CBBC’s Horrible Histories returns for a final series. It’s still very good, bowing out while the quality is still high and with the cast moving onto new things (The Wrong Mans, Yonderland).
With Halloween fast approaching and the glut of hastily cobbled-together releases that fact inevitably brings, CultBox has sifted through the dregs to unearth a few golden nuggets of bloody horror to whet your appetite before the witching hour commences.
If Skins co-creator Bryan Elsey’s recent Channel 4 series Dates really did what it says on the tin, and delivered us nine dates between Londoners, it might not have worked as well as it ends up mostly doing.
The principle law of the horror movie genre is that if your film is even just slightly successful, there really must be at least one sequel.
Usually, one sequel is not enough, so the endless cycle of diminishing returns continues until somehow you have a Wrong Turn 5 on your hands. God knows, no-one wants that, so let’s hope that with the frankly ridiculously-titled The Last Exorcism Part II, producer Eli Roth has learnt that valuable lesson and stops while the going’s still relatively good.
Eight years ago, Ted Mosby sat his telegenic children down and began to tell them one long story.
During that eight years, Facebook and Twitter came into being. As did the iPhone, Breaking Bad and the entire country of South Sudan. Yes, whole new cultures, communications, and nations have been forged in the time it’s taken Ted Mosby to narrate just one story: How I Met Your Mother.
With the news of the worldwide release of Doctor Sleep, Stephen King’s belated sequel to his classic novel The Shining, comes the terrifying prospect of the author covering the same old ground yet again. Worthy follow-up or not, it’s pretty unlikely it’ll be quite as bad as his latest TV mini-series adaptation, Bag of Bones.
Written by and starring The Inbetweeners alumni Simon Bird and Joe Thomas, with Jonny Sweet, the first full series of Chickens arrives following a pilot on Channel 4 in 2011.
Almost every single drama will have to work out the kinks of its premise throughout its first season.
Arrow is no exception, but it is a series that always displays a clear intent as far as its approach goes. Some may dismiss the show as goofy fun, but it delivers a rather delicate balance as it takes on the darker edges of its story while keeping things fun, engaging and frequently very unpredictable.
Truckers – based on the book by Terry Pratchett – is a 1992 CITV claymation series from Cosgrove Hall.
Long before Brangelina, Posh ‘n’ Becks, Beyoncé & Jay-Z, and, er, Peter & Jordan, there was Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor. While a simple VMA twerk can send the world into a Twitter frenzy these days, Liz Taylor was breaking so many marriage vows back in her day that even the Pope called her out. #scandal indeed.