2015 is fast approaching, but what’s in store to keep our screens flickering and our minds off the drudgery of everyday life?

 

The Enfield Haunting

Sky Living presents a three-part true story dramatisation of the most extensively documented case of poltergeist activity in Britain.

Spooks really are popular this year, aren’t they? And speaking of spooks, Matthew Macfadyen’s in it as a paranormal investigator looking into the ghostly goings on in a house in 1970s Enfield.

 

The Frankenstein Chronicles

London, 1827! After a body composed of several human parts is found washed up on the banks of the Thames, Inspector John Marlott (Sean Bean) finds himself involved in a new six-part drama airing on ITV sometime late in 2015, and on the trail of a certain Doctor Victor Frankenstein.

Sounds like gaslight schlock-horror, but anything with Sean Bean in it is worth checking out. But will he make it to the end of first season in one piece?

 

The Game

Set in the secretive world of 1970s espionage, Being Human creator Toby Whithouse’s new spy thriller stars Tom Hughes (Silk), Brian Cox (The Bourne Supremacy).

The Game follows MI5 as they battle to protect the nation from the threats of the Cold War. Presumably the team does not include a werewolf, a vampire and a ghost.

 

Game of Thrones

The fifth season of HBO’s fantasy epic will adapt material from books 4 and 5; ‘A Feast for Crows’ and ‘A Dance with Dragons’. If you’ve read the books then that’ll give you some clue as to what might happen. For the rest of us who didn’t have a year to spare, it’ll be all swords n’ surprises when the show returns to Sky Atlantic in April.

Alexander Siddig and Jonathan Pryce will be joining the cast as Doran Martell and The High Sparrow respectively, while Sherlock‘s Mark Gatiss returns as Tycho Nestoris.

 

Humans

You might be able to forgive Channel 4 for cancelling Utopia based on the sound of Humans, an eight-part drama set in an alternate world where the ‘must-have’ tech is a Synth; a robotic doppelgänger.

The cast boasts Colin Morgan, Katherine Parkinson, William Hurt, Neil Maskell and Rebecca Front, and it’s been written by Spooks duo Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley. Based on the Swedish series Real Humans, this has cult hit written all over it.

 

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