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

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 ; ...

ITV viewers have been gripped by the new four-part drama A Cruel Love, which tells the harrowing true story of Ruth Ellis.. Ellis has gone down in history as the last woman in Britain to be hanged ...

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 ...