Burnside

Your nicked !! Frank Burnside legendary copper from the early years of the bill gets given his own series After his earlier comeback to the bill having mysteriously disappeared to a new job in the early 90's it turned out burnside had been deep undercover and now promoted to DCI the publics appetite for Burnside had been wetted ! Burnside the series finds Burside transferring to the NCS where he is a relic compared to the new modern policemen and women The show is quite dark in tone and the three stories split over 6 episodes worked well and the production value was high Overall i loved Burnside for being Burnside ...  Read the complete review

Take a well-known and well-loved character from the Bill. Remove his sense of humour. Put him with a bunch of losers in an un-named mythical police squad. Film it in the dark. Call it Burnside to grab the viewers who knew and loved him from The Bill and sit back. Don't bother writing an even half-way decent script. Confusing stuff makes them watch more to try to find out what's going on, right? WRONG! This is confusing, badly written and hyped up purely on the basis of Chris Ellison being in the series playing a policeman. Give the poor man something to work with! This is a big NO. ...  Read the complete review

It would be so easy to describe "Burnside" as 'gritty drama' and leave it at that. But I won't. Not least because that's two words, not seventy five. Those who thought that DCI Frank Burnside was the best part of The Bill would have wept with joy to find that ITV was giving him his own series. It didn't disappoint. Going out after the watershed, we got a more realistic angle on the dialogues between the characters. Splitting the series into three two-parters was a great move, and having regular characters played by Shane Ritchie (better than you'd think) and Tony Selby added variety. It would be easy ...  Read the complete review