UPDATE: When we penned the story below back in November, we ended – as you can see – with the words ‘it’s all never likely to happen’. However, there’s been progress it seems, and for The West Wing, it looks like there’s a sporting chance of another run of the show. The news has come … >
For fans of the brilliant Taskmaster, it’s good times right now. The first of four further series of the show kicks off next week, on May 2nd. It’ll broadcast on Dave, and the contestants for the new run are Alice Levine, Asim Chaudhry, Liza Tarbuck, Russell Howard and Tim Vine. Furthermore, we now learn that … >
Following fan protest after the show was cancelled, Netflix agreed to stump up and fund a two hour finale special of Sense8. That finale has now been filmed, too,and we were just waiting to find out when the streaming giant intended to release it. The answer? June 8th, revealed courtesy of a poster for it. … >
It sounds like Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, who play Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in the BBC’s Sherlock series, disagree on the role of fan expectations. Back in March, Freeman said this, on the topic of people’s expectations and how they can take the fun out of making the show: “People’s expectations, some of it is … >
Westworld season one should have been a slam dunk. A mystery box show at a time when such stories were only just coming back into vogue, and the tale of a robot uprising just as the public paranoia about artificial intelligence was hitting a middle stage, Westworld had enough talent and ideas behind it to … >
Whereas 90s TV hits such as The X-Files have enjoyed a revival in recent times, and the likes of Star Trek and Stargate motor forward in various forms, one big genre show of the decade that’s remained untouched is Babylon 5. The show ran between 1993 and 1998, and was acclaimed at the time – … >
The second trailer for Sony’s Venom movie has arrived on the web, and it has made a much better impression than the previous promo video. Tom Hardy stars in this Marvel Comics adaptation, playing a journalist named Eddie Brock who is bonded with an angry alien symbiote. The first Venom trailer didn’t actually show the symbiote, which seemed rather … >
Here’s some good news. The brilliant Sally Phillips will be headlining The Tourist Trap, a new mockumentary-style series that’d been ordered by the BBC. It’ll follow the antics of the Welsh tourist board. Also starring Elis James, Mike Bubbins and Leroy Brito, the new show has been penned by Gareth Gwynn, Sian Harries and Tudur … >
BBC Studios now takes on the work of BBC Worldwide, in attempting to make sizeable amounts of cash from the BBC’s assorted shows and brands. Unsurprisingly, Doctor Who is a big part of that. Ahead of the 2018 Global Licensing Show, BBC Studios has published a promotional page of information on its licenses, and there’s … >
Following its successful second series, that’s just come to an end, ITV has quickly confirmed that there will be a third series of The Good Karma Hospital. Another six episodes of the show have been ordered, that will screen on ITV in 2019. It’ll again be set in Southern India, and Dan Sefton will be … >