Award-winning Irish soap Red Rock will be shown daily on BBC Daytime later this year. Written by Peter McKenna (EastEnders, Casualty), the 40-part series premiered in Ireland in 2015. Red Rock is set around the busy police precinct in a fictional seaside town just outside of Dublin, Red Rock follows the Hennessys and the Kielys, two local warring families. … >
The first guest star in the opening episode of Sherlock‘s new season has been revealed. Written by co-creator Mark Gatiss, the first of three new feature-length episodes began filming in Cardiff this week, directed by Rachel Talalay (Doctor Who, The Flash). Daniel Hoffmann-Gill, familiar to Doctor Who fans as Bors in last year’s ‘The Magician’s … >
Filming has begun on E4’s new comedy about a gang of four twenty-something wasters in a West Country village. Danny Kirrane, Dylan Edwards, Gwyneth Keyworth and Rose Reynolds will lead the cast of Wasted, alongside Game of Thrones star Sean Bean. Created by the BAFTA Award winning writing team of James Lamont and Jon Foster … >
It’s the not knowing that really gets to you. Not knowing who’s responsible for Danny’s death. Not knowing who – if anyone – is going to die next, or how. Not knowing what new evidence is going to gurgle up and turn the case on its head and make Martin Compston’s DC Arnott do that … >
Doctor Who star Michelle Gomez has posted a photo of herself in costume on the set of The Collection. Created by Oliver Goldstick (Ugly Betty, Pretty Little Liars), Amazon’s first UK original drama is a period family saga set in the post-war Paris fashion world. Goldstick describes The Collection as “an entrepreneurial fable set at … >
We take a look at an alternate Doctor Who history with the Doctors that never were. With Doctor Who changing hands after Season 10, the internet is abuzz with speculation. Some of it is entirely plausible like the suggestion that EastEnders actress Rakhee Thakrar will be the next companion, while some of it less believable … >
ITV has announced the commission of a new conspiracy thriller series from the makers of Happy Valley and Scott and Bailey. Written by Bill Gallagher (The Paradise, Lark Rise to Candleford), Paranoid will star Indira Varma (Game of Thrones), Robert Glenister (Hustle), Neil Stuke (Silk), Lesley Sharp (Scott and Bailey) and Kevin Doyle (Downton Abbey). … >
Emilia Fox, Clarke Peters, Paul Schneider and William Ash have joined the cast of The Tunnel: Sabotage. Based on the Danish/Swedish crime series The Bridge, The Tunnel launched on Sky Atlantic in October 2013. > Buy Season 1 on DVD on Amazon. The Anglo-French drama’s second season, previously titled The Tunnel 2: Debris, re-unites Game … >
Dennis Kelly (Utopia) and Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe) have written a new comedy pilot for Channel 4 about “the horror and hilarity of social engagement.” The writers previously worked together on BBC Three’s Pulling and joked: “It has taken just 10 short years for us to agree to work together again. It was a mistake.” Phil … >
Filming has begun in Northern Ireland on Ballykissangel writer Barry Devlin’s new BBC One drama My Mother And Other Strangers. Set in Northern Ireland during World War Two, the five-part series follows the fortunes of the Coyne family and their neighbours as they struggle to maintain a normal life after a huge United States Army … >