The Street goes from strength to strength

With all the fuss over the licence fee, one programme is proving it is worth the money.


The Street, which is written by Jimmy McGovern, returned a month ago to BBC1 for a third series and I have been gripped ever since.


This year the programme has already attracted the Hollywood names of Anna Friel and Bob Hoskins.


In the first episode, Hoskins played a landlord who stood up to the local hard nut. The story was similar to the film High Noon and saw Hoskins bar the son of the local gangster after he caught him having a cigarette in the pub’s toilets.


The local gangster viciously beats up the landlord, but Hoskins shows up his son when he serves him a drink with a decorative umbrella in it and saying he is treating him just like his father does.


The second episode saw Anna Friel play a mother of two who has to turn to prostitution to pay for her sons to go to a better school.


She starts a relationship with the man who comes to do some work in her house, little does she know his father is one of his clients.


This episode had more ups and down than a fiddler’s bow, but it did finish with a happy ending.

The following week’s stories told the tale of how a soldier coped after coming back from Afghanistan injured and on Monday (August 4) we followed the man who is mistakenly called a hero.

It such a shame this is the last ever series to be made.