Steven Knight’s rollicking tale of the SAS continues with new Rogue Heroes joining the story for series 2 SAS Rogue Heroes made a significant splash when it landed on BBC One last year. After drawing impressive audience figures, including over 9 million viewers for its first episode, the show was swiftly recommissioned for a second … >
Channel 4’s The Great series 1 is a ten-part comedy drama coming on Sunday January 3 at 9pm As Channel 4’s press release puts it: The Great is a satirical, comedic drama about the rise of Catherine the Great from outsider to the longest reigning female ruler in Russia’s history. It’s a modern love story that … >
There was a time when a lock-in at the local pub was something of a treat. But things change. All-day drinking has taken away the nefarious excitement; and when the lock-in is not with other likeminded extracurricular drinkers, but with the murderous landlord now revealed as your long-since adopted son, that’s also likely to take … >
Neil Dudgeon and Gwilym Lee are back for an extended run of six feature-length Midsomer Murders mysteries. Body snatching, UFO spotting and an international cycle race are just some of the weird and wonderful worlds that DCI John Barnaby and DS Charlie Nelson are immersed in for the long-running drama’s eighteenth season. Barnaby and Nelson … >
If anybody wanted to devise a Midsomer Murders drinking game then ‘disgruntled villagers’ should certainly be one cue to take a sip. Last week they were moaning about the sculpture park, this week it’s archaeologists. ‘Saints and Sinners’ starts with the discovery of a skeleton in the ground. It’s not the first body ever to … >
It struck me during ‘A Dying Art’ that it would save an awful lot of trouble if they employed more than two policemen at the Causton constabulary. Most other crime dramas would leave a police liaison officer with the grieving relatives of the murder victim – partly as a point of contact, but also because … >
This week’s Midsomer Murders is set against a backdrop of competitive cycling. With its mix of dodgy-dealings, infidelities and of course murders, ‘Breaking the Chain’ presents a far more dramatic view of the sport than we ever see in the real world. (Well, apart from that huge doping scandal a few years back.) Unfortunately – … >
I expect the Midsomer Constabulary scores very highly in the police performance charts, given the ‘always get their man’ attitude that has prevailed there for nearly twenty years. But the force’s zero tolerance policy towards unsolved murders has not always been so rigidly followed – and ‘The Incident at Cooper Hill’ revolves around a murder … >
It doesn’t quite have the high profile of a Sherlock special, or the sense of occasion of yet another final ever Lewis. Nevertheless, ITV’s Midsomer Murders must be doing something right to now be embarking on its eighteenth season. Less than a minute in to season opener ‘Habeas Corpus’ there’s a death – and we … >
Midsomer Murders returns this week and ITV has released a trailer for the new season. Neil Dudgeon and Gwilym Lee are back for an extended run of six feature-length mysteries, featuring body snatching, UFO spotting and an international cycle race. > Buy the complete Season 17 box set on Amazon. DCI John Barnaby and DS … >