The thoroughly brilliant and incredibly prolific Jack Thorne (amongst his most recent credits: Harry Potter & The Cursed Child, the script for the movie Wonder, Star Wars: Episode IX, National Treasure) has penned another new drama heading to UK television. Sarah Lancashire is headlining this one, and it goes by the name of Kiri. It’s … >
The Office is surely one of the most successful sitcoms over the past 20 years. Having come to life with the Golden Globe-winning British series, created and overseen by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, it then proved – eventually – a spectacular success when NBC took it to America. The show ran for nine seasons … >
With Christmas schedules locked, Channel 4 has begun slotting into place some of its new shows for 2018. And one of the first new ones to be confirmed is the upcoming comedy series, Derry Girls. The first trailer for the show has just been released too. It’s right here… The description of the show … >
It’s been, as ever, a bit of a brutal year in TV land. Lots of scripted shows in both the UK and the US have been axed, and the following list featured programmes that have been ended this year, even whilst there’s still fuel in their tank. We’ve left out stuff that’s naturally come to … >
(Note: This preview covers the first two episodes out of the three) ‘So, is it good to be back Benjamin, after all this time?’ We’re back in Royston Vasey – it’s fitting we return with Benjamin (Shearsmith), the first character seen – and it doesn’t feel like it’s been away. It’s been fifteen years since … >
Mark Gatiss moves back in front of the camera in this year’s Doctor Who Christmas special, Twice Upon A Time. He’s regularly written for the show since its return in 2005 too, and unlike Steven Moffat and Peter Capaldi, he’s not strictly departing the programme at the end of the year. He’s suggested he’d be … >
Jason Statham and his company have been developing a television series of Viva La Madness for some time now. It’s based on the book by JJ Connolly, that in turn is the follow up to Layer Cake. Layer Cake was successfully filmed by director Matthew Vaughn, with Daniel Craig in the lead role of the … >
Amongst the many drama big hitters landing on our screens in January is the BBC’s brand new apocalyptic drama, Hard Sun. This one’s come from Luther creator Neil Cross, and it stars Jim Sturgess and Agyness Deyn. They play detectives Robert Hucks and Elaine Renko, who are battling to enforce the law, even as the … >
With seven days to go until the episode hits our screens, the BBC has released a new sneak peak for this year’s Doctor Who Christmas special, Twice Upon A Time. And it looks like this… Get an exciting sneak peek of the Twelfth Doctor’s final adventure, Twice Upon a Time…#DoctorWho pic.twitter.com/XkWCyu9O1G — Doctor Who Official (@bbcdoctorwho) … >
Here’s some good news. Over Christmas, we get the revival of Vic & Bob’s Big Night Out, with the 25th anniversary of the original Vic Reeves’ Big Night Out being marked with a show on BBC Two. That’s going out on December 29th. But off the back of that, BBC Four has now ordered more … >