Robin Jarossi
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Robin Jarossi is a channel-hopping writer and editor covering TV for entertainment and listings magazines. Currently contributing to Your TV Week, he has also edited supplements for SkyTV, the ITV Television Awards and UKTV, as well as magazines such as Cable Guide and the souvenir special Coronation Street at Christmas.
He now blogs on crime shows and thrillers coming to UK television from around the world at CrimeTimePreview.com, and writes a TV column and book reviews for leading online crime-fiction site Shots.co.uk

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Lee Child Says Give Tom Cruise a Chance as Reacher

(5) Comments | Posted 28 May 2012 | (13:44)

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Best-selling thriller author Lee Child says fans of his fictional hero Jack Reacher should suspend their anger at Tom Cruise having been cast as the tall and strapping man of action.

Cruise has been filming the first Reacher movie, One Shot, which is due...

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The Killing Returns - As a Novel

(0) Comments | Posted 11 April 2012 | (08:48)

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British author David Hewson brings Sarah Lund to life on the page in two new novels based on Denmark's groundbreaking TV crime series...

Life continues after The Killing for the TV sensation that put Danish noir on the...

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Romanzo Criminale - Italian crime wave hits Sky Arts

(0) Comments | Posted 14 September 2011 | (18:00)

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Nudity, violence, bad language - the Italian crime series Romanzo Criminale has them all. Director Stefano Sollima talks from Italy about his hugely successful fact-based drama that recounts the bloody rise of an Italian gang who defied the cops and the Mafia during the...

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Interview: Single-Handed Creator Barry Simner

(0) Comments | Posted 25 July 2011 | (09:08)

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Scriptwriter Barry Simner talks about creating 'uncomfortable stories' for ITV1's Single-Handed, about Ireland's painful secrets and why American crime series are better than the UK's...

Whenever anyone says, 'I love watching Midsomer Murders/Doc Martin/Lewis because of the lovely scenery,' it's hard not to want...

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Interview: Emilia di Girolamo, Lead Writer for Law & Order: UK

(0) Comments | Posted 18 July 2011 | (12:28)

Emilia di Girolamo is the lead writer on the fifth series of Law & Order: UK, which returns to ITV1 this month (from Sunday, 10 July, 9pm).

The drama, which was spun-off from the classic US series and takes the original American storylines as the basis for each...

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A Killing Across The Water

(1) Comments | Posted 4 July 2011 | (20:01)

The Danes who made The Killing - or Forbrydelsen - were basically giving the two-fingered salute to all those slick US thrillers they'd been fed down the years. The tiniest smirk may have crossed their faces when the Americans liked it so much they ended up copying it.

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