[ad_1] When it hit shelves in early 2021, Death in Paradise creator Robert Thorogood’s The Marlow Murder Club was the latest book to be categorised within the overstuffed subgenre of “cosy crime”. Released just months after Richard Osman’s similarly titled The Thursday Murder Club, it wasn’t just the red and black cover lettering the novels…
[ad_1] Sky Atlantic’s scandalous new series Mary & George feels like it’s lifted from a best-selling thriller – not a dusty history book. One Jacobean-era mother and son conspired over several years to place themselves at the centre of King James I’s court by positioning George Villiers as the ideal lover for the temperamental monarch….
[ad_1] On the night of 3 March 2021, during the UK’s third national lockdown, 33-year-old Sarah Everard was abducted by Metropolitan police officer Wayne Couzens. Her murder changed the way that the UK thought about its police forever. BBC One’s documentary, Sarah Everard: The Search for Justice, told Sarah’s story, while also accounting for that…
[ad_1] World Book Day, the annual “worldwide celebration of books and reading” created by Unesco in 1995 and celebrated in more than 100 countries, will be held this year on Thursday 7 March, 2024. Events were first held in the UK and Ireland in 1997 to encourage young people to discover the pleasure of reading…
[ad_1] Mary and George Julianne Moore and Nicholas Galitzine as Mary and George Villiers (Photo: Sky) i critic Rachael Sigee calls Sky’s spicy historical drama “a dazzling riot of bonking and betrayal“. She’s not wrong – there’s a lot of sex going on in this sweary, saucy series. It tells the story of Mary Villiers…
[ad_1] Bianca Jackson is returning to Albert Square – it’s no bad thing for the soap or the actor who plays her March 4, 2024 2:35 pm(Updated 3:09 pm) Patsy Palmer will return to EastEnders as Bianca Jackson (Photo: BBC/Jack Barnes/Kieron McCarron) The news that Patsy Palmer is to return to EastEnders again, five years…
[ad_1] Arthur’s Seat overlooking Edinburgh was recently featured in the Netflix romantic drama One Day, as the show’s lovers, Dexter and Emma, were seen walking up the extinct volcano. The hill took a far more harrowing role, however, in Channel 4’s new true-crime documentary, The Push: Murder on the Cliff. This two-part show revisited a…
[ad_1] Vicky McClure in ‘Trigger Point’ series 2 (Photo: ITV/HTM Productions) “From the makers of Line of Duty” is the kitemark for TV thrillers these days – whether applied to programmes from World Productions (Vigil, Bodyguard and Line of Duty itself) or Line of Duty creator Jed Mercurio’s newish production company HTM Television. This gave…
[ad_1] After a five-year absence the Emmy Award-winning crime series True Detective is back with an eerie tale of unexplained disappearances and deaths in the Alaskan winter. This is the fourth season for hit HBO show created by Nic Pizzolatto, which first starred Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in Louisiana. This time the pair are…
[ad_1] Big Boys, the semi-autobiographical sitcom based on Jack Rooke’s memoir Cheer the F**K Up, first blessed our screens in 2022. It was one of the standout shows of the year, a sitcom with real heart and big laughs. Now it has returned to Channel 4 for a second series – can it reach the…
