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Really enjoyed The Listeners, a contemporary version of those cult 1970s series of the weird...

The BBC has released some first-look images from its upcoming crime drama, This City Is Ours, starring Sean Bean.

The eight-part series tells the story of Michael (James Nelson-Joyce), a man who for all of his adult life has been involved in organised crime, working for his friend and the gang leader Ronnie (Bean). When Ronnie begins to hint at retirement, Michael too begins to imagine another life. Because, for the first time in his life, Michael is in love. For the first time in his life, he sees beyond the day-to-day, he sees a future: something to win and something to lose – Diana (Hannah Onslow).
This City is Ours is the story of Michael and Diana’s love affair, set against the disintegration of Michael’s crime gang. For years, together with Ronnie, Michael has successfully been bringing cocaine into the City and beyond, directly from Colombia; but when a shipment goes missing, he knows their Kingdom is under attack.

This City is Ours is the story of Michael and Diana’s love affair, set against the disintegration of Michael’s crime gang. For years, together with Ronnie, Michael has successfully been bringing cocaine into the City and beyond, directly from Colombia; but when a shipment goes missing, he knows their Kingdom is under attack.

The series also explores what happens when Ronnie’s son Jamie ( Jack McMullen) decides he wants to inherit their kingdom and that there is no longer a place for Michael at the table. Both Michael and Jamie have bold ideas to modernise the gang and they will battle for control of it. But Michael’s biggest battle will be to save the woman he loves and the child he has always wanted.

The cast also includes Julie Graham as Elaine, head of the Phelan family alongside her husband Ronnie.

Not on BBC but heads up that on C4 at 9 tonight is Walden and Thatcher by the outstanding James Graham starring Harriet Walker and Steve Coogan.

Is it PotG? said:

The BBC has released some first-look images from its upcoming crime drama, This City Is Ours, starring Sean Bean.

The eight-part series tells the story of Michael (James Nelson-Joyce), a man who for all of his adult life has been involved in organised crime, working for his friend and the gang leader Ronnie (Bean). When Ronnie begins to hint at retirement, Michael too begins to imagine another life. Because, for the first time in his life, Michael is in love. For the first time in his life, he sees beyond the day-to-day, he sees a future: something to win and something to lose – Diana (Hannah Onslow).
This City is Ours is the story of Michael and Diana’s love affair, set against the disintegration of Michael’s crime gang. For years, together with Ronnie, Michael has successfully been bringing cocaine into the City and beyond, directly from Colombia; but when a shipment goes missing, he knows their Kingdom is under attack.

This City is Ours is the story of Michael and Diana’s love affair, set against the disintegration of Michael’s crime gang. For years, together with Ronnie, Michael has successfully been bringing cocaine into the City and beyond, directly from Colombia; but when a shipment goes missing, he knows their Kingdom is under attack.

The series also explores what happens when Ronnie’s son Jamie ( Jack McMullen) decides he wants to inherit their kingdom and that there is no longer a place for Michael at the table. Both Michael and Jamie have bold ideas to modernise the gang and they will battle for control of it. But Michael’s biggest battle will be to save the woman he loves and the child he has always wanted.

The cast also includes Julie Graham as Elaine, head of the Phelan family alongside her

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Not much point in watching it now.

The Clamp said:

Not much point in watching it now.

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Oooh, I shall.....sounds pretty decent.

Virdee – the BBC’s new, six-part adaptation of AA Dhand’s novel(s).

Staz Nair stars in the lead role of Bradford-based detective, Harry Virdee. He is joined by Aysha Kala who plays Harry’s wife, Saima and Vikash Bhai as Saima’s brother, Riaz. The series also stars Kulvinder Ghir and Sudha Bhuchar as Harry parents, Ranjit and Jyoti and Elizabeth Berrington, as Harry’s boss DS Clare Conway and Danyal Ismail as Harry’s new partner, DS Amin.

A turf war is brewing in the underbelly of the city with the police losing its grip on gang rivalries as they spill out onto the streets of Bradford. When a young dealer is murdered, Harry’s duty to uphold the law clashes with his links to members of the crime gangs. With his personal life in chaos, he must hunt down whoever is targeting those around him.

Whilst the killer holds the entire city to ransom, Harry realises that he is going to need the help of his brother-in-law Riaz, a drugs kingpin who runs the largest cartel in the county. Pulled together in an alliance that could ruin them both, Harry must make a choice: save himself and his family or save his city. He will not be able to do both.

Mon 10th Feb.

New episodes of Norwegian detective drama Wisting on this Saturday night. It's not The Bridge/Wallander/The Killing but the best of the recent ones.

Though The Breakthrough on Netflix was decent