... Crime of Passion Cecile, ATV, August 8 by James Towler MY initial response to the high viewing figures being won by Crime of Passion was simply that, as it is scheduled against the BBC Tuesday Documentary, it was bound to do well. Yet having watched Cecile ...

... re-enactments of unsolved crimes on Crime- watch (BBC) and Crime Monthly (LWT). The new LWT series True Crimes introduced and narrated by Michael Winner, was doomily forecast by those journalists who went to town on the pre-publicity, as being sensationalist ...

... Crime Monthlv LWT HAS POLICE 5 become too dowdy? Is Crimewatch grabbing the informing (rather than informed) viewer? This may have been the thinking behind Crime Monthly with help from some cliches left over from The Sweeney. Paul Ross (no relation to ...

... Suburban crime CHANNEL 4 Tickets for the Titanic THE LAST play in the present trilogy of black comedies. Checkpoint Chiswick by Andy Hamilton, is certainly the most thought-provoking and profound of the trio, simply because it is so easy to identify with ...

... Crime of Passion Jean-Paul, ATV, May 23 by Graham Clarke THE trouble about a formula for a television series is that it is so difficult to keep on dreaming up new stories on an old theme. The framework of Crime of Passion is restricted to a French criminal ...

... Crime In The City-The Mini Sagas BBC-2 THIS supremely stylish opener in what is billed as the mini sagas-thankfully no relation to the ubiquitous mini series-left nothing to chance. With only ten minutes in which to achieve his sung-in-the tail theme ...

... Powerful insider job on crime and punishment BY JAMES TOWLER Lynda LaPlante's meticulous research into crime and law enforcement has served the viewer well, not least because of her ability to develop the fruits of her fact-finding into gripping drama ...

... Crime will always be big television business BY CHRIS HUGHES Whenever real-life drama comes to TV it is about a crime, usually a murder, a love affair (usually triangular), political intrigue or, and sadly this is becoming all too frequent, a strange ...

... Winner faces the cameras to lift the lid on crime The Sunday before last saw the launch of yet another television pilot, Michael Winner's True Crimes. But will it make a series? Reduced budgets, falling ad revenues, BARB ratings and network competition ...

... Documentary series in production linking crime with forensic science A SERIES about the links between forensic science and the solution of crime, using the resources of the Home Office and the police force, is currently in production at the BBC. When ...

... Comedy to give gang crime a good kicking By Chris Hughes Glaswegian gang boss Malky Mulherron viewed his city from the top of a nasty high rise building and uttered the words: Drugs, violence, sieaze-God I love this city. From the start we knew that ...

... Cross-genre leap stops short of crime-related thrills Producers of television drama have more or less exhausted every aspect of the emergency services and, to satisfy the public's seemingly insatiable demand for crime related thrills, have turned to any ...