‘Great Expectations’ review
Like the Queen’s Speech and a miserable Christmas in Walford, high quality period dramas are fixed points on our TV screens at Christmas.
Like the Queen’s Speech and a miserable Christmas in Walford, high quality period dramas are fixed points on our TV screens at Christmas.
Billed as a fantasy horror series, The Fades is in fact a high concept, genre-hopping show that defies such a simple classification.
The Clocks is standard convoluted Christie fare under the auspices of ITV: a period police procedural with hints of political intrigue and a romantic twist.
Downton is back – not just on our TV screens, at a time of year most suited to country house sagas; but, more particularly, back to the kind of form it showed in Series 1.
After 2010’s superb but curiously adult A Christmas Carol – in spite of the presence of the young Kazran and a giant flying shark, it was very much the story of a bitter old man’s redemption and his love for a beautiful young woman frozen metaphorically and literally in time – Doctor Who’s festive special … >
Despite a feast of action, the tension built well and the episode was thoroughly involving, backed by an emotional score.
Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, BBC One’s Sherlock returns for a second series of three, 90-minute films in January.
EastEnders star Lacey Turner has revealed that she is “really excited” about joining the cast of Sky Living’s supernatural drama Bedlam for its second series.
In the final episode of fantasy drama Merlin‘s fourth series, Merlin and Arthur are outlaws on the run.
In the final episode of fantasy drama Merlin‘s fourth series, Merlin and Arthur are outlaws on the run.