Patience star on casting neurodivergent actors – and "challenging" first week on set

Channel 4's new police drama Patience is a punchy portrayal of autism

It might only have been the first week of January, but the sight of a man’s body silently crackling on a car park roof after he set himself on fire is already in the reckoning for the most shocking TV moment of 2025.This arresting image comes in the first two minutes of Channel 4’s new police drama Patience, and immediately asserts the show as a punchy, no-holds-barred take on the police genre.In some ways, this grisly scene is a slight misdirec…

Patience star: 'It's common for dramas to infantilise autistic women'

This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. When Ella Maisy Purvis, star of the new Channel 4 crime drama Patience, was diagnosed with autism in her late teens, she was advised that adopting the “stigmatising” label would hold her back in life. The first thing anyone will tell you upon meeting Purvis is that nothing holds her back. She knows she’s amazing and, in the most charming way, will tell you so in no uncertain terms. Unsurprisin…

New crime drama Patience set in York airs to mixed reviews

Patience, a new crime drama set in York, has aired on Channel 4 to mixed reviews.