BritBox's A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story wants to add to British television 's long history of great crime dramas. It's halfway there, with a cast whom fans will know -- even if they don't ...

A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, a four-part drama series starring Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody, Murder on the Orient Express, The Politician) that tells the story of the last woman to be ...

As ITV’s new drama A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story suggests, men held the cards – whether they were trying to exploit you, save you, get you drunk, get you into bed, prosecute you or defend ...

Now, Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody, Murder on the Orient Express, The Politician) portrays Ellis in the new four-part drama series A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, which premieres in the U.S ...

Regardless, the cruelty and sad conclusion to her life leave Ellis with an inauspicious place in British history. A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story begins on ITV1 and ITVX on 5 March.

A Cruel Love can’t avoid the fate of the “faction” genre of not being able to reveal unequivocally what really happened, but it poses a variety of questions.

The first two episodes of “A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story” premiere Feb. 17 on BritBox, with new episodes airing weekly on Mondays. Best of Variety The Best Albums of the Decade ...

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