We think you’ll agree that mums are a pretty brilliant lot, but to be a mum in Doctor Who you have to be something extra special: willing to let your kids swan off into mortal danger and still do their laundry when they get back, prepared to point a gun at a renegade Time Lord, … >
Fisayo Akinade stars as Dean in Queer as Folk creator Russell T Davies‘ two new dramas, Cucumber and Banana. CultBox caught up with Fisayo for a chat about the shows and his new BBC One series, Ordinary Lies… > Order Cucumber on DVD on Amazon. > Order Banana on DVD on Amazon. Dean is … >
Three new promotional images for Spooks: The Greater Good have hinted at further details about the film’s plot. The big-screen spin-off from BBC One’s long-running spy drama arrives in UK cinemas on Friday 8 May. Posted on the movie’s Facebook page, the ‘files’ focus on Spooks stalwart Peter Firth, who returns as MI5 chief Harry … >
The modern era of Doctor Who has rightly been praised for bringing a greater depth to the show, along with a wealth of technology that would itself have seemed the stuff of science-fiction when the show originally began. But it would be wrong not to point out that, actually, some of the ‘new’ things the … >
Channel 4 has announced that Indian Summers will return for a second season next year. The epic period drama about the final years of British colonial rule in India began last month, starring Julie Walters (Harry Potter), Henry Lloyd-Hughes (The Inbetweeners), Jemima West (The Borgias), Nikesh Patel (Bedlam), Roshan Seth (Ghandi) and Lillete Dubey (Monsoon … >
Damian Lewis stars as Henry VIII alongside Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell and Claire Foy as Anne Boleyn in BBC Two’s epic new drama series Wolf Hall. > Order Wolf Hall on DVD on Amazon. England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If Henry VIII dies without a male heir, the country could … >
The BBC have been on a good run recently when it comes to original historical drama, what with the excellent The Village and the equally good Peaky Blinders, not to mention the exquisite Wolf Hall. To continue the run they have enlisted the reliable talents of Jimmy McGovern, he of Cracker and The Lakes fame, … >
Focus stars Will Smith as Nicky, a seasoned master of misdirection who becomes romantically involved with novice con artist Jess (Margot Robbie). To celebrate the movie’s release in cinemas on Friday 27 February, we’ve got Focus goodies to give away to three of our Twitter followers! One lucky winner will receive a RFID blocking passport … >
History hasn’t always been kind to Cromwell. Opinion shifts quite violently to considering him Henry VIII’s right hand man to a shifty planner of self-interest. As Wolf Hall shows, such changes of opinion happened within Cromwell’s time, too. When it was Henry who suddenly decided that he didn’t like you anymore, Tudor life was lived … >
Best known for his contributions for the modern Doctors on screen, Doctor Who writer Gareth Roberts contributed this pair of ‘Missing Adventures’ to the Virgin book range in the mid-nineties. Adapted for audio by John Dorney, both stories both pair Tom Baker’s Doctor with Lalla Ward’s Romana II and K-9, the first time this line-up … >