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Gem Wheeler Jan 10, 2017

Morse prequel Endeavour returns to ITV with what promises to be a richly rewarding fourth series...

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4.1 Game

It’s the summer of 1967, and we rejoin Endeavour Morse and his colleagues only a fortnight after the dramatic events of series three’s finale. The aftermath of that episode’s bank robbery casts a long shadow over Game. Joan Thursday, traumatised by her experience as a hostage, has abruptly departed Oxford for pastures new, leaving her parents bereft. For Morse, who’d realised his love for her too late, the suffering’s just as acute. He gets no comfort from Fred Thursday, who’s sunk into a...

The Lords of Gondor have returned. Sean Bean has been cast as the lead character, Roman Catholic priest Father Michael Kerrigan, in the Broken TV show for BBC One. A Game of Thrones alum, Bean recently starred as Martin Odom on Legends, which was cancelled after two seasons on TNT, in December 2015. He plays John Marlott in ITV's series, The Frankenstein Chronicles, which is set to air on A&E, stateside.A six-episode drama series, Broken (working title) comes from writer Jimmy McGovern, creator of BBC One's Accused TV series, on which Bean guest-starred as Tracie Tremarco. Colin McKeown and Donna Molloy are executive producing for La Productions. Bean is also executive producing, with Ashley Pearce and Noreen Kershaw directing. Lucy Richer is executive producing for the...

Class, masculine competition, buried pasts and father-daughter dynamics make up a luridly dark arrangement in the three-part UK miniseries "Bouquet of Barbed Wire," the first episode of which airs on Ovation this Saturday, July 21 at 10m Et/7pm Pt. The second TV adaptation of the 1969 novel of the same name by Andrea Newman -- the first, which ran in 1976, was considered notoriously risque -- this "Bouquet of Barbed Wire" startles more with its characterization than any content. The Ashley Pearce-directed show is a warped, Freudian hallucination about baby's first boyfriend in which Prue (Imogen Poots), the adored 17-year-old only child of well-to-do parents Peter (Trevor Eve) and Cassie Manson (Hermione Norris), brings home exactly the wrong boyfriend her dad would want paired with his coddled offspring. Then again, it's possible that no one could meet Peter's standards for his daughter -- the series introduces the...