Downton Abbey star Samantha Bond’s new ITV drama Home Fires will begin next month. Inspired by Julie Summers’ non-fiction book Jambusters, the six-part drama follows a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community with the shadow of World War II casting a dark cloud over their lives. Home Fires starts at 9pm on … >
Showtime’s Golden Globe Award winning US drama The Affair will begin in the UK next month. Starring Ruth Wilson (Luther), Dominic West (The Wire) and Joshua Jackson (Fringe), the ten-part drama explores the emotional and psychological effects of an extramarital affair. The Affair starts at 9pm on Wednesday 13 May on Sky Atlantic. Watch the … >
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 … >
The second season of Twenty Twelve spin-off W1A will begin later this month. The award-winning mockumentary comedy about the BBC returns with a one-hour special at 9pm on Thursday 23 April on BBC Two. > Order Season 1 on DVD on Amazon. Shane Allen, Controller, Comedy Commissioning, commented last year: “There’s an all-too-painful yet comedic … >
The second season of hit US comedy Silicon Valley will begin in the UK on Sky Atlantic later this month. Set in the high-tech world of Silicon Valley, Mike Judge’s Emmy-nominated series is back at 10pm on Monday 20 April on Sky Atlantic with the first of ten new episodes. Having taken the tech world … >
New US drama Madam Secretary will begin airing in the UK on Sky Living later this month. Executive produced by Morgan Freeman, the drama stars Téa Leoni (Deep Impact) as Elizabeth McCord, a newly appointed Secretary of State who drives international diplomacy, battles office politics and circumvents protocol as she negotiates global and domestic issues, … >
BBC One has announced that the remaining episodes of Atlantis will begin airing later this month. The first half of the fantasy drama’s second season aired in November and December last year, before taking a mid-season break. It was revealed in January that a third season would not be commissioned. Atlantis will resume at 7.45pm … >
Sky Atlantic has confirmed that the second half of Mad Men‘s final season will begin in the UK in April, just 4 days after it starts in the US. Titled ‘The End of an Era’, the remaining seven episodes conclude the story of troubled ad man Don Draper (Jon Hamm) and his Madison Avenue colleagues. … >
Brenda Blethyn reprises her role as D.C.I. Vera Stanhope in a new season of Vera next month. Based on the characters created by novelist Ann Cleeves, the crime drama returns at 8pm on Sunday 5 April on ITV. > Buy the complete Season 1-4 boxset on Amazon. Watch the Season 5 trailer… Blethyn is joined … >
Sky Atlantic has confirmed that the fourth season of Treme will begin in the UK next month. HBO’s jazz-infused drama concluded in the US in December 2013. ‘Yes We Can Can’, the first of five final episodes, airs at 11pm on Thursday 9 April on Sky Atlantic. Watch a preview… Now November 2008, it’s 38 … >