Drama

When you watch the acclaimed TV drama Time, remember this: I’ve seen inside our prisons and they are just as bleak | Alex South

by The Guardian | Oct 18, 2026 | Culture, David Tennant, Drama, Law, Prisons and probation, Society, Television, Television & radio, The Guardian, UK criminal justice, UK news | 0 |

The show depicts prisons as places characterised by violence and isolation, with no focus on rehabilitation. It’s depressingly accurateAlex South is a former prison officer and the author of the memoir Behind These DoorsThe new...

‘I’ve hit my midlife sexpot era!’ Romola Garai on marital misery, cheating … and sex scenes in cars

by The Guardian | Oct 9, 2026 | Culture, Drama, Romola Garai, Television, Television & radio, The Guardian | 0 |

Layby hookups are all in a day’s work for Romola Garai in her steamy new drama Adultery. She talks faking orgasms, keeping secrets – and making audiences pass outIn a raging storm in the Peak District last winter, a blue Toyota...

‘I’d strip for £100!’ Dominic West and Sienna Miller on nudity, narcissism and their juicy new show War

by The Guardian | Sep 25, 2026 | Culture, Dominic West, Drama, Sienna Miller, Television, Television & radio, The Guardian | 0 |

The stars are no strangers to public scrutiny of their most intimate relationships – but they’ve never experienced anything like this. They talk about playing a famous divorcing couple, and how money makes things revoltingIn a...

‘My first screen kiss was in a cowshed!’ Lesley Manville on her greatest roles – and why sex scenes for over-50s are booming

by The Guardian | Sep 24, 2026 | Acting, Culture, Drama, Lesley Manville, Mike Leigh, Television, Television & radio, The Crown, The Guardian, Theatre | 0 |

In the last 15 years, she has gone from respected actor to stratospheric, garlanded star. Now she is back on TV as a chic sleuth in a racy car – despite being terrible at guessing whodunnitIt is high summer and, while Lesley...

‘I’m fearless. I was in a boys’ rugby team’: Slow Horses’ Aimee-Ffion Edwards on playing a cocaine-snorting spy

by The Guardian | Sep 15, 2026 | Culture, Drama, Peaky Blinders, Skins, Slow Horses, Television, Television & radio, The Guardian, Thrillers, TV crime drama, Wales | 0 |

She has played rugby for Wales, is putting a Welsh spin on Princess Leia and is returning to TV screens as Shirley, the explosive, traumatised MI5 agent. Why is Edwards so drawn to liars, crooks and sneaks?There was a moment,...

‘I didn’t know if I’d ever have sex again’: inside Sharon Horgan’s excruciating post-divorce comedy

by The Guardian | Sep 4, 2026 | Culture, Drama, Sharon Horgan, Television, Television & radio, The Guardian | 0 |

Horgan’s hilarious new show probes the perils of ageing and the horror of being single again – and it has sex scenes so wild you’ll be laughing for weeks. The creator and her co-stars open up about YouthWhen Sharon Horgan walked...

The Rapture review – this apocalyptic drama couldn’t be here at a better time

by The Guardian | Jul 27, 2026 | Culture, Drama, Television, Television & radio, The Guardian | 0 |

It’s set in a UK racked by an unbearable heatwave and the rise of extremism – this adaptation of the 2010 novel feels horrifyingly aptWhen The Rapture by Liz Jensen was first published, in 2010, it was set in a near-future when...

‘The magnificent, the magical, the marvellous!’ It’s TV’s happiest endings

by The Guardian | Jul 22, 2026 | 30 Rock, Derry Girls, Drama, Hacks, Parks and Recreation, Sex and the City, Television, Television & radio, The Guardian, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, TV comedy | 0 |

Gold dances, the Good Friday agreement and standup superstardom … get ready to blub because here are the most heartwarming denouements in TV historyWarning: this article contains spoilers Continue...

Natalie Imbruglia: ‘I forget the words to my own songs on stage. You’d be surprised how few people notice’

by The Guardian | Jul 18, 2026 | Australian music, Culture, Drama, Life and style, Music, Neighbours, Pop and rock, Soap opera, Television, Television & radio, The Guardian | 0 |

The singer on struggling with the English weather, a secret celebrity crush, and her terror of tinned spaghettiBorn in Sydney, Australia, to an Italian father and Australian mother, Natalie Imbruglia, 51, joined the cast of...

‘I thought there’d never be enough work!’ Ruth Madeley on sex, success and becoming a star out of sheer nosiness

by The Guardian | Jul 17, 2026 | Culture, Drama, Television, Television & radio, The Guardian | 0 |

She is shaking up showbiz and redefining the way disability is portrayed on screen. Ahead of her end-times thriller The Rapture, the star talks about being a Doctor Who badass and why her husband finds her job hystericalThe day...

Sleuthing sheep, Young Sherlock and a new Poirot: how amateur detectives took over our screens

by The Guardian | Jul 5, 2026 | Culture, Drama, Television, Television & radio, The Guardian, TV crime drama | 0 |

From the Sherlock Holmes spin-offs to The Sheep Detectives, DIY sleuths are on the case all over TV and cinema. But where did the trope of the outsider who outsmarts the professionals come from – and how do these depictions...

Sleuthing sheep, Young Sherlock and a new Poirot: how amateur detectives took over our screens

by The Guardian | Jul 5, 2026 | Culture, Drama, Television, Television & radio, The Guardian, TV crime drama | 0 |

From the Sherlock Holmes spin-offs to The Sheep Detectives, DIY sleuths are on the case all over TV and cinema. But where did the trope of the outsider who outsmarts the professionals come from – and how do these depictions...

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