![]() ![]() Scott plays an air marshal who, at first, appears to be helping DCI Silva with her investigations, and Garai is the newly appointed commander of an RAF base in the fictitious Middle East country of Wudyan where Silva is sent. Joining the cast as RAF officers are Romola Garai and Dougray Scott. Just to raise the stakes, she and her life and work partner DI Kirsten Longacre (Rose Leslie) have taken in her late fiancé's young daughter Poppy – and Kirsten is pregnant. Apparently-malfunctioning military drones have killed people at a military air base – but were these really accidents? DCI Silva’s search for the truth takes her to some dangerous places. For season two, DCI Amy Silva (Suranne Jones) finds herself back on land and into the world of weapons development and military relationships in the Middle East – and there’s still plenty of murk. The first season of Vigil centred on a mystery death on a nuclear-armed Vanguard-class submarine, against the murky backdrop of modern British military operations. Streaming: Acorn TV and AMC+ from Monday December 18 with two-episode premiere then weekly She also faces the inevitable jurisdictional conflict with the local coppers who are now headed by Pérez’s second-in-command Alison ‘’Tosh’' McIntosh. Calder must also confront figures from her past and estranged family members, including a younger brother who has now the minister of their late father’s old kirk. ![]() She is sent home to find a witness to a London gangland murder who has fled north, pursued by a couple of hitmen. Her DI Calder is Shetland-born but her police career has been with London’s Met. She’s played by Ashley Jensen, who is best known for her comedic roles alongside Ricky Gervais in the likes of Extras and After Life. Effectively replacing Detective Inspector Jimmy Pérez (Douglas Henshall), who hung up his pea coat after seven seasons, is DI Ruth Calder. The eighth series of the BBC detective drama originally inspired by the books of Ann Cleeves and set on the bleak islands of the title has had a change at the top. Streaming: ThreeNow, the first 90-minute episode from December 15. We wanted to draw on viewers’ memories of the long summers in their childhoods rather than trying to specifically tie it down to one moment in time.” Unsurprisingly, the four kids are a bunch of newcomers while among the grown-up supporting cast are Jack Gleeson ( Game of Thrones), as the evil Wentworth, and James Lance ( Ted Lasso) as Uncle Quentin. ![]() While the series is set in the late 1930s, we wanted to create a drama series that is set in the timeless space of childhood. We wanted to weave our own stories which were inspired by the whole canon of The Famous Five books. “We looked at the books as a jumping-off point. Co-creator Matthew Read says they haven’t adapted specific stories but have taken inspiration from all of them. But Winding Refn is one of the creators of a new BBC series of movie-length shows based on Blyton’s 21 novels about the quintet of Julian, Dick, Anne, George and dog Timmy. It seems a bit of an odd fit – Enid Blyton’s quaint English kids’ adventure stories and Nicolas Winding Refn, the Danish-American film-maker best known for the R18 likes of Only God Forgives and Drive. Streaming: Season six, part two on Netflix The new promo includes scenes suggesting an episode dedicated to the death of Princess Margaret in 2002 and flashbacks to the life that she and the then Princess Elizabeth shared in their younger years, including during WWII and when they famously snuck out of the palace to enjoy the VE Day celebrations in 1945. A downcast Prince William (now played by newcomer Ed McVey), by the looks of it, is finding he’s inherited some Diana-mania as he heads off to university where he, of course, meets Kate Middleton (Meg Bellamy). Elsewhere, Prince Charles (Dominic West) is ruing his own troubled relationship with Prince Philip (“we don’t do fathers and sons very well in this family”) when he’s considering his own with his boys. There’s Queen Elizabeth pondering what’s she done with her life and asking if the Royal Family should be asking existential questions about itself, against the lavish preparations for her 2002 Golden Jubilee and public disquiet about the institution. Judging by the new trailer, the emphasis is back on she who wears the Crown, and those who are destined to later in the coming decades. Photo / Netflix New to View The Crown season 6 part 2Īfter the four episodes covering the demise of Princess Diana, the last six episodes of The Crown’s final season pick up a few months after the tragedy. Under Pressure: The US Women’s World Cup Team.
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