The first image from original new BBC drama The Responder, written by ex-police officer Tony Schumacher and made by Dancing Ledge Productions (The Salisbury Poisonings), has been released The image shows Martin Freeman (The Hobbit; Sherlock; Breeders; Fargo) in character as Chris, a crisis-stricken, morally compromised, unconventional urgent response officer tackling a series of night shifts … >
Fans of Coronation Street should look out — the Rovers Return goes on sale this summer. Cue some product placement… TV today announces a new Product Placement partnership with Purplebricks as The Rovers Return goes on the market. The tech-led estate agent’s signage will appear on building this summer as Johnny puts the pub up for … >
Netflix has confirmed an Enola Holmes sequel — Millie Bobby Brown and Henry Cavill will reprise their roles Netflix has announced an Enola Holmes sequel, but little detail has come out so far. There’s no suggestion of filming dates, so we expect this won’t appear until the second-half of 2022 at the earliest. There are … >
James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan to star in Together James McAvoy (Split, X-Men franchise, His Dark Materials) and Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Military Wives) star in multi award-winning writer, Dennis Kelly’s (Utopia, Pulling, The Third Day) searingly funny and painfully poignant love story, Together. Directed by Stephen Daldry (The Crown, … >
Star Wars Andor is filming in Winspit Quarry near Worth Matravers, a location previously used for Doctor Who and Blake’s 7 Back in the 1970s, it was a standing joke the the BBC used the same quarry for all it’s location filming on Doctor Who and other shows. There’s more than a grain of truth to this, and the production … >
Today Netflix announced Blasted inspired by the real-life UFO-phenomenon in Hessdalen, Norway The comedy sci-fi film will be directed by Martin Sofiedal, written by Emanuel Nordrum and produced by Are Heidenstrøm (The Wave) at Miso Film. Blasted stars Axel Bøyum and Fredrik Skogsrud in the leading roles as Sebastian and Mikkel. Joining Axel and Fredrik … >
Lauren Lyle stars as Karen Pirie in ITV cold case murder drama, based on acclaimed author Val McDermid’s The Distant Echo, adapted by Emer Kenny Outlander star Lauren Lyle will take the lead role of Karen Pirie in a new ITV drama series from the producers of Line of Duty and Bodyguard, World Productions. True … >
Emily Blunt will star alongside Chaske Spencer in Hugo Blick’s The English for BBC One and Amazon Studios Filming has now started on The English, a 6×60” high-octane epic western led by Emily Blunt (Mary Poppins Returns, A Quiet Place) and Chaske Spencer (The Twilight Saga, Banshee) for BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK, … >
BBC has announced a new Steve McQueen series Uprising From Academy Award winner Steve McQueen comes Uprising, a vivid and visceral three-part series for BBC One examining three events from 1981 — in January, the New Cross Fire which killed 13 black teenagers; in March, Black People’s Day of Action, which saw more than 20,000 … >
After a controversial ITV series and cancellation, Sanditon is coming back for two more seasons, but not to ITV The 2019 adaptation of Jane Austen’s unfinished Sanditon was magnificent to watch, superbly made and cast, but like a lot of viewers, we didn’t like the ending. The Austen novels (if you simplify a lot) were self-contained and … >