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Five Days 'tecs Bonneville and McTeer return

Five Days 'tecs Bonneville and McTeer return
  • Posted at 12:51pm
  • 05 November 2008
  • by JackSeale-RT

Did you watch missing-person thriller Five Days last February and think, "These detectives are great. They should have their own series"? Someone at BBC1 obviously did, because Hugh Bonneville (pictured) and Janet McTeer are coming back as DS Iain Barclay and DS Amy Foster.

In Hunter - a two-parter filming now - Barclay is assigned to the case of two children abducted by radical extremists. Frustrated by his team's lack of experience, he calls the cynical, boozy DS Foster out of retirement to help him. A production from the BBC's own drama department, Hunter airs early next year.

Michael Palin's return journey

Michael Palin is revisiting one of the most memorable legs of the journey he took 20 years ago in Around the World in 80 Days. In a one-hour special on BBC1 later this year, he'll try to track down the crew of the Al-Shama, the Arabian dhow that ferried him from Dubai to Bombay in episode three of the original series.

Andrea Levy's Small Island to be adapted

BBC1 has commissioned a two-part dramatisation of Andrea Levy's award-winning novel, Small Island. An epic love story set in Jamaica and England, it starts Naomie Harris as Hortense Joseph, a Jamaican who travels to London in the late 1940s to join her husband Gilbert (David Oyelowo).

It co-stars Jane Eyre's Ruth Wilson as Gilbert's landlady Queenie, and Benedict Cumberbatch as Queenie's husband, Bernard. BBC1 sees Small Island as a "modern classic" to rank alongside its other classic literary dramatisations.

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