COMPETITION: Win Harry Wild: Series 1 to 4 on DVD

The ‘first class detective drama’ (Good Housekeeping) has been a hit with audiences across the globe since its launch on Acorn TV, and now, fans can dive into more endlessly entertaining mysteries with Harry Wild Series 4 and Series 1 to 4 Box Set which is set to arrive on DVD and digital on 27 April 2026.

And to celebrate we have a copy of Series 1 to 4 on DVD to give away!

Synopsis:

Seymour is joined by a stellar returning cast with Rohan Nedd (Whitstable Peal, Blue Story) as her trusty partner, alongside Kevin Ryan (Guilt, Copper), Rose O'Neill (Sherlock & Daughter), Samantha Mumba (The Time Machine), Paul Tylak (Kin, Informer) and there’s a new face this season as Aoife Mulholland (How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?) takes on the role of Orla (replacing Amy Huberman). 

 

In series four, business is booming for the eponymous sleuth Harry Wild (Seymour) and her young protégé, Fergus (Nedd), as a slew of brand-new cases see the formidable duo travel far and wide. With a serial killer on the loose, detective Charlie Wild (Ryan), enlists his mother’s help to crack the case, meanwhile, Fergus’ hopes of going to college with Charlie’s daughter, Lola (O’Neil), are threatened when she gets an incredible offer to study abroad. 

 

This series sees Harry hired by her friend, a former wild child turned nun, who suspects foul play at her convent; investigate a racetrack sabotage that ends in tragedy; crack a strange case of disappearing dancers; solve the murder of a Harry Wild doppelgänger and more killer mysteries. 

 

With a magnetic lead, dynamite supporting cast and a delightful mix of mysteries, witty dialogue and light-hearted humour, Harry Wild is the sleuthing sensation you won’t want to miss. With a fifth series on the way, now is the perfect time to catch up on this much-loved crime caper with a box set binge-watch. 

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Sixty Years of Hurt Sets Out to Decode England Through Football

Image: Steve Best Xavicus Media via BBC Press

By Jon Donnis

The England men’s football team has always carried more than the weight of results. It drags behind it something heavier and harder to define, a sense that every pass, every missed chance, every flicker of brilliance reflects the country itself. Triumphs feel like national release. Failures linger like collective memory. It is never just a game, not really.

That idea sits at the centre of Sixty Years of Hurt, a new series hosted by David Baddiel for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. Framed as part of The History Podcast, the series looks at England’s football story as something broader than sport, a cultural thread running through decades of social change, tension and identity.

Baddiel approaches the subject from a personal angle that mirrors the complexity he is trying to unpack. Born in America, with a Welsh father and a mother who fled Nazi Germany, he still found himself drawn into supporting England. That contradiction becomes a starting point rather than a footnote. His aim is not just to revisit famous matches or painful defeats, but to understand why the connection between team and nation runs so deep.

Across the series, he traces a line from the euphoria of 1966 through the near misses of 1996 and into the present day, speaking to those who experienced it from every angle. Voices such as Stephen Fry, Stuart Pearce and David Seaman sit alongside writers, comedians and cultural commentators, each offering a different lens on what the England team has meant at various moments in time.

The result is less a straightforward sports retrospective and more a study of how national myths are built and reshaped. The shirt with three lions becomes a symbol that absorbs ideas about class, race, expectation and belonging. The players may change, the managers come and go, but the emotional pattern remains familiar. Hope rises, reality intervenes, and the cycle begins again.

Behind the scenes, the series is produced by BBC Studios Audio in collaboration with Left Bank Pictures, the team also working on Dear England for BBC television. That connection underlines how this story continues to evolve across different formats, each trying to capture something that feels both deeply personal and widely shared.

There is a sense that the timing matters. With another World Cup approaching, attention naturally returns to the national side, along with the familiar mixture of optimism and doubt. Sixty Years of Hurt leans into that mood, offering something more reflective than the usual build up. It asks what England sees when it looks at its team, and whether that reflection has changed at all.

The series begins on 16 May, airing weekly at 10:00am. It arrives not as a celebration or a post mortem, but as an attempt to understand why, after decades of frustration and fleeting joy, the connection still holds.

Ponies Brings Cold War Intrigue to Sky This May

Image: Sky TV Press

By Jon Donnis

A sharp chill runs through Sky’s May line up with the arrival of Ponies, a new espionage thriller that leans into paranoia, grief, and quiet reinvention. Set against the tense backdrop of 1970s Moscow, the series lands in full on 22 May, with every episode available at once on Sky and NOW across the UK and Ireland. At its centre are two women who begin as invisible figures in the machinery of diplomacy, only to find themselves pulled into something far more dangerous.

Emilia Clarke plays Bea, a highly educated Russian speaker shaped by her family’s Soviet roots, while Haley Lu Richardson takes on Twila, a blunt and fearless outsider with little patience for niceties. Both start as secretaries in the American Embassy, dismissed as what intelligence circles call ‘persons of no interest’. That label does not last. When their husbands are killed under murky circumstances, the pair are drawn into the world of CIA operations, forced to navigate a system that never expected them to matter.

The show leans into that shift in identity. What begins as quiet administrative work turns into something far more precarious, with Bea and Twila stepping into roles that demand instinct, resilience, and a willingness to question everything around them. Their partnership sits at the heart of the story, a clash of backgrounds and temperaments that gradually hardens into something dependable, if never entirely comfortable.

There is a wider conspiracy lurking beneath their personal loss, rooted firmly in the anxieties of the Cold War. Moscow in 1977 is not just a setting but a pressure cooker, where suspicion hangs in the air and every move carries weight. The series promises a slow uncovering of truths, as the two women try to piece together not just who killed their husbands, but why.

Supporting performances come from Adrian Lester, Artjom Gilz, Nicholas Podany, Petro Ninovskyi and Vic Michaelis, each adding to a cast that reflects the layered, international nature of the story. Together, they help build a world where allegiances are never clear and trust is always in short supply.

Ponies looks set to balance personal drama with the mechanics of espionage, grounding its story in character as much as in conspiracy. It is a tale of people overlooked, then forced into the spotlight, and what happens when they realise just how much they are capable of.

The Cage Preview - Get ready for a high-stakes, high energy crime story set within the world of a Liverpool casino

Image: BBC Press

By Jon Donnis

A new crime drama is arriving with serious pedigree behind it. The Cage comes from BAFTA-nominated writer Tony Schumacher, known for The Responder, and is produced by the Academy Award-winning Element Pictures, the team linked to Poor Things and Normal People. It is set to land on BBC iPlayer and BBC One, bringing a tense, character-driven story straight into the heart of Liverpool.

The premise wastes no time in setting up conflict. Leanne, played by Sheridan Smith, and Matty, played by Michael Socha, both work at an inner-city casino. What they do not realise at first is that they are each secretly stealing from the same safe. Once that truth comes out, everything begins to spiral. Their actions tie them not just to each other, but to a local gangster whose money they have taken, and to the police closing in.

The story is built as a high-stakes, high-energy crime drama, but its real focus sits with the two central characters. Leanne and Matty are pushed into a situation neither can easily escape, and the tension comes from watching how their choices collide. It is less about a single crime and more about the consequences that ripple out from it.

Set against the backdrop of a Liverpool casino, the setting adds a constant sense of pressure. Money, risk, and secrecy all feel part of the same world, and that environment feeds directly into the unfolding drama. Every decision carries weight, and the stakes only rise as the story moves forward.

The Cage begins on Sunday 26 April, launching from 6am on BBC iPlayer before airing at 9pm on BBC One.

The Sentinels: The BBC’s new French sci-fi thriller brings super soldiers to the Great War

Louis Peres plays Gabriel Ferraud (Image: Caroline Dubois / Federation Studio France / Esprits Frappeurs / CANAL+)

By Jon Donnis

The BBC is bringing a gritty new French drama to iPlayer and BBC Four called The Sentinels. It is an eight part series that takes the First World War and flips it on its head by mixing historical espionage with heavy sci-fi elements. The show is based on the graphic novels by Xavier Dorison and Enrique Breccia.

The story follows a soldier named Gabriel Ferraud who gets badly injured during the early days of the war. Instead of being sent home, he is pulled into a clandestine military experiment. They inject him with a serum that turns him into a super soldier with massive strength and speed. He becomes part of an elite squad known as the Sentinels, but as he fights on the front lines, he starts to realise the program has some dark secrets that might change the course of the war entirely.

The series was directed by Thierry Poiraud and Édouard Salier, with a cast featuring Louis Peres as Gabriel. Other actors like Thibaut Evrard and Kacey Mottet-Klein also star in the production.

Nick Lee, who handles acquisitions for the BBC, described the show as an adrenaline-fueled experience. He mentioned that it feels like a mix of steampunk and something more modern like RoboCop, but it still has the emotional depth of a story like Frankenstein. It sounds like it will be quite a visceral and unique watch for British audiences.

The show was produced by Federation Studio France and Esprits Frappeurs for CANAL+. STUDIOCANAL is managing the international distribution for the series.

The Fortress - Starring Russell Tovey & Tobias Santelmann available to stream from 18 April 2026

Image: Viaplay

By Jon Donnis

A high wall cuts Norway off from the rest of the world, and for a while, it works. In 2037, the country has reshaped itself into a self-sustaining state, powered by clean energy and supported by local food production. Borders are sealed, movement is controlled, and the outside world feels distant, almost irrelevant. Inside, life appears stable. Safe, even. That illusion does not last.

When a deadly virus begins to spread, the very barrier designed to protect the population turns into something far more sinister. Isolation becomes confinement. With no way out and no clear solution, fear takes hold quickly. The government responds with tightening control, expanding surveillance, and increasingly harsh measures that begin to reshape daily life. Supplies begin to strain, trust breaks down, and the sense of unity that once defined this controlled utopia starts to fracture.

At the centre of the story are two families, separated by the wall and driven by the same desperate goal. One is trapped inside the sealed nation, dealing with the growing pressure of a society turning inward. The other remains on the outside, fighting against distance, restrictions, and time itself. Their struggle to reunite cuts through the wider chaos, grounding the series in something deeply human.

Led by Tobias Santelmann, Russell Tovey, Selome Emnetu and Eili Harboe, the series brings together an international cast that adds weight and texture to the unfolding crisis. Performances lean into the tension, balancing personal stakes with the broader collapse of order.

The Fortress is not just about a virus or a sealed border. It looks closely at isolationism, the cost of control, and the fragile nature of trust in a system built on restriction. The premise feels uncomfortably close to real-world anxieties, which only sharpens its impact. There is a cinematic quality throughout, with stark visuals that reinforce both the scale of the wall and the emotional distance it creates.

This seven part sci-fi drama thriller, each episode running 45 minutes, unfolds in both Norwegian and English, with subtitles available. It is a series that takes its time, allowing tension to build steadily rather than relying on spectacle alone.

The Fortress Series 1 arrives on Viaplay UK from Saturday 18 April, offering a tense and thought-provoking watch that lingers long after the final episode.

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Gangs of London Series Four Begins Filming with New Cast and Creative Team

Image: Sky TV Press

By Jon Donnis

Filming is now underway on the fourth series of Gangs of London, with Sky confirming the return of the drama in partnership with AMC+. Produced by VICE Studios, the new series brings back a number of familiar faces while introducing new cast members and a fresh creative team.

Returning cast members include Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Michelle Fairley, Narges Rashidi and Andrew Koji, alongside Brian Vernel, Orli Shuka, T’Nia Miller, Valene Kane and Pippa Bennett-Warner. Their return continues the story within London’s criminal underworld.

Jack Lothian joins the series as lead writer and executive producer, with Jean Luc Herbulot taking on the role of lead director. Herbulot’s film Saloum premiered in the Midnight Madness strand at the Toronto International Film Festival, the same programme that previously featured The Raid from co creator Gareth Evans and Project Wolf Hunting from earlier series director Kim Hong-sun.

New additions to the cast include Tamara Lawrance as Jo Malik, Luna Fujimoto as Hanaka, Eugene Nomura as Takeshi Kimura and Melika Foroutan as Zerin. The new series will explore shifting alliances and emerging threats within the criminal landscape.

Gangs of London series four is now in production.

Synopsis

As the looming threat of legalisation and government crackdowns tightens its grip on London’s criminal underworld, the gangs are forced into an increasingly volatile fight for survival. Exiled from London, Elliot Carter is on a bloodied path to redemption that draws him back to the capital, where shifting alliances and rising tensions threaten to upend the balance of power. When Zeek Kimura reemerges, backed by a ruthless syndicate from abroad, the stakes escalate and the future of everyone involved, from the Wallaces to Luan, Lale and Elliot himself, is thrown into question.

The series will air on Sky and streaming service NOW in the UK and Ireland, and in the US on AMC+, AMC Global Media’s premium streaming bundle, with NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution handling international sales.