Hanna TV series is heading to the UK

The television take on the feature film Hanna is set to film in the UK as part of a Europe-wide shoot for the new show. The film told the story of a young girl who is trained to be an assassin by her father, who just happens to be an ex-CIA operative. It was directed … >

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Stranger Things season 3 will be shorter

As had been rumoured, Netflix is pulling back the episode count for Stranger Things season 3, that’s set to go into production later this year. The show debuted, of course, with an eight episode opening season, before increasing that count to nine for its follow-up run, that landed last year. Now, it’s going back down … >

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BBC reveals the top 10 iPlayer episodes of 2017

It was a very big year for the BBC’s iPlayer service, with the BBC announcing that on average 272 million programmes were streamed a month in 2017. Figures were up 11% on 2016, with 3.3 billion requests for programmes in total across the 12 months. Which is rather a lot. Furthermore, the BBC has also … >

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Child’s Play is heading to television

The Child’s Play series of horror movies is to make the jump to television, according to the franchise’ creator Don Mancini. Mancini is working with producer David Kirschner on a series that would continue the films, with eight hour-long episodes currently being planned. The series will pick up on events seeded in the really rather … >

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‘Hard Sun’ finale review (spoilers)

The sunset arrives for Hard Sun series 1. Will there be a series 2? Apparently series creator Neil Cross has a plan for five series up his sleeve, which given the ratings seems ambitious. The end of series 1 doesn’t feel certain that there’s a future in a series about the future being extinguished. When … >

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