Mad Dogs (2011-)

UK

Television Series

Creator: Cris Cole

Cast: John Simm, Max Beesley, Marc Warren, Philip Glenister, Ben Chaplin, María Botto, Eloise Joseph, Tomás Pozzi

Series 1 (2011)

Four old friends, tiptoeing into middle-age, travel to the swanky Majorcan villa of a fifth friend to help celebrate his early retirement, but – just as long simmering resentments are about to come to the boil – corrupt cops, the Serbian mafia, and a vertically challenged hit-man enter their lives, leaving them forever changed, in this blackly comic, pleasingly paced, and generally hugely entertaining if mildly anti-climactic first series. Iain.Stott