Time

  • The second series of BBC’s Time is an intimate horror show. The performances are breathtaking: fierce, and utterly plausible. Awards will be won.

    Rachel Cooke — New Statesman

  • ★★★★ This portrait of women on the edge, battling systems outside of their control, is tight, tense, and compassionate.

    Nick Hilton — Independent

  • Bella Ramsey is incredible in this world-beating drama. Watch all three episodes in rapt awe, then make a little vow to yourself afterwards to stay out of trouble. They really would eat you alive in there.

    Joel Golby — The Guardian

  • ★★★★ Prison drama is BBC at its very best; a brilliant piece of television that wholly deserves your time.

    Abby Robinson — Radio Times

  • ★★★★ Time is at its best when showing that it’s the outside world where the true terror lies. How easy it is for the connection to fray, how thin it always was. You feel with all your heart for Whittaker’s Orla.

    Stuart McGurk — The Standard

  • ★★★★ The second series retains all the punishing authenticity and insights of the Bafta-winning original.

    Dan Einav - Financial Times

  • ★★★★ This prison drama was already harrowing, then series 2 moved to a women’s jail for another eye-opening foray into the reality of prison and its ramifications in the outside world.

    Gerard Gilbert — iNews

  • ★★★★ The second series of Jimmy McGovern’s fantastic drama follows three women coming to terms with life inside. It's a wrenching, violent story of motherhood behind bars.

    Jasper Rees — The Telegraph

  • ★★★★ Jodie Whittaker shines in bleak women's prison drama; it gets stronger and more moving with every episode.

    Carol Midgley — Times UK

  • ★★★★ The ex-Doctor puts in a brilliant performance alongside Bella Ramsey. It’s a powerful message... like the first series, it brings attention to a terrible problem and demands a search for answers.

    Lucy Mangan — The Guardian

The Confessions of Frannie Langton

  • ★★★★ A haunting miniseries that unfolds with a gorgeous seriousness of purpose. The opening scene is unquestionably gripping, the spark of well-struck flint that quickly catches fire and burns slowly with great satisfaction all the way through.

    Charlotte Clymer — Metro Weekly

  • ★★★★ A superbly multifaceted gothic thriller...all wrapped up in a rich, compelling story that keeps tight hold of its plot and leaves you hoping, almost as ardently as Frannie, for justice to be done.

    Lucy Mangan — The Guardian

  • ★★★★ Four episodes of tightly scripted television that hit with devastating emotional force. This show is a past-due exploration of historic black Britain and a celebration of the power of love; reader, it was excellent. Just don’t watch without tissues to hand.

    Vicky Jessop — The Standard

  • ★★★★ The Confessions of Frannie Langton is gloriously gothic… it’s one of the first things I’ve watched for a long time where I genuinely don’t know what’s coming next.

    Emily Watkins — iNews

  • ★★★★ It is rare for any drama to grab you by the scruff of the neck from the very first scene, let alone a costume one. But The Confessions of Frannie Langton is a gripping piece of work in which Karla-Simone Spence as the eponymous heroine is compelling... It's worth four hours of anyone's time.

    Carol Midgley — The Times

The Trial of Christine Keeler

  • ★★★★ Directed by Andrea Harkin, it’s an extremely handsome, expensive-looking production that wouldn’t look out of place dropped into a run of The Crown.

    Paul Kirkley — Radio Times

  • ★★★★ The story of the Profumo affair seen from a rare perspective – Keeler’s – is increasingly dark as a tangled web closes in around her. It's a furiously fast, fun ride which doesn’t let the deeper, darker issues fall from its grasp.

    Lucy Mangan — The Guardian

  • ★★★★ Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies have been given their young lives back, rather than existing as adjuncts only to historical geopolitics, and as such this has been a marvellous endeavour, finely produced and shot.

    Euan Ferguson — The Observer

  • ★★★★ With high production-values and space to get to know the characters, it played out in places like a sexier and less staid version of The Crown. It was a compelling history lesson, and one that might help to repair the reputation of a much-maligned young woman.

    Anita Singh — The Telegraph

  • ★★★★★ Christine Keeler has always been treated as a supporting player in her own life story. For the first time, this drama gives us an impression of who she was.

    Christopher Stevens — The Daily Mail

  • ★★★★ Sophie Cookson is simply sensational. Yes, the physical resemblance is uncanny, but Cookson also finds just the right mix of strength and vulnerability in a young woman who is simultaneously street smart, and hopelessly naïve.

    Paul Kirkley — Radio Times

  • ★★★★ A scandal imbued with a stylish exoticism with two terrific actors in the roles of Keeler (Sophie Cookson is magnetic) and Mandy Rice-Davies (Ellie Bamber), using sex as their only card to play.

    Carol Midgley — The Times

Come Home

  • A three-part drama of such quality to rival anything currently trailing from any of the BBC's many flagstaffs. Thrillingly well acted, unerringly scripted, this is seriously yer man.

    Euan Ferguson - Observer

  • ★★★★ It is all beautifully played and beautifully put together and I am in, totally, for the duration.

    Lucy Mangan — The Guardian

  • A gut-wrenching journey for the viewer, the dramatic tension was maintained by a fine cast and some elegant writing and direction.

    Sean O'Grady — The Independent

  • ★★★★ Christopher Ecclestone is reliably great in this family mystery.

    Alistair McKay — The Standard

  • Like Eccleston, Paula Malcomson inhabited every aspect of Marie with naturalism. This cast was top level, and made this sadly recognisable portrait of a disintegrated family affecting and complex.

    Louise Mellor — Den of Geek

  • ★★★★ Knockout acting and a neatly observed script mean that Come Home deals with family break-up better than most family dramas.

    James Jackson — The Times