And therein lies something of a problem for any theatre adaptation, especially one in a small venue. It is of necessity going to be a chamber piece, not a cinematic drama. Translated to a small stage ...

This carefully crafted mosaic of forbidden love and organised crime is atmospheric, addictive and hugely bingeworthy. The plotting is meticulous, with each of the three series building inexorably to a ...

Then we flashed back several hours to see the soldier, Shaun Emery (Callum Turner), winning his appeal against his conviction for murdering an insurgent in Afghanistan, because of flawed video ...

The screenplay, co-written with Berlin Babylon creator Hendrik Handloegten, plays a little fast and loose with history. Invited to celebrate the centenary of Goethe by giving a lecture tour, Mann was ...

Will Sharpe plays Mozart with a blend of reckless self-indulgence, sexual promiscuity and child-like enthusiasm, even if he doesn’t stretch to the manic extremes of Tom Hulce’s performance in Milos ...

His wife Rachel has recently died, leaving him with teenage daughter Kim (Chloe Sweetlove) to bring up and battling a serious alcohol problem. When in doubt he’s liable to reach for his hip flask, and ...

Something extraordinary is going on here. On Michael Kiwanuka’s previous records, he’s worked with producers Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz, Black Keys) and Inflo (SAULT, Cleo Sol). These two ...

In the sob-story role of the widowed cashier in “the cage” is Sheridan Smith, a dab hand at playing women in extremis. But here she is a complex blend of she-wolf protecting her two children and ...

Not that Skyjack are just a small-time club band. The Swiss / South African five-piece are comprised of musicians with impressive pedigrees, have played worldwide together and are now on their fourth ...

More interestingly, the channel has also served up a batch of conspicuously female-centric pieces, albeit with mixed results. The murdered-girl story A Mother's Son felt like a series brutally ...

All this and more was duly resolved, in an episode that gripped ferociously from the opening seconds and hauled us over some scorching dramatic coals. Silk is almost unfailingly watchable, though ...

But the appearance with Pink Floyd always crops up when her name is mentioned. That single session – held between 7pm and 10pm on Sunday, 21 January 1973 – overshadows everything else she has done. As ...