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: ...

Executive producers Kate Bartlett and Antonia Gordon of Silverprint Pictures took on the tale of an "obsessive relationship" ...

A murder, an execution and a family haunted for generations. Decades later, I finally stopped running from my grandmother’s ...

The Britbox series ‘exposes the timeless British obsessions of class, sex, and death’ through a real-life crime story 70 ...

Created by Kelly Jones and based on Carol Anne Lee’s biography, “A Fine Day for Hanging,” BritBox’s “A Cruel Love: The Ruth ...

BritBox and ITV’s latest period true-crime drama, A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, is based on the tragic real-life ...

On the July 13, 1955, Ruth stood in front of her executioner Albert Pierrepoint and smiled with gentle acceptance of her fate ...

The drama series, which also stars Laurie Davidson and Toby Jones, launches on BritBox on Monday. "She was such a ...

The Ruth Ellis Story tells the hidden story of Ruth Ellis and exposes the timeless British obsessions of class, sex and death ...

ITV has confirmed that its upcoming drama A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story will begin airing on ITV1 and ITVX at 9pm on ...

Laura explores the nuanced case of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain.

Also notable is that in the series, Nigel Havers plays his own grandfather, Cecil Havers, the judge who sentenced Ruth Ellis to death. “Nigel, who is a British legend, played his grandfather.