The second series of The Musketeers has begun filming in Prague. Returning cast members include Luke Pasqualino (Skins) as D’Artagnan, Tom Burke (The Hour) as Athos, Santiago Cabrera (Merlin) as Aramis and Howard Charles (Royal Shakespeare Company) as Porthos. Tamla Kari (Cuckoo), Maimie McCoy (Loving Miss Hatto), Hugo Speer (Bedlam), Ryan Gage (The Hobbit) and … >
Doctor Who star Billie Piper discusses her role in Sky Atlantic’s upcoming psychological thriller series Penny Dreadful in a new video interview. Featuring some of literature’s most terrifying characters in Victorian London, Penny Dreadful begins in the US on Sunday 11 May on Showtime and will air in the UK on Sky Atlantic shortly after. … >
Colin Morgan has been cast in the new series of BBC Two’s The Fall. The crime drama’s second series is currently filming in Belfast and will air on BBC Two later this year. Colin will appear in the final three episodes of Series 2 as DS Tom Anderson, an officer involved in the hunt for … >
The first official promo pic from the upcoming Spooks movie has been released. Spooks: The Greater Good is currently filming and stars Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) as an MI5 agent alongside Jennifer Ehle (Pride and Prejudice). Peter Firth will reprise his role as MI5 chief Harry Pearce, the role he played in all 10 … >
BBC Four has released a new trailer for Hinterland, a major new bilingual detective drama series set in mid Wales. Originally broadcast on S4C last autumn, the four-part series begins at 9pm on Monday 28 April on BBC Four. Having just left the Met police in London for a new life in Aberystwyth, DCI Tom … >
ITV has confirmed that The Bletchley Circle has been axed. Based on the lives of four women who worked at top-secret HQ Bletchley Park during World War II, the code-breaking thriller’s second series concluded earlier this year. ITV has told Digital Spy that the show has not been re-commissioned for a third series. Are you … >
BBC One has recommissioned Scottish crime drama Shetland for a third series. Starring Douglas Henshall as DI Jimmy Perez, Shetland is adapted from Ann Cleeves’s successful Shetland quartet crime novels and will return six new 60-minute episodes. Christopher Aird, BBC Head of Drama Production Scotland, commented: “Shetland is a really distinctive crime series that has … >
Death in Paradise star Ben Miller will appear in the new series of Doctor Who this autumn. Miller will guest star in an episode written by Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss, who has previously written six episodes for Doctor Who, including last year’s ‘Cold War’ and ‘The Crimson Horror’. Ben Miller commented: “As a committed Whovian … >
Cardinal Burns will return later this month. The comedy sketch show’s six-part second series begins at 10.30pm on Wednesday 30 April on Channel 4, moving from E4. New characters will include Hashtag and Bukake, two Turkish minicab drivers who star in their very own Dalston-set Erotic thriller, Curtis a Jheri-curled rapper from the 80’s who … >
ITV has released a trailer for the new series of crime drama Vera. Starring Brenda Blethyn as D.C.I. Vera Stanhope and David Leon as her sidekick, Detective Sergeant Joe Ashworth, Series 4 begins at 8pm on Sunday 27 April on ITV. Watch the trailer… The first of four new feature-length films, ‘On Harbour Street’, sees … >