[TV] What's good to watch on ITVX ?

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

With the trailers for Red Eye still being shown I’m still amused the detective constable in it was called D.C Lee

 

[Is it PotG?]

Protection.

Detective Inspector Liz Nyles (Siobhan Finneran) is a single mum, juggling a difficult divorce and a sick father, and who finds herself at the heart of a security breach within her witness protection unit. Professionally compromised by a secret affair with a colleague, she is determined to uncover the true source of corruption within the police. Liz will stop at nothing to redeem herself, the reputation of her lover, and to keep her witnesses and her own family safe. Even if it means breaking all the rules.

This is the story of a tough, but increasingly isolated and under suspicion police officer, as she is pulled into a dangerous conspiracy where nothing is as it seems.

The cast also includes Nadine Marshall, Katherine Kelly, Barry Ward and Chaneil Kular.

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As mentioned below, not too shabby and well worth a watch.

 

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ITV has unveiled a first-look image from its upcoming Ruth Ellis drama, A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story.

Lucy Boynton stars as the infamous murderess, the last woman to be hanged in the UK.

The four-part series tells the hidden story of Ellis and exposes the timeless British obsessions of class, sex and death.

Set in 1955 in the glamorous and intoxicating world of London club-land, Ruth found huge acclaim, aged 28, as the capital’s youngest club manager.

But her success soon unravelled as she became entwined in an abusive relationship with racing driver David Blakely. On trial for his murder, Ruth was condemned to hang by a system which judged her for far more than her crime.

The cast also includes Toby Jones, Laurie Davidson and Mark Stanley, as well as Joe Armstrong, Arthur Darvill, Nigel Havers, Toby Stephens and Juliet Stevenson.

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Just finished this, very good.

Jones is such a good actor.

 

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Code Of Silence heralds another new crime where deaf actors feature front and centre.

At the heart of the series is Alison Brooks (Rose Ayling-Ellis), a smart and determined deaf woman – having spent years working in a police canteen and secretly observing conversations, her life takes an unexpected turn when her exceptional lip-reading skills catch the attention of DS Ashleigh Francis (Charlotte Ritchie) and DI James Marsh (Andrew Buchan).

Recruited for a covert operation, Alison is tasked with surveilling a dangerous gang as they plot a high-stakes heist, thrusting her into a world of crime, deception, and risk like never before. As her interpretations of their covert conversations become central to the investigation, Alison is thrust into an exhilarating and perilous new world.

Her role quickly becomes crucial to solving the case, but everything grows more complicated when she finds herself drawn to suspect Liam Bayne (Kieron Moore). Despite the escalating risks and threats to her personal life, Alison refuses to walk away.

 

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A “gripping” Australian thriller about a romance scam has been confirmed for an ITV release in the UK.

Fake premiered in its home country last year, and focuses on a feature writer called Birdie Bell (Nine Perfect Strangers’ Asher Keddie) who matches with a successful rancher called Joe (Lord of the Rings’ David Wenham) on a dating app.

While she thinks she’s found the perfect match, Birdie begins to be torn between Joe’s magnetic pull and the feeling that’s he’s not all that he seems.

ITV has now announced that Fake will drop all eight episodes to stream on ITVX on Sunday, April 20, and will air weekly on ITV1 on Saturday evenings from April 26.

 

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A “gripping” Australian thriller about a romance scam has been confirmed for an ITV release in the UK.

Fake premiered in its home country last year, and focuses on a feature writer called Birdie Bell (Nine Perfect Strangers’ Asher Keddie) who matches with a successful rancher called Joe (Lord of the Rings’ David Wenham) on a dating app.

While she thinks she’s found the perfect match, Birdie begins to be torn between Joe’s magnetic pull and the feeling that’s he’s not all that he seems.

ITV has now announced that Fake will drop all eight episodes to stream on ITVX on Sunday, April 20, and will air weekly on ITV1 on Saturday evenings from April 26.

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Mrs Corner watched this on Netflix?? I think. She loved it - I watched about 20 mins with her at the start but found it very boring - each to their own

 

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Just finished this, very good.

Jones is such a good actor.

It revealed a lot I wasnt previously aware of, such as how badly she was represented by her barrister and how he focused on her motive as being that of a jealous woman who had been betrayed and he completely ignored the physical and emotional abuse Ellis suffered at the hands of Blakely, including the misscarriage she suffered after one beating. She had no chance with him representing her.

Nigel Havers as the judge was playing his grandfather Lord Havers who was the judge in the Ellis trial