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BBC1’s The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies was commissioned in 2020 but was delayed by Covid. It is essentially a fantasy tale about the women victims of a sulphurous conman
There has been a pleasing tendency in British television of late for drama written by people who know their onions. Screw, which returns for series two, is penned by Rob Williams, who used to teach in prisons
The events of series one of The Tower on ITV1 hang heavily over the next instalment of this classy police procedural adapted from Kate London’s books by the scriptwriter Patrick Harbinson
Juliet Stevenson and Ukweli Roach star in adaptation of Mo Hayder’s novel
“This programme is based on real events,” say grief-stricken people at the start of each episode of Painkiller on Netflix before delivering the usual caveats about some sequences being fictionalised “for dramatic purposes”