Prime Suspect News

Another great new two-parter on "Masterpiece Contemporary" is "Place of Execution," a parallel mystery not so far removed from "Cold Case" . It features Juliet Stevenson as a TV journalist looking into a notorious case about a 13 year old who vanished in a town in northern England.

Lynda La Plante, the doyenne of crime fiction, has just subjected Katie Price, the model better known as Jordan, to what counts in literary circles as grievous bodily harm.

Helen Mirren in ITV's Prime Suspect. Bartlett's division has announced a deal to co-produce a US version of the show with NBC The company's finances have been heading south and its drama has turned into a soap opera with the messy end to a romance with Tony Ball leaving ITV with no prospective chairman or chief executive.

Frank Deasy made his living as the Emmy-winning author of gritty television dramas like "Prime Suspect." But with his final acts and words, the Dubliner inspired a nation to become organ donors - and may have saved scores of lives even as he lost his own.

The award winning screenwriter Frank Deasy, who had been campaigning for more organ donations, has died in hospital in Edinburgh.

Screenwriter Frank Deasy has lost his battle with cancer while waiting for a liver transplant.

The Irish screen writer Frank Deasy, whose works include the award-winning finale of the Prime Suspect TV series, has died in hospital in Scotland.

WASHINGTON a ' Helen Mirren never went in much for prophecy and all that supernatural jazz, but as a self-conscious young actress in London, she found herself in the living room of a palm-reader. Though she'd later report that most of the session passed in a blur, one of his prognostications stayed with her long after a ' and not because it gave ...

Helen Mirren makes her Washington stage debut in "Phedre" in the wake of royal screen credits such as "The Queen." Mirren in HBO's "Elizabeth I." Mirren also starred in the gritty U.K. series "Prime Suspect," in which she portrayed troubled detective Jane Tennison.

With the notable exceptions of The Office and American Idol , American translations of British TV shows do not have the best luck.

Jane Tennison has come a long way during her career as a gutsy, ambitious woman police detective.

Established TV characters don't just have doppelgangers in the evil mirror universe; their twins can also be found in the Tooniverse - like FBI Agents Mulder and Scully of 'The X-Files' in an episode of 'The Simpsons' - and in Skitlandia, the sketch comedy universe.

TV is about to ruin, sully, profane, despoil, desecrate, devour, and utterly destroy the memory of the brilliant, literate-yet-gritty, exciting British police show Prime Suspect with an American remake.

Toronto - Last updated on Friday, Sep. 04, 2009 03:39AM EDT N BC is planning a remake of the British series Prime Suspect .

NBC is developing a new take on the groundbreaking U.K. drama series "Prime Suspect." The project is the first output from a pact sealed by NBC and ITV Studios.

Polie drama Prime Suspect has been sold to US broadcaster NBC . But Dame Helen Mirren , seen in the final British episode, will not play the role she made famous - it will go to an American.

ITV's "Prime Suspect" is coming to NBC. NBC has acquired the format to the popular U.K. series, which will be adapted by "Without a Trace" creator Hank Steinberg.

A consummate character player, Tom Bell has had roles on stage, film and TV that have varied from lively English folk to sinister Adolph Eichmann in "Holocaust" to the petty thief whose murder brings down.... A consummate character player, Tom Bell has had roles on stage, film and TV that have varied from lively English folk to sinister Adolph ...

A consummate character player, Tom Bell has had roles on stage, film and TV that have varied from lively English folk to sinister Adolph Eichmann in "Holocaust" to the petty thief whose murder brings down.... A consummate character player, Tom Bell has had roles on stage, film and TV that have varied from lively English folk to sinister Adolph ...

From the age of 13, when she played Caliban in a school production of "The Tempest," Helen Mirren knew she wanted to be an actress.