In a change from rubbing shoulders with political figures like Winston Churchill and Richard Nixon, this week’s episode of Doctor Who, ‘Extremis’, sees the Time Lord recruited by none other than the Pope. While Doctor Who generally has little time for religion – although the Third Doctor famously took some inspiration from Buddhist teachings – it does … >
BBC Four has announced a series of all-star monologues as part of the BBC’s Gay Britannia season this summer. Curated and directed by Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, Doctor Who), Queers will feature Ben Whishaw, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Front, Russell Tovey, Gemma Whelan, Ian Gelder, Kadiff Kirwan and Fionn Whitehead each delivering a 15-minute monologue. The eight episodes will … >
Ripper Street will return to BBC Two next month for a final season. Following the grisly death of Detective Inspector Bennet Drake (Jerome Flynn), the six new episodes reunite his old friends, Detective Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen), surgeon Captain Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg) and ‘Long’ Susan Hart (MyAnna Buring) to bring his murderer to … >
Filming has started on the next season of ITV’s Inspector Morse prequel series Endeavour in and around Oxford and the South East. The popular detective drama will return in 2018 with an extended run of six new feature-length films. Previous seasons have comprised four stories. Shaun Evans will be back as the recently promoted Detective Sergeant Endeavour Morse, alongside Roger … >
Filming has begun on the fourth season of Peaky Blinders in Liverpool. Game Of Thrones star Aidan Gillen and The Pianist star Adrien Brody will join the cast in the six new episodes. Steven Knight’s multi-award winning gangster epic launched on BBC Two in September 2013. Buy the complete Season 1-3 box set on Amazon here. The … >
ITV Encore’s new female-led crime thriller has begun filming in Bolton and the North West. Described as “a dark and compelling thriller with a tortured female detective at its heart”, Bancroft will “explore what happens when heinous crimes, long buried, come back to haunt us.” The four-part series is created and written by Kate Brooke (Mr Selfridge, … >
Rowan Atkinson returns to ITV as legendary French fictional detective Jules Maigret in a new Maigret mystery this Easter. Adapted by Stewart Harcourt from Georges Simenon’s story, ‘Night At The Crossroads’ also stars Aiden McCardle (Mr Selfridge), Shaun Dingwall (Death In Paradise), Lucy Cohu (Broadchurch) and Leo Starr (Lewis). Buy ITV’s first two Maigret adaptations on DVD here. Solving the … >
The new season of ITV Encore’s The Frankenstein Chronicles has started filming in Northern Ireland. Incorporating elements from Mary Shelley’s Gothic literary classic, the period crime drama launched in November 2015, starring Sean Bean (Game of Thrones, Sharpe) as Inspector John Marlott. The Frankenstein Chronicles is set in Georgian London in 1827 and was created by Benjamin Ross (The … >
BBC One has announced the cast for its new adaptation of psychological thriller The Woman in White. Written in 1859, The Woman in White is Wilkie Collins’ fifth published novel and was previously adapted by the BBC in 1997, starring Andrew Lincoln and Tara FitzGerald. Buy the book on Amazon here. From the makers of … >
Filming has started on BBC One’s new thriller from the creators of The Missing. Written by Harry and Jack Williams, Rellik tells the story of a serial killer in reverse. The six one-hour episodes are a co-production between BBC One and Cinemax. The cast of Rellik will be led by Richard Dormer (Game of Thrones) … >