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Spiral, Series 5, BBC Four | reviews, news & interviews Spiral, Series 5, BBC Four
Spiral, Series 5, BBC Four
Parisian crime story continues to expose the sordid workings of the French justice system
by Adam SweetingSunday, 11 January 2015
Death on the Seine: Captain Laure Berthaud (Caroline Proust) and Gilou (Thierry Godard) search for clues
It s a poignant moment for the return of this superior French police drama. With the Paris terrorist crisis the top story across all media, we rejoin our fictional police captain Laure Berthaud to find her still in emotional fragments following the death of her lover Sami in a terrorist bomb blast at the end of series four.
Spiral, Series 8, BBC Four review - dark days in the City of Light | reviews, news & interviews Spiral, Series 8, BBC Four review - dark days in the City of Light
Spiral, Series 8, BBC Four review - dark days in the City of Light
Final series of the show that s more than just a policier
by Adam SweetingSunday, 10 January 2021
The discovery of a grotesque murder is the traditional way to begin a new series of
Spiral, and this time around the cadaver belonged to a young Moroccan boy, nicknamed Shkun. He’d been beaten to death with an iron bar and stuffed into a laundromat washing machine.
As we creep blinking out of our homes into a vaccine-enabled version of normality, some semblance of order should return to the world of arts and entertainment. In that spirit, and with the usual caveats, here are 21 reasons to look forward to 2021. Television Line Of Duty Filming on series six of the BBC’s blockbuster drama about a police anti-corruption was curtailed by the pandemic. It has now finished so it won’t be long before we’re once again gripped by questions both large (is Adrian Dunbar’s Superintendent Ted Hastings really H, the criminal mastermind the team have been chasing for years) and small (why does Martin Compston’s Cockney accent never slip?). This season’s star turn comes from Kelly Macdonald as DCI Joanne Davidson. Date: March.
What’s on TV this weekend: David Attenborough returns to the BBC with A Perfect Planet
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9pm, BBC One
A new year and a new real-crime drama. This immaculately designed eight-part thriller follows the hunt for Charles Sobhraj, a conman and serial killer who preyed on young backpackers on the South East Asian “hippy trail” during the mid-1970s. We first meet Sobhraj (played with suitably chilling menace by Tahar Rahim) posing as a gem salesman on the fringes of Bangkok’s red-light district, with Jenna Coleman speaking in a French-Canadian accent as the killer’s girlfriend and accomplice. Billy Howle plays the Dutch diplomat whose hunt for two backpackers from the Netherlands throws him unwittingly on to Sobhraj’s trail.