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The Rock Star Doctor joined fellow Scots Franz Ferdinand on stage. It’s well-known that actor Peter Capaldi has many strings to his bow. He’s the Oscar winning director of a short film, as well as numerous other things. He was also a member of an early 80s post-punk band called The DreamBoys, alongside comedian and … >
News to gladden our hearts and lighten our wallets! It has announced that both Wallace and Gromit and The X-Files are to become immortalised as new Lego sets. Both were fan submissions to the recent “Build Your Nostalgia: ’90s Throwback” competition which gave fan builders with opportunity to design new Lego builds, with the chance … >
The tense crime drama is coming later in 2025. Channel 4 have released the first pictures from their forthcoming thriller In Flight, written and co-created by Mike Walden (Marcella) and Adam Randall (Slow Horses). The series stars Katherine Kelly as a flight attendant whose life is turned upside down when she is blackmailed into drug smuggling … >
The project comes from the team behind What We Do in the Shadows. Deadline have broken news that Mel Brooks’ 1974 comedy movie Young Frankenstein may be getting a television series spinoff, with FX close to greenlighting a pilot. The pilot is from creative team behind What We Do in the Shadows, so that’s writer … >
It’s time to play Squid Game one last time. Updated 27/06/05: First opening six minutes of season 3 is online The final season of Squid Game lands today and, in celebration, Netflix have unleased the first six minutes online. It’s a tactic they’ve also deployed for Wednesday, although that came well ahead of its August … >
Ncuti Gatwa’s departure & Billie Piper’s arrival made instant headlines, including on the BBC News website. At the end of season 2, Doctor Who achieved the closest the show has ever got to a surprise regeneration. Usually, due to production cycles and casting announcements, viewers are in the know well in advance of the change. Matt … >
The death of the visionary filmmaker David Lynch at the start of this year was a deep loss to the industry. Gloriously idiosyncratic, his back catalogue included films such as The Elephant Man and 1984’s Dune, as well as the LA based noir mysteries Mullholland Drive, Inland Empire and Lost Highway. On television, creating the … >
If like us at CultBox Towers, you grew up fascinated by the space race, and in particular the Space Shuttle, there’s a podcast series coming in July that’s right up your street. 13 Minutes is the BBC podcast about epic space stories, told by the people who made them happen. This is the third season, … >
The show promises ” … a vital story that speaks not just to the queer community but to the world today.” Updated 25/06/25: “Finished!” While the future of Doctor Who in its current form remains up in the air, in the lap of the (Disney) gods, Russell T Davies has been industrious. His next project, … >
The long-awaited second season of The Walking Dead: Dead City comes to Sky Max and NOW this summer. One of the many The Walking Dead spinoffs, Dead City follows old enemies Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) who travel into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, long ago cut off from the mainland. It’s been a long … >