The most striking thing about last night’s Framed – other than the Welsh scenery – was that Trevor Eve, playing main protagonist Quentin Lester, has been practicing his shouting. Eve has always been prone to raising his voice operatically to provide emphasis, but he really took it to another level in last night’s show.

However, overall, Framed provided gentle, if ‘vanilla’, watching for the main part – shouting aside – and was typically inoffensive BBC Bank Holiday fayre; the sort of thing that every family member can watch without fear of shocking granny or having to sit beside your parents while on-screen, someone simulates breathless nookie. Read more & comment »

Trevor Eve and Eve Myles star in Framed, a brand new family drama, based on Frank Cottrell Boyce’s best-selling children’s novel, made by BBC Drama Productions for BBC One.

Set almost entirely in Wales, the one-off drama tells the story of 10-year-old Dylan Hughes and his family’s struggle to keep afloat their small petrol station, which sits at the foot of a mountain in North Wales.

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