Cate Blanchett

The Hardacres

Monday

Channel 5, 9.00pm

Downtown Abbey meets Poldark in this adaptation of CL Skelton’s novels.

In 2024, Catherine Ravenscroft (Blanchett) is a journalist at the height of her career – even receiving a coveted Royal Television Society Journalism award – before the novelisation of her past arrives and her achievements crumble around her.

The mysterious novel’s author is ‘unknown,’ but knows Ravenscroft’s most valuable secrets. A series of 2001 flashbacks, with Leila George (Mortal Engines) playing the young Ravenscroft, reveal a long-past relationship with a tragic end for her lover Jonathan (Louis Partridge, Enola Holmes).