BBC One orders ‘Ordinary Lies’ drama by ‘Shameless’ writer
The BBC has announced the commission of Ordinary Lies, a new six-part drama series for BBC One.
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The BBC has announced the commission of Ordinary Lies, a new six-part drama series for BBC One.
The inclusion of a Target Books novelisation in BBC Books’ 50th anniversary collection seems most appropriate. With the scarcity of repeats during the show’s original run, before the advent of home video, many fans will have experienced older stories and earlier Doctors through the pages of just such a book.
In a world of bloggers, long lenses and tabloid tattle, Doctor Who casting news and storyline leaks attract the same scrutiny as the soaps. Wonderfully, thanks to the misdirections of the production team, a few things still sneak to air undiscovered.
For the Sixth Doctor adventure in Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary collection, BBC Books have chosen to reprint a novel by the biggest name in Who prose, Terrance Dicks. A writer and script editor of the show, Dicks went on to pen over 60 novelisations as well as a host of novels and spin off books.
After the turbulent, foreboding first half of Skins Rise hinted at plenty but revealed little, its second half still has a lot to explain.
The last time we saw the manic-hedonistic James Cook in Skins, he was seconds away from killing or being killed in one of the most intense cliffhangers in the show’s history. Cut forward three years, and the alive-and-well Cook works for a drug dealer in bleak suburban Manchester.
Doctor Who has been through many forms on the television screen over the past 50 years, from the black and white adventure serial of the 1960s to the bold primary colours of the 1980s. We recently asked you to tell us which era has been your favourite. Here’s how you voted…
Details have been confirmed for Doctor Who’s official 50th anniversary celebration weekend later this year.
As StudioCanal continue their ongoing plan to release the entire Studio Ghibli catalogue in high definition on Blu-ray, we celebrate this week’s release of Kiki’s Delivery Service and Grave of the Fireflies with a look at our five favourite underrated Ghibli movies.
Ben Wheatley (Sightseers) continues on his winning streak with period psychological horror A Field in England.