Despite being introduced by the announcer as ‘the final episode of The Fall’, we’re pretty sure that this was the series finale of The Level, the Brighton-based tale of criminal and familial deception. We’ve DS Nancy through her self-doubt, her distrust in her team and her worries about her parents – but will she find any closure this week?
With ‘Undercover Barbie’ Nancy knee-deep in Elliot’s dirty business, the case of missing driver Stefan Millner and his phantom truck has rather gone on the back burner. But to complicate things further, it now appears that someone has got to Nancy’s mother, prompting her to abscond from her care home. Continue reading Review: The Level (S1 E5/6), Friday 28th October, ITV →
Considering that it’s called The Level, this is a rather uneven series, and time is running out for it to regain some balance. So much happens in episode four, that you wonder why nothing much happened in the last couple of episodes. Continue reading Review: The Level (S1 E4/6), Friday 21st October, ITV →
If Nancy’s boss Newman hasn’t figured there’s something going on by now, she must be the slowest detective in town. Nancy claiming that she was out jogging when dodgy accountant Kettler got shot isn’t fooling anyone.
So far The Level has been one cliché after another – Detective Sergeant Nancy Devlin is a decorated police officer, but she’s also protecting her schoolfriend’s father, dodgy haulier Frank Le Saux (Philip Glenister). Now he’s apparently dead, his mistress is in a coma, and Nancy’s in the frame after taking a bullet. Continue reading Review: The Level (S1 E2/6), Friday 8th October, ITV →
Detective Sergeant Nancy Devlin (Karla Crome) is a decorated police officer – well, she’s just won an ‘official police award’ – and is having an affair with colleague Kevin O’Dowd (Rob James-Collier, ex-Downton Abbey). But no-one knows she’s also protecting her schoolfriend’s father, dodgy haulier Frank Le Saux (Philip Glenister).
NB: Spoilers Continue reading Review: The Level (S1 E1/6), Friday 30th September, ITV →
It has been another week of transmission date confirmations – yesterday we had the BBC telling us the date of The Fall series three premiere date, and now ITV has pitched in, too, telling us when its six-part Brighton and London-based series, The Level, will grace us with its presence. Continue reading ITV confirms transmission date for The Level →
And so they keep on coming, thick and fast. ITV will soon broadcast a new six-part series. Set in Brighton, The Level stars Karla Crome as Nancy, a model police officer with a shady double life and Laura Haddock as Hayley, her estranged best friend. The pair is forced together after a serious incident in the dead of night threatens to expose Nancy and rip Hayley’s family apart. Noel Clarke and Robert James Collier play two officers butting heads over the investigation as Lindsey Coulson tries to hold the whole thing together. Philip Glenister plays Frank, a career criminal who looms menacingly throughout the series. There’s a trailer after the jump. Continue reading Trailer: The Level, ITV →
A few weeks ago we issued a news story that announced the arrival of a new six-part crime drama from ITV (read the story here). Called The Level, it was to feature the story of Detective Sergeant Nancy Devlin, who has a secret double life. Her exemplary police career masks a covert attachment to shady businessman and drugs trafficker, Frank Le Saux. Inextricably linked to Frank from childhood as the father of her best friend, Hayley and the father figure she herself craved. Nancy has been playing a dangerous game to ensure that Frank always remains off the police radar. Nancy soon finds herself at the centre of an investigation which puts her at risk of exposure and sees her stalked by a killer intent on destroying her. Nancy’s complicated love life and relationships with colleagues creates further tension as she doesn’t know who she can trust… literally with her life. Now the network has announced cast details.
Continue reading ITV’s The Level announces cast details →
ITV specialises in those short, intense three or four-part stories seemingly off a never-ending production line. Now the network has commissioned another crime drama series, but this time six-parter. The Level is being produced by BAFTA award-winning indie Hillbilly Television (Second Coming, Random, Holy Flying Circus) and is written by Gaby Chiappe (Shetland, Vera, Lark Rise to Candleford) and Alex Perrin (Leonardo, Shetland). So what’s it all abaaaht? Continue reading ITV commissions Brighton-based crime drama The Level →
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