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 … >
Filming has started in Budapest on two further TV movies featuring Rowan Atkinson as legendary French fictional detective Jules Maigret. The Blackadder star made his debut as Maigret earlier this year in ‘Maigret Sets a Trap’, which attracted 7.2 million viewers and a 28% share of the audience. ITV’s second Maigret film, ‘Maigret’s Dead Man’, has already been filmed and will air later this year. … >
In 1956, one of the most popular shows in the UK made the jump from radio to television and cemented the situation comedy as one of the small screen’s most enduring genres. Hancock’s Half Hour wasn’t the earliest British sitcom, but it was the first to flourish. From the beginning, writers Ray Galton and Alan … >
Jack Dee and Claire Skinner will lead the cast of Power Monkeys, a new scripted comedy that will be made and aired in one day. Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin (Outnumbered, Drop the Dead Donkey) return to Channel 4 following the success of their 2015 election comedy Ballot Monkeys. Power Monkeys will lampoon the fictional communications and social media ‘experts’ on both … >
This month brought the sad news that fantasy adventure series Jekyll and Hyde has been cancelled after only one season due to disappointing ratings. Charlie Higson’s ten-part drama was the latest in a line of ITV shows to have aired over the past decade that have tried to ape the family-friendly success of Doctor Who. … >
Adapted from the 2007 novel based on the true story of four childhood friends who formed a spy ring that affected the Revolutionary War, comes a brand new TV period drama in the form of Turn: Washington’s Spies. Witness the birth of The Culper Ring, historically remembered as George Washington’s spies, and the men that … >
24: Live Another Day co-stars Stephen Fry and Kiefer Sutherland will reunite in a new one-off Sky Arts drama this Christmas. The 30-minute film is written and directed by Greg Ellis. Part of the channel’s Playhouse Presents… strand, Marked follows the story of James (Sutherland), a seemingly regular guy who has been ground down by … >
The BBC and Science Channel have announced a new factual drama co-production starring William Hurt (Into The Wild).
Theo James, star of Sky Living’s supernatural drama Bedlam, will join Maxine Peake (Shameless, Silk) and Matthew McNulty (Misfits, Five Days) in BBC Four’s new adaptation of Room At The Top.
With a title sequence that no mainstream show would ever dare use today, mid-‘90s British anthology series Chiller gets a long overdue release on DVD.