All the Action is on BBC This Week!

First up is the twisty new Welsh cop drama The One That Got Away, debuting on BBC One Wales and BBC Four. Described as an “edge-of-your-seat thriller interwoven with an electrifying love story,” this series is sure to keep you hooked.

Meanwhile, Dope Girls, a promising new series with an all-star cast, makes its debut. Set in the aftermath of WWI, the show follows housewife Kate Galloway (Julianne Nicholson), who opens a nightclub in Soho to support her daughters. But danger lurks at every corner as Kate faces off with a ruthless gangster family and the police. Eliza Scanlen (from Little Women) plays Violet Davies, one of the first female officers in the Metropolitan Police, tasked with going undercover to investigate the world of illicit Soho nightclubs. It’s here she meets Billie Cassidy (Umi Myers, Bob Marley: One Love), a bohemian dancer whose world is turned upside down by Kate’s arrival. Geraldine James also stars as Isabella, the formidable leader of the Salucci crime family. The series also stars The Split’s Sophie Button.

And that’s not all! The White Lotus Season 3 has critics raving, promising another intense season of high-stakes drama. Plus, don’t miss the latest edge-of-your-seat episode of Severance this Friday – after last week’s we are now halfway toward learning the truth behind creepy Lumon Industries. #worklifebalance

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The One That Got Away – BBC – 25 Feb

This new Welsh detective drama stars Elen Rhys (The Mallorca Files, Craith/Hidden) as DI Ffion Lloyd, who teams up with her former lover, DS Rick Sheldon (Richard Harrington, Y Gwyll/Hinterland), to investigate the murder of a nurse in a Welsh seaside town, raising the horrifying prospect of a copycat killer and reuniting two former lovers tasked with finding the killer. The Welsh language version was Cleddau, which came out last year. We now get the English version!

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Dope Girls – BBC iPlayer – 22 Feb

Based on the book Dope Girls: The Birth Of The British Drug Underground, London is in a post-WWI euphoric haze when Kate (Julianne Nicholson) and her daughter Evie arrive in search of a new beginning. Women have kept the country running in the absence of men at war, but now the men are back and the new world order is demanding a return to the original state. Against a tinderbox environment where freshly found freedoms rub up against old regimes, a new era is about to be unleashed by a ferociously feminine force taking futures into their own hands for better or for worse.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=46gmegmSG4E

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The White Lotus – Available on HBO – 16 Feb

Dark secrets, violence, and twisted truths involving the guests, staff and the locale of a luxurious Thailand resort are unveiled over the course of a week that’s supposed to be a relaxing vacation. The all-star cast of this dark comedy / drama includes: Parker Posey, Natasha Rothwell (remember her in The White Lotus S1?), Carrie Coon, and Michelle Monaghan. Sit back and enjoy the stunning scenery of Phuket, and Koh Samui.

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The Crow Girl – Available now on Paramount+, YouTube and Amazon Prime.

DCI Jeanette Kilburn (Eve Myles) and eminent psychotherapist Dr. Sophia Craven join forces to hunt the killer of young men whose bodies keep turning up. The investigation takes Jeanette and Sophia into a dangerous world of historic abuse and murder. It’s described as a “nail-biting, twisted and contemporary psychological thriller” from the team behind Marcella.

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Virdee – BBC iPlayer – 10 Feb

We meet Detective Harry Virdee, a conflicted Bradford cop disowned by his Sikh family for marrying Saima, who is Muslim. With his personal life in chaos, he must hunt down a killer targeting the Asian community as he struggles with being pulled into an uncomfortable alliance with a notorious drugs kingpin in order to snare the murderer. Games of Thrones’ Staz Nair stars.

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Unforgotten – Available on ITVX and Amazon Prime Video – 9 Feb

The sixth series of the hit cold case drama premiered on ITV1 (and STV in Scotland) on 9 February, with all episodes of the season available to stream on ITVX as a boxset on the same day. Jessie and Sunny, both experiencing strains at home, delve into the discovery of a body dumped in the marsh — apparently dismembered. The synopsis reveals: “As the investigation unfolds, viewers are introduced to a diverse new cast of characters.’’

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The Vanishings – Channel 5 – 6 Feb

Irish crime drama The Vanishings stars India Mullen and Downton Abbey’s Allen Leech. Filmed in Dublin’s Blackrock it’s based on the cases of women who vanished in the 1990s in Ireland. Dubliner Leech plays Detective David Burke, while Mullen stars as reporter Lisa Wallace. Desperate to stop the closing of a women’s shelter, Wallace publishes an article linking her own experience with violence against women – her mother’s murder. As the reactions to the article flow in, so does a letter from her mother’s killer, hinting at the kidnapping of another woman.

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The Åre Murders – Netflix – 6 Feb

A Stockholm detective under internal investigation heads to a ski resort to unwind, until a young girl’s disappearance compels her back to work. The series that takes place in the beautiful, snowy town of Åre (pronounced Ura) in Sweden and its two parts are based on two books by Swedish author Viveca Sten, “Hidden in Snow” and “Hidden in the Shadows’’.

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The Recruit Season 2 – Netflix – 30 Jan

Season 2 sees CIA lawyer Owen Hendricks pulled into life-threatening espionage in South Korea only to realize the bigger threat just might be coming from inside the agency. The series picks up directly after Season 1’s shock ending.

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Severance – Available now on Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV – 17 Jan

In this clever sci-fi drama Mark S (Adam Scott) leads a team of office co-workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives; when a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.

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