The Shadow in the North

Billie Piper stars in this dramatisation of Philip Pullman's novel - the second in his quartet of books about Victorian heroine Sally Lockhart. It's six years since the events of The Ruby in the Smoke (shown last Christmas), and Sally has her own financial consulting business. When a client loses a fortune following the unexpected collapse of a shipping firm, the young businesswoman grows suspicious and sets out to investigate - and a clairvoyant soon puts her on the trail of the richest man in Europe and a terrifying new weapon, the Hopkinson Self-Regulator. Period thriller, co-starring JJ Feild, David Harewood, Lyndsey Marshal, Georgia King, Adjoa Andoh and Owen Roe