Television: Shady deals and dark deeds under sunny skies

Riviera is about the high stakes skulduggery of international swindlers, criminals and high-rolling pimps

Julia Stiles in Riviera (Sky Atlantic)

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Graham Greene once described the French Riviera as “a sunny place for shady people”. He had his reasons. While living in Antibes for almost a quarter of a century, he became obsessed with a real-life case which convinced him of official corruption down the road in Nice. Sounding off about it resulted in his being fined ...