ROUGH JUSTICE

Sean Bean stars in Jimmy McGovern’s thought-provoking prison drama

- CAREN CLARK, SEAN MARLAND

NEW DRAMA

Time Sunday, BBC1 HD, 9pm

Sean Bean’s collaborations with award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern have always been something special.

The pair first worked together in 2012 on an episode of McGovern’s acclaimed anthology drama Accused, which saw Bean give a moving performance as a troubled transvestite. Five years later, the actor won a BAFTA for his role as a compassionate but haunted priest in harrowing drama Broken.

Now, Bean and McGovern are teaming up once more, along with Stephen Graham, who co-starred as Bean’s lover in Accused, for another compelling slice of life in BBC1’s prison drama Time.