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© Channel 4 It can easily happen. After getting off to a flying start in its first series, a TV show can quickly go off the rails. It's a pity when it happens. And unfortunately that appears to be the case with Channel 4's 'Screw'. © Channel 4 When the first series of Rob Williams' prison drama aired in January last year , it landed with quite a swagger. It was fresh, pacy, tense, tongue in cheek and billed as a comedy drama. In truth, though, the drama outweighed the comedy. It also provided a decent showcase for the talents of Nina Sosanya and a post ' Derry Girls ' Jamie Lee O'Donnell in the lead roles of Leigh Henry and Rose Gill. © Channel 4 Sosanya's character was as a senior officer in charge of a wing in a men's prison called Long Marsh. Rose was a new recruit. The show's big hook was that Rose was in hoc to a crime gang who her brother owed drug money to. This meant also answering to Ben Tavassoli's prisoner Louis Costa while she

© Alleycat Films When the Northern Irish investigative journalist Lyra McKee was cut down by a dissident republican gunman in Derry in April 2019, she had been working on a book about child disappearances during The Troubles. Having secured a book deal with Faber, she was writing 'The Lost Boys' which examined the disappearance of eight boys in the early years of the Troubles between 1969 and 1975. Specifically, Lyra McKee was looking at links between their disappearance and the operation of a paedophile ring in the Kincora Boys Home in east Belfast and in other parts of the city. But she was also probing whether the potential exposure of this ring may have led to the IRA assassination of the Ulster Unionist MP, the Reverend Robert Bradford . © Alleycat Films In the absence of Lyra, other writers have taken up the baton and examined the suspected links. One of those is documentary filmmaker Des Henderson whose latest film 'Lost Boys: Belfast's Missing Children' rec

© BBC & Motive Pictures Right from the opening image of cattle surrounding a lady in her nightdress on a damp, rural Irish road, you immediately sense how much of a tightrope Joe Murtagh's six part television miniseries 'The Woman In The Wall' is walking. Murtagh's drama takes on one of the grimmest episodes in the history of the Irish Catholic Church - the exploitation of pregnant young women in mother and baby homes - and crafts a psychological thriller around it. There's a risk in handling such a sensitive subject in this way that Murtagh and his directors Harry Woodlif and Rachna Suri could make a real haims of an issue that is still raw for many people. Unfortunately that nagging concern never really goes away throughout the run of this imaginative BBC1 drama. © BBC & Motive Pictures 'The Woman In The Wall' isn't the first TV show to take a tough real life issue and address it through the medium of a thriller. Before he penned his moving TV

© Breakout Pictures & Elysian 'Ballywalter' isn't about Ballywalter. The Northern Irish coastal village simply provides a backdrop for director Prasanna Puranawajah and screenwriter Stacey Gregg's delicate tale of damaged souls coming into each other's orbit and helping each other cope. If anything, Belfast features more than Ballywalter in Puranawajah's movie but we know  that title was already taken . Seana Kerslake plays Eileen, a twentysomething university dropout who has gone off the rails and is back living with her mum, Abigail McGibbon's Jen. Taking on the job of a taxi driver, she has to endure the opinions of customers who don't think it's a job for a woman. © Breakout Pictures & Elysian Eileen doubles as a barista and can be pretty spiky with the customers in both jobs. Disillusioned and dejected, she hides behind drink as she struggles to come to terms with the death of her father, the sudden ending of a relationship with a cheati

© Netflix  & XYZ Films We see it all the time. Frightened or outraged citizens rush to judgment, baying for swift punishment not just for those suspected of alleged crimes but for people holding views they object to. Some are not prepared to wait for justice to take its course. Some don't believe in the principle of free speech. They just want punishment without due process. It's a problem that existed long before social media. © Netflix & XYZ Films Commentators who trade on outrage in print or broadcast media outlets have been guilty of it for decades. However, there's no doubt social media has exacerbated it. Online rushes to judgment toxify debate and make due process harder to follow. And that's the central concern of British director Philip Barantini's new Netflix movie 'Accused'. Written by Barnaby Boulton and James Cummings, the thriller stars ' Sex Education ' cast member Chaneil Kular as Harri Bhavsar, a young Londoner who finds hims