Strike: Producer rules out original stories as J K Rowling praises Tom Burke’s performance
The first installment of Strike aired on BBC One last night to great fan reactions, and the following episode of The Cuckoo’s Calling will follow tonight.
The first installment of Strike aired on BBC One last night to great fan reactions, and the following episode of The Cuckoo’s Calling will follow tonight.
August tends to be light on fictional telly crimes. Everyone’s planted outside in deckchairs, reading about murders through Ray-Ban filters, rather than indoors watching them. Or that’s the misconception TV schedulers plot under. It means that far the biggest misdemeanour on BBC One this month has been Jim Moir pairing orange with egg on Celebrity … >
Victoria finally returns to ITV tonight, and it’s clear that it won’t be an easy ride for the young queen.
The BBC has now officially confirmed that not only is The League Of Gentlemen returning for three 20th anniversary specials – but also that they’re going to start filming next year! An official BBC press announcement has just been released, which confirms that filming will take place in Manchester and the Peak District. The shows will … >
Good news X-Men fans! The promising new mutant series The Gifted – due to premiere in the US on 2 October – will be airing on FOX in the UK just a few days later.
Stars of screens large and small Ben Whishaw and Hugh Grant will star in BBC One’s A Very English Scandal, written by Russell T Davies and directed by Stephen Frears.
The comedy series Fleabag is returning for a second series, the BBC has just confirmed. The new run of the show won’t be on our screens until 2019, though. But the show, written by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, is definitely back. In the official BBC press announcement, she’s quoted as saying “I asked myself if … >
The Doctor Who Christmas special is deep into post-production now. Entitled Twice Upon A Time, we already know that it’ll feature Peter Capaldi, David Bradley, Pearl Mackie, Jodie Whittaker and Mark Gatiss. But the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine has revealed another inclusion. Jared Garfield, of Hollyoaks vintage, has signed up to take on … >
As per the announcement a month ago, Russell T Davies has now collected his Outstanding Achievement Award from the Edinburgh Television Festival. As reported by Doctor Who News, he gave a speech that covered just a breath of what he’d done: “I have worked with Daleks, Casanova, I’ve worked with gays, I’ve worked with Penelope … >
The never-ending Big Brother appears several times a year on Channel Five, with the channel currently running the latest celebrity version of the show. But given Five’s dependence on Big Brother to fill its schedules, its boss doesn’t seem to be much of a fan. Ben Frow, the head of Channel Five, has admitted at … >