For many of us growing up, the brilliant character of Grotbags was a children’s television treat. She made her debut in the show Emu’s World, before going on to get her own series, which in turn ran for three successful – and much-loved – series. Grotbags was created by Richard Coombs and Carol Lee Scott. … >
Having failed to set the world alight as a movie at the start of the year, the Assassin’s Creed videogame series is now set to become a television series instead. The film take, which starred Michael Fassbender, had been envisaged as the start of a series of movies, with many sequels apparently planned. But the … >
Sky Atlantic – and Sky – has been a big investor in TV dramas over the past few years, although given the nature of Sky being a subscription service, it’s made often-acclaimed dramas that not many people have actually watched. The same goes across many other Sky channels, as expensive dramas like The Young Pope … >
With filming well underway on the Doctor Who Christmas special, the identity of the next Doctor – the one who gets to follow Peter Capaldi into the TARDIS – is expected to be revealed shortly. Speculation has generally settled on two candidates: Kris Marshall and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Speculation, we should point out, has been very … >
Possible spoilers for the Doctor Who Christmas special. Lots of spoilers are circling at the moment surrounding the Doctor Who Christmas special, and which characters are going to be around when Peter Capaldi bids farewell to the TARDIS on December 25th. Beware, because we’re about to talk about one specific rumour that is doing the … >
A week or two back, NBC Universal International Studios president Michael Edelstein let slip that the plan for the movie of Downton Abbey was to get it filming next year, with an eye on a release in 2018 or 2019. However, the problem remains fitting the demands of a film around the schedules of the show’s … >
Back in 2014, E4 pressed ahead with a pilot episode of a sitcom by the name of Game Face, from Roison Conaty. It’s certainly taken its time moving things forward from there, but the channel has now confirmed that a full series is moving ahead, and that it’ll be on air later this year. Conaty … >
The finale of Doctor Who series 10 – The Doctor Falls – wasn’t short on references, callbacks and moments of geeky joy. But it turns out too that there’s one that many of us may have missed first time around…
The Guardian is reporting that the BBC is about to make the “biggest investment in homegrown children’s content in a generation” in order to compete against streaming services from the US.
Just last week, Steven Moffat held the door open for more episode of the global hit that is Sherlock. That’s not a massive surprise, but given the way the last series ended, it did seem to be a natural point to draw things to a close should all concerned want to. The show’s other co-creator, … >