Doctor Who actor Matt Smith will play avant-garde photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in a new biopic film. Mapplethorpe will begin filming this summer. Written and directed by Ondi Timoner (Dig!, Brand: A Second Coming), the movie will also star Girls actress Zosia Mamet as Patti Smith, Mapplethorpe’s one-time lover and best friend. Mapplethorpe is best known … >
The third season of Black Mirror has started filming. Netflix announced the commission of 12 brand new episodes of Charlie Brooker’s anthology series last September. Brooker is conceiving the new stories from the show’s UK production base. British star Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Doctor Who) and Canada’s Mackenzie Davis (The Martian) will lead the cast of the … >
The CW has released another trailer for DC’s upcoming Legends of Tomorrow series, featuring Doctor Who star Arthur Darvill. Set in the same universe as Arrow and The Flash, the new superhero action drama launches in the US on 21 January and will airing on Sky1 in the UK. Watch the latest trailer… Legends of … >
A new episode of Sherlock is a rare treasure that only emerges once every blue moon and causes by its very existence a feverish excitement among its fanbase. Two years on from the third season, we have a one-off special to tide us over. ‘The Abominable Bride’ carries off from where we left Sherlock in … >
It’s thirteen years since Little Britain hit our screens with its outrageous brand of humour. Always shocking, defiantly funny, and endlessly quotable, the BBC comedy series from David Walliams and Matt Lucas has become part of the national landscape, even inspiring Russian and American versions. As well as Carol Beer telling everybody that her ‘computer … >
As 2015 comes to a close, we’ve picked out ten of our favourite new titles from Big Finish over the past 12 months. We’ll be counting down our highlights from the main Doctor Who range in a separate list, but 2015 has been a spectacular year for Big Finish’s other properties and we’d highly recommend … >
If your answer to the question ‘Do you like Toast of London?‘ is a resounding ‘YES!’ (in an attempted fruity baritone) then you’ll be delighted to hear that the third season of Channel 4’s Rose d’Or winning cult comedy is now out on DVD, won’t you? ‘YES!’ And while much of the lure of the … >
BBC Two’s We’re Doomed! The Dad’s Army Story is very like the show that inspired it. It’s an ensemble piece where each player has their own little moment, yet again and again it comes back to its two lead characters. The leads here are writer Jimmy Perry and writer/producer David Croft. Though not exactly the … >
After ten weeks of trials and tribulations on-screen and behind the scenes, the first season of ITV’s Jekyll and Hyde comes to a close with a double-episode finale. After an uneven opening few episodes – despite having a cracking pilot – Jekyll and Hyde found its feet halfway through its run, as it struck a … >
Dr Jekyll meets Ms Hyde this week in a tantalising run-up to next weekend’s double-bill finale. After a run of more original monsters-of-the-week drawn from mostly British legend (e.g. the Black Shuck and Spring-Heeled Jack), I was a bit dismayed, upon seeing the tease at the end of last week’s episode, that the series was … >