David Tennant: ‘Time season 3 made me consider the reality of the prison system’

The third series of Jimmy McGovern’s series Time has been hailed its ‘best ever’ (Credits: BBC/BBC Studios/Peter Marley)

The atmosphere on the set of a TV show often doesn’t reflect the content at all.

Take Time, for example, writer Jimmy McGovern’s superb if unflinching examination of the British prison system.

The first series was set in a men’s jail and the second in a women’s prison. The third stars David Tennant as Bailey, a jaded officer at a Young Offenders Institution (YOI) who finds his person...