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Michael Sheen is visiting Bulldogs, a boxing gym in Port Talbot. He’s talking to the gym’s manager Ceri, a full-time worker and a single mum. Ceri has £12,000 worth of credit card debt and, at various points, has been forced to use food banks. She’d love to own her own home but, as you might gather, despite …
“If you start running out of leads,” the detective in ITV’s new six-part drama, Protection, muses, “maybe you missed something right at the start.” It’s a philosophy of sleuthing that doesn’t seem to be shared by the British TV establishment, who mostly ran out of ideas a long time ago. And Protection is – from its inception – …
On balance, the podcast revolution has been a negative for television. Whether it’s Homecoming on Prime Video (starring a confused Julia Roberts) or Dirty John on Netflix, hit podcasts have invariably made for watered-down TV. Something about the format’s chatty, informal style translates uneasily to the screen. For that reason, true crime fans could be forgiven for having muted expectations …
For decades, film versus television felt like Hollywood’s forever war. Cinema was dominated by the biggest stars, the greatest directors, who sneered at the lesser medium; yet television reached vast audiences and inspired more ardent fanaticism. As the years passed, the differences became smaller – actors and filmmakers switched format with fickle abandon – and, …
Erin Doherty didn’t expect to be scared of a boy almost two decades her junior. The 32-year-old actor has made a career playing formidable women; often enigmatic characters projecting a certain toughness, a sense of gradually fraying invulnerability. She was a young Princess Anne in The Crown. An unhinged internet stalker in the BBC’s Chloe. And, most recently, the notorious gang leader …
Siobhan Finneran reckons she’s “not very good with dates”. But she can remember exactly what she was doing the morning after the first episode of Happy Valley’s final season aired – because she ended up having to do an accidental victory lap of one of the North West’s least glamorous locations. “It was at the start …
Oh, how Netflix has been crying out for a series like Adolescence. Over the past few years, the company that kicked off last decade’s great “streaming revolution” has entered a qualitative nosedive. The content has kept coming, thick, fast and predictable; despite huge budgets and a ream of big-name stars, however, critical successes have been few and far between. …
The Liverpudlian star of ‘Time’ and ‘A Thousand Blows’ takes on his first leading role in BBC drama ‘This City Is Ours’. He tells Katie Rosseinsky about playing villains, filming on home turf and why his friend Stephen Graham is a ‘saving grace’ for working-class performers When James Nelson-Joyce was in his first year of drama school, …
A primary school teacher downed a bottle of wine and turned up to work drunk and reeking of alcohol. Ashley Atkin, 38, had glazed eyes and was unsteady on her feet as she prepared for an awards ceremony at Horn’s Mill Primary in Helsby, Cheshire. The incident occurred on the morning October 20 2023, when …
Listeners have said they ‘won’t be tuning in’ to Hits Radio after Leanne Campbell’s breakfast show is axed. Hits Radio, formerly Radio City, will stop broadcasting the show this summer as it is set to be replaced by a national programme. Leanne Campbell, who has co-hosted breakfast on Radio City and Hits Radio for more than …