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‘Fleming’ preview

More men have played Ian Fleming on-screen than have portrayed his key creation James Bond 007. At least nine in total. Charles Dance (Goldeneye, 1989), Leo Fenn and Jason Connery (Spymaker, 1990), Ben Daniels (Bondmaker, 2005), Skip Goeree (Bernhard – Scoundrel of Orange, 2010), Tobias Menzies (Any Human Heart, 2010), James D’Arcy (Age Of Heroes, 2011), Jeremy Crutchley (A Caribbean Mystery, 2013) and now Dominic Cooper in Ecosse Films’ new four-part Sky Atlantic / BBC America series Fleming.

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‘Line of Duty’ Series 2 launch Q&A highlights

Jed Mercurio’s police corruption drama Line Of Duty returns to BBC Two for a second series later this month and CultBox was lucky enough to attend a recent screening of the opening episode in London, followed by a Q&A session with the show’s stars – Keeley Hawes, Jessica Raine, Martin Compston and Vicky McClure.

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‘Line of Duty’ Series 2 preview

Jed Mercurio’s police corruption drama Line Of Duty returns to BBC Two for a second series later this month and there are dark times ahead for AC-12 when a police convoy is ambushed leaving three police officers dead and a protected witness seriously injured.

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‘The Musketeers’ preview

‘One for all and all for one’ – even for those of us, of a certain age, who wish to follow this line with the assertion that ‘Muskehounds are always ready’, there can be little doubt that Dumas’ most famous novel has proven an endlessly fruitful inspiration to successive generations of adapters. There was even a 1928 musical with lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse!

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‘Doctor Who’: Our hopes for Peter Capaldi’s era

Steven Moffat said recently: “If Russell [T Davies] had stayed on, [Doctor Who] would still have changed. And actually, it is time again to do that… So now we’ve got to actually get a bit raw at it and do it in a different direction.”

What are the things that Moffat and co have got a bit too good at? What do we now expect from a Doctor Who story? What is it time to lose?

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‘Quirke’ preview

Coming to BBC One in 2014 is a new three-part series of feature-length episodes based on the books from Benjamin Black (also known as author John Banville) featuring Irish pathologist, Quirke (played by Golden Globe winner, Gabriel Byrne).

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