The best new and returning dramas to watch this week – from Ten Pound Poms to Get Millie Black
THE BEST new and returning dramas to watch this week – from Ten Pound Poms to Get Millie Black.
TV fans have some fabulous dramas to curl up with this week so lets dive in and find your new favourite.
Get Millie Back
Get Millie Black first aired Stateside on HBO last year but now UK viewers will be able to see it on Channel 4 for the very first time.
In Get Millie Black, the leading character of Millie, played by actress Tamara Lawrence, is a detective who is forced out of Scotland Yard and as such decides to return home to Jamaica to continue her detective work there.
As part of the Jamaican Police Force, Millie finds herself getting caught up in all different cases whilst navigating her own life.
The cast includes Joe Dempsie, Gershwyn Eustache Jnr, and Chyna McQueen.
Get Millie Back airs Wednesday 5th March on Channel 4 followed by another episode the following evening.
Ten Pound Poms
After a challenging first year in Australia, series two follows nurse Kate Thorne (Michelle Keegan) and the Roberts family into 1957.
On their adventure down under, each is determined against all odds to achieve their slice of the Australian dream.
As Kate, Annie and Terry settle into their new lives, they each struggle to reconcile their hopes for the life they were promised with the harsh realities they face at Galgownie.
Ten Pound Poms airs Sunday 9th March on BBC1.
Fear
Fear is a Prime Video thiller starring Martin Compston and Anjli Mohindra that sees a family pushed to its limit after they move to Glasgow.
Excited to make a fresh start away from London, Martyn and Rebecca move into a beautiful house in Glasgow with their two young children.
Facing accusations that are every parent’s worst nightmare, and with the authorities refusing to step in, Martyn and Rebecca feel they have nowhere to turn to for help.
Fear airs on Tuesday 4th March on Prime Video.
A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story
The much anticipated show stars Bohemian Rhapsody actress Lucy Boynton as the nightclub manager who shot her lover David Blakely dead outside Hampstead’s Magdala pub in 1955.
It explores the ‘hidden story’ of Ruth Ellis, who at the age of 28 ran a venue in London‘s glamorous clubland.
But her life unravelled when she fell into an abusive relationship with racing driver Blakely and on Easter Sunday, April 10, 1955, she tracked him down to the pub in South Hill Park where he was drinking.
It is told over two parallel timelines and reveals facts about the case and the lead up to the killing that have remained hidden for decades.
A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story airs Wednesday 5th March on ITV1.