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The BBC has announced a new, eight-part crime drama called This City is Ours, starring Sean Bean. Bean will play gang leader Ronnie Phelan, with James Nelson-Joyce as Ronnie’s friend, Michael Kavanagh. Hannah Onslow will play Diana Williams, Michael’s partner, and Jack McMullen plays Ronnie’s...

Six-parter on very soon

Nine Bodies In A Mexican Morgue has a delicious concept and an incredible cast. So it’s great news that the BBC has acquired it for UK viewers. In the six-part series, a plane carrying a small group of passengers, crew and pilot, crashes in the Mexican jungle. All the bodies are recovered and...

Sat 4 May

What do they say about busses? You wait for one to come along and then come at once? It’s like Swedish crime dramas on the BBC. It’s been a while since we’ve anything brand new from Scandinavia, but BBC has announced that it has acquired two Swedish crime dramas. End of Summer, based on former...

Don't forget to catch up on the great 'Wisting' before S4 gets underway.

The BBC has announced it has acquired Romanian spy series Spy/Master. The six-part series, filmed in Romania and Hungary, spans one perilous week in the life of the fictional character Victor Godeanu (Alec Secăreanu), the right-hand man and most trusted advisor to Romanian President Nicolae...

Monday 15 April to be precise

The eagerly awaited new “This Town” series from Peaky Blinders’ creator Steven Knight launches on BBC iPlayer on Sunday 31st March. Looks decent enough.

BBC Four has confirmed transmission details for upcoming Kiwi crime drama, The Gone. The six-part series follows the journey of Irish detective Theo Richter (Richard Flood) who teams up with a Kiwi detective, Diana Huia (Acushla-Tara Kupe), when a young Irish couple go missing from a rural New...

Blue Lights was one of 2023’s breakout hits. The BBC One show has now been renewed for a third and fourth series, even before season two has aired. Co-created and written by Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson, Blue Lights followed three new PSNI probationary recruits as they navigated their way...

Danish series Prisoner starts on Saturday 24th February at 9pm starring Nordic crime queen Sofie Gråbøl. The six-episode series revolves around the lives of four prison officers—Henrik (David Dencik), Miriam (Gråbøl), Sammi (Youssef Wayne Hvidtfeldt), and Gert (Charlotte Fich). Their personal...

S2 appears on iPlayer tomorrow.

Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution. Fantastic viewing 3 parter.

Probably agree, S2 did seem to have a little more. Will check Love/Hate, thanks (y)

The BBC has acquired the Irish crime drama Kin, an eight-part series that stars like likes of Clare Dunne, Charlie Cox, Aidan Gillen, Ciarán Hinds, Sam Keeley, Emmett J. Scanlan, Maria Doyle Kennedy and newcomer Yasmin Seky. It tells the story of how when a boy is killed and his family embarks...

Excellent balance of drama, tension and emotion. Great series.

Dark Hearts possibly next up from France on Beeb 4. The six-part series stars Marie Dompnier (Witnesses), Thierry Godard (Spiral), and Nicolas Duvauchelle (Braquo). Dark Hearts is set in Iraq on the eve of the battle for Mosul in October 2016, the series centres around an elite French Special...

I agree, the series was a little wishy-washy. Lacked the focus and intensity of the film.

Oh my days, what a performance from Ruth Wilson. Has to be the finest in the game right now.