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After Broadchurch captivated millions with its mixture of a child-murder and a picturesque coastal town where everyone seems to be hiding a secret, such places began to spring up all over the television map like moles on a golf course. That someone would want to imitate/flatter Jed Mercurio’s Line of Duty – which returns to BBC1 next Sunday after a longer than usual gap between seasons caused by the pandemic – is not surprising. It’s the most successful British crime drama of all time, basking in rave reviews and enormous viewing figures. Who wouldn’t want a piece of that kind of ...

Sunday, 7th March 2021 at 10:00 pm Detective drama Bloodlands continued tonight and we’re finally getting somewhere with Goliath’s case – or are we? Advertisement Episode three picked up from last Sunday’s shocking ending, which saw Tom Brannick kill Adam Cory – the brother of one of Goliath’s victims – in a surprising move. We now know that Pat Keenan’s kidnapper was not Goliath, but actually someone looking for the serial killer with the intention of making the police reopen their case – but who is the kidnapper and who is Goliath? If you’ve still confused after that ho...

Who is Goliath? All our Bloodlands theories ahead of episode three Scratching your head after episode two? Michael Hogan rates the likely suspects ahead of the third instalment of Bloodlands 6 March 2021 • 5:00am Is he our man? James Nesbitt is currently the No 1 suspect as far as viewers are concerned Credit: Steffan Hill/BBC “I came here to see my dead brother.” “You will.” Bang. Body falls to the ground. Roll mournful music.  So who is legendary, long-dormant assassin Goliath? We look over the runners and riders… Theory 1: Tom Brannick is Goliath In a gasp-inducing twist, DCI...

The Toll delighted audiences at Glasgow Film Festival during its UK premiere at the end of February. Billed as the first ‘west Walian Western’, The Toll follows the life of a lone toll booth operator in a small Welsh town, played by Michael Smiley (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story). He seems content with his lot, but when a familiar face from his previous life of crime resurfaces, it sets off a madcap chain of events that lead to a showdown of epic proportions. Annes Elwy (BBC's Little Women) plays a young local traffic cop whose investigation into a simple robbery finds her heading f...

James Nesbitt stars in Bloodlands Credit: BBC BBC One’s knotty Northern Irish noir continued with dramatic chases and Goliath-sized twists. But did it bring us any closer to identifying the serial killer and crane namesake? Here what happened in a head-spinning second episode.  Island grave gave up its secrets We picked up where we left off: on the suitably desolate island in Strangford Lough where police had made a grim discovery. There were three skeletons, meaning one presumed victim of the long-dormant assassin code-named Goliath was still whereabouts unknown. They’d all been shot in...