ITV has commissioned another season of detective drama Endeavour. Shaun Evans (The Scandalous Lady W) will return as the young Morse alongside Roger Allam (The Lady in the Van) as Endeavour’s senior officer, Detective Inspector Fred Thursday. Endeavour launched in January 2012 with a one-off single film to mark the 25th anniversary of Inspector Morse … >
Emilia Fox, Clarke Peters, Paul Schneider and William Ash have joined the cast of The Tunnel: Sabotage. Based on the Danish/Swedish crime series The Bridge, The Tunnel launched on Sky Atlantic in October 2013. > Buy Season 1 on DVD on Amazon. The Anglo-French drama’s second season, previously titled The Tunnel 2: Debris, re-unites Game … >
X-Men stars Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart will reunite on stage this summer in No Man’s Land. Harold Pinter’s masterpiece arrives at Theatre Royal Brighton from Monday 22 August until Saturday 27 August as part of a UK tour, before heading to London’s West End for a limited 14 week run. > Buy tickets at … >
Sky Atlantic has ordered a third season of The Trip. Created and directed by Michael Winterbottom, the comedy launched on BBC Two in 2010, starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as fictionalised versions of themselves. The second season, titled The Trip to Italy, aired on BBC Two in 2014. > Buy the complete Season 1-2 … >
Dennis Kelly (Utopia) and Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe) have written a new comedy pilot for Channel 4 about “the horror and hilarity of social engagement.” The writers previously worked together on BBC Three’s Pulling and joked: “It has taken just 10 short years for us to agree to work together again. It was a mistake.” Phil … >
Karl Davies (Happy Valley) and Joanna Horton (Fish Tank) will star in a new Channel 4 drama later this month from the writer of Blackout and Cyberbully. The People Next Door tells the story of young expectant parents Richard (Karl Davies) and Gemma (Joanna Horton) who, upon purchasing their first home, had no idea they … >
BBC Four has commissioned a new comedy series from comedian, writer and actress Jo Brand. Going Forward will see Brand reprise the character of Kim Wilde from BBC Four’s hospital sitcom Getting On, which ran from 2009 to 2012. The new three-part comedy series will air later this year. Jo Brand commented: “Having failed the … >
Tracey Ullman’s Show has been recommissioned by BBC One. Featuring a mix of sketches, celebrity impressions and songs, the comedy series launched in January and saw Tracey Ullman return to BBC One after a break of 30 years, with a consolidated audience of over 4 million viewers. Highlights included Ullman’s impressions of Dame Judi Dench … >
Filming has begun in Northern Ireland on Ballykissangel writer Barry Devlin’s new BBC One drama My Mother And Other Strangers. Set in Northern Ireland during World War Two, the five-part series follows the fortunes of the Coyne family and their neighbours as they struggle to maintain a normal life after a huge United States Army … >
Channel 4 has announced the cast for National Treasure, a new drama from This is England ‘90 writer Jack Thorne. Robbie Coltrane, Julie Walters and Andrea Riseborough will star in the four-part series, which is directed by Marc Munden (Utopia). “A timely exploration of truth, memory, trust and family,” National Treasure will examine “the impact, … >