Jenna Coleman has returned to BBC screens with the new four-part crime thriller The Jetty, in which she plays Detective Ember Manning. Set in a small scenic Lancashire town and full of men in desperate need of a #MeToo intervention, the twisty drama poses plenty of sexual-politics questions about consent, grooming and sexual abuse.
This is all while Coleman's Ember takes on an arson investigation that quickly unspools into a missing-person cold case with roots in her own romantic history. There's also a true-crime podcaster sniffing on the scene – so for such a small town, there's a lot going on.
At just four episodes, it's quick enough to churn through The Jetty and be left wanting more Coleman or perhaps more BBC drama... or even both. If so, you're in the right place.
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Since Coleman broke out from her early soap roles on Emmerdale and Waterloo Road, she has amassed an impressive list of television roles in a real mix of TV shows.
The Jetty has two of the markers that Coleman's projects to date have most in common: an unorthodox approach to the show's timeline and a home on the BBC.
In addition to that, there is a huge range of genres to satisfy most viewing appetites – whether it's another murder mystery you're in the market for, or a soapy period drama or even a mind-bending fantasy meets the supernatural meets horror. We've listed the cream of the crop from Coleman's IMDb for you to peruse at your viewing pleasure.
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Titanic
While most may hear Titanic and think of Rose and Jack swooning at the bow of the doomed White Star Line ship, this miniseries of the same name offers a more grounded take on that April night in 1912.
The four-part ITV drama was written by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes in 2012 to coincide with the 100th anniversary of what at the time was dubbed "the greatest marine disaster in the history of the world".
The miniseries takes a more diffuse approach to the tales of the passengers, focusing on the stories of different classes in the ocean liner's cabins. Titanic's nonlinear structure sees the ship hit the iceberg in every episode, an approach that didn't go down hugely well with viewers at the time.
But Fellowes' writing is accomplished and Coleman's second-class steward character Annie Desmond has a forbidden love thing going on with a first-class steward, so there's still flavours of the James Cameron film in here if that's what you're after.
The Sandman
Netflix's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's celebrated comic book story of gods and demons took some time to make it to television, but was worth the wait.
Lord Morpheus, also known as Dream, or as the Sandman, is played by a wiry Tom Sturridge, while Coleman plays the book's merged characters of John and Johanna Constantine in this large ensemble cast.
The show leaps through time and eras (there's a timey-wimey Coleman theme emerging here). Dark and transporting, this is perfect for fans of the book series and newcomers alike.
You can probably catch up in time for the second season, which is currently in production with Coleman set to reprise her role.
Doctor Who
What's a Time Lord without their companion? Coleman's Clara Oswald joined the TARDIS firmament for Matt Smith's run as the Eleventh Doctor, continuing on the BBC show when he regenerated into Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth. She holds the title of being the longest-running companion of the show's modern-day reboot.
Even if the entry point for Doctor Who appears to be a particularly high one, there has never been a better time to get into it than now – particularly given how newbie-friendly the latest season proved to be.
If you missed Neil Patrick Harris's hilarious rundown in 'The Giggle' of how each of showrunner Steven Moffat's companions met their sort-of maker, then we won't spoil Clara's story for you. But once you have seen her episodes, it's well worth watching the 60th anniversary special with The Toymaker for that scene alone.
What that moment did show is that Clara was one of the victims of some of Moffat's poor writing decisions. But despite that, her energetic character is a solid match for Smith and makes for plenty of spitfire back-and-forth.
Death Comes to Pemberley
A spiritual sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Death Comes to Pemberley counts Coleman among a stacked cast of British talent. Anna Maxwell Martin, Matthew Rhys, Matthew Goode and James Norton join her in this period drama meets murder mystery.
Based on the novel of the same name by PD James, the miniseries finds the happy couple Mr Darcy (Rhys) and Elizabeth Bennett (Maxwell Martin) six years into married life in 1803 – Coleman plays Elizabeth's troublesome younger sister Lydia.
In the throes of preparations for their annual ball, the festivities are brought to an abrupt halt by an Agatha Christie-style whodunnit which unfolds in the grounds of Pemberley.
The three episodes of the 2013 BBC drama are filled with lush parklands, sweeping countryside vistas and elaborately decorated manor house interiors. It packs a punch of escapism, while also offering all the intrigue of a potboiler murder mystery.
The Serpent
Another BBC drama –– Coleman loves a BBC drama! Or BBC drama loves Coleman! – The Serpent takes on the true crime story of the icy serial killer Charles Sobhraj (played here by Tahar Rahim) and manages to do so with some sensitivity.
The eight-parter sees Coleman play the killer's girlfriend Marie-Andrée Leclerc, with a performance that is chillingly inscrutable. It leaves the question of whether she was a brainwashed moll or clearly complicit in his crimes up for some debate.
The Serpent is another timeline-hopping drama, largely set in Asia in the mid-'70s as Sobhraj drugs and kills Western travellers, hiding behind the dearth of international communication at the time. The drama leans on maximum '70s vibes, as its predator slithers through the fun-loving nightlife and finds a tragic chink in the hippie dream.
The Cry
Like The Missing before it, this baby-snatching drama plays into every parent's worst nightmare – but does so from the psychologically probing viewpoint of a mother coping with immense post-partum pressure.
Back on the BBC – she can't stay away! – Coleman plays young new mum Joanna alongside Ewen Leslie as her partner Alistair. The couple are on a trip to Australia to visit Alistair's child from a former marriage when their baby Noah is abducted from their car during a trip to the supermarket.
The Cry sees a heart-wrenching performance from Coleman in a pacy adaptation of a bestselling thriller from Helen Fitzgerald. The story flashes back and forth – she can't get enough! – in the lead-up to the pivotal, life-changing moment their 4-month-old is taken, then through the public circus aftermath, leading up to Joanna's own trial as the blame almost inevitably falls on her.
Victoria
Just months before The Crown arrived on Netflix and forever changed dramatisations of the royal family with its less deferential approach, Jenna Coleman hit screens on the – wait for it – ITV, as Queen Victoria.
Victoria is similarly replete with plenty of historical inaccuracies, although didn't inspire quite the ire The Crown did, as it leans into the soapiness of storytelling over any constraints such as straight facts.
Jenna Coleman stars as the titular regent across the show's three seasons – and it really is her star-making turn. Coleman's performance as a proto-feminist thrust onto the world stage and into the history books at such a young age is what carries us through the soap.
Our young Queen Victoria has her Bridgerton-worthy love affair with Tom Hughes's Prince Albert, defying all the stuffy associations you might have with the Victorian era. She also has simmering chemistry with Rufus Sewell's Prime Minister Lord Melbourne, with whom the public think she's getting it on. But she isn't. Although sometimes it seems she could be.
This was and probably still is the high-watermark of Coleman's career. We'll have to wait for what she does next to see if it can be bested.
Previously Deputy TV Editor at Digital Spy and, before that, a TV Reporter at The Mirror, Rebecca can now be found crafting expert analysis of the TV landscape, when she's not talking on the BBC or Times Radio about everything from the latest season of Bridgerton or The White Lotus to whatever chaos is unfolding in the various Love Island villas. When she's not bingeing a boxset, in-the-wild sightings of Rebecca have included stints on the National TV Awards and BAFTAs red carpets, and post-match video explainers of the reality TV we're all watching.
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