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The BBC have announced that comic and tv presenter Romesh Ranganathan is set to bring his particular brand of deadpan humour to a revival of The Weakest Link. Filming in Glasgow and due to air on BBC One later in the year, the new run will feature celebrity contestants competing to raise funds for their … >
Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones are to lead the cast of Under the Banner of Heaven, according to NME. Based on Jon Krakauer’s non-fiction bestseller, the story about the LDS fundamentalist movement follows a devout detective whose faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder, seemingly connected to an esteemed Utah family’s spiral into … >
itv have released the first pictures from its three-part sequel to 1999’s The Murder of Stephen Lawrence The drama will will pick up on events six years after the original Inquiry into Stephen Lawrence’s shocking murder. Stephen tells of the ongoing struggle by Doreen and Neville Lawrence to achieve justice for their son, portraying events … >
With rumours of Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor Who exit strategy swirling, thanks to a recent “exclusive” from the showbiz pages of the Mirror, it appears that Doctor Who casting silly season has begun. Yes, the inevitable subject of who will play the 14th Doctor has reared it head again in the press. After a decent consideration … >
Out of Time 2 – The Gates of Hell is the second in a series of specials which sees David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor bumping into former incarnations. While the first paired him with Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor, this time he encounters Peter Davison’s Fifth. Of course, there is an onscreen precedent for this particular pairing. … >
The Lone Centurion Volume 1 sees Arthur Darvill return as Rory Williams – well, sort of. For those with only a distant memory of Series 5, Amy Pond’s luckless fiancé had a habit of dying. And being brought back to life. During the two-part series finale, Rory was somehow resurrected as an Auton Roman soldier. … >
The Ninth Doctor Adventures – Ravagers sees Christopher Eccleston returning to the role of the Doctor. Sixteen years since his thirteen-episode run reignited the Doctor Who in the public consciousness, it is doubtless the biggest coup for Big Finish since persuading Tom Baker to return to the role, or indeed Paul McGann. Ravagers is a … >
Echoes of Extinction is the final audio drama piece in the Time Lord Victorious puzzle. Unavoidably delayed by the Coronavirus pandemic, it is available on Limited Edition Vinyl from Demon Records, though copies are tough to get hold of. Luckily, it is also available digitally from Big Finish. Making a virtue of the two-sided vinyl … >
Dalek Universe 1 draws David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor back to a time before the Time War. Without his TARDIS, he hooks up with the Space Security Service, in the first of three boxsets which comprise the Dalek Universe series. Buying Time & The Wrong Woman Abducted by an unknown force, the Doctor finds himself in … >
The Dalek Protocol kicks off Dalek Universe, Big Finish’s latest Tenth Doctor series with a prologue for the Fourth. It is also a sequel to the Pertwee classic Death to the Daleks, a favourite of Dalek supremo Nicholas Briggs. The action returns us to the planet of the Exillons. With the space plague in a … >