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Television

Dramatic, urgent and intriguing: BBC1’s This Town reviewed

6 April 2024

9:00 AM

6 April 2024

9:00 AM

This Town

BBC1

After conquering the world with Peaky Blinders (and before that by co-creating Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?), Steven Knight was last seen on British television giving us his frankly deranged adaptation of Great Expectations. Happily, he’s now returned to form with a show that, while not a retread exactly, is definitely Peaky-adjacent.

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