{"id":11607,"date":"2025-08-20T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/11607\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T13:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:00:12","slug":"lesley-manville-and-david-morrisseys-compelling-bbc-crime-drama-gets-new-uk-streamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/11607\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesley Manville and David Morrissey’s “compelling” BBC crime drama gets new UK streamer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sherwood, the critically acclaimed crime drama starring Lesley Manville<\/a> and David Morrissey<\/a>, has found a new home on U. <\/p>\n

Inspired by real-life murders<\/a> in Nottingham, season one \u2013 which is currently available to stream on the platform \u2013 follows the residents of a small mining village. Devastated by two unexpected murders, the community is forever changed as one of the largest manhunts in UK history ensues. <\/p>\n

Stacked with British acting royalty, Manville and Morrissey are joined by Robert Glenister, Kevin Doyle, Lorraine Ashbourne, Joanne Froggatt, Don Gilet, Adeel Akhtar and more. <\/p>\n

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Season one, which first premiered on BBC One in 2022, received glowing reviews, including a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>. <\/p>\n

“Taut and involving drama about a community dealing with the scars of the past… a triumph,” raved The Times<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Echoing this sentiment, The Guardian<\/a> mused: “Forty years of emotion and history have been transmuted, lovingly and painstakingly, into art. It’s the cleverest, most compelling and most moving thing I’ve seen in years.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, The Age<\/a> wrote: “As a murder mystery, Sherwood offers everything that a quality crime drama should. It’s laced with juicy hooks, twists and revelations, and has a vivid sense of place.” <\/p>\n

Following the show’s widespread acclaim, a second season<\/a> was released in 2024. Set two years after the events of season one, the residents are faced with yet another senseless murder, which threatens to reignite old turf wars. All six episodes are available to stream on BBC iPlayer. <\/p>\n

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As of September 2024, a third season of Sherwood <\/a>has also been commissioned by the BBC. Details surrounding the latest instalment are being kept under wraps. <\/p>\n

Renowned playwright and screenwriter James Graham, who grew up in Nottingham, is billed as the show’s creator. <\/p>\n

“It continues to be the greatest privilege to tell stories set in and inspired by the history of my home county of Nottinghamshire,” he told the BBC<\/a> last year. “Having a returning series on the BBC is pretty much every British writer’s dream.” <\/p>\n

Season one of Sherwood is available to stream on U. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Megan is a freelance news reporter for Digital Spy.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sherwood, the critically acclaimed crime drama starring Lesley Manville and David Morrissey, has found a new home on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[341,11224,343,18,117,19,17,342,11223,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-11607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-content-type-news","9":"tag-contentid-ac7a528c-42bb-45ab-b027-5a603b1a403e","10":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-locale-gb","16":"tag-shorttitle-lesley-manvilles-bbc-crime-drama-on-uk-streamer","17":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}