On Christmas Day Downtown Abbey will open its ostentatious doors for a very last time. The highly popular British TV period drama will conclude after six award-winning seasons. Creator Julian Fellowes told GoldDerby.com in an interview that it was never meant to become a never-ending story: “Certainly, we didn’t want to go on and on … >
As the sirens fall silent and the blood banks gets a chance to restock, it’s time for a brief look back over the first season of Sky1’s new medical drama. Critical’s initial ‘mission statement’ was to be a real-time medical drama. Whereas your General Hospitals or your ERs might begin an operation and then cut … >
After 13 years, Fox has rehired television’s original paranormal investigators FBI Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully for a six-episode reinvestigation of The X-Files. Loyal fans have spooky expectations from the show’s creator Chris Carter, who set the standard for the cult series and its concurrent and subsequent feature films. > Buy the complete Season … >
Contemporary British comedy scribes find themselves preceded by a long-standing tradition of great British comedy screen-writers. With a very identifiable sarcastic undertone and dry connotation, British comedy has its own unique identity, not just in the English speaking world, but further afield. We take a look at 5 great British screen-writers… Ford Kiernan and … >
The sheer quantity and quality of programming output that we now see on television is quite incredible. Being able to generate strong dramatic stories and flesh out unforgettable characters on a weekly basis is impressive and there is certainly a very British feel to many of the current most popular shows, and this influence has … >
I doubt Jenna Coleman knew exactly how important her character Clara Oswald would be to Doctor Who when she took the part back in March 2012. Like her or not, Clara – thanks to Steven Moffat’s masterful planning and/or serendipity – is the most important companion of all. This has nothing to do with favouritism. … >
Last month marked a decade since we were all sent cowering back behind our sofas when Doctor Who returned to our screens with Christopher Eccleston’s Doctor. One of the biggest components of that scare factor, however, is of course the music, and what with it being the 10th anniversary of ‘nu-Who’, it is also the … >
When The Shining was released in 1980, it was one of the scariest films ever made. However, author Steven King notoriously hated director Stanley Kubrick’s version of the story, which is possibly why the sequel, Doctor Sleep, has not yet made it onto the big screen. Jack Nicholson was a star in his own right … >
Many Doctor Who companions fly under the radar despite their greatness. Steven Taylor; pilot of the future. Liz Shaw; so good Ridley Scott named the heroine of Prometheus after her. Romana I; sexier, brainier and classier than her successor. Yet when the general public or casual fan is asked to recite the names of the … >
He may have a showreel that stretches back to 1991 and a short film entitled Last Breeze of Summer, but Jayson Warner Smith’s career really hit a high in 2013. Thanks to a recurring role in Rectify, Smith was able to etch his name into the TV audience’s brains and continue this momentum onto the silver … >