TV Pick for Tonight: Accused

Jimmy McGovern's award-winning series Accused returns for a second series. Each episode follows a different person's story as they await the verdict of their trial.

The new series begins with Tracie's Story as English teacher Simon's secret life as transvestite Tracie Tremarco is exposed.  

Simon Gaskell (Sean Bean) is a college English teacher who specialises in poetry. What his students don't know is that his alter ego is a transvestite called Tracie Tremarco, who is lonely and looking for love. Manchester's bars dressed up to the nines has not produced a lasting or truly fulfilling relationship however.

Then as fate would have it, Tracie falls head over heels in love in unexpected circumstances, following an altercation with some blokes out on a stag night. One of the stag revellers, Tony (Stephen Graham), a satellite and aerial engineer, comes to Tracie’s aid and offers her a lift home.

Tony and Tracie soon become smitten with each other and hesitatingly their love affair begins. But Tony has a secret too - he’s married to a local beautician, Karen (Rachel Leskovac), and he cares deeply for his wife. Before long, Tracie becomes entangled in a triangular love affair that leads inexorably to a terrible crime of passion and the dock...


Accused begins tonight on BBC1 at 9pm

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