TIME (BBC One)
2023 / 4x 60m
Available to stream on BBC iPlayer
Told through the lens of three very different inmates, Time is a moving and high-stakes portrayal of life inside a women’s prison. Arriving at Carlingford Prison on the same day, Orla (Jodie Whittaker), Abi (Tamara Lawrance) and Kelsey (Bella Ramsey) are thrown together to face an unfamiliar world. But even with the ever-present threat of violence within its walls, they discover that an unexpected sense of community, and a shared understanding, still might be possible
Awards & Nominations
Royal Television Society: Jodie Whittaker, Tamara Lawrance & Bella Ramsey all nominated for awards at the upcoming RTS Programme Awards in the Leading Actor and Supporting Actor categories. Winners to be announced later this month
Broadcasting Press Guild Awards: Best Mini-Series or Single Drama, Nominee. Winner to be announced later this month.
Credits
Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Tamara Lawrance, Bella Ramsey, Siobhan Finneran, Julie Graham, Sophie Willan, Kayla Meikle, Alicia Forde.
Directed by: Andrea Harkin | Written by: Jimmy McGovern & Helen Black | Producer: Mark Hedges | Company: BBC Studios | Cinematographer: Paul Morris | Production Designer: Jacqueline Smith | Composer: Sarah Warne | Editor: Alex Mackie
Reviews
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★★★★ Prison drama is BBC at its very best; a brilliant piece of television that wholly deserves your time.
Abby Robinson — Radio Times
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The second series of BBC’s Time is an intimate horror show. The performances are breathtaking: fierce, and utterly plausible. Awards will be won.
Rachel Cooke — New Statesman
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★★★★ This portrait of women on the edge, battling systems outside of their control, is tight, tense, and compassionate.
Nick Hilton — Independent
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Bella Ramsey is incredible in this world-beating drama. Watch all three episodes in rapt awe, then make a little vow to yourself afterwards to stay out of trouble. They really would eat you alive in there.
Joel Golby — The Guardian
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★★★★ Time is at its best when showing that it’s the outside world where the true terror lies. How easy it is for the connection to fray, how thin it always was. You feel with all your heart for Whittaker’s Orla.
Stuart McGurk — The Standard
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★★★★ The second series retains all the punishing authenticity and insights of the Bafta-winning original.
Dan Einav - Financial Times
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★★★★ This prison drama was already harrowing, then series 2 moved to a women’s jail for another eye-opening foray into the reality of prison and its ramifications in the outside world.
Gerard Gilbert — iNews
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★★★★ The second series of Jimmy McGovern’s fantastic drama follows three women coming to terms with life inside. It's a wrenching, violent story of motherhood behind bars.
Jasper Rees — The Telegraph
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★★★★ Jodie Whittaker shines in bleak women's prison drama; it gets stronger and more moving with every episode.
Carol Midgley — Times UK
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★★★★ The ex-Doctor puts in a brilliant performance alongside Bella Ramsey. It’s a powerful message... like the first series, it brings attention to a terrible problem and demands a search for answers.
Lucy Mangan — The Guardian
Scenes and Sequences
TIME | S2 | Clip, Ep1 — First time in prison
TIME | S2 | Clip, Ep1 — Abi loses it
TIME | S2 | Clip, Ep1 — Phoning Home
TIME | S2 | Clip, Ep1 — Kelsey’s Scan
TIME | S2 | Clip, Ep1 — Induction’s over
TIME | S2 | Clip, Ep1 — Abi fights back
INDUSTRY SCREENERS
Password for all episodes: T!M3_50129 This password changes frequently, if this password is no longer working please email Sam Greenwood or Adam Tindall at Curtis Brown.Time | S2 | Episode 1
Time | S2 | Episode 2
Time | S2 | Episode 3