Annika tonight BBC1 9.15pm

[Lucy377]

Annika, thriller with Nicola Walker. 9.15pm BBC1. Previously on a different channel I think. Series 2 coming later in the year.

Ooh will have a look. Never look at Sat night TV as it's crap.

Annika is brilliant - I can’t wait for series 2.

I live near Glasgow - it’s filmed on the Clyde and around there, and the building they use as the HQ for Annika’s team is actually the Beacon Arts Centre in Greenock, and I’ve been there for coffee - not much of a claim to fame, I know.

It was originally shown on Alibi TV which is part of UKTV and are all free to view.
https://alibi.uktv.co.uk/shows/annika/ They also screened The Diplomat (not the later US series) which was quite good with Sophie Rundle.

Worth keeping an eye on the Drama channel as well.

Any way back to the topic. I wanted to like Annika but Nicola Walker is so mannered she actually distracts from the plots IMO!

I know, you'd have like to be a Nicola Walker fan because she does upstage herself with the Nicola Walkerisms 😁
But she's very watchable all the same.

It's very good. I watched on alibi or would have done a thread

Enjoy

she does upstage herself with the Nicola Walkerisms 😁

It’s based on a radio drama series that was set in Scandinavia and Nicola Walker was also the main character.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b049fg98?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

I thought i had seen it before! I thoroughly enjoyed it so I'm very glad to see a second series is planned

The talking to camera is weird.

I did wonder why there was a new Saturday night drama and no thread from blondes 🤣

i enjoyed that
quite quickly solved though
but did enjoy the humour

Awww @daffodilandtulip you would have been tagged in the original one I did

Watched this a couple of months ago, enjoyed it. Also played the location spotting game as we live in Glasgow too and it's nice to have a show where the crime is all wrapped up in 55 minutes without the endless red herrings and plot twists of a multi-episode show.

Dh remarked it had a ' death in paradise ' vibe to it.
Not quite, but I think he meant that it was wrapped up in less an hour and the main detective was a bit socially awkward. It also had some dark humour. Plus all the suspects were lined up together for the final reveal. The 'fourth wall ' idea was different, been done before , but seemed to work here.

I think I enjoyed it but I'm not 100% sold on it. I was annoyed at how suddenly they wrapped the case up and I did find Annika somewhat annoying.

I watched the whole series a month or so ago, and came to enjoy it. Initially was quite disconcerted by the direct talk to camera, but after episode 3, I got used to it. Great scenery, and very much enjoyed seeing Paul McGann in a quite gentle, leading male role.

I have only seen it on Drama and all the ads ruined it for me, made it feel very disjointed, and I think I started watching half through the series, so I didn't understand the connections between certain characters. But as it's now on bbc 1 I will give it another go.

Highly recommended.

I like Nicola Walker in most things but I thought this was fairly poor. Odd editing, jumpy undeveloped plot and some detective prog cliches. I actually thought the breaking the wall talk to camera was the saving grace, added a bit of personality and dark humour to it all. It had a daytime drama vibe to it to me. Doubt I'll watch another one!

You did do a thread on it, I started reading it yesterday and got quite confused until I noticed the date

I enjoyed the first episode, didn't expect the case to be wrapped up so quickly but it was a nice change from the usual series. Easy watch Saturday night telly.

she does upstage herself with the Nicola Walkerisms

😂Hahaha yes! I do like her a lot though.

Jamie Sives is great too - highly recommend Guilt. All 3 series should be on Iplayer.

i like Jamie Sives as well
but i was a bit meh about the seemingly obligatory gay daughter.
but it had humour which was a bonus

I wanted to like it and I didn't necessarily dislike it but it was quite odd - the theme music and location shots set it up as a Scandi noir but it was more light-hearted. I wasnt keen on the rapid cuts from one scene to another. And some things didn't make sense - why was the daughter in a play with a speaking part seemingly only a day or so after she joined a new school?

It's really weird how she's developed these 'mannerisms' over time. I wonder why?

I've recently re-watched Touching Evil (Nichola Walker and Robson Green) which was recorded in 1997, so she's VERY young! Absolutely NO mannerisms at all! So something has happened between then and now!

I've had to stop watching things with her in it now, because her hesitating speech irritates me! Shame because I think she's a great actress otherwise.

@DuncinToffee I meant do a bbc new drama thread on it

I know I did one when was on alibi 😂😂