Idris Elba is to star in Neil Cross’s first thrilling six-part series Luther, it was announced today, made by BBC Drama Production for BBC One.
Elba notably played Russell “Stringer” Bell in the ground-breaking American series The Wire, currently screening on BBC Two.
As John Luther, he plays a near-genius murder detective whose brilliant mind can’t always save him from the dangerous violence of his passions.
Writer of the acclaimed US drama, The Wire has said that the need for advertising is killing TV.
David Simon was speaking at a Edinburgh International TV Festival event hosted by Charlie Brooker.
He said: “Television as a medium, in terms of being literate and telling stories, has short-changed itself since its inception.
“That is because of advertising.”
Dominic West (The Wire, The Devil’s Whore) will star as straight-talking Australian scientist Professor Howard Florey in Breaking The Mould, a BBC Drama Production for BBC Four, it was announced today.
It is widely recognised that Alexander Fleming was the man who discovered penicillin but the truth is a bit more complicated than that – and the extraordinary story of Professor Florey is hardly known.
A witness who testified against D’Angelo at the murder trial is found slain, and McNulty brings D’Angelo in for questioning, as the critically acclaimed series continues.
An informant named Bubbles gives Detective Greggs the lay of the land at Franklin Terrace, the Barksdale gang’s home turf. Narcotics plain-clothes men Herc and Carver, along with auto theft Detective Pryzbylewski (a cop with a problematic history who is “dumped” on the detail), go to the Terrace looking for trouble. They soon find it…
One of television’s most critically acclaimed series, The Wire, comes to BBC Two as it receives its first airing on terrestrial television in the UK.
Created by David Simon and set in Baltimore, The Wire’s first season tells the story of a single drugs-and-murder police investigation from the point of view of the police and their targets.
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