unit tasked with combating identity-related crime. Hawes plays team leader DSI Martha Lawson who hires Gillen's ex-undercover cop John Bloom - the unit's "secret weapon" - who knows … [Read more...]
ITV has recommissioned the Rupert Penry-Jones drama Whitechapel for a second, three-part run. The first series of the drama, which also stars Phil Davis and Steve Pemberton, focussed on a copycat killer following in the footsteps of Jack the Ripper. The second series deals looks at the brutality of the Krays and the the faded glamour of the East End during their reign. Penry-Jones, … [Read more...]
