Those of a certain age may remember the 90s show Breaking the Magician’s Code, wherein a chap in a mask and gaudy suit debunked a series of magic tricks, including falling from a great height, being shot, and getting rid of an elephant from a room…
Anything sound familiar, Holmes fans? For the audience it was a dual draw: fun to see the illusions performed, and equal fun to see how they were accomplished.
Sherlock will return to BBC One for a third three-part series this winter.
‘I think, sir,’ a boatman from Cornwall famously once remarked to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘when Holmes fell over that cliff, he may not have killed himself, but all the same he was never quite the same man afterwards.’
Crime drama Sherlock returns to BBC One for a third series of three 90-minute films.
BBC America has released a new trailer for Fleming, Sky Atlantic’s upcoming series about the life of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.
To celebrate the release of Wolf Children on DVD and Collector’s Edition on 23 December, we have DVDs to give away to two of our Twitter followers!
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 … >