Drama Reviews

• Single Father: Episode 1

  And so sees the return to television, after almost 10 months, of David Tennant.

   
• Whitechapel: Series 2 Episode 1

  The key problem that ITV1’s Whitechapel has to face is that it already looks dated from the moment the second series begins.

   
• Desperate Housewives: Season 7 Episode 1

  In the finale of the last season of Desperate Housewives, the expectations for this year were raised ridiculously high.

   
• Downton Abbey: Episode 1

  So, the nights are drawing in, and the nation’s TV screens start flickering with comfort food telly. Very soon, we'll get the BBC's re-gig of the classic Upstairs, Downstairs, but served first is Julian Fellowes' own creation, Downton Abbey.

   
• The Special Relationship

  The third film in Peter Morgan's Blairilogy, following The Deal and The Queen, The Special Relationship is unfortunately is the weakest of the three.

   
• The Road To Coronation Street

  Back in 1960, the then-young television network ITV aired the very first episode of Coronation Street ('from the North', as the indent proudly proclaimed).

   
• Bouquet Of Barbed Wire: Episode 1

  Based on the Andrea Newman potboiler and a remake of the previous 1970s series, this fits nicely into ITV’s archive of overwrought, melodramatic psychodramas of sexual obsession.

   
• This is England '86: Episode 1

  Like hearing that an ex-flame has just started dating a close friend, This is England '86 fills you both with trepidation and incurable curiosity.

   
• Law & Order UK: Series 3 Episode 1

  The London-set version of the long-running US police procedural returns for a third series of crime and punishment storylines.

   
• Burn Notice: Season 3 Episode 1

  In comparison to the recent spate of cutting edge, realist drama that have elevated TV to the kind of heights rarely if ever seen before, Burn Notice is a strange hybrid.

   

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