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Sherwood review: She's on fire! Monica Dolan's manic gangster saves this confused drama, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS


Sherwood boasts a terrific cast, no doubt about that. But it took Monica Dolan's intervention to really set the drama blazing. Now I can't wait for tonight's second episode.

The arrival of Dolan as Ann Branson and Stephen Dillane as her husband Rory propelled James Graham's crime-and mining drama Sherwood to a new level. Cast members from Sherwood's second season (left to right) Christine Bottomley, Perry Fitzpatrick, James Graham (writer), Ria Zmitrowicz, Oliver Huntingdon, Monia Dolan and Robert Lindsay Next thing we know, a Transit Van, was racing through the streets, tyres screaming, and four masked thugs were spraying the home of Ryan's mum and stepdad with bullets.

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