The Ruth Ellis Story say they’ve ‘given up’ watching after just one episode due to spotting an annoying habit on the series.  The ITV show, which premiered

When Ruth Ellis was executed at the age of 28, she left behind two children - what happened to them after she died?

Ruth Ellis turned up at a pub in Hampstead and shot her lover, David Blakely, dead. Two months later, she was hanged for his murder – becoming the last woman to be executed in the UK. Now, her story is finally being told for the first time.

Lucy Boynton ( Why Didn't They Ask Evans?) and Laurie Davidson ( The Road Trip) play the doomed lovers in ITV dramatisation A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, which is based on Carol Ann Lee's book A Fine Day for a Hanging.

Executive producers Kate Bartlett and Antonia Gordon of Silverprint Pictures took on the tale of an "obsessive relationship" that was "toxic and abusive," meaning "it was important to tell the full story.

The Ruth Ellis Story revisits the famous crime, trial and hanging, fleshing out Ellis’s tragic past in the process

Lucy Boynton discusses her intense and heartbreaking portrayal of Ruth Ellis, the last woman executed in Great Britain in 1955.

Lucy Boynton leads the cast of ITV's hard-hitting factual drama A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, which explores the tragic life of the last woman to be hanged in Britain.

Ruth Ellis (Lucy Boynton) was arrested following the shooting of her lover David Blakely in 1955 following a turbulent relationship. Drawing inspiration from Carol Ann Lee's book, A Fine Day For A Hanging, the new series will highlight the emotional and physical abuse suffered by Ruth at the hands of her lover David Blakely.

The story of Ruth Ellis’s execution in 1955 has found its own macabre niche in British folklore, and has been been the subject of several film, stage and TV treatments. Perhaps the most memorable of these was Mike Newell’s 1985 film Dance with a Stranger,