Anna Friel to play mother of transgender child in ITV’s Butterfly
Anna Friel is set to play the mother of an 11-year-old transgender child in upcoming ITV mini-series Butterfly.
Anna Friel is set to play the mother of an 11-year-old transgender child in upcoming ITV mini-series Butterfly.
BBC Three has commissioned a new show based on Eva O’Connor’s award-winning play, Overshadowed, which follows the journey of a young vlogger whose life is derailed by the personified presence of anorexia.
Red Dwarf XII will arrive on our screens on October 12th, but it’s been revealed that plans are afoot for another series after that. Nothing has been confirmed at this stage, but in conversation with Digital Spy, Robert Llewellyn – Kryten, of course – said that “we’re all up for doing more”, before cautioning that … >
To salute the 20th anniversary of the first Harry Potter book – Harry Potter & The Philosopher’s Stone – the BBC has confirmed that it’ll be screening a special one-off documentary.
Sky Atlantic has announced it will be the UK broadcaster for The Deuce – the new HBO show from The Wire creator David Simon.
For his last Doctor Who episode as writer and showrunner, Steven Moffat has penned Twice Upon A Time. It’s the Christmas special, of course, that will mark the departure of Peter Capaldi from the show too, as well as the introduction of Jodie Whittaker as the new Doctor. Moffat, though, has been chatting about what … >
Early next month, the writer and cast of The Brittas Empire are reuniting to reopen the Ringwood Recreation Centre. This is the centre that doubled for the exterior and swimming pool scenes in the show, as we reported here. However, in a new interview with Metro, the show’s title star, Chris Barrie, has suggested that … >
The final season of Game Of Thrones is heading into production soon, off the back of a seventh season where episode leaks were almost becoming the norm. With the show now comfortably ahead of where George R R Martin is up to with the books too, there’s genuine mystery as to how things will end. … >
Before its twelfth series lands on Dave in October, I’m rewatching all of Red Dwarf from the beginning. This week it’s time to give quiche a chance and ponder where all the calculators go in Red Dwarf III. If the transition from Red Dwarf II to III happened today, it would probably get called a reboot. The long-running … >
The dust has settled on the casting of Jodie Whittaker as the new Doctor in Doctor Who now, and she’s going to start filming for series 11 of the show before the year is out (and, of course, we’ll see her for the first time in the role on Christmas Day). Ahead of the announcement … >