‘The Whale’ trailer
The BBC has released a trailer for one-off drama The Whale, based on true accounts of the sinking of the whale ship The Essex, starring Martin Sheen (The West Wing) and Jonas Armstrong (Robin Hood).
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The BBC has released a trailer for one-off drama The Whale, based on true accounts of the sinking of the whale ship The Essex, starring Martin Sheen (The West Wing) and Jonas Armstrong (Robin Hood).
It wasn’t always called ‘The Great Train Robbery’, but history has a way of swaddling itself in mythology.
Back in 1963 it was known as ‘The Cheddington Mail Van Raid’. And in the same way as that title removes any notion of excitement and romanticism from the act, so Chris Chibnall’s A Robber’s Tale strips away the mythology that has crystallised around the greatest folkloric tale in British larceny and presents us with the facts (or as close to them) of what was a train robbery that time wrongly mythologised into something ‘Great’.
In what is probably the most hotly anticipated television event this festive season (sorry, Matt Smith), BBC One’s Sherlock returns for a third series on New Year’s Day.
The wait is over everyone. After a two-year gap, Sherlock is back for three more devilishly intricate, deliriously fun episodes. Written by co-creator Mark Gatiss (who also appears as Sherlock’s older brother Mycroft), first episode ‘The Empty Hearse’ sees our curly-haired hero “return from the dead” after two years travelling the world and dismantling Jim … >
A set of videos looking at the making of Sky1’s Moonfleet have been released online.
Sky has released a new one-minute trailer for Sky1’s upcoming family drama Moonfleet, starring Ray Winstone (The Sweeney) and Aneurin Barnard (We’ll Take Manhattan).
Police corruption drama Line of Duty returns to BBC Two for a second series next year and a new trailer has been released.
Sky has released the first trailer for Sky1’s upcoming family drama Moonfleet, starring Ray Winstone (The Sweeney) and Aneurin Barnard (We’ll Take Manhattan).
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Peter Jackson’s return to Middle Earth, was a very accomplished and entertaining opening chapter of this prequel trilogy, albeit an undeniably uneven one.
The Desolation of Smaug is probably superior, but suffers from a curious inverse of the problems that the first had. Luckily for Desolation, it has a dragon up its sleeve.
BBC One’s adaptation of Death Comes To Pemberley will air over three consecutive nights this Christmas.