Television

BBC Two is to give viewers a glimpse of a younger side to Westminster politics this year with a new drama about a group of twenty-something researchers and lobbyists. Party Animals follows the lives and careers of Scott an ex-New Labour staffer turned lobbyist, his brother Danny who works as a researcher for a junior…

Judge John Deed star Martin Shaw is to play Inspector George Gently in an adaptation of Alan Hunter’s novels by Our Friends In The North writer Peter Flannery.

John Simm is back as DI Sam Tyler as Life On Mars returns to our screens next month for its much anticipated second, and sadly final, series.

BBC One’s hit drama Spooks is to follow Doctor Who and spawn a BBC Three spin-off. Speaking at the launch of the channel’s winter and spring schedule BBC Three controller Julian Bellamy revealed plans for ‘Rogue Spooks’ which will follow a group of young recruits who “;follow a different rule book”. Mr Bellamy said there…

The cast of This Life return next week for a one-off 90 minute special entitled This Life + 10 which finally reveals what happened after that final explosive installment which left a devoted audience begging for more. Miles (Jack Davenport), Milly (Amita Dhiri), Warren (Jason Hughes), Egg (Andrew Lincoln) and Anna (Daniela Nardini) all return…