ITV has released the first trailer for the new season of detective drama DCI Banks. Stephen Tompkinson (Wild At Heart) reprises his role as DCI Alan Banks alongside Andrea Lowe (Monroe) as DS Annie Cabbot and Caroline Catz (Doc Martin) as DI Helen Morton in six new episodes. Season 5 began filming in Yorkshire in April … >
Brief Encounters is a new ITV drama about the early days of the Ann Summers party plan business. Set in the early 1980s, the six-part series is created and written by Fay Rusling and Oriane Messina (Green Wing, Me & Mrs Jones) and inspired by chapters in Jacqueline Gold’s memoir, Good Vibrations. The cast includes Penelope Wilton (Downton Abbey), Peter Wight … >
It’s been ten years since Daniel Craig’s first outing as the iconic 007, complete with tuxedo, a Walther and of course an Aston Martin or two. After Pierce Brosnan’s overly cartoonish final Bond film, Die Another Day, the Bond producers decided on a different tack and took 007 back to his original roots, which meant … >
ITV has revealed who will be playing the young incarnation of Helen Mirren’s iconic character Jane Tennison. Tennison, the new prequel to Prime Suspect, has now started filming on location in London. Stefanie Martini (Doctor Thorne, Endeavour) will lead the cast as the young Jane Tennison. She’ll be joined by Blake Harrison (Dad’s Army, The Inbetweeners) and Sam Reid (Belle, The Riot Club) as … >
Game of Thrones has wrapped up for another year and it’s fair to say these last ten episodes have progressed the storyline much further than we could have hoped for. Season 6 reached its conclusion in ‘The Winds of Winter’ – incidentally the title of George R. R. Martin’s upcoming sixth novel – alliances were … >
Daniel Craig shook the movie industry earlier this summer by telling producers of the James Bond movies that he would not be returning as the iconic British spy for a fourth outing. The news has caused hysteria on the betting floor leading to a number of potential candidates for the vacant role. Here, we take … >
The Frankenstein Chronicles will return to ITV Encore for a second season. Incorporating elements from Mary Shelley’s Gothic literary classic, the period crime drama launched last November, 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 Young Poisoner’s Handbook) … >
It is now 30 years since Doctor Who returned from its first hiatus with a reduced episode count and a season arc reflecting the show’s situation at the time. ‘The Trial of a Time Lord’ was the umbrella title for 1986’s quartet of stories linked by a running narrative, the title of which said it all. … >
This month marks 20 years since Paul McGann made his Doctor Who debut as the Eighth Doctor in ‘The TV Movie’. > Buy ‘The TV Movie’ on DVD on Amazon. To celebrate the anniversary, here are 30 facts about the 1996 adventure that you might not know… The TARDIS set reportedly cost a million dollars … >
With the latest thrilling season of Line of Duty out to buy on DVD this week, CultBox caught up with the show’s creator Jed Mercurio for an exclusive chat. The third season of BBC Two’s police corruption thriller sees Mrs Biggs star Daniel Mays join the cast as Sergeant Danny Waldron, alongside returning cast members Martin Compston as … >