Pomona Rewind

"The British are coming," a euphoric Colin Welland declared at the 1982 Oscars. And in some senses he was right because Hugh Hudson's Best Picture winning 'Chariots of Fire' marked a moment that the country's film industry has really built on. British talent had won every year at the Academy Awards since 1955 - an achievement that has continued to this day. However 'Chariots of Fire' was a turning point for the profile of British film, coming just before the birth of Channel 4 whose support for indigenous filmmaking talent would kickstart other investment in the nation's film industry, with other broadcasters like the BBC, ITV and Sky following suit. © 20th Century Fox/Allied Stars/Enigma/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock Richard Attenborough's 'Gandhi,' Bernardo Bertolucci's 'The Last Emperor,' Anthony Minghella's 'The English Patient,' John Madden's 'Shakespeare In Love,' Danny Boyle's 'Slumdog Million

Rules are always there to be broken for any accomplished screenwriter. And that's the way it is with the second series of 'Happy Valley'. Fans of the show will know  from the first series  that Sarah Lancashire's character Sergeant Catherine Cawood has a nemesis - James Norton's violent sex offender Tommy Lee Royce. He's the man who fathered her grandson, Rhys Connah's Ryan, although he denies it was through rape. © BBC Studios Ryan's mum subsequently committed suicide, with Catherine's decision to raise the boy destroying her marriage to Derek Riddell's local journalist Richard. (SPOILER ALERT) During the first series, Tommy murdered a police colleague and a co-conspirator during the abduction of Charlie Murphy's Ann Gallagher. He also raped her. However he ended up behind bars after Catherine tracked him down with the help of her sister Siobhan Finneran's Clare on a barge he was hiding in. © BBC Studios But this was after Tommy had made

When is a police thriller more than just a police thriller? When it's the first series of 'Happy Valley'. Sally Wainwright's six part series tells the story of a police sergeant's obsession with an offender who destroyed her daughter. But it is also about a fractured family in a very fractured Yorkshire community. © BBC Studios The first series of 'Happy Valley' finds 'Coronation Street' alumna Sarah Lancashire's Sergeant Catherine Cawood juggling a chaotic homelife with the considerable demands of being a community beat cop Catherine lives in Calder Valley with her sister, Siobhan Finneran's recovering heroin addict Claire Cartwright and also her grandson, Rhys Connah's Ryan. The boy's teenage mum committed suicide following his birth and after becoming involved with James Norton's thug Tommy Lee Royce who has a propensity for sexual violence and is Ryan's dad. Catherine's decision to raise Ryan has split the family, with