Considering the crime thriller drama Bancroft wasn’t originally intended to go out on ITV One, it certainly did okay for itself just before Christmas. Slotted into the schedules when the network’s Hatton Garden robbery drama was delayed, Bancroft found itself duly promoted to the main ITV channel, and earned decent ratings. Decent enough, too, to … >
A Doctor Who series 11 round-up, with news of two more being added to the cast, and the shoot returning to Sheffield…
Just as the excellent Dara O Briain Goes 8-Bit returns to Dave, Channel 4 has got in on the vintage computer game act, by hiring Rob Beckett to front a new series of shows. He’ll be headlining Rob Beckett’s Playing For Time, where – with a different guest each time – he’ll travel to a … >
The third season of the horror-comedy show Ash Vs Evil Dead has been snapped up for UK transmission. Virgin Media has acquired the UK rights from Starz, and will be airing it on its Virgin TV On Demand service. The show is going to return on Monday February 26th, it’s been confirmed, and 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 … >
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 … >
The best videogame programme currently on the telly returns to Dave, with the third series of Dara O Briain’s Go 8 Bit set to hit our screens. Ten more episodes have been made, and the third series – that was filmed back to back with the second – starts on Monday 12th February. What’s more, … >
Here are the details of the brand new BBC Alan Partridge TV show, that’s begun filming…
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 … >
The Doctor has been insistent in the past that using a gun was off-limits. However, there are, er, quite a few exceptions to this rule…