CultBox recently asked you to tell us who you think is British TV’s best detective of the 21st century so far (character incarnations which first appeared after 2000).
The Stuff of Nightmares starts with a bang. Quite literally. The latest in a spate of bombings to hit London narrowly misses Doctor Watson and throws the reader like a rag doll into James Lovegrove’s adventure.
The BBC has announced the cast for Sarah Phelps’ new First World War drama series, The Ark.
The UK’s recent hankering for a down-to-earth but idiosyncratic television detective is rooted deeply in our love for Scandinavian mystery dramas, or ‘Nordic noir’ as it is now dubbed. Some of these sleuths have been on our tellies far longer than others but each are all quintessentially British from the tea-sipping Miss Marple to the heavily patriotic Christopher Foyle.
Doctor Who star Karen Gillan has been cast in Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy as the lead female villain.
Matt Smith has described his upcoming movie How to Catch a Monster as a “tremendous sort of Lynchian piece”.
The cast has been announced the cast for BBC One’s new feature-length drama Common, written by Accused creator Jimmy McGovern.
The Fades star Iain De Caestecker has been spotted on the set of Matt Smith’s new movie How to Catch a Monster.
For those perhaps not in the know, back in the Sixties two Dalek movies were produced featuring all-new Daleks (in all-new colour!) and an all-new Doctor, Peter Cushing (also in colour). In these outings, Cushing was an Earth-based scientist called, wait for it, “Dr. Who”. Don’t worry though, the TARDIS is still bigger on the inside (just) and the Daleks are as mean as ever.
Doctor Who star Matt Smith has shaved his hair for his role in new movie How to Catch a Monster, the directorial debut of Ryan Gosling.