sat 18/05/2024

legal drama

The Good Wife, Series 5, More4

The annual reappearance of The Good Wife is always a cause for celebration. Why they persistently park it in the twilight zone of More4 remains one of the enduring mysteries of our era, since it's one of the best shows on TV, but the only question...

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The Escape Artist, BBC One

Most of us like a good legal drama, which is why there have been so many of them. By the same logic, finding a fresh spin or a new way of writing and shooting them inevitably grows ever-tougher.The Escape Artist, a new three-parter written by Spooks...

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Closed Circuit

We have plenty to be paranoid about in the most surveilled country in the world. British contributions to the conspiracy thrillers that bloomed so fruitfully in the US around Watergate have, though, stayed slim. Maybe that’s one reason Closed...

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The Winslow Boy, Old Vic

Terence Rattigan's beautifully spoken characters are a passionate lot in this gripping story of a father's fight to prove his son's innocence. Lindsay Posner's production of the 1946 play succors and seduces its audience with an unstoppable...

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The Good Wife, Series 4, More4

My only real complaint about the ever-excellent Good Wife is that they cram so much into every episode that it's notoriously difficult to keep track of all the plots, subplots, new names and cunningly tangled relationships. It's a bit like a...

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Second series of Silk on BBC One

The battling barristers of Shoe Lane Chambers return for a second series of Silk, written by Peter Moffat. Regulars Rupert Penry-Jones (as Clive Reader) and Maxine Peake (Martha Costello) are joined by newcomers Frances Barber, Phil Davis and Indira...

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