Two years after throwing his iconic grey tweed coat off a bridge and into the Thames, Idris Elba’s back as DCI John Luther next month. The Wire star returns to BBC One on Tuesday 15 December for a two-part Luther special – cue more terrifying crimes, terrific performances, and scenes so tense you’ll have worn … >
Sky1 has announced that DC’s new Legends of Tomorrow series will begin airing on the channel in the UK next year. Launching in the US on 21 January 2016 on The CW, the superhero action drama is set in the same universe as The Flash and Arrow. The show stars Arthur Darvill (Broadchurch), Victor Garber … >
Marvel Studios has announced that production has begun on Doctor Strange. The final confirmed cast features Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game), Chiwetel Ejiofor (The Martian), Rachel McAdams (Sherlock Holmes) and Michael Stuhlbarg (Steve Jobs) with Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal) and Tilda Swinton (The Grand Budapest Hotel). Directed by Scott Derrickson (Sinister), the movie will be shot … >
Sam Neill and Max Irons will lead the cast of ITV’s epic new Tutankhamun mini series. The four-part drama is based on the story of Howard Carter – played by Max Irons (Woman In Gold, The White Queen) – and his discovery of the tomb of one of Ancient Egypt’s forgotten pharaohs, the boy-king Tutankhamun. … >
David Tennant has revealed that writing has begun on scripts for the new season of Broadchurch. ITV announced earlier this year that Tennant and Olivia Colman will both reprise their roles as Alec Hardy and Ellie Miller in Season 3. Other returning cast members will be announced at a later date. Asked about what fans … >
Ian McShane, Tom Hollander and Rebecca Front will lead the cast of ITV’s Doctor Thorne. The three-part drama is adapted by Downton Abbey writer Julian Fellowes from one of his favourite novels by Anthony Trollope. The cast includes Alison Brie (Mad Men), Richard McCabe (Indian Summers), Phoebe Nicholls (Downton Abbey), Gwyneth Keyworth (Misfits), Kate O’Flynn … >
E4 has announced the cast for new comedy-drama Aliens. Michael Socha (This is England, Being Human) and Michaela Coel (Top Boy, Chewing Gum) will lead the cast, with Socha playing the show’s mild-mannered hero and Coel as an alien. The six one-hour episodes will also star Michael Smiley (Black Mirror), Ashley Walters (Cuffs), Holli Dempsey … >
Toby Jones, Vicky McClure and Stephen Graham will star in BBC One’s The Secret Agent. Adapted by Tony Marchant (Garrow’s Law) from Joseph Conrad’s classic thriller, the three-part drama is being produced by Line of Duty‘s World Productions. Toby Jones (The Hunger Games, Captain America) will play Verloc, whose seedy Soho shop hides his role as … >
The makers of Death in Paradise have confirmed an array of guest stars for the crime drama’s fifth season. Eight new episodes began filming on the French-Caribbean island of Guadeloupe this summer, with main cast members Kris Marshall, Joséphine Jobert, Danny John-Jules and Tobi Bakare all returning. > Buy the Season 1-2 boxset on Amazon. … >
Disney is reportedly planning a Harry Potter-style franchise based around the story of Merlin. Screenwriter Philippa Boyens has been hired to adapt T.A. Barron’s The Merlin Saga series of 12 books. Boyens has previously worked on Peter Jackson’s The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit trilogies, King Kong and The Lovely Bones. The studio … >