A trailer has been unveiled for BBC Two’s upcoming adaptation of White Teeth author Zadie Smith’s novel NW. The 90-minute drama has been adapted by director Saul Dibb (Bullet Boy) and writer Rachel Bennette (Bel Ami) with Mammoth Screen, the makers of Poldark and Parade’s End. Nikki Amuka-Bird (Luther, Small Island) and Phoebe Fox (A View From The Bridge, Life In Squares) lead the cast … >
CultBox has an exclusive first look at the final episode of ITV’s intense new thriller, The Level. Starring Karla Crome (Misfits), Noel Clarke (Doctor Who), Robert James Collier (Downton Abbey) and Lindsey Coulson (EastEnders), the six-part drama series launched last month. Buy The Level on DVD on Amazon here. Episode 6 airs at 9pm tomorrow night on ITV. The finale … >
A trailer has been released for BBC One’s upcoming one-off film about murdered schoolboy Damilola Taylor. Told from the perspective of the Taylor family, Our Loved Boy explores their journey from Lagos to London, the emotional repercussions of Damilola’s death and the family’s quest for justice. The cast includes Babou Ceesay (Eye In The Sky, Severance) as Damilola’s father, Richard … >
Sky1 has unveiled the first trailer for the new season of Stan Lee’s Lucky Man. An “action-packed crime drama about fate, gambling, superstition and the consequences of our actions”, the original British drama launched in January on Sky1 and became the channel’s highest-rated original drama series ever. Buy Season 1 on DVD on Amazon here. The … >
A new trailer has been unveiled for S. J. Kincaid’s The Diabolic – the YA read of 2016. Described by The Bookseller as ‘Game of Thrones meets The Hunger Games’, S. J. Kincaid’s epic new YA novel, The Diabolic, publishes on Tuesday 1 November in TWO striking covers. Buy the book on Amazon here. Buy the Kindle … >
Doctor Who actress Sophie Aldred stars in the Mindgame Saga, out on DVD next month. From the show’s classic series writer and script editor Terrance Dicks, Mindgame and Mindgame Trilogy feature actors and characters from Doctor Who. Sophie Aldred played companion Ace in Doctor Who from 1987 to 1989. A new Mindgame Saga set will be released on DVD on Monday 14 … >
Following his acclaimed Bitter Lake, BAFTA winning documentary maker Adam Curtis is back with an epic new film. Made specifically for BBC iPlayer, HyperNormalisation tells an epic narrative spanning 40 years, with an extraordinary cast of characters that includes the Assad dynasty, Donald Trump, Henry Kissinger, Patti Smith, the early performance artists in New York, President Putin, intelligent machines, Japanese gangsters, suicide bombers – and the … >
ITV Encore has released the first trailer for Dark Heart, a new crime drama from the writer of Unforgotten and the producer of The Missing. Set in London, the one-off two-hour drama is written by Chris Lang (A Mother’s Son) and based on the novel Suffer the Children by Adam Creed. Tom Riley (Da Vinci’s Demon) leads the cast as DI Will Wagstaffe, alongside Miranda Raison … >
The first trailer for Stephen Poliakoff’s new BBC Two drama Close to the Enemy has been released. Written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff, the six-part series is mainly set in a bomb-damaged London hotel in the aftermath of the Second World War. Jim Sturgess (One Day) leads the cast, alongside Freddie Highmore (Bates Motel), Angela Bassett (American … >
Dracula, Escape the Castle is the bloodcurdling new show on Insight TV. Hosted by TV presenter Brendan Moar, it’s based on the current trend for escape room adventures and features brave contestants trapped in an authentic Romanian castle, with only one night to escape ‘Dracula’. To celebrate the launch of Dracula, Escape the Castle earlier this month, INsight brought a live Dracula escape room … >