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Helena Bonham-Carter and Mark Gatiss in Nolly. Photograph: ITVX

The new year brings new creations from a trio of homegrown TV heavy-hitters. Russell
T Davies returns with eccentric three-parter Nolly (February on ITVX), starring Helena
Bonham Carter as Crossroads actor Noele Gordon, who was sacked from the soap opera
at the peak of her fame. Davies is destined to have a busy 2023; in November, he
retakes the reins of Doctor Who in time for the sci-fi institution’s 60th anniversary.
Shane Meadows’s new creation marks a pair of firsts for the Midlands auteur: his first
period drama and his first series for the BBC. Based on Benjamin Myers’s novel, The
Gallows Pole (BBC One, date TBC) fictionalises the anarchic true story of the Cragg Vale
Coiners, who attempted the biggest fraud in British history by counterfeiting gold coins
in 18th-century Yorkshire.
Screenwriter Steven Knight, of Peaky Blinders and SAS: Rogue Heroes, is more
accustomed to plundering the past and now returns to home turf in Birmingham. Two
Tone (BBC One, date TBC) is a passion project drama about the city’s ska scene during
the late 70s and early 80s. Expect a pacy portrait of Thatcher-era Britain. Safe to say the
soundtrack will be a belter. MH

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