Paul Gainey
Blue Lights
This is a busy and productive period for high-concept police dramas, but "Blue Lights", is well-crafted, fantastically tense, thrilling...
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Paul Gainey
- Feb 22
- 2 min
Paris Police 1905
Five years on from Paris Police 1900, the programme has returned with the not too mysterious title of Paris Police 1905. The good news is...
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Paul Gainey
- Feb 22
- 2 min
Grace
Grace is an odd series. Based on Peter James' best-selling series of novels, and starring John Simm as the titular detective Roy Grace,...
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Paul Gainey
- Feb 22
- 3 min
Unforgotten, Series 5
There’s a curious irony about whodunits that often the least interesting thing about them is finally discovering who did it. Either...
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Paul Gainey
- Feb 22
- 3 min
Death in Paradise
Sometimes all you need in TV is a simple idea, and the one behind Death in Paradise is very straightforward. Having first aired on BBC...
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Paul Gainey
- Feb 22
- 2 min
Redemption
Detective Inspector Colette Cunningham is excellent as what she does. She’s cut-throat, funny, and knows how to get what she needs. In...
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Paul Gainey
- Feb 22
- 3 min
Reacher
In crime thrillers it is usually the evil kingpin who gets nicknamed Mr Big. But it also works for Alan Ritchson, the star of Reacher,...
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Paul Gainey
- Feb 22
- 3 min
True Detective: Night Country
Liz Danvers, Chief of police in the remote Alaska town of Ennis, and heroine of True Detective: Night Country, is fond of telling other...
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Paul Gainey
- Feb 21
- 3 min
The White Lotus
It is a measure of just how good the first series of The White Lotus was – the writing, the blending of murder mystery and sharp satire,...
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Paul Gainey
- Feb 20
- 2 min
Steeltown Murders
The new four-part BBC One drama Steeltown Murders is from writer Ed Whitmore and director Marc Evans, who between them produced Manhunt...
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Paul Gainey
- Feb 20
- 2 min
Maryland
The ascendance of Suranne Jones from Coronation Street star to a creative force to be reckoned with over the last couple of decades has...
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Paul Gainey
- Feb 20
- 2 min
Annika
Ever since Nicola Walker was unforgivably written out of Unforgotten, leaving Sanjeev Bhaskar with no one to moon at over the body bags,...
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Paul Gainey
- Feb 20
- 3 min
Ten Pound Poms
Danny Brocklehurst is perhaps best known as a writer on Shameless and Brassic, series with big mouths, big hearts and anarchic spirits,...
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Paul Gainey
- Feb 20
- 2 min
Without Sin
Without Sin is a heavyweight thriller cut from the same cloth as Happy Valley and Save Me, so fans of deep-rooted trauma and grief...
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Paul Gainey
- Feb 20
- 2 min
Succession
Tonight’s episode of 'Succession' was one of the best in the entire series, if not the best, which I suppose should come as no surprise:...
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Paul Gainey
- Feb 20
- 3 min
Steeltown Murders
Big warning and spoiler alert - do not read this if you have not watched the last episode of BBC's Steeltown Murders. Who was Joseph...
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Paul Gainey
- Feb 19
- 3 min
Succession
There was, in the end, no joy for the Roys. The backstabbing siblings exited the final ever episode of "Succession" much as they had...
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Paul Gainey
- Feb 19
- 3 min
Poker Face
"Poker Face" is a modern homage to the classic murder-mystery-of-the-week shows which filled those parts of 1970s and 80s television...
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Paul Gainey
- Feb 19
- 3 min
Poker Face
Thank goodness for Poker Face, the enormously successful mystery-a-week show that debuted in the US earlier this year and has finally...
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Paul Gainey
- Feb 19
- 2 min
Best Interests
Written by Jack Thorne (Help, Kiri, The Virtues), Best Interests is a devastating four-part drama about a family torn apart over making a...
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