UK TV viewers have been getting more crime series then ever before, but the usual TV and social critics are smiling about it because “all feature great storylines fuelled by emotion and moral dilemmas,” and they “also feature adult women playing mature and complex characters.”
Adult women? Really? Does anyone in the U.S. TV biz even know what an adult woman looks like any more?
by Christopher Stevens
For great British drama today, it’s a case of dialling 999. For the most riveting shows on television all feature sleuths and detectives in storylines fuelled by emotion that confront complex moral dilemmas. Crime TV has grown up from the early days of Dixon Of Dock Green and Z Cars.