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  You wait years for a TV drama about a powerful, complex woman, and then…

  This has been a great week for women on TV. The intoxicating combination of Sally Wainwright (screenwriter) and Sarah Lancashire (star) knocked it out of the park with their magnificent conclusion to Happy Valley on BBC One, while ITV released the hugely entertaining Nolly with Helena Bonham Carter.

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  Happy Valley to be taught to university students

  The show has been a massive success.

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  How Happy Valley found God: redemption, forgiveness and the Devil

  Happy Valley’s final ever episode left us in a churchyard, with Catherine Cawood standing next to her daughter’s gravestone, contemplating the epitaph: “In God is My Hope.” By choosing this as the final image of the series, what was Sally Wainwright trying to tell us?

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  Missing Happy Valley? These 12 dramas will help fill the void

  The deeply satisfying finale of screenwriter Sally Wainwright’s BBC mega-hit Happy Valley has left 11m fans bereft and a gaping hole in their Sunday night viewing schedules.

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  Why Happy Valley’s James Norton should be the next James Bond

  The name’s Royce. Tommy Lee Royce. The finale of Sally Wainwright’s Happy Valley had viewers biting their knuckles with tension. But it also served as the ultimate audition tape for James Norton, whose devastating performance as psychopathic Tommy Lee Royce has put him in the frame as the potential next James Bond.

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  Happy Valley fails to beat Line of Duty viewing figures

  The final episode of Happy Valley was watched by 7.5 million people, falling far short of Line of Duty.

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  Happy Valley viewers praise Catherine and Tommy's 'masterclass' final showdown

  The drama's last episode thrilled viewers.

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  Happy Valley: James Norton shares backstage pictures from all series

  The actor shared a series of pictures he'd taken while filming the show including a selfie with publicity-shy Sarah Lancashire.

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  Happy Valley filming locations: Why Yorkshire is the real star of the BBC drama

  If you’ve not seen Happy Valley, your first thought upon reading a synopsis of it might not be “I must plan a weekend break there.” The organised crime and cold-blooded murder it depicts don’t exactly scream holiday. But join the millions of viewers curling up to watch it on Sunday nights (more people watched episode two of the latest series than Prince Harry's ITV interview) and you’ll find you can’t help but be taken with the windswept moors or honey-stoned houses of West Yorkshire.

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  Leaving Happy Valley: how to – and how not to – end a great TV drama

  When you love a TV series, you don’t want it to stop. Yet a good story (the legendary TV critic Aristotle once said) should have a beginning, a middle and an end. It means that the excitement of a finale must come with a whiff of disappointment. It’s like a holiday or a party – you’re having so much fun you don’t want to go home.

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