Time
Friday 29 July 8.50pm
Mark Cobden (Sean Bean) is sent to prison and has to learn quickly how to survive. When an inmate identifies prison officer Eric McNally’s (Stephen Graham) weakness, he faces an impossible choice.
Mark Cobden (Sean Bean) is a husband and father like any other. Except that he’s responsible for the death of an innocent man. Tortured by visions of his victim, Mark welcomes his four-year sentence as penance for his crime. But in this brutal environment, a former teacher is an easy target for the more ruthless residents.
Eric McNally (Stephen Graham) is a dedicated prison officer, doing his best to protect those in his charge. And in an understaffed prison that’s brimming with tension, the inmates’ safety rests on a knife-edge. When a dangerous convict threatens to hurt someone Eric loves, this honest man faces an impossible choice.
An inmate and an officer. Two ordinary men, both trapped by mistakes that any one of us could have made. Can Mark find the forgiveness he doesn’t think he deserves? And does Eric have any choice but to betray his ideals?
Unflinching but ultimately hopeful, Time asks urgent questions about the way penal systems work. It’s a raw study of punishment and penitence, and a compelling showcase for two of Britain’s best- loved actors.
Production credit: Starring Sean Bean (Game of Thrones), Stephen Graham (The Irishman), Siobhan Finneran (The Stranger), Sue Johnston (The Sandman). A BBC Studios Production. Writer Jimmy
McGovern (Accused), Director Lewis Arnold (Des), Producer Simon Maloney (I May Destroy You), Executive Producers Tom Sherry (Ordinary Lies), Michael Parke (Fleming).
Grantchester S7
Grantchester returns for a seventh series, with Robson Green as DI Geordie Keating and Tom Brittney as Grantchester’s Reverend Will Davenport. This series is set in the long hot summer of 1959 and wedding season is in full swing in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester.