Christine Bottomley – MRQE

“Sherwood” (2022/II)

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Old grudges, new rivalries. A tangled web of murder and revenge spirals in a fractured Nottinghamshire mining community. Powerful drama with Lesley Manville and David Morrissey.

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (TV)

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A lesbian in the 1800s who keeps a detailed account of her life written in coded diaries attempts to live independently while juggling an affair with a married woman.

Hush (2008/V)

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young couple on a motorway journey are drawn into a game of cat and mouse with a truck driver when they see something disturbing in the back of his vehicle.

Misper

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The employees of a dying seaside hotel have their lives upended when their colleague, Elle, vanishes.

Typist Artist Pirate King

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The growing friendship between two women as they hit the road in an electric car looking for endings and reconciliation.

The Waiting Room (2007/I)

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two complete strangers, ANNA and STEPHEN, are brought together by chance by an elderly man who waits for his wife on a station platform. Their fateful meeting acts as a catalyst for them to examine and challenge what’s going on in their different relationships, and make hard but positive decisions for themselves. If they can change their lives maybe they can meet again.

“Early Doors”

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A sitcom set in a small pub in Manchester, The Grapes, where daily life is bound up in the issues of love, loneliness, and blocked urinals. Regular drinkers Joe and Duffy pass the time with landlord Ken and his police officer cronies.

“Back to Life”

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When Miri Matteson returns home after eighteen years, can she integrate back into her old life? With a terrible event from her past hanging over her, it wont be easy.

“Hope Springs”

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Ellie finds herself in hiding in a remote Scottish village called Hope Springs along with fellow ex-cons Hannah, Josie and Shoo after plans to start a new life in Barbados courtesy of £3m stolen from her gangster husband go awry. All the girls have to do is keep their heads down, assume new identities and plan an escape to their Barbados idyll… little do they know that Hope Springs is going to change their lives forever.

Funny Cow

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A comedian uses her troubled past as material for her stand-up routine, trying to rise up through the comedy circuit by playing Northern England’s working men’s clubs.