James Walton

Bleak, unashamedly macho and grown-up: BBC2’s The North Water reviewed

Plus: Fever Pitch! The Rise of the Premier League has fun with the story of how football – and some Sky execs – cashed in on its revival after Italia 90

Even the advance publicity for The North Water gets in on the macho act, with its proud boast that this is ‘the furthest north a drama has ever been filmed’. Credit: BBC/See-Saw Films/Nicolas Bolduc
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