In any given year, British TV can be relied on to provide plenty in the way of crime drama, and 2023 was no different. Between these returning series and newcomers A Town Called Malice, Blue Lights, Marlow, Payback, Rebus, Steeltown Murders, The Gold, The Sixth Commandment, Wolf and more, crime continued to flourish on the small screen.
Happily though, that was far from all that UK TV offered this year. There was fantasy too, in the form of Netflix’s South London super-powers drama Supacell, ghost detective series Lockwood & Co., Greek and Roman mythology series Kaos, and sci-fi in Prime Video’s The Rig.
Add to all those the romances, dramas inspired by real-life, and several other book adaptations, period and otherwise plus music-based dramas Champion and This Town, and it was a pretty full slate.
January Stonehouse
Succession‘s Matthew Macfadyen and Crossfire‘s Keeley Hawes star in this three-part ITV drama,...
Happily though, that was far from all that UK TV offered this year. There was fantasy too, in the form of Netflix’s South London super-powers drama Supacell, ghost detective series Lockwood & Co., Greek and Roman mythology series Kaos, and sci-fi in Prime Video’s The Rig.
Add to all those the romances, dramas inspired by real-life, and several other book adaptations, period and otherwise plus music-based dramas Champion and This Town, and it was a pretty full slate.
January Stonehouse
Succession‘s Matthew Macfadyen and Crossfire‘s Keeley Hawes star in this three-part ITV drama,...
- 1/3/2024
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Still sleeping off your Thanksgiving feast? It’s not to be wondered at, as the holiday usually produces quite the food coma before sending eaters away from the table to watch the night’s NFL contest or the annual airing of “Home Alone.”
As Cyber Monday kicks off the week, there are plenty of new shows and movies coming to streaming in the final few days of November/beginning of December. Check below for The Streamable’s recommendations on what to watch this week!
Monday, Nov. 27 ‘Steeltown Murders’ Series Premiere
It’s 2002 in Port Talbot, and on hearing that the Cid is looking to reopen two sexually motivated murder cases from 1973, Dci Paul Bethell jumps at the opportunity to lead the investigation. Following two vividly different timelines, we also revisit the tragic events of ‘73 to see both a small Welsh community devastated by grief, and Paul as a junior officer...
As Cyber Monday kicks off the week, there are plenty of new shows and movies coming to streaming in the final few days of November/beginning of December. Check below for The Streamable’s recommendations on what to watch this week!
Monday, Nov. 27 ‘Steeltown Murders’ Series Premiere
It’s 2002 in Port Talbot, and on hearing that the Cid is looking to reopen two sexually motivated murder cases from 1973, Dci Paul Bethell jumps at the opportunity to lead the investigation. Following two vividly different timelines, we also revisit the tragic events of ‘73 to see both a small Welsh community devastated by grief, and Paul as a junior officer...
- 11/27/2023
- by David Satin
- The Streamable
Steeltown Murders is coming soon to Acorn TV. The streaming service has announced the premiere date for the crime drama series with the release of a trailer.
Starring Scott Arthur, Sion Alun Davies, Philip Glenister, Steffan Rhodri, Aneurin Barnard, Richard Harrington, Keith Allen, Nia Roberts, and Karen Paullada, the Steeltown Murders limited series is set in two different periods, following two detectives investigating crimes from both 1973 and 2002.
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Starring Scott Arthur, Sion Alun Davies, Philip Glenister, Steffan Rhodri, Aneurin Barnard, Richard Harrington, Keith Allen, Nia Roberts, and Karen Paullada, the Steeltown Murders limited series is set in two different periods, following two detectives investigating crimes from both 1973 and 2002.
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- 10/31/2023
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
David Yates Set For Raindance Icon Award
David Yates is set to receive the Raindance Film Festival’s Icon Award. The Harry Potter filmmaker will receive the award at the festival’s Opening Gala party on October 25. Yates grew up in St. Helens, Merseyside. He won his first BAFTA Award for the BBC miniseries The Way We Live Now, starring Matthew Macfadyen and Shirley Henderson. Yates went on to helm the last four of the blockbuster Harry Potter films. “The Raindance Festival has been part of our filmmaking landscape for over thirty years, championing and showcasing the work of emerging writers, producers, and directors, from all over the world,” Yates said. “Elliot and his team have encouraged, inspired, and helped educate so many along the way, including me, and it’s an honor to be the recipient of a Raindance Icon Award as we celebrate and enjoy the work of...
David Yates is set to receive the Raindance Film Festival’s Icon Award. The Harry Potter filmmaker will receive the award at the festival’s Opening Gala party on October 25. Yates grew up in St. Helens, Merseyside. He won his first BAFTA Award for the BBC miniseries The Way We Live Now, starring Matthew Macfadyen and Shirley Henderson. Yates went on to helm the last four of the blockbuster Harry Potter films. “The Raindance Festival has been part of our filmmaking landscape for over thirty years, championing and showcasing the work of emerging writers, producers, and directors, from all over the world,” Yates said. “Elliot and his team have encouraged, inspired, and helped educate so many along the way, including me, and it’s an honor to be the recipient of a Raindance Icon Award as we celebrate and enjoy the work of...
- 10/3/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Q. Detective Inspector Nicki Jennings, school headteacher Sita Anwar, nuclear physicist Ulanya Khomyuk, and MI5 spycatcher Lily Thomas… what do they have in common?
A. They’re all intelligent, high-achieving, mostly working class, female characters from period-set true story TV dramas, but unlike their castmates with real-world counterparts, none of them really existed.
At the end of a true-story drama, when the moment comes for viewers to see the real people the actors have been playing, the above lot have no accompanying photograph or news footage. Their roles are patchworks, either several real-world figures rolled into one, or wish-fulfilment created to open up storytelling perspectives. Wherever history hasn’t traditionally allowed women in, or wherever history books have failed to commemorate women’s work as (cough) rigorously as that of men, some screenwriters have opted to put their thumb on the scales.
MI5 intelligence officer Lily Thomas, played by Anna Maxwell Martin...
A. They’re all intelligent, high-achieving, mostly working class, female characters from period-set true story TV dramas, but unlike their castmates with real-world counterparts, none of them really existed.
At the end of a true-story drama, when the moment comes for viewers to see the real people the actors have been playing, the above lot have no accompanying photograph or news footage. Their roles are patchworks, either several real-world figures rolled into one, or wish-fulfilment created to open up storytelling perspectives. Wherever history hasn’t traditionally allowed women in, or wherever history books have failed to commemorate women’s work as (cough) rigorously as that of men, some screenwriters have opted to put their thumb on the scales.
MI5 intelligence officer Lily Thomas, played by Anna Maxwell Martin...
- 7/11/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Steeltown Murders, a British crime series, depicts the notorious Llandarcy Murder case, which spanned three decades before reaching a resolution. The series faithfully presents the true events, with a primary focus on the extensive investigation conducted by the South Wales Police in the 1970s and its subsequent continuation thirty years later. However, the narrative takes a creative approach by exploring the experiences of the women who narrowly escaped the Saturday Night Strangler’s grasp but were left with enduring traumatic memories.
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Is Sita Anwar A Real-Life Figure?
In 1973, the brutal murders of Pauline Floyd and Geraldine Hughes in the Llandarcy Woods shook the community of Neath Port Talbot. Prior to their deaths, another young girl named Sandra Newton had also suffered a similar fate. Pauline and Geraldine worked together at a local factory, where they became close friends with Sita Anwar (played by Priyanga Burford), a teenager who...
Spoilers Ahead
Is Sita Anwar A Real-Life Figure?
In 1973, the brutal murders of Pauline Floyd and Geraldine Hughes in the Llandarcy Woods shook the community of Neath Port Talbot. Prior to their deaths, another young girl named Sandra Newton had also suffered a similar fate. Pauline and Geraldine worked together at a local factory, where they became close friends with Sita Anwar (played by Priyanga Burford), a teenager who...
- 5/20/2023
- by Poulami Nanda
- Film Fugitives
We have poetry on this week's show, plus Kay explains (if explanation were needed) why James is a moron and the team ponder the most memorable TV needle drops in recent years.
Elsewhere we get our grim on in true crime drama Steeltown Murders on BBC1, have an eye for Patricia Arquette, Pi in High Desert on Apple, and see if No Escape floats our boat on Paramount+.
Listen to the episode on your podcast app of choice or the player above. And if you want to subscribe to Pilot TV+, find all the details here.
Elsewhere we get our grim on in true crime drama Steeltown Murders on BBC1, have an eye for Patricia Arquette, Pi in High Desert on Apple, and see if No Escape floats our boat on Paramount+.
Listen to the episode on your podcast app of choice or the player above. And if you want to subscribe to Pilot TV+, find all the details here.
- 5/15/2023
- by James Dyer
- Empire - TV
If you’ve ever questioned the need for police resources to be spent on decades-old cold cases, Steeltown Murders will leave you in no doubt. Over four episodes, this BBC drama shows how momentous it is for victims and their families to know the truth about a crime, however much time has passed since it was committed.
In 1973, three Welsh teenagers were murdered in Neath and Port Talbot. Sandra Newton, Pauline Floyd and Gwyneth Hughes were picked up hitchhiking after nights out, and then raped, strangled to death and discarded. For almost 30 years, their families and friends lived without knowing who their killer was or whether he walked among them.
Steeltown Murders shows how those three decades were permeated with grief, regret and guilt – not from the killer, whose motivations and reactions this BBC drama studiously ignores – but from the girls’ loved ones, and from the police who initially failed them.
In 1973, three Welsh teenagers were murdered in Neath and Port Talbot. Sandra Newton, Pauline Floyd and Gwyneth Hughes were picked up hitchhiking after nights out, and then raped, strangled to death and discarded. For almost 30 years, their families and friends lived without knowing who their killer was or whether he walked among them.
Steeltown Murders shows how those three decades were permeated with grief, regret and guilt – not from the killer, whose motivations and reactions this BBC drama studiously ignores – but from the girls’ loved ones, and from the police who initially failed them.
- 5/15/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
In 1973, the killer of Welsh teenagers Sandra Newton, Pauline Flynn and Gwendoline Hughes was not caught, despite a high-profile and widespread investigation by South Wales Police. The girls’ families spent the next three decades not knowing who was responsible for brutally taking the lives of their loved ones, or whether he still lived alongside them in the local Neath and Port Talbot communities.
In 2002, a development in forensics changed everything. The cold case was reopened with much pared-down resources, and crime scene DNA was successfully used to identify Wales’ first recorded serial killer. Steeltown Murders is the story of the loss, guilt and suspicion that followed the 1970s murders, and of the perseverance of the officers who were eventually able to provide the victims’ families with the answers they’d been denied years before.
Here are the actors making up the cast behind Steeltown Murders‘ dramatisation of real-life figures and events.
In 2002, a development in forensics changed everything. The cold case was reopened with much pared-down resources, and crime scene DNA was successfully used to identify Wales’ first recorded serial killer. Steeltown Murders is the story of the loss, guilt and suspicion that followed the 1970s murders, and of the perseverance of the officers who were eventually able to provide the victims’ families with the answers they’d been denied years before.
Here are the actors making up the cast behind Steeltown Murders‘ dramatisation of real-life figures and events.
- 5/15/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
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