Across five episodes, viewers are quietly willing for casino workers Leanne (Sheridan Smith) and Matty (Michael Socha) to get their stroke of luck and be able to provide for their families. While they ...

The creator of The Responder’s new offering is the tale of two casino employees robbing their workplace. It’s a perfectly plotted thriller but it’s also so much more than that ...

The pair were also on Emmerdale together at the same time, when Alan portrayed John Kenyon for seven episodes in 1997 and ...

In the sob-story role of the widowed cashier in “the cage” is Sheridan Smith, a dab hand at playing women in extremis. But here she is a complex blend of she-wolf protecting her two children and ...

Dean Johnson's work features on the soundtrack to 'Semolina Pilchard', which will be in UK cinemas later this year.

Grim social realism meets brilliant gallows humour in this BBC One drama set in a crime-ridden Liverpool casino ...

Two episodes into The Cage, and one thing is clear: Tony Schumacher packs his episodes tighter than a shrink-wrapped brick of street cocaine. It’s a lot to snort. But snort we must, bent over this ...

“An astonishing, deeply angry, deeply moving state-of-the-nation piece merely masquerading as a mesmerising, perfectly paced and plotted thriller” “Tony Schumacher based his brilliant debut drama, The ...

Let's take a closer look at everything we know about The Cage as a new Sheridan Smith drama comes to the BBC.

The Cage debuted on screens last night and Tony Schumacher has once again earned widespread critical acclaim. The Liverpool writer's first BBC drama, The Responder, became a smash hit success when it ...

It’s been four years since Tony Schumacher’s first stunning effort at television. The former cop made his writing debut with The Responder. Martin Freeman played Chris Carson, a police officer, whose ...