News about Michael Socha

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Last night, the second instalment of BBC1's prison drama Time was broadcast, leaving viewers divided due to the subject's traumatic nature. Time 2 was a three-part series based on Sean Bean's highly rated first season of the drama, which featured Stephen Graham, Michael Socha, and James Nelson-Joyce. Series 2 is destined to a women's hospital, and it stars Jodie Whittaker and Tamara Lawrance, leading the charge. Bella Ramsey, a young actor whose impressive - and quickly expanding - body of exciting and varied work, is perhaps most notable for drama enthusiasts. Despite her youth, this new powerhouse role follows a string of memorable performances.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: The Gallow's Pole (BBC2) is loosely based on a Benjamin Myers book, which is loosely based on a tale of a gang of starving weavers at the start of the Industrial Revolution, who switched to forgery and counterfeiting. Not that any of the first three parts of this three-part series would have been expected, but to put it mildly, it took a long time to get going. The first five minutes featured a man dressed in a blood-drenched jacket, carrying a bag of blacksmith's accessories behind him, and defending off hallucinations of demons with stags' antlers.

Michael Socha plays David Hartley, who returns to his Yorkshire home after seven years in BBC2's latest drama The Gallows Pole. Hartley, left, is the driving force behind the scheme, which is estimated to have earned £3.5 million in gold coins (£650 million today).