‘The Syndicate’ returns: Lenny Henry in Season 3 trailer
BBC One has released the first trailer for the new season of The Syndicate, written by In The Club creator Kay Mellor. The drama returns with an all-new cast, including Lenny Henry, Anthony Andrews...
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Returning to BBC One for a third season is In the Club creator Kay Mellor’s wonderful comedy-drama, The Syndicate. However, where previous seasons have focused on how a collective lottery win has...
View Article‘The Syndicate’ Season 3 Episode 2 review: Lenny Henry remains exemplary
The second episode in this new season of Kay Mellor’s BBC One drama sees the staff of Hazelwood Manor coming to terms with their new found wealth, but it also brings to the surface a lot of new issues,...
View Article‘The Syndicate’ Season 3 Episode 3 review: All the successful elements of a...
With the characters and their respective storylines established in the opening two episodes, the story of Hazelwood Manor and its staff focuses attention mainly on one character this week. We learn...
View Article‘The Syndicate’ Season 3 Episode 4 review: Battle lines are drawn
Things really do begin to hot up in The Syndicate this week as secrets are revealed and battle lines begin to be drawn. And not just between the staff and the family of Hazelwood Manor, but between...
View Article‘The Syndicate’ Season 3 Episode 5 review: Emotional rollercoasters for everyone
Ramping up the drama with only two episodes left of this explosive third season, The Syndicate features closure for some and continued emotional rollercoasters for everyone else this week. “Nick...
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In The Club creator Kay Mellor’s lottery drama The Syndicate is back on BBC One for a third season. The drama returns with an all-new cast, including Lenny Henry, Anthony Andrews (The King’s Speech),...
View Article‘The Syndicate’ Season 3 Episode 6 review: Secrets are revealed and mysteries...
As the third season of The Syndicate draws to a close, Hazelwood Manor is having its grand re-opening party and is making itself open to the public. However, this is not the only surprise going on at...
View Article‘Danny and the Human Zoo’ trailer: Lenny Henry’s new 1970s drama
The first trailer has been unveiled for Lenny Henry’s upcoming one-off fictionalised account of his life as a working-class teenager in 1970s Dudley. Danny and the Human Zoo centres round Danny Fearon...
View Article‘Danny and the Human Zoo’ review: Heartfelt with a fine cast
BBC One’s ‘kinda true’ biographical comedy drama based on the young life of Lenny Henry opens with cute nostalgia. A young Danny Fearon (Kascion Franklin) dancing in gold heels to ‘My Boy Lollipop’...
View ArticleWatch brand new full trailer for final season of ‘Broadchurch’
ITV has released a full-length trailer teasing the return of Broadchurch. David Tennant and Olivia Colman will reprise their roles as DI Alec Hardy and DS Ellie Miller in the crime drama’s final season...
View Article‘Broadchurch’ return date confirmed for Season 3
ITV has confirmed the start date for the final season of Broadchurch. David Tennant and Olivia Colman are back as DI Alec Hardy and DS Ellie Miller, this time investigating a serious sexual assault in...
View Article‘Broadchurch’ preview: Writer Chris Chibnall introduces Season 3
Broadchurch returns to ITV later this month for a final season. David Tennant and Olivia Colman are back as DI Alec Hardy and DS Ellie Miller, this time investigating a serious sexual assault in the...
View Article‘Broadchurch’ review: Season 3 Episode 1 was taut, focused and emotionally...
On the basis of last night’s episode, Broadchurch has gone beyond a mere crime drama serial to something gut-wrenching, humane and deeply empathetic, rivalling the moving portrayal of grief in its...
View Article‘Broadchurch’ review: Season 3 Episode 2 maintains last week’s high quality
The second episode of Broadchurch 3 wastes no time in launching us into Hardy and Miller’s investigation into the brutal rape of Trish Winterman we saw reported to the police in last week’s premiere....
View Article‘Broadchurch’ review: Season 3 Episode 3 explores toxic masculinity
If there’s a defining theme that seems to run through Broadchurch 3, but is particularly prominent in this third episode, it’s toxic masculinity. As Hardy says, “it makes me ashamed to be a man”. Chris...
View Article‘Broadchurch’ review: Season 3 Episode 4 is confident, mostly elegant...
This isn’t a particularly Trish-centric episode of Broadchurch, but she is still far and away the best thing about it; if Julie Hesmondhalgh isn’t showered with gongs come award season, it’ll be...
View Article‘Broadchurch’ review: Season 3 Episode 5 is packed full of drama
At the end of last week’s episode, viewers saw Laura Benson (Kelly Gough) coming forward to inform the police that she was assaulted two years ago in a similar manner to Trish. Gough does a good job...
View Article‘Broadchurch’ review: Episode 6 is Season 3’s strongest so far
This week’s Broadchurch episode, the strongest so far, is all about people trying to escape the prisons they carry with them – and often finding that they can’t. While Lenny Henry’s Ed Burnett spends...
View Article‘Broadchurch’ review: Season 3 Episode 7 lacks the punch of last week’s ep
The fact that Mark Latimer turns out to be alive after all, after the high drama ending of last week… isn’t actually a disappointment, somewhat to my surprise. Plenty of suicide plans don’t come off,...
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