About a Boy writer Nick Hornby’s new adaptation of Nina Stibbe’s award-winning book Love, Nina will begin later this month. Starring Helena Bonham-Carter (Harry Potter, Suffragette) and Faye Marsay (Pride, Doctor Who), the five-part series is a fictionalised adaptation of author Nina Stibbe’s letters home to her sister. Love, Nina starts at 9.30pm on Friday 20 May on BBC … >
BBC One has announced that the new season of In the Club will start next month. Created by Kay Mellor (The Syndicate, Band of Gold, Fat Friends), the baby drama is back with six new episodes. Featuring “more secrets, heartbreak, comedy and pathos”, Season 2 begins at 9pm on Tuesday 3 May on BBC One. > Buy Season 1 on … >
The launch date has been announced for Netflix’s new royal family drama The Crown. Created by London-born writer Peter Morgan (The Queen, The Audience, Frost/Nixon), the series stars former Doctor Who actor Matt Smith as the Duke of Edinburgh alongside Claire Foy as his wife, Queen Elizabeth II. The Crown will tell “the inside story of Queen Elizabeth II’s early reign, revealing the … >
Scottish comedy Two Doors Down is back next month. BBC Two returns to Latimer Crescent for six new episodes, written by Simon Carlyle (Bad Education) and Gregor Sharp (The Trip). The Glasgow-based sitcom’s new season begins at 10pm on Friday 1 April and the first episode sees Eric leave the freezer door open, leading to … >
BBC One’s daytime drama series Moving On returns next week with five new standalone stories set in and around Liverpool. Created by writer Jimmy McGovern, the seventh season begins at 2.15pm on Monday 22 February on BBC One. The first episode, ‘Taxi For Linda’ follows Linda (Julie Hesmondhalgh) and Frank (John Thompson), colleagues and confidantes … >
Sky1 has announced that DC’s new Legends of Tomorrow series will begin in the UK this Spring. Featuring Doctor Who star Arthur Darvill, the superhero action drama launched in the US earlier this month and is set in the same universe as Arrow and The Flash. Legends of Tomorrow will launch on Sky1 on Thursday … >
BBC One has announced that the new season of Happy Valley will begin next month. Sarah Lancashire (Last Tango In Halifax) returns as police sergeant Catherine Cawood for six new episodes, with Katherine Kelly (Mr Selfridge), Julie Hesmondhalgh (Cucumber), Shirley Henderson (Jamaica Inn) and Amelia Bullmore (Scott & Bailey) joining the cast. Season 2 starts … >
The new mini-season of The X-Files will begin in the UK next month. The classic ’90s sci-fi drama returned to US screens last weekend with the first new episode since the show concluded in May 2002. ‘My Struggle’ airs at 9pm on Monday 8 February on Channel 5. > Buy the complete Season 1-9 boxset … >
Spectre star Ben Whishaw’s new drama London Spy will launch in the US on BBC America this week. Created and written by Tom Rob Smith (Child 44), the five-part romantic thriller series tells the story of a chance romance between two people from very different worlds, one from the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, … >
American public broadcaster PBS has revealed rough plans for when they intend to air the new season of Sherlock. This is the closest thing to confirmation that fans have had yet about when they can expect the three new episodes to be broadcast. Speaking at an executive session at the 2016 TCA winter press tour … >