More people by far have tuned into ITV1’s Joan and DI Ray than to BBC One’s Mr Loverman. On one level, that’s no surprise even in the on-demand era: there is comfort in genre and, for all ...

Our Take: Mr. Loverman is one of those shows that compels you to keep watching, and for a number of reasons. For one, there’s the transfixing lead performance from Lennie James.

Mr Loverman is a wonderfully complex series that weaves together issues of marital breakdown, intergenerational conflict, infidelity, racism and sexuality. But while it is faithful to the original ...

Lennie James recently won a BAFTA for his leading role in the mini-series “Mr. Loverman,” and for good reason: His performance is as whole and mesmerizing a portrait as one sees on television.

Carmel tells Barry that her father, who’s in his 90s, is gravely ill, and she’s going back to Antigua to see him. When she gets back, she claims, things are going to change.

All in all, "Mr Loverman" is a "wonderfully complex" show that threads together issues spanning everything from sexuality and racism to marital breakdown and infidelity, said Jeff Ingold on the i ...