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It’s been some time since Sky Studios announced a second season for Gangs of London, but they have confirmed filming is underway. In fact, production began three weeks ago on the second run of the Sky Atlantic/NOW show, which was Sky’s biggest original drama launch in five years, beating Chernobyl and Save Me. Sky have … >
Good Omens 2 has been greenlit, with David Tennant and Michael Sheen reprising their roles as the Demon Crowley and the Angel Aziraphale. While the first, six-part season of the comic fantasy adapted the original 1990 novel by Neil Gaiman and the late Terry Pratchett, the second will go further and draw on plans for … >
Torchwood: The Five People You Kill in Middlesbrough is the latest monthly release. Fronted by the institute’s sometime head-honcho Yvonne Hartman, it gives us an insight into how she gets the job done. Yvonne, the credited writer, tells us of her struggles dealing with the aftermath of an alien spaceship crash on Middlesbrough. Handling first … >
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 … >