Television

Aidan Gillen and Keeley Hawes play police officers heading up an elite unit formed to combat the explosion of identity-related crime in Identity, a new six part ITV drama currently filming in London.

Martin Freeman stars as Danny Reed who wakes up after an accident to find he’s a gorgeous woman in her early 30s in Boy Meets Girl, a new 4 part drama from ITV which airs next month.

Martin Shaw is to return for four new, feature-length George Gently dramas, the BBC announced yesterday. The first two of the new films will air in May and sees the show renamed as Inspector George Gently. Returning alongside Shaw is Lee Ingleby as the ambitious and undisciplined Detective Sergeant John Bacchus.

With appetites whetted by the glossy trailer currently airing on BBC One, fans of the channel’s Ashes To Ashes are eagerly anticipating the return of DCI Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister) and DI Alex Drake (Keeley Hawes).

There are some new faces when ITV’s hit adventure series Primeval returns later this month for a ten-part third series. Joining the team are maverick policeman Danny Quinn (Jason Flemyng), Egyptologist Sarah Page (Laila Rouass) and Captain Becker (Ben Mansfield), leader of the ARC’s security forces.

The do-gooding conmen of Hustle will return for a sixth series in 2010, the BBC has confirmed. The series stars Adrian Lester as Mickey “Bricks” Stone, s Robert Vaughn, as veteran grifter Albert Stroller, and Robert Glenister, as fixer extraordinaire Ash “Three Socks” Morgan.