BBC Two announces Riz Ahmed drama series ‘Englistan’
A brand new nine-episode drama created by Riz Ahmed will air on BBC Two, exploring the lives of three generations of a British Pakistani family.
A brand new nine-episode drama created by Riz Ahmed will air on BBC Two, exploring the lives of three generations of a British Pakistani family.
Both Prime Suspect 1973 and the original series starring Helen Mirren are now available to watch for subscribers on Netflix UK.
The eerie ‘parallel present’ of Channel 4’s Humans series is seeping into our world a little bit more, as it’s been announced that a ‘synth test’ is being released – here in the real world – across Amazon Alexa and Google Home devices. This inventive advertising campaign makes Channel 4 the first UK broadcaster to use smart … >
It’s definite: the last two episodes of Peter Kay’s sitcom Car Share are heading to our screens this month. BBC One is going to debut the first of the two episodes on May 7th (the first of May’s bank holidays), which will be an improvised instalment from himself and co-star Sian Gibson. Here’s the trailer … >
Katherine Parkinson – she of Humans, The IT Crowd and The Boat That Rocked fame – will star in a new legal comedy entitled Defending The Guilty. This six-part comedy series heralds from BBC Two, and its cast alongside Parkinson includes Will Sharpe, Gwyneth Keyworth, Prasanna Puwanarajah and Hugh Coles. The series is based on a book entitled Defending The Guilty: Truth And Lies … >
The fifth series of People Just Do Nothing will be the show’s last, the BBC has revealed. The heavily improvised comedy mockumentary first launched on BBC Three back in 2014, chronicling the lives and times of Kurupt FM’s weird and wacky staff of pirate radio pioneers. To wrap things up for good, the Beeb has ordered … >
The original cast of The Crown was “begging” to find out which actors are replacing them in series 3, fresh quotes from the cast have revealed. As we’ve known since the start, the entire core cast of the show will be replaced with older actors for The Crown series 3, as the show is planning a time jump to … >
Penned by Tim Crouch and Toby Jones, the BBC has given the greenlight to a new comedy series by the name of Don’t Forget The Driver. Jones will also star in what’s described as the “dark comedy”, a series that “explores what it means to live, work and parent at a point when the entire … >
The classic Doctor Who adventure Genesis Of the Daleks regularly – and rightly – bubbles to the top end of lists of the show’s finest ever stories. Headlined by Tom Baker of course, it’s an astoundingly ambitious, challenging slice of Who, with Baker, Elisabeth Sladen and Ian Marter on top form. It first debuted back … >
Here’s a very welcome update: the new series of Taskmaster is a little closer than we though. Dave has confirmed that Taskmaster series 6 is nearly with us, and that the show will begin its new run this week, on May 2nd! What’s more, we’ve now been gifted a clip from the first episode of the new series. Feast … >