A second female writer for the new season of Doctor Who has been announced. Sarah Dollard has previously written episodes of Being Human, Aussie soap Neighbours and BBC Two’s recent spy thriller The Game. The Game is created by Doctor Who writer Toby Whithouse, who returns in Season 9 with a brand new two-part story. … >
Home Fires will return to ITV for a new season next year. ITV has announced the commission of six new 60-minute episodes. Starring Francesca Annis and Samantha Bond, the World War II drama launched in May and has been winning its Sunday night slot with a consolidated average rating of 6.2 million viewers to date. … >
Channel 4 has announced several additions to the cast of Indian Summers for the show’s new season. Rachel Griffiths (Six Feet Under), Art Malik (Upstairs Downstairs), James Fleet (The Vicar of Dibley), Sugandha Garg (My Name is Khan), Arjun Mathur (My Friend Pinto) and Blake Ritson (Da Vinci’s Demons) have joined the cast for Season … >
BBC Worldwide has announced details of an official Doctor Who Festival later this year. The event will take place at ExCeL in London on 13-15 November and will be attended by Peter Capaldi (the Twelfth Doctor) and showrunner Steven Moffat. Doctor Who Festival will allow fans to discover “the inspiration behind the Doctor’s recent adversaries, … >
Fantasy author Garth Nix follows the previous instalments in his hugely successful Old Kingdom series with the highly anticipated prequel, Clariel. > Order the book on Amazon. Out to buy in paperback on Thursday 4 June, the novel follows the adventures of the 16-year-old Clariel as she struggles to adjust to her new life in the … >
Cucumber stars Julie Hesmondhalgh and Ceallach Spellman reunite in the first trailer for Closets. Also starring The Sarah Jane Adventures actor Tommy Lawrence Knight, the new gay short film about time travel sees Hesmondhalgh and Spellman, who played Cleo and Adam in Queer as Folk creator Russell T Davies’ new LGBT drama Cucumber on Channel … >
CBeebies has released the first clip from the new series of The Clangers. Narrated by Michael Palin, 52 new stop-motion animated episodes will air on weekdays from Monday 15 June on CBeebies. > Buy the original first season of The Clangers on DVD on Amazon. Watch the clip… Each 11-minute episode will centre on members … >
BBC Two has released a trailer for Stonemouth, a new romantic mystery based on Iain Banks’ best-selling novel. The first TV adaptation of Banks’ work since his death in 2013, the two-part drama is written by David Kane (Shetland) and stars Peter Mullan, Christian Cooke and Charlotte Spencer. Stonemouth begins at 9pm on Thursday 11 … >
Mother, Major, Tiny, Small and Granny are back next month as The Clangers return. Narrated by Michael Palin, 52 new stop-motion animated episodes will air on weekdays from Monday 15 June on CBeebies. Palin commened last year: “The world of the Clangers is delightful and irresistible. It’s a real pleasure and a great privilege to … >
Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat has revealed that he still feels guilty about changing the outcome of the Time War in 2013’s 50th anniversary special. ‘The Day of the Doctor’ aired on 23 November 2013 and rewrote the Time War storyline established by previous lead writer Russell T Davies when the show returned in 2005. … >