ShetlandBBC1 Sunday 9pm - 10pmAn old woman is shot dead in the garden of her remote croft on the Shetland Islands. Her murder tears at the ties that bind such a close-knit community and introduces us to author Ann Cleeves’s creation, Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez, in a solid two-part adaptation of her book Red Bones.
On the page Perez is a dark (literally), terse and thoughtful police officer, so Douglas Henshall (fair-haired and quite smiley) probably won’t match anyone’s mental image of a man who is as bleak as the landscape he inhabits. But never mind, because Shetland, with its brutal beauty is the star, its flat, treeless countryside shadowed by lowering skies. As Perez investigates the death of the old woman, Mima, he opens wounds between families on an island where everyone knows everyone else. There are local rivalries and long-held resentments, all shown up in Shetland’s flat northern light. Shetland concludes tomorrow.
1/2. Douglas Henshall stars in this two-part drama about a Shetlands detective leading a murder investigation that uncovers secrets and lies from the past. An archaeologist discovers a set of human remains, but before it can be proven whether the find is ancient or contemporary, local woman Mima Wilson is shot dead on the same site. The police investigation uncovers a deep division between the victim's family and rich local clan the Haldanes, so members of the latter fall under suspicion - especially when it transpires that one was out shooting on the night of the murder and another lacks a convincing alibi. Alison O'Donnell, Gemma Chan and Steven Robertson co-star. Concludes tomorrow.
CastDI Jimmy Perez Douglas Henshall
Mima Wilson Sandra Voe
Cassie Perez Erin Armstrong
PC Sandy Wilson Steven Robertson
DC Alison Tosh MacIntosh Alison O'Donnell
Sgt Billy McCabe Lewis Howden
Duncan Hunter Mark Bonnar
Anna Haldane Claire Rafferty
Ronald Haldane Jim Sturgeon
Hattie James Gemma Chan
Joseph Wilson Alexander Morton
Jackie Haldane Lindy Whiteford
Andrew Haldane James Greene
Professor Paul Berglund Martin Wenner
Vicky Kirkland Alison Peebles
Gwen James Geraldine Alexander
Sophie Sophie Rundle
Drew Finn den Hertog
Radio announcer Jane MoncrieffCrew
Director Peter Hoar
Producer Sue de Beauvoir
www.radiotimes.comDouglas Henshall, Steven Robertson and Gemma Chan in BBC1's Shetland - see a trailer and photos www.radiotimes.com
