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Ian McArdell

Down Cemetery Road – Apple TV+ adapts another Mick Herron novel

The series will star Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson. Off the back of the success of Slow Horses, Apple TV+ have commissioned another adaptation of a Mick Herron book. This time, it’s Down Cemetery Road, his debut novel from 2003. The thriller, which features struggling private eye Zoë Boehm, is the first of his four-book “The … >

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Mr Loverman - Lennie James as Barrington Walker

Mr Loverman – first look at Lennie James in the BBC adaptation

Lennie James leads the drama based on Bernardine Evaristo’s hit novel. The BBC have released the first pictures from their forthcoming adaptation of Mr Loverman. The series, adapted from Bernardine Evaristo’s acclaimed 2013 novel, stars Lennie James as the exuberant Barrington Jedidiah Walker. Sharon D. Clarke takes the role of Carmel Walker, Barrington’s wife of … >

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Dead Boy Detectives

Dead Boy Detectives – Season 1 episode rundown

With the show launching soon, Netflix have revealed episode titles and synopses for Dead Boy Detectives. Set in The Sandman universe, Dead Boy Detectives is based on characters created for DC by Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner. It follows two deceased teenage sleuths as they track down the world’s most elusive ghosts and demons. Edwin … >

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Apple TV+ Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters gets Season 2 plus spin-offs

The Monsterverse television series, starring Kurt and Wyatt Russell will be back for more…  Apple TV+ have announced that Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, which takes place in Legendary Entertainment‘s Monsterverse, is recommissioned. On the heels of “monstrous success”, the streamer has confirmed a deal for the second run of Monarch. It also mentions multiple spin-off … >

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Good - David Tennant and Sharon Small

BBC Four to air GOOD starring David Tennant

His acclaimed National Theatre performance in CP Taylor’s GOOD comes to BBC Four.  David Tennant may have missed out on an Olivier Award for Macbeth this weekend, but there’s a chance to catch another of his stage performances. The BBC have announced a screening of his performance in the critically acclaimed GOOD this coming weekend. … >

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John Nettles as Jim Bergerac in his 1947 Triumph Roadster

Bergerac is returning, re-imagined by Toby Whithouse

The show becomes a 6-part crime series for Drama and UKTV Play.  Based on the exotic location of Channel Island of Jersey, Bergerac bestrode the BBC One schedules for a decade. With nine series and numerous Christmas specials, it was the Death in Paradise of its day. Created by Robert Banks Stewart in 1981, detective … >

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The Man Who Fell to Earth is coming to BBC Radio 4

Christopher Eccleston will join Harry Treadaway in an audio drama based on the classic novel. Walter Tevis’ 1963 novel The Man Who Fell To Earth famously inspired the 1976 movie starring David Bowie. More recently, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Bill Nighy and Naomie Harris starred in a modern television adaptation for Showtime. Now, the Radio Times reports … >

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Heroes

Heroes: Eclipsed – another revival for the superhero series?

Series Creator Tim Kring is pitching Heroes: Eclipsed, another sequel series to the late 00s hit.  Heroes, the series which superpowered us through the late 00s is being pitched for another revival. Telling the story of ordinary folk who gained supernatural abilities, the show took superpowers mainstream. Viewers tuned in to watch the Heroes “Save … >

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