Being Human creator Toby Whithouse’s new drama The Game will begin on BBC Two later this month. Set in the secretive world of 1970s espionage, the six-part drama stars Tom Hughes (Silk) and Brian Cox (The Bourne Supremacy). The Game starts at 9pm on Thursday 30 April on BBC Two. > Read our preview. Watch the … >
Channel 4 has commissioned a fourth season of comedy Friday Night Dinner. Tamsin Greig, Paul Ritter, Simon Bird and Tom Rosenthal will all return as the Goodman Family, along with Spaced star Mark Heap as Jim. Creator Robert Popper commented: “I am verry hapy I am writin a new serries of Friday Niht Dinners for … >
Julie Hesmondhalgh and Ceallach Spellman have joined the cast of a new gay short film about time travel. Directed by Lloyd Eyre-Morgan (Dream On, Celluloid), Closets is described as “an unusual, compassionate and ultimately uplifting story, peppered with sorrow, humour and hope”. Hesmondhalgh and Spellman, who played Cleo and Adam in Queer as Folk creator … >
Steven Moffat has hinted that the new season of Doctor Who will continue in the same direction as Peter Capaldi’s debut season. Season 8 launched last August and saw the show explore a darker tone and take a “more rooted” approach than the “fairytale” feel of Matt Smith’s era. Speaking to EW, Moffat revealed: “I … >
Inspector George Gently returns to BBC One soon for a new season and the first trailer has been released. Starring Martin Shaw as Gently and Lee Ingleby (Our Zoo) as Bacchus, the period crime drama is back with four new feature-length films set in 1969. Watch the trailer… Season 8 is expected to begin later … >
The makers of Misfits will return to E4 with Aliens, a brand new comedy-drama. The six 60-minute episodes will begin filming later this year. Aliens is created by In the Flesh writer Fintan Ryan. Ryan commented: “Clerkenwell is the only company capable of making this show, E4 is the only place they’d let us make … >
ITV has released the trailer for Safe House, a new thriller set in the Lake District, from the makers of Foyle’s War. Inspired by a real couple, the four-part drama series tells the story of a married couple: Robert (Christopher Eccleston) a former detective and Katy (Marsha Thomason) a teacher who are asked by close … >
You may recognise Anthony Vincent from the “Ten Second Songs” Youtube Channel, on which he sings any kind of song in literally any style. Now Anthony takes on Spanish duo Baccara’s 1977 hit single ‘Yes Sir, I Can Boogie’, as heard in the recent TV ads for the nation’s favourite chocolate, Cadbury (13 bars sold … >
Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi has revealed that he thinks a movie adventure would be “great”. The possibility of a big-screen outing for the Doctor has been discussed many times over the past few years, with ‘The Day of the Doctor’ and ‘Deep Breath’ both receiving cinema releases in 2013 and 2014 respectively. Capaldi told … >
Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn has announced that Karen Gillan is definitely returning for the hit Marvel movie’s sequel. The first Guardians of the Galaxy movie was released in UK cinemas last July and featured the Doctor Who actress as Nebula, the adopted daughter of Thanos. Answering questions from fans on Periscope, Gunn … >