[ Johnny Vegas is coming to BBC Two as one half of the crime-fighting duo in the comedy series Murder, They Hope. The comedian takes on the role of Terry Bremmer and is joined by partner Gemma Draper, played by Sian Gibson, as they give up on their coach business and become private investigators. A … Read more
[ True crime cases do not get more sensational than a Playboy model paying her half-brother to murder the 10th Earl of Shaftesbury – one of the wealthiest men in the UK and her husband. Jamila M’Barek was an escort and adult model in 2001 when she met Antony Ashley-Cooper in his holiday home in … Read more
[ When The Jinx originally aired on HBO (and Sky in the UK) in 2015, it opened the gates for a deluge of true-crime dramas designed to bait the audience with twisting tales of human depravity. Each one is released in delicious, bingeable portions for eager viewers to demolish in a weekend, the juice running … Read more
[ Two old genres recently reanimated come together in Murder Mubarak (now on Netflix), the murder mystery and the eat-the-rich satire. I feel like we’ve seen that marriage before, but more on that in a minute, because we have to keep nut-graffing this graf: Homi Adajania directs a large ensemble cast led by Pankaj Tripathi, … Read more
[ If you have kids in college, or even young kids whom may go to college someday, you may want to skip the second season of Death In The Dorms. Why? Because this true-crime docuseries examines various senseless murders of students on or near the campuses where they go to school. And the show is … Read more
[ On November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students — Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen — were brutally stabbed to death in a house near the university’s campus in Moscow, Idaho. #Cybersleuths: The Idaho Murders is a three-part docuseries that describes the social media frenzy that surrounded the case, with … Read more
[ Pick of the day: True Detective: Night Country 9pm, Sky Atlantic Jodie Foster takes her first starring TV role since 1975 in the fourth instalment of the crime drama anthology. And there are shades of her Clarice Starling from Silence of the Lambs as Foster plays a detective, Liz Danvers, in the fictional, snowbound … Read more
[ Christmas is a time of goodwill and generosity, and that is the spirit in which the silly and disposable seasonal special of Murder, They Hope was best enjoyed. Siân Gibson and Johnny Vegas were back as Gemma and Terry, the cosy-crime solving couple whose dreams of a Christmas getaway were ruined when they blundered … Read more
