Drama
The centre piece of Channel 4's winter drama slate is Red Riding, an ambitious and thrilling trilogy of interlinking films based on David Peace's cult noir novels. Featuring a stellar cast of celebrated actors including Sean Bean, Paddy Considine, Andrew Garfield, David Morrissey and Maxine Peake, the three feature-length films are set in Yorkshire during the 1970s and 80s – a time of paranoia, mistrust, corruption and the terrifying legacy of the Ripper murders.
1066 (see Factual) is a two-part drama about the year of the Norman conquests, depicting one of the defining periods in British history from the viewpoint of the ordinary villagers caught up in the anarchy of invasion.
Plus E4's hit thriller Dead Set debuts on Channel 4.