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First look images released of Aimee Lou Wood’s debut romcom Film Club

Wood stars as Evie, a young woman who’s weekly ‘film club’ is her escape from her day to day life. Every Friday she decks out her mum’s garage in decorations, dresses up and invites over her friends, Kam (Arian Nik, Daddy Issues), Samantha (Fola Evans Akingbola, The Night Agent), Dominic (co-creator Ralph Davis) and… Noa (Nabhaan Rizwan, Industry).

Evie has been harbouring quite the crush on her best friend Noa, and has no idea it is reciprocated.

Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie to return for Vigil series three

The pair stand together in front of a fortified entrance to a compound of some kind with tall blue fences

This series will see DCI Amy Silva (Jones) and DI Kirsten Longacre (Leslie) investigate the shooting of a special forces operative on a remote Arctic base.

Series one focused on a murder in a naval submarine, whereas series two centred around a drone attack that left several soldiers dead. This time round, Silva and Longacre will find themselves in the middle of another political storm. With multiple countries interested in the resource-rich Arctic, the pair will be operating in the midst of what could turn into an international showdown. 

Suranne Jones and Jodie Whittaker to star in ITV heist drama

A photo of Suranne Jones next to a photo of Jodie Whittaker, both wearing white shirts. Jones smiles, whereas Whittaker has her mouth slightly open and looks into the camera enigmatically

Frauds follows Bert (Jones) and Sam (Whittaker). Both have been living in Spain for the last few years, Sam in the rolling hills and Bert in the slightly less idyllic setting of a prison cell. After a decade behind bars, a cancer diagnosis allows Bert to walk free on compassionate discharge.

With only a few weeks to live, she resolves to take on a multi-million-pound art heist that will test her mettle, and prove her worth. Sam reluctantly lets Bert back into her life, and quickly finds herself returning to the life of crime she’s tried to leave behind.

Meet the 10 new stars of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK

10 new queens will enter the Werkroom and go through one of the toughest competitions/ bootcamps of their lives. Alongside singing, dancing and acting, the queens must be able to sew, create veritable works of art on their faces, impersonate a variety of celebrities, insult their fellow queens and lip sync as if their lives depend on it.

Vigil series two takes to the skies as new cast enlisted

Gary Lewis and Suranne Jones as DSU Robertson and DCI Amy Silva in series one of Vigil

Whereas the first series saw the duo investigate the death of a crew member on board a Royal Navy submarine, the second six-parter will see them take on the British air force.

Following a number of unexplained fatalities at a Scottish military facility, DCI Silva and DI Longacre set out to reveal the cause. But standing in their way are the hostile and closed ranks of the air force.

The Gentleman Jack effect

Gentleman Jack cast

Halifax is the Lourdes for lesbians,” said producer-director and former Chair of RTS Yorkshire Fiona Thompson at “Celebrating Gentleman Jack: Changing lives”.

Not a sentence many would have anticipated hearing, but this is only one of the consequences of the so-called “Gentleman Jack effect”.

Anne Lister, Sally Wainwright’s eponymous Gentleman Jack, born in 1791, was a Halifax industrialist, landowner, diarist and self-assured lesbian, and hero of possibly the most important TV drama of recent times.

Gentleman Jack star Suranne Jones creates new ITV drama Maryland

Maryland tells the story of two estranged sisters who, when tragedy strikes, rediscover their love and respect for one another.

Jones will also star as one of the sisters, Becca, who, like her sister Rosaline (Eve Best), has forged ahead with her own family life and career.

The sisters have grown distant through time and circumstance but the discovery of a body of an older woman on Laxey Beach in the Isle of Man upends their lives and brings them back together.