The Catch

Channel 5 premiered its brand new drama, The Catch, on Wednesday evening, following the story of a fisherman with a dark past.

#TheCatch." Why is the script so bad? @Hughesy53 echoed this, posting: "D'you know what - I reckon #HappyValley has set the bar so high I'm beginning to find other tv dramas a bit 2dimensional... Why does the acting seem so forced? His concerns soon switch to his daughter, Abbie (Poppy Gilbert), when she starts dating a mysterious Ryan Wilson (Aneurin Barnard). "Why does the humble fisherman live in a million-pound home?

But within two minutes of Channel 5's new psychological thriller The Catch, it became clear that his boat skipper Ed Collier was a tortured soul and that an ...

The episode finished with him discovering that a kind of impromptu shrine had been erected in the boat’s wheelhouse, with a candle burning beside photos of his dead son and his old Navy mates. With its cuckoo-in-the-nest plot, The Catch was formulaic but elevated by a cast that included Brenda Fricker as Poppy’s grandmother Phyllis. An internet search duly revealed that Ryan had changed his name at 18, although Ryan came up with a plausible-sounding reason involving the deaths of his parents. He was immediately suspicious of Poppy’s new boyfriend, a handsome, self-assured and well-off “catch” called Ryan (Aneurin Barnard). But within two minutes of Channel 5’s new psychological thriller The Catch, it became clear that his boat skipper Ed Collier was a tortured soul and that an actor of Watkins’s virtuosity might indeed be required. The actor is more usually associated with mildly eccentric middle-class types or, as in ITV’s [McDonald and Dodds](https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/mcdonald-and-dodds-itv-review-cheerfully-undemanding-900029), a superannuated back-room copper with Sherlockian deductive powers.

When is new drama The Catch on Channel 5, who stars alongside Jason Watkins and Aneurin Barnard and what is the series about?

I love the idea of people watching this and thinking it’s England when it's not. Director Robert Quinn explained: "There are many reasons to come to film in Ireland, two of which are that it has great crews and it’s easier to film here. A synopsis for the drama reads: "Ed Collier is a proud husband, father and local fisherman determined to do whatever it takes to keep his family together. The launch episode is one hour long, ending at 10pm. Here's everything you need to know about The Catch. Joining Jason is a star-studded cast list including Welsh actor Aneurin Barnard, who plays Ryan Wilson, and Poppy Gilbert, who viewers will recognise from Chloe.

Brenda Fricker is also a standout in this Cornish easy watch, leaving you to question why the Oscar winner did not become a bigger star.

Watching her deliver such a precise performance in The Catch made me wonder why Fricker isn’t a bigger star – remember her winning an Oscar in 1990 for My Left Foot? The central question is whether the boyfriend (Aneurin Barnard) is a wrong ’un with sinister motives, or whether Watkins is misinterpreting everything because he is still tortured by grief over the death of his 10-year-old son, which has led him to be madly over-protective when it comes to his now-adult daughter. If someone turns to their partner and sighs: “I’ve never been so happy in my life!” they will be run over by a bus shortly afterwards.