BBC Two Controller Kim Shillinglaw has announced the commission of Stag, a new “darkly comic thriller”. Created by Jim Field Smith (producer/director of The Wrong Mans) and George Kay, the three-part series follows a meek schoolteacher (Jim Howick – Peep Show, Babylon) as he struggles to survive the Stag weekend from hell. He is joined … >
BBC Two Controller Kim Shillinglaw has announced the commission of Two Doors Down. The new “comedy of manners” by Simon Carlyle (Bad Education) and Gregor Sharp (The Trip) will feature “Scottish families at their best and worst … exploring why it is that the people you’re closest to always seem to cause you the most … >
BBC Two has announced that Daniel Radcliffe and Bill Paxton will star in the channel’s new factual drama, Game Changer. The one-off 90-minute drama will tell the story of the controversy surrounding the computer game Grand Theft Auto – arguably the greatest British coding success story since Bletchley Park. The game offers players the chance … >
Sky1 has confirmed that the final season of Strike Back will begin next month. Philip Winchester and Sullivan Stapleton return as counterterrorism operatives Sgt Michael Stonebridge and Sgt Damien Scott, alongside Robson Green (Soldier Soldier) as Lt Colonel Philip Locke and Michelle Lukes (Alexander) as Sgt Julia Richmond. > Buy the complete Season 1-4 boxset … >
ITV has ordered a second season of Prey. Created and written by Chris Lunt, the series launched last April on ITV, starring John Simm as a well-liked copper who is wrongly accused and arrested for murder. Season 2 will see Simm’s character replaced by the actor’s former Life on Mars co-star Philip Glenister in “a … >
Two new seasons of Red Dwarf have been confirmed by Dave. Red Dwarf XI will air next year, followed by Red Dwarf XII in 2017. Original cast members Craig Charles (Lister), Chris Barrie (Rimmer), Danny John-Jules (Cat) and Kryten (Robert Llewellyn) will all be back. Watch the official announcement… Red Dwarf XI was planned to … >
CultBox has some more exclusive images from Closets, featuring Cucumber stars Julie Hesmondhalgh and Ceallach Spellman. The new gay short sci-fi 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 4 earlier this year, appear as mother and … >
Julian Fellowes will adapt Anthony Trollope’s novel Doctor Thorne for ITV. The three-part drama will begin filming later this year. Downton Abbey creator Fellowes commented: “As a lifetime devotee of Trollope, my own favourite among the great nineteenth century English novelists and certainly the strongest influence over my work that I am conscious of, it … >
A trailer as been released for The C Word, BBC One’s upcoming adaptation of Lisa Lynch’s inspiring and candid book about her experience of cancer. Based on her popular blog which was launched shortly after her diagnosis in 2008, the one-off 90-minute drama stars Sheridan Smith as Lisa and is described as a “magical love … >
CultBox has an exclusive first look at The Sarah Jane Adventures star Tommy Lawrence Knight in Closets, 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”. Julie Hesmondhalgh and Ceallach Spellman, who played … >