Harry Hill and Jennifer Saunders for new BBC sitcom

BBC One has announced a brand new sitcom, which will have Harry Hill in the lead role and Jennifer Saunders playing his mother. The series is being developed under a simple title – The Harry Hill Sitcom – which makes us think that it will centre on the idea of Hill playing a fictionalised version of … >

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Doctor Who series 11 has a brand new composer

It was late last year when rumours first started that Murray Gold, the composer of Doctor Who’s music since the show’s return in 2005, was leaving the show. Those rumours were subsequently confirmed, but what we didn’t know was the identity of his replacement. But now we do. Segun Akinola has been revealed as the … >

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Star Trek: reports claim Patrick Stewart is close to returning

Captain Jean-Luc Picard may be appearing on our television sets again in a brand new Star Trek series, because, according to a new report, Sir Patrick Stewart is keen to make it so. Soon after Alex Kurtzman was announced as the new showrunner for the CBS All Access series Star Trek: Discovery, news broke that the … >

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Cold Feet: filming wraps on new series

With an autumn return to our screens expected, it’s been revealed that filming has now wrapped on the new series of Cold Feet. The show has been in production these past weeks at Shape Studios in Manchester, having commenced filming back in March. Post-production now begins, and when we have a transmission date, we’ll let you … >

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Stath Lets Flats episode 1 review

New estate agent sitcom Stath Lets Flats is worth signing on the dotted line for. Back in 2015, BBC Three released a comedy pilot called People Time – a sketch show starring seven writer-performers including siblings Jamie and Natasia Demetriou. It was incredibly well-received, with the New Statesman suggesting it could be “the beginning of … >

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Doctor Who: producer recalls Tom Baker series that was planned but never filmed

Former Doctor Who producer Philip Hinchcliffe has revealed some intriguing details about a series of Doctor Who that was planned but never filmed. Hinchcliffe was the boss for Tom Baker’s first three series, but if Hinchcliffe had stuck around for a fourth collaboration with Baker instead of heading off for pastures new, things would have looked very different. “We did … >

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More Doctor Who lands on Netflix

With lots of Doctor Who now available on BBC iPlayer to download, where it’ll be until the end of the new series in November, Netflix has got in on the act too. It’s added another episode to its service, the 2016 Christmas special, The Return Of Doctor Mysterio. Helpfully, it’s classified this as a series … >

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