Crossfire (BBC

2022 - 9 - 20

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Crossfire is one of the most stressful and tense BBC dramas – but ... (Stylist Magazine)

Warning: this article contains spoilers for the first episode of BBC One's Crossfire. We had a strong feeling that Crossfire was going to be a strong contender ...

It also forms a major part of the reason why it’s so easy to ask yourself what you would do in an event like this – and the characters provide us with a variety of answers to that all important question. Would you be like Chinar (Vikash Bhai) and prioritise your children’s – and your friend’s children’s – safety over your own? But early on, we start to see the cracks in their [relationship](https://www.stylist.co.uk/tag/relationship). It’s an unlikely format but one that introduces you to the characters – and their pre-existing personal dynamics – in snippets as the Would you be like Jo and refuse to listen to authority in a bid to protect your family? Even in an episode that manages to remain fast-paced and high octane, it is made up of painstakingly long silences. Yes, it’s a [drama](https://www.stylist.co.uk/tag/drama) with a tragic crime at its centre, but rather than solely exploring that, Crossfire does a better job of exploring the human and relatable elements that unfold in moments of tragedy. And it’s the decision that sees Jo removed from the unfolding drama down below. It’s clear to see that Jason feels emasculated at the mention of Jo’s former A [detective-drama](https://www.stylist.co.uk/entertainment/ridley-itv-adrian-dunbar-episode-1-review/701543) heavy autumnal television schedule may be underway but this show isn’t your typical [crime drama](https://www.stylist.co.uk/tag/crime-dramas). We meet Jo (Hawes) as the organised mother of two, excited about a sunlit [Keeley Hawes](https://www.stylist.co.uk/tag/keeley-hawes) as the series’ lead actor, but Crossfire is quite unlike anything else on TV at the moment.

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Crossfire review – Keeley Hawes stars in the world's most stupidly ... (The Guardian)

Gunmen are on the loose in a hotel, and people can't stop phoning each other in hallways – even when they're meant to be hiding silently.

One couple-man has escaped with other holidaymakers and two of the kids, but stupidly loses the stupid brats by helping a stupid woman down a stony bit of a stupid path. Eventually the security manager pairs up with Jo and is delighted to find that she is a trained police officer from when Hawes was in Line of Duty. “See if they’ve called my phone!” she says, because she left it on the side when she heard the gunshots 20 long, long minutes ago and because she doesn’t remember that it is stuffed to the cyber-gills with sexy texts and selfies to – well, I shan’t tell you, because you will be in need of all the suspense you can get if you’ve made it this far through episode one. The rest of it is just people running up and down corridors in the hotel to places of greater or lesser safety. Or, more often: “I’m under a table/in the kitchen/between stacks of pool equipment and still too vulnerable to be having this frantically whispered conversation. If you like any of these – and if you like all of them, hold on to your hat right now – then has the BBC got a treat for you!

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BBC's Crossfire viewers guess who is behind heartbreaking events  (digitalspy.com)

Hawes' Jo and her husband are enjoying a family trip to a holiday resort with friends and lots of kids in tow. keeley hawes in bbc drama crossfire, standing ...

Self preservation or preparation for something more sinister?" While another tweeted: "Blonde waiter. The series, which sees "a holiday turn from heaven to hell in a second", is airing three consecutive episodes this week and has already got off to a nail-biting start.

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Crossfire, BBC One review - pacy and nail-biting, the holiday from hell (The Arts Desk)

A sun-baked island resort; Keeley Hawes taking a leisurely dip in an infinity pool as we hear her in voiceover musing on how events happen unchosen, ...

[Murder in Provence, ITV review - a little light sleuthing amid fabulous French scenery](/tv/murder-provence-itv-review-little-light-sleuthing-amid-fabulous-french-scenery)Roger Allam and Nancy Carroll make an urbane crime-solving duo [The Newsreader, BBC Two review - a drama series of welcome substance from Australia](/tv/newsreader-bbc-two-review-drama-series-welcome-substance-australia)It's 1986, and a Melbourne TV news team are battling rival stations and each other [The Control Room, BBC One review - twisty thriller set in an ultra-noir Glasgow](/tv/control-room-bbc-one-review-twisty-thriller-set-ultra-noir-glasgow)A mysterious woman caller turns an ambulance dispatcher's life inside out [Trom, BBC Four review - there's something fishy in the North Atlantic](/tv/trom-bbc-four-review-theres-something-fishy-north-atlantic)Murder, conspiracy and ecological awareness in a cold climate If you enjoy watching this kind of torture, it's a four-star of the genre. A dead body floating in a pool managed a voiceover in Sunset Boulevard, so there is no guarantee Jo has survived all the shooting, of course. Also in the group is Amara (Shalisha James-Davis), an older mixed-race teenager, who you eventually realise is Jo’s daughter from her first marriage. The script throws in a handy scene with a know-it-all man at the resort who is trying to guess the six friends' professions (though their names are rushed past: we have to struggle on, adding those in step by step). [writer](https://theartsdesk.com/topics/screenwriting) Louise Doughty (Apple Tree Yard) is trying to avoid the traditional arc of the disaster movie: that is, assemble a disparate bunch of people in an enclosed space far from anywhere, immerse the audience in their back stories, then after about 45-60 minutes start killing them off.

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BBC's Crossfire: Viewers saying same thing about new Keeley ... (HELLO!)

Viewers who tuned in to watch BBC One's new drama, Crossfire, starring Keeley Hawes are all saying the same thing…

Keeley Hawes really can do no wrong!" A third commented: "Watching #crossfire behind my cushion. Top-notch drama," while another added: "Well that was tense!! A third commented: "Well #Crossfire was just brilliant. while another added: "#Crossfire was fantastic! One person wrote: "Loved episode one of #Crossfire tonight - gripping drama with tension building around the events and personal situations!!

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BBC Crossfire cast list: Who stars alongside Keeley Hawes in new ... (WalesOnline)

The full BBC Crossfire cast list including Lee Ingleby, Josette Simon, Daniel Ryan, Anneika Rose, and Ariyon Bakare.

For more showbiz and television stories get our newsletter So each of the cast have to make their own individual choice." There is our main character Jo Cross who is there with her teenage daughter from her first marriage, her husband, and the two children from that marriage. Daniel Ryan – Ben Summing up the programme writer Louise explained: "Crossfire is a drama about ordinary people caught up in an extraordinary situation and how they behave." It has a star-studded cast list including Keeley Hawes, Lee Ingleby, Josette Simon, Daniel Ryan, Anneika Rose, and Vikash Bhai.

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Crossfire: The BBC should stick to nature docs, and leave action ... (The Irish Times)

Of all the television trends we didn't see coming in 2022, the BBC trying to reboot the 1980s action movie with Keeley Hawes in the lead role is right up ...

Alas, she’s up to her neck in the silliness here and not even her committed performance can stop Crossfire missing the target. The set has been packed with extras under orders to jerk about hysterically as if shot as soon as the sound of gunfire strikes up. That’s the pitch in Crossfire (BBC One, Tuesday, 9pm), in which Hawes plays a former policewoman with marital woes trying to enjoy her holidays when terrorists strike.

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Is Crossfire based on a true story? (Radio Times)

New drama series Crossfire continues to air on BBC One, with all episodes now available on BBC iPlayer, and it tells a story with chilling real-life ...

[subscribe now](http://radiotimes.com/magazine-subscription?utm_term=evergreen-article) and get the next 12 issues for only £1. Doughty also said that she felt "particularly passionately" about having "a decent amount of time back in Leicester when they all come home", saying this was because "the truth is these appalling incidents happen and then people have to go to Tesco and buy vegetable oils or bake a cake. And the point of view is very much with the ordinary people who are on the receiving end of the violence. The fact that they have lives, whole lives, running up to this terrible event, and then they have lives afterwards." Because we have a lot of action dramas where there's a kind of hero/anti-hero thing going on with a shooter. [was going to be from the point of view of the victims](https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/crossfire-bbc-victims-focus-comment/).

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Is Crossfire a true story? Why the writer of BBC series wanted to ... (iNews)

Crossfire is the new BBC drama thriller that follows the experience of ex-police officer Jo – played by Keeley Hawes – as her blissful family holiday is ...

And the point of view is very much with the ordinary people who are on the receiving end of the violence. I had one child was in the pool and one had wandered off somewhere and I couldn’t help thinking what if some sort of gun attack happened on the resort at this particular moment. I love the Canary Islands, I’ve been many, many times as it’s one of our favourite holiday spots. “You find out the absolute barest minimum about the nature of the attack and why it happens. Doughty added: “The thing that I felt really, really passionately about is that this story was going to be from the point of view of the victims. “I was lying on a sun lounger one day in a hotel complex; my family were scattered around the complex.

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Crossfire: Where was Keeley Hawes' new BBC drama filmed? Find ... (HELLO!)

BBC's latest drama, Crossfire, starring Keeley Hawes began this week and has immediately gripped fans. Find out where the show is filmed here…

She told press about how she was staying in the hotel they were filming in: "My bedroom was actually Jo's room, so it was a highly unusual I don't think I've ever experienced that before. "We did slightly fake it. It continues: "A story of survival and resilience, Crossfire is an edge-of-your-seat nail-biting thriller yet also emotional, intimate and relatable. The three-part series is based on the sunny island of Tenerife. MORE: The new BBC drama, starring [Keeley Hawes](https://www.hellomagazine.com/tags/keeley-hawes/), tells the story of Jo (played by Keeley) who is enjoying her holiday in the Canary Islands with her friends and family when suddenly shots ring out across the luxury complex.

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