Sherwood

The writer of a new TV drama has responded after being inundated with complaints about a character referring to Nottingham Forest as "Notts Forest".

Proud of your pride for your team." One wrote: "You come and film a show *in* Nottingham and make that error. Do your research."

The BBC series, from Quiz's James Graham, isn't your typical crime drama. Sherwood review. By. Abby Robinson.

There's a man terrorising locals with a bow and arrow (just in case you forgot we were in Nottingham) – as depicted in the trailer – but there's a deliberate lack of urgency. The performances are solid, with Manville (unsurprisingly) the standout, and the dialogue authentic. Those who crossed the picket lines were labelled "scabs", a word Gary Jackson (Alun Armstrong), an ex-miner and National Union of Mineworkers member, spits at those he considers traitors.

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Glenister is recognisable for his role as George Kirkbright in Cold Feet and Jasper Chiswell in the Robert Galbraith adaptation Strike. Joanne Froggatt plays Sarah Vincent, a tory politician campaigning for a council seat in a hard labour ward. David Morrissey plays DCS Ian St Clair, the local police officer tasked with solving two shocking murders. Froggatt is best known for her role as Anna Bates in the period series Downton Abbey and its two movie spinoffs - she also took on the title role in the drama series Angela Black. He is known for playing Walter Blackett in The Singapore Grip and The Governor in The Walking Dead. The deaths and the investigation bring the trauma of the miners’ strike of the 1980s back to the foreground, and it is clear that the effects of the strike are still keenly felt in the community.

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Asked what inspired her to take on the character of Julie, Manville explained: "The script. Check out our TV Guide or visit our dedicated Drama hub for the latest news. When we went to this picket line, it was serious. "The cast that they were assembling was amazing, really – really amazing," she explains. Somebody who is just very open and honest." Manville plays Julie Jackson in the series, wife of Gary (Alun Armstrong) who is murdered.

New BBC thriller Sherwood follows the tragic and unexpected murders that threaten to shatter an already fractured community. The drama will be set in ...

I don't think there's ever been a drama set in the part of the world in which I grew up. At the heart of Sherwood lies two shocking and unexpected killings that sparked a massive manhunt. New BBC thriller Sherwood follows the tragic and unexpected murders that threaten to shatter an already fractured community.

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Rodgers denied murder but confessed to manslaughter by diminished responsibility, never offering any further information as to why he killed Chanel. This plea was denied by the courts. "They are ripping my family apart all over again, and we'll get the backlash. He had split from his second wife a few weeks before the murder. Speculation around why exactly Boyer targeted Frogson with such a frenzied attack was put down initially to both their attachment to the miners' strike of 1984-85, which had split the area in two. Frogson was attached to the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and even after retiring would wear insignia promoting their 'coal not dole' slogan. Initially finding the spot empty but with clear signs of living, they staked the area out until he returned.

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When Gary is found dead in the street, killed by a crossbow bolt, the most immediate person of interest to the investigating officer – local boy made good (“Now I live on the outskirts of the village”) Ian St Clair (David Morrissey) – is “scab” Dean (Sean Gilder), with whom Gary had often and recently argued. Without sacrificing story or suspense, and never paying less than meticulous attention to teasing out the knotty mass of relationships and the ramifications playing out around the village, Sherwood builds slowly – layer by subtle, evocative layer – into a magisterial state-of-the-nation piece. It’s even funny – because it’s about people and because it has made those people real and because real people are, forever, even in their darkest moments, funny. Alun Armstrong plays Gary Jackson, a National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) stalwart in a village dominated by the Union of Democratic Mineworkers (UDM), who, let’s say, took a softer stance on striking and the privatisation of the coal industry. It is the drama equivalent of bowling a strike: a writer knowing the setting and themes in his bones, a dream cast drawn to the richly allusive resulting script, each of those actors doing their best work in years (which, given the standards that Manville, Morrissey, Armstrong et al maintain is quite something to watch) and their chemistry, with beautiful direction from Lewis Arnold and Ben A Williams, creating something even greater than the sum of its superb parts. To anyone over the age of 45 or so, it feels like yesterday.

David Morrissey, Robert Glenister, Lesley Manville and Adeel Akhtar lead an all-star cast in James Graham's mining strikes drama.

Elsewhere in the mix were the Sparrow family, who run the local archery site, while paterfamilias Mickey (Philip Jackson) packaged up cocaine at the kitchen table. Given the choice by his boss (Poldark’s Pip Torrens, yet another well-known face in a fleeting role) between early retirement and returning to help out in Nottingham, he reluctantly headed North. It seemed that during the strike, the murder victim, Gary Jackson, had criminal charges for arson dropped when a certain PC Kevin Salisbury provided him with an alibi.

The latest series to start on the BBC is Sherwood which stars David Morrissey and Downton Abbey star Joanne Froggatt. But where was the drama filmed?

James explained in a statement he was "moved" to see the surrounding area depicted on screen. The series is based on the true story of a double murder which took place in Nottingham in 2004. A brand new drama, Sherwood, starring David Morrissey, Lesley Manville and Downton Abbey star Joanne Froggatt, begins on Monday evening and it looks a gripping watch.

SHERWOOD debuted on BBC One on Monday evening and follows DCS Ian St Clair as he is called to investigate a tragic and unexpected murder in an ex-mining ...

[INSIGHT] How many episodes are in Sherwood on BBC One? [EXPLAINER] Sherwood: Where was Sherwood filmed? #NFFC," Amanda Needham complained. "I’m outraged! Heather Smith posted: "As a person from Nottingham, watching #sherwood i can deal with the bad accents…. DON'T MISS... Sherwood episode 1 cast: Who stars in the BBC drama? Unfortunately, as Sherwood was broadcast, many viewers based in Nottingham were not impressed with a mistake about Nottinghamm Forest player Trevor Francis, who was referenced in an early scene.