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Don't show me this message again✕ Shocking scenes at the start of the second series of ITV’s . A jolly retirement party for family solicitor Bill Bradwell (James Cosmo) is interrupted by the arrival of a courier at the door. Bill’s slightly soppy son-in-law and partner in his law firm, Stephen Marshbrook (Stephen Tompkinson), goes to answer. He is shot dead on his own doorstep in front of 10-year old son Jamie (Jack Archer), the little boy’s face suddenly all spattered and freckled with Daddy’s warm blood. All hell breaks loose, obviously, and soon to arrive on this ugly scene are ...

ITV has confirmed an air date for the returning crime drama The Bay, starring Morven Christie as DS Lisa Armstrong.

Fancy a real New Year's Eve spine-tingler? Look no further than The Haunting of Alice Bowles  4/5 Original Theatre Online's new ghost story is compact, brilliantly designed and lingers horribly in the mind afterwards 29 December 2020 • 1:36pm Tamzin Outhwaite in The Haunting of Alice Bowles Subsequent to the publication of his collected ghost stories in 1931, MR James wrote The Experiment, subtitled “A New Year’s Eve Ghost Story” and published on December 31 in The Morning Post. It begins with the news of the death of a wealthy Norfolk squire, apparently felled by a sickness sweeping...

Rating: Streaming until February 28, 50mins              originaltheatreonline.com Rating: This streamed version of A Christmas Carol, which has been The Old Vic’s sell-out Christmas show every year since 2017, is back with Andrew Lincoln (The Walking Dead and This Life star) playing Scrooge. The bearded Lincoln cuts a dash. The trouble is, to convince us that he is an unswayable misery, he continually shouts. It’s a tad exhausting. The real star here is Matthew Warchus’s heart-melting production, which I remember filling The Old Vic with flying fruit and veg and its audience �...

Last modified on Fri 18 Dec 2020 15.02 EST This supernatural thriller is based on a little-known MR James story about murder and attempted resurrection in a time of plague. Like so many of James’s tales, The Experiment is over in a matter of a few pages: a wife kills her mean husband but tries to conjure his spirit so that she can discover where he hid all his earthly treasure. Philip Franks’s adaptation turns that lean tale into a richer drama about abuse, revenge, paedophilia and occultist practices without losing any of its tautness. James’s 1931 story takes place in an unsp...