For his first major post-Doctor Who role, Peter Capaldi is joining forces once more with an old colleague. Capaldi is to join the cast of David Copperfield, the new film from Armando Iannucci. Iannucci, of course, being one of the brains behind The Thick Of It, and its associated movie, In The Loop. Capaldi playing … >
Netflix has ordered Santa Clarita Diet season 3, confirming that Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant’s zombie comedy/drama will be coming back to our screens at some point in 2019. Netflix broke the news of the Santa Clarita Diet renewal for season 3, releasing this funny little clip in order to do so… Did someone say Season 3? … >
The first 13 Reasons Why season 2 trailer has landed on the web, giving viewers a glimpse of how the Netflix drama will continue despite its initial plotline being resolved. 13 Reasons Why season 1 saw the show’s young cast of characters, predominantly Dylan Minnette’s Clay, struggling to listen to the tape-recorded suicide notes of their … >
The BBC, ITV and Channel 4 are in talks to pool their resources and collaborate on a UK streaming service, according to reports. NBC Universal, a massive American media conglomerate, is also said to be involved in the talks. With American streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video becoming increasingly prevalent players in the … >
Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson and Salma Hayek are believed to be teaming up once again for The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard. This would be a sequel to The Hitman’s Bodyguard, which starred all three of those talented actors and made a fair bit of profit at the global box office last year. The first movie saw Reynolds playing a … >
British acting legend Gary Oldman and The Maze Runner star Dylan O’Brien will star alongside one another in The Bayou, a crime thriller movie from Millennium Media. This company will pitch The Bayou to buyers at Cannes Film Festival later this month, in the hope that a studio will step in and stump up some cash to support and distribute … >
Back when there was no outlet for fans, and no Doctor Who on the television to watch, it was the terrific Doctor Who Magazine that kept the flag flying. You can hardly accuse it of following the money, either, given that it was existing at a time when Doctor Who was hardly the high profile … >
As per the original plan, the brilliant Peaky Blinders was expected to draw to a close next year, with the broadcast of its fifth series. However, it now turns out that the rumours of more to come were true, with the show’s creator – Steven Knight – confirming that next year’s run won’t be the … >
Marvel’s Luke Cage Netflix series returns next month, and now we have a poster and a trailer to prove it. Mike Colter reprises the role of the bulletproof ‘hero of Harlem’ in this second batch of episodes, which will follow on from the events of Luke Cage season 1 and The Defenders season 1. Cheo Hodari Coker returns to the Luke Cage showrunner … >
Christopher Hamilton Bidmead became script editor of Doctor Who in late 1979, brought onboard by new Producer John Nathan-Turner. Bidmead had been an actor, scriptwriter and journalist, and was recommended to JNT by Robert Banks-Stewart (who had written for the show in the mid-Seventies). He inherited a situation where JNT and Executive Producer Barry Letts … >