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True Detective: Night Country underuses actor Christopher Eccleston, whose complicated character and relationship with Liz Danvers are never fully explained or developed. Eccleston's character, Ted Connelly, plays a pivotal role in the missing scientists mystery and other storylines, but spends much of the season on the sidelines. A better use of Eccleston's talents can be seen in the TV show Fortitude, where his character has a proper backstory and a key part in the narrative, making it a better Eccleston horror series.

Warning: Contains potential Spoilers for True Detective: Night CountryAlthough True Detective: Night Country is widely heralded as a return to form for the beleaguered anthology, one of the show's worst mistakes has been to under-use actor Christopher Eccleston. As Ted Connelly, Eccleston is a peripheral background presence, whose complicated character and relationship with Jodie Foster's Liz Danvers are never fully explained or developed. The extent of his...

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Watch an exclusive interview with Fortitude writer Simon Donald delving into tonight's killer reveal.

Episode five of Sky Atlantic's crime chiller revealed who killed amiable professor Charlie Stoddart (Christopher Eccleston).

Stoddart was brutally offed in the Arctic-set drama's first episode, with Eccleston reprising his role for flashbacks in tonight's (February 26) instalment that detailed the character's death.

Watch the DS exclusive clip above to find out why unmasking Stoddart's murderer is not the end of the mystery - and for hints about what's coming up next.

Fortitude continues next Thursday (March 5) at 9pm on Sky Atlantic.

Fortitude star Chipo Chung: "I don't know what happens in the end"

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Arrow: Sky1, 8pm

With Oliver (Stephen Amell) still missing, the rest of Team Arrow must lead an uprising in the glades against vicious mobster Brick (Vinnie Jones).

The heroes will need all the help they can get - but will they accept aid from their enemy, Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman)?

Cucumber: Channel 4, 9pm

Russell T Davies' blackly comic drama takes an even darker turn in tonight's episode, which sees Lance (Cyril Nri) take centre stage.

As Lance tries to work out the truth about Daniel (James Murray), Henry (Vincent Franklin) takes a final desperate chance to win his ex-boyfriend back - but events quickly spiral out of control.

Ross Kemp: Extreme World: Sky1, 9pm

Tonight on Kemp's uncompromising Sky1 series, he rides along with some of Australia's notorious motorcycle clubs - major players in the country's drug trade.

Although the bikers traditionally operate a no-media rule,...

Fortitude, Season One, “Episode Three”

Written by Simon Donald

Directed by Sam Miller

Airs Thursdays at 10 pm (Et) on Pivot

Fortitude‘s nebulous two-part pilot promised mysteries on a cosmic scale; by offering sparse dialogue and dreamy imagery wreathed by the pristine whiteness magnanimous snow, creator Simon Donald and director Sam Miller seemed to be crafting a show more concerned with the ineffable than with cops and clues. Instead of establishing suspects and motive, excavating the nefarious underground ties that bind a small town, and strewing about red herrings, they suffused the frame with chilly melancholy. The serenity of a vast ice tundra is juxtaposed with the imminent dangers lurking above and below the permafrost. Fortitude has shades of The Killing‘s caustic theatrics and Donald’s Low Winter Sun, but none of the former’s genre-blind pretension. It’s serious not just in content but in form: any show...

Christopher Eccleston and Sofie Gråbøl have revealed all about their characters in new Arctic crime thriller Fortitude.

Speaking in a video exclusive to Digital Spy, the pair discuss the "extraordinary array of varied characters" in the series.

Eccleston describes his character Professor Charlie Stoddart as a "gentle, enthusiastic scientist".

"He's basically an unremarkable but very well-liked member of the community," the actor explained.

Gråbøl appears in the series as Governor Hildur Odegard, who butts heads with Stoddart over plans to develop a glacier hotel to boost tourism in the town.

"It's not easy for her to distinguish between personal ambitions and ambitions for the town," Gråbøl said.

"She has a mother role in the sense that she looks after the town - but you know the mother role is a two-sided coin. So there's the caring mother and also the mother who wants it her way."

Fortitude: No-one is...

Christopher Eccleston, Stanley Tucci, Michael Gambon and Sofie Gråbøl will star in Sky Atlantic's new drama Fortitude.

Jessica Raine, Johnny Harris, Richard Dormer, Luke Treadaway and Nicholas Pinnock will also star in the 12-part hour-long drama series.

Fortitude centres on a mysterious death in the Arctic Circle and will be filmed in Iceland and the UK.

Surrounded by the savage beauty of the Arctic landscape, Fortitude is one of the safest places on earth, until a brutal murder threatens the future of the entire town.

Game of Thrones actor Dormer will play local chief of police Sheriff Dan Anderssen, with Tucci cast as his new partner - Dci Morton, a newcomer to the town.

The town's conflicted governor Hildur Odegard will be portrayed by The Killing star Gråbøl, with Gambon as Henry Tyson, a wildlife photographer with only weeks to live.

Eccleston (Doctor Who) is scientist Charlie Stoddart - who...