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Sheridan Smith in Mrs Biggs, Marton Csokas as Falcon
Published on 2012-02-20 13:11:42
Danny Mays, Charmian and Sheridan Smith. Pic: ITV Mrs Biggs, ITV1 • Sheridan Smith has been cast as Charmian Biggs in ITV1's new five-parter Mrs Biggs, about the wife of train robber Ronnie. Danny Mays will play the lad with a criminal record who wooed her – where else! – on a train. The couple struggled to stay together when her family did not like Biggs, and the tough times continued when Ronnie got involved in 1963's Great Train Robbery. He became a fugitive in Australia with Charmia
Luck – Dustin Hoffman PREVIEW
Published on 2012-02-18 13:44:04
Rating: ★★★★½ Sky Atlantic, starts Saturday, 18 February, 9pm It's HBO, written by Deadwood creator David Milch, directed by Michael Mann and stars Dustin Hoffman. This tale of the racetrack and revenge is as close to a dead cert as you can get. So, is Luck as good as the formbook suggests? While the opener is sprawling and low on action from Hoffman's story as Ace Bernstein, the mover and shaker just released from prison, it is a great-looking episode full of dodgy characters and ri
Sherlock Complete Series 1 & 2 – Blu-ray Review
Published on 2012-02-17 07:02:32
Sherlock Complete Series 1 & 2 Blu-ray Episodes ★★★★★ Extras ★★★★★ Even on a second and third viewing, these episodes of 21st-century Holmes still fizz with wit and invention. Seeing them again rams home how good the cast and the adaptations are. Benedict Cumberbatch as the 'high-functioning sociopath' is a superb bit of casting, while Martin Freeman's wonderful comic asides and reactions sum up perfectly the audience's response to the consulting detective's outrageous
