here we go again ...

TV One of my favourite largely forgotten shows is/was North Square, the legal drama put out by Channel 4 at the turn of the century when they still cared about creating home grown prime time drama (with due respect to Misfits). The writing was sharp, the casting superb and bits of it were shot in Liverpool. The whole thing is now available to watch on 4oD, though the wikipedia has a perfectly good synopsis:

North Square is an award winning British television drama series written by Peter Moffat and broadcast by Channel 4 at the end of 2000. Starring an ensemble cast including Phil Davis, Rupert Penry-Jones, Helen McCrory and Kevin McKidd [...] a group of young, irreverent barristers all hoping to make their mark in the legal profession at a Leeds defense chambers.

It was also written by Moffat has clearly decided that he had far more material than the original ten episodes would allow because, well, here we go again ...

"Maxine Peake (Criminal Justice), Rupert Penry-Jones (Spooks), Natalie Dormer (The Tudors), Tom Hughes (Sex, Drugs And Rock And Roll) and Neil Stuke (Reggie Perrin) star in Silk, a thrilling new drama series for BBC One about the lives, loves and hard cases facing barristers on the front line of criminal law, written by Bafta award-winning writer Peter Moffat (Criminal Justice, North Square)."

Penry-Jones back too playing a character who's "funny, gifted and dangerous". Again. Nonetheless, I'm looking forward to this, and hoping its half as good as the original. Even if it doesn't have Phil Davis along for scowling purposes.