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Black Earth Rising

December 2020

  • Composite of actors Paapa Essiedu (left) and Lennie James

    Real talk: a conversation special
    Lennie James meets Paapa Essiedu: ‘I was probably in the last wave of actors who needed to go to the US’

    The stars of The Walking Dead and I May Destroy You on great TV, grief and black British culture

December 2018

  • Home Office ‘go home’ van.

    On second thoughts
    ‘Go home’ to Ghana. Well, why not?

    Michaela Coel
  • Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh in Killing Eve

    2018 in TV
    The 50 best TV shows of 2018: the full list

  • Charles Dance in The Little Drummer Girl.

    2018 in TV
    Filthy rich agents: how shadowy elites conquered TV in 2018

  • A hinterland of moral and political complexity … Michaela Coel in Black Earth Rising.

    2018 in TV
    The 50 best TV shows of 2018: No 8 – Black Earth Rising

October 2018

  • Michaela Coel as Kate Ashby ... her performance was a revelation.

    TV review
    Black Earth Rising finale review – slick Rwandan drama signs off in style

  • Black Earth Rising

    Black Earth Rising: episode by episode
    Black Earth Rising recap: the finale – it has been a grim pleasure

  • Clockwise from top left: The Great British Bake Off; Stephen Fry’s Victorian Secrets; The Little Drummer Girl; House Of Cards; Black Earth Rising; The First.

    Sound and vision
    This week’s best home entertainment: from The Little Drummer Girl to Homecoming

  • Alice Kabera (Noma Dumezweni).

    Black Earth Rising: episode by episode
    Black Earth Rising recap: episode seven – who is about to meet their doom?

  • TV tonight
    Monday’s best TV: My Dinner With Hervé; Black Earth Rising

  • Black Earth Rising: episode by episode
    Black Earth Rising recap: episode six – the arrival of the guardian angel

  • Black Earth Rising: episode by episode
    Black Earth Rising recap: episode five – deeper into the abyss

  • Black Earth Rising: episode by episode
    Black Earth Rising recap: episode four – who is Bobby Fischer?

September 2018

  • Kate Ashby and Michael Ennis

    Black Earth Rising: episode by episode
    Black Earth Rising recap: episode three – can Michael be trusted?

  • Jodie Comer as Villanelle

    Books blog
    Why Killing Eve is keeping our love of TV adaptations alive

  • WARNING: Embargoed for publication until 00:00:01 on 11/09/2018 - Programme Name: Black Earth Rising - TX: 17/09/2018 - Episode: n/a (No. Ep 2) - Picture Shows: *STRICTLY NOT FOR PUBLICATION UNTIL 00:01HRS, TUESDAY 11TH SEPTEMBER, 2018* Kate Ashby (MICHAELA COEL) - (C) Forgiving Earth Ltd - Photographer: Des Willie

    Black Earth Rising: episode by episode
    Black Earth Rising recap: episode two – is anyone safe?

  • Michaela Coel as Kate Ashby in Black Earth Rising

    ‘Why weren’t we taught this at school?’ asks star of Rwanda drama

  • Black Earth Rising review – Michaela Coel shines in this rich, demanding drama

  • Black Earth Rising: episode by episode
    Black Earth Rising recap: episode one – the past will not remain hidden

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