Drama Previews

• DCI Banks returns to ITV1 for full series in 2011

  ITV has ordered more episodes of crime drama DCI Banks, starring featuring Stephen Tompkinson, following the recent success of the pilot, DCI Banks: Aftermath.

   
• Downton Abbey back for Series 2 in 2011

  Following the success of the first series, lavish period drama Downton Abbey will return to ITV1 in 2011 for a second series.

   
• The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher adapted for ITV1

  The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher - the best-selling book by Kate Summerscale about an infamous murder in a Victorian country house - is being adapted as a two-hour drama for ITV1.

   
• Jonas Armstrong cast in crime drama Field Of Blood

  Adapted from the popular Denise Mina novel and written and directed by David Kane (Taggart, Rebus), crime drama Field Of Blood starts shooting on location in Glasgow this week.

   
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency coming to BBC Four

  Stephen Mangan (Free Agents, Green Wing) will play Douglas Adams' eccentric detective Dirk Gently in a new BBC Four drama based on the author's cult novel, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

   
• M.I. High returns to CBBC for Series 5

  Coming to CBBC in winter 2010, M.I. High's team of teen secret agents return for a fifth season of spytastic adventures.

   
• Ashley Jensen and Max Beesley star in The Reckoning for ITV1

  Ashley Jensen (Extras) and Max Beesley (Hotel Babylon) will lead the cast of ITV1's new two-part thriller The Reckoning.

   
• David Morrissey leads cast of Sky1's Thorne

  Coming to Sky1 in October 2010, David Morrissey (State Of Play) takes the title role in Thorne, a new drama series based on best-selling novels by author Mark Billingham.

   
• Misfits returns for Series 2

  Premiering on E4 in November 2010, everyone's favourite ASBO teens return for the second season of the hit comedy drama Misfits.

   
• Sam Mendes adapts Shakespeare for BBC Two

  BBC Two have announced new screen versions of four of the Shakespeare's history plays - Richard II, Henry IV Part I and Part II, and Henry V - with Sam Mendes (American Beauty) and Pippa Harris (Stuart: A Life Backwards) executive producing.

   

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