Downton Abbey served up yet another delicious season, full of wit and charm, intrigue and insight, with a second helping of memorable one-liners from the Dowager Countess. Best of all, there was an explosive dining room scene in almost every episode. > Order Season 5 on DVD on Amazon. With the Downton residents not returning … >
Doctor Who returns to BBC One for a new 12-part season. > Here’s everything we know so far about Season 8. Season 8 stars Peter Capaldi as the new Doctor, Jenna Coleman as Clara and Samuel Anderson as Danny Pink. > Order Season 8 on DVD on Amazon. > Order Season 8 on Blu-ray on … >
You know the rules. Some days in Doctor Who, nobody dies at all. Some days, everybody lives. But today is not that day, and certainly not for poor Danny Pink, knocked down and killed by a car – an unfortunate ordinary death for an ordinary bloke. Very un-Rory. Probably registering only 0.2 Adrics on the … >
We are now very nearly at the end of this season of Doctor Who; a 12-episode run that has split viewers as divisively as a politically-motivated calypso number. It feels like we have hardly gotten to know Peter Capaldi’s Doctor yet, but soon we’ll be at the two-part finale, having hardly gotten past the waspish … >
EastEnders actress Lacey Turner returns to BBC One in Our Girl as East London girl Molly Dawes, now a soldier in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Written by Tony Grounds, the five new episodes follow last year’s one-off single drama, with new cast members including Misfits actor Iwan Rheon as Smurf, a face from Molly’s … >
At the beginning, she was The Impossible Girl who appeared throughout the Doctor’s lives, splintered into multiple incarnations to save him a dozen times over. They travelled together as flirty friends in the days when the Doctor was fresh-faced, floppy-haired and full of sparkling youthful exuberance and cheeky good humour. That was then. Now, Clara … >
ITV has announced that Ray Winstone and Amanda Redman will lead the cast of new drama series The Trials of Jimmy Rose. Written and created by Alan Whiting (Strike Back, Kingdom), the three-part drama tells the story of the notorious armed robber, Jimmy Rose (played by Winstone), who throughout his lifetime has made crime pay. … >
ITV has announced the commission of The Forgotten, a new police investigation thriller series. Written and created by Chris Lang (Undeniable, A Mother’s Son), The Forgotten focuses on a ‘cold’ murder case of 39 years ago. ITV’s Director of Drama, Steve November commented: “The Forgotten will look at how an historic police investigation affects the … >
This is more like it. In spite of all the good things we’ve seen since Peter Capaldi took control of the TARDIS, we’ve been waiting for something that is unmistakeably Doctor Who, something as comfortable as a sparkly black sweater and as inventive as exterminating a giant alien spider with disinfectant spray, as familiar as … >
Doctor Who‘s new series continues this weekend with ‘Listen’, written by Steven Moffat. When ghosts of past and future crowd into their lives, the Doctor and Clara are thrown into an adventure that takes them to the very end of the universe. What happens when the Doctor is alone? And what scares the grand old … >