What, no Whistlestop? Why The Girl on the Train should have stayed in bleak backyard Britain
Stopped trains, tepid white wine, sighing commuters … Paula Hawkins’s bestseller captured a very British world. As the film moves to New York, we look at the dos and don’ts of relocation
August 2014
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Why I prefer the US version of The Killing to the Danish original
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Melvyn Bragg's Radical Lives review – a Chaucerian delight
July 2014
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The Killing season four trailer: who is doing the killing this time?
Richard Vine: A new trailer has been released for what may be the thriller's final season – and it looks as if Linden and Holder have something to hide
July 2013
TV and radio blog
The Returned series finale: were you disappointed?
Michael Hogan: Did you feel it ended with a whimper, with plot threads dangling all over the place? Or was it appropriately mysterious? How did it compare with, say, the endings to Homeland or The Fall?
January 2013
The Bridge becomes the Tunnel in Anglo-French crime thriller remake
UK version of popular Danish drama series in pipeline for Sky Atlantic will bring together Folkestone and Calais with subtitles. By Vicky Frost
July 2012
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TV highlights 04/07/2012
River Cottage: Three Go Mad | When I Get Older | The Strange Case Of The Law | True Justice | B-52s: Live In Georgia USA | The Killing
May 2012
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TV highlights 30/05/2012
Lewis | 24 Hours In A&E | The Killing | Evidently – John Cooper Clarke | American Experience: New York – Centre Of The World | Archer
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TV highlights 23/05/2012
The Ragged-Tooth Shark | Justified | Frontline: A Jew Among Germans | Hitler's Children | 24 Hours In A&E | The Killing
TV ratings: US second series of The Killing loses out to a Channel 5 repeat
Channel 4 show attracts fewer viewers than original series on BBC4 as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit beats it. By John Plunkett
