In the TV crown
Drama gems to keep us gripped
POLDARK is back with his scythe and psycho Villanelle is still trying to kill Eve.
Detective Julien Baptiste has solved The Missing mysteries and is going it alone, while the Martians will be waging war on the world.
And millions will be glued to it all. Here we take a look at the must-see TV dramas of 2019. The Missing’s Julien Baptiste is returning for his own spin-off series, starring Tcheky Karyo as the acclaimed French investigator.
And, if you haven’t seen original, the new series can be watched as a standalone show.
Also starring Tom Hollander and Barbara Sarafian, the new drama exposes the seedy underbelly of Amsterdam.
Start growing your fingernails so you have something to gnaw when it starts later this year. Doctor Foster star Suranne Jones undergoes a remarkable transformation in her latest TV role, playing one of the most formidable women of the 19th century.
Anne Lister was a well-off Yorkshire landowner who famously kept a diary documenting her lesbian relationship and efforts to transform the fate of her faded ancestral home.
The diary was written in code that was only deciphered in the 1980s.
Famed for wearing men’s clothing and with a passion for shooting and hunting, Anne was nicknamed Gentleman Jack by her fellow
Halifax residents and is often hailed the “first modern lesbian” for her openly lesbian lifestyle. Suranne Jones stars Karyo gets his own show The third series promises to be the best yet, with the full cast of kids back in
Hawkins, Indiana,
– plus newcomer
Robin, played by
Maya Thurmanhawke – Uma and
Ethan’s child. Set in 1985, a year on from last season, Robin discovers a dark secret and Lucas’s little sister Erica embarks on a wild mission to save Hawkins from a dangerous and unexpected new threat. All this and as many retro fashions and hairstyles as you can squeeze into a parallel universe. Last year’s stand out hit show about psychopathic female assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer) being pursued by MI5 pencil-pusher
Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) returns this spring to continue where it left off.
Having stabbed Villanelle just as they were about to kiss, super-sleuth Eve’s job is made a bit easier with a trail of blood to follow.
But while the two of them continue their girl crush to the death, Eve’s inappropriate boss Carolyn Martens (Fiona
Shaw) continues to undermine Russian intelligence with more tricks up her sleeve – or up her skirt, as it turns out. Hawkins kids are back again