David Walliams and Sheridan Smith Jack and The Beanstalk

Sheridan Smith to star in David Walliams’s take on Jack and the Beanstalk

Sky has announced details of two David Walliams After Ever After stories, including Sheridan Smith to star in a new take on Jack and The Beanstalk Following last year’s Cinderella: After Ever After, Sky has announced the commission of two further instalments of the entertaining, family-friendly specials for Sky One and NOW TV; Jack & The Beanstalk: … >

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The Sex Pistols Anarchy in the UK

Danny Boyle to direct Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones’ memoirs

Dany Boyle is to direct a six-part series, Pistol, drawn from the memoirs of Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones Created and written by Craig Pearce with co-writer Frank Cottrell Boyce, the series is based on Steve Jones’ Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol (available here on Amazon). Reading the report on industry website The Knowledge, Nick Grad, president, … >

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Netflix Umbrella Academy The Sparrow Academy

Sparrow Academy cast announced for The Umbrella Academy 3

It’s all gone very strange for The Umbrella Academy season 3 (and that’s saying something) as Netflix announces casting for the Sparrow Academy The picture above came from the Netflix Twitter stream along with the following text: The Sparrows are coming in season 3 The end of season 2 showed the existence of an alternate 2019 (alternate worlds … >

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Bridgerton showrunner talks seasons

Bridgerton showrunner dreams of eight seasons for the Regency hit

Chris van Dusen, the Bridgerton showrunner, has given an in depth interview to Collider and suggested we might get as many as eight seasons of the show Quick reprise. Bridgerton season 1 centres on the romance between the Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page) and Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor), as well as numerous other characters from the Bridgerton … >

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Borgen cast announcement

Borgen cast announcement and some launch details

Today’s Borgen cast announcement brings some welcome news on progress with bringing this Danish show back to our screens Borgen is still happening. When Netflix took the opportunity to keep the show alive in early 2019 (as we reported at the time here), little was known of the casting (beyond central characters). Now we have … >

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Hidden series 3 announced

BBC announces Hidden series 3 coming later this year

Hidden series 3 will come to our screens later this year The BBC Cymru Wales and S4C co-commission, which airs as Craith on S4C then as Hidden on BBC One Wales, will return to TV screens later this year. This comes following the announcement that another hit BBC drama, Keeping Faith, will also return to screens … >

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