This magnetic, if occasionally hollow, four-part drama tells the tragic story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hung in ...

The Ruth Ellis Story is a true crime drama that was released on ITVX earlier this year and has recently made its way to ITV's ...

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 ...

However, what A Cruel Love makes clear is that Ellis was a woman of her times. The legal system was primed to conspire against her. The permissive society hadn’t yet arrived, and a woman in ...

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.

A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story premiered on ITV1 and ITVX at 9pm on Wednesday 5th March 2025. Related articles. BBC to rival Love Island with 'bold' new dating show hosted by Davina McCall ; ...

"A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story," a four-part drama series, was inspired by Carol Ann Lee's true-crime book, "A Fine Day for a Hanging: The Real Ruth Ellis Story." ...

Created by Kelly Jones and based on Carol Anne Lee’s biography, “A Fine Day for Hanging,” BritBox’s “A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story” is a gutting, engaging historical crime drama ...

While it’s still frequently hard to escape the feeling that the world is designed around the whims of rich, careless, selfish, white men, this was even more emphatically the case in 1955. As ITV’s new ...