The Triffids are coming in a new stage production (and audio drama) as Platform 4’s show tours the UK. Humanity beware, there’s a new outbreak of monstrous vegetation throughout the country! A new production which adapts John Wyndham’s classic novel The Day of the Triffids into an immersive stage show has arrived. Triffids! features a … >
The new Captain America will play a motor-mouthed outsider on the small screen. US streamer Peacock have given the go ahead to Twisted Metal, a 30-minute action-comedy series based on the classic PlayStation game of the same name. The show stars Anthony Mackie (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) and comes from Cobra Kai’s Michael … >
With his writing partner Mervyn Haisman, Henry Lincoln introduced the Brigadier and the Yeti to Doctor Who. Over the weekend, the sad news reached us that Henry Lincoln has died, aged 91. In the 1960s, he helped create one of Doctor Who‘s enduring allies: Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. However, the following decade took his career in a … >
It was a clear winner in last week’s Nielsens — this week Ozark season 4 breaks the four billion minutes barrier Last week, Ozark was the to of the Nielsens with just under three billion minutes viewed. In our analysis, we suggested: Ozark still riding high, Archive 81 falling back and the wonderfully named The Woman in the … >
Billed as a thrilling fable, Outer Range blends wry humour and a supernatural mystery. Promising a Western with a twist, Amazon Studios have released details of their upcoming series Outer Range. Starring John Brolin, it’s the tale of a rancher which spins off into the supernatural. Here’s the synopsis for Outer Range: Outer Range centers … >
Peter Flannery has retooled his acclaimed television series as an audio drama. Taking four friends through three decades, across nine episodes, Our Friends In The North was a major television moment in 1996. The ambitious BBC Two series tackled several topics as it moved through the years. In the sixties, it looked at corporate, political … >
Updated 24/02/22 – Prime Video have released a trailer for Upload Season 2, ahead of its March release. Upload returns and we have a trailer… A psychiatrist with a canine avatar? MindFrisk? Bicep inflation? Plus those terrifying proto-tykes! It looks like Upload is really upping its digital game, as well as placing an Ingrid shaped … >
Based on real life events, Matthew Macfadyen will play the disgraced Labour minister John Stonehouse. itv have announced the commissioning of Stonehouse, a drama based on the life and times of the disgraced Labour politician. In November 1947, John Stonehouse, a high-flying member of Harold Wilson’s Government, vanished from a Florida beach. Leaving a neatly … >
itv’s new spy thriller, The Ipcress File, sees Joe Cole taking on the famous Michael Caine role. With the clock ticking to the launch of their big budget adaptation of Len Deighton’s novel, itv have released a first look scene from The Ipcress File. It sees the wayward Harry Palmer (Joe Cole) being recruited to … >
Do you like to binge your shows, or do you prefer to watch a series released weekly? It’s a perennial topic of discussion amongst commentators — Netflix may have grown (see this article for history) on the back of the demand for binge-watching, but are the days of big boxset releases numbered? We think a … >