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TV tonight: fangtastic fun with the return of a hit vampire comedy

The bloodthirsty roomies are back in What We Do in the Shadows. Plus, the genius Am I Being Unreasonable? finale. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: Get Millie Black; With Love, Meghan; A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story; Towards Zero – review

Tamara Lawrance excels in Marlon James’s classy Caribbean crime drama; the Duchess of Sussex tilts at lifestyle greatness; and a moving drama puts the case for Ruth Ellis. Plus, murder most racy in the BBC’s new Agatha Christie

The Guardian - UK

Mimi Keene is the next big leading lady: meet the break-out star of Towards Zero

The former Sex Education actor Mimi Keene is now starring in Agatha Christie adaptation Towards Zero and showing that she is heading for the big leagues

Evening Standard

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A Cruel Love: What happened to Ruth Ellis's children after she was executed?

When Ruth Ellis was executed at the age of 28, she left behind two children - what happened to them after she died?

Woman & Home

A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story on ITV review: a riveting portrayal of a monstrous miscarriage of justice

4/5 Toby Jones is on characteristically excellent form as the doomed Ruth’s barrister in ITV’s latest true crime series

Evening Standard

A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story review – the sad, shocking tale of the last woman to be hanged in Britain

Lucy Boynton and Toby Jones’s outstanding performances meet beautifully claustrophobic cinematography in this tale of a young mother sentenced to death for killing her violent lover

The Guardian - UK

A Cruel Love’s true story of Britain’s last executed woman will make you shudder – and sympathise

4/5 Was the last British woman to be executed a victim of misogyny and snobbery? ‘A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story’ makes her case

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Nigel Havers’ astonishing real-life family connection to the Ruth Ellis case

He plays his own grandfather in A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story

Evening Standard

Who was Ruth Ellis and why was she hanged? The real story behind A Cruel Love

Lucy Boynton portrays Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in the UK, in an unmissable ITV true crime series.

Woman & Home

TV tonight: Tamara Lawrance is an ace detective in a Jamaica-set thriller

Get Millie Black is an action-packed story by Booker prize-winner Marlon James. Plus, Lucy Boynton stars in a dark true crime drama. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

A Cruel Love: from Toby Jones to Lucy Boynton, who plays who in the Ruth Ellis drama?

The show tells the tragic story of the last woman in the UK to be hanged for murder

Evening Standard

Actress Lucy Boynton says society has become ‘desensitised’ to domestic violence

A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story will air on ITV1 at 9pm on March 5.

Evening Standard

Lucy Boynton Proves Chanel Looks Can Kill for Her 'A Cruel Love' Premiere

Her outfit for the 'A Cruel Love' premiere is equal parts retro and modern.

Marie Claire

Ruth Ellis: the tragic story of the last woman to be hanged for murder in the UK

Her story is being made into ITV show A Cruel Love, which is due to air later this year

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A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story: release date, cast, plot, episode guide, trailer, interviews and everything you need to know

A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story sees Lucy Boynton play Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in the UK.

WhatToWatch

ITV making drama about Ruth Ellis, last woman to be hanged in the UK

ITV has commissioned a drama about Ruth Ellis, the last woman in Britain to be hanged, with Lucy Boynton on hand to star in the title role.

Wales Online

Gary Newbon: The curious case of the roving reporter and the last woman executed...

The story was that Ruth Ellis shot her lover David Blakley dead, and Clive was the only other person present

Daily Mirror

Ruth Ellis and tragedy of little boy left behind when UK's last woman was hanged

Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in the UK after she shot her lover dead outside a pub in Hampstead two months earlier

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