6 days ago · The British miniseries A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, premiering on the streaming service BritBox on February 17, “exposes the timeless British obsessions of class, sex, and death ...

1 day ago · The Gist: The woman is Ruth Ellis (Lucy Boynton), and she is eating her last meal, on her way to being hanged. Only three months earlier — Easter Sunday, April 10, 1955 — she shot her lover ...

1 day ago · Stream It Or Skip It: ‘A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story’ On BritBox, A Drama About The Last Woman To Be Executed In Great Britain. Joel Keller. Fri, February 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM UTC.

2 days ago · Created by Kelly Jones and based on Ellis’ true story as told in the book A Fine Day For Hanging: The Real Ruth Ellis Story by Carol Ann Lee, A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story has a similar feel to another recent BritBox true crime series, Joan, even though the time periods of the two shows are very different.

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 ...

3 days ago · A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, a four-part drama series starring Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody, Murder on the Orient Express, The Politician) that tells the story of the last woman to be ...

Feb 13, 2025 · Lucy Boynton's remarkable performance powers BritBox's tense true crime drama A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story.

A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, [1] [2] originally titled Ruth, is an four-part British historical drama television series for ITVX, starring Lucy Boynton as Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain, and Toby Jones as her solicitor John Bickford.

Dec 4, 2024 · A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story will premiere with two episodes on BritBox on Thursday, February 17, 2025, and then one episode a week through the beginning of March.

Dec 3, 2024 · Laurie Davidson as David Blakely and Lucy Boynton as Ruth Ellis in A Cruel Love, a new limited series premiering February 17 on BritBox.