‘Callan: Wet Job’ DVD review

Unlike the elegant and suave spies from across the Atlantic, the British secret service in the 1960s and 1970s was a far more uncool and grimy place on screen – more realistic perhaps, but usually second best in popularity.

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‘Wonders Of The Universe’: Episode 4 review

In the final part of this enthralling series, Professor Brian Cox takes a final journey across the world from the Karnak Temple in Egypt to the Yoho National Park in the Rockies, demonstrating the many facets of the one thing which connects us all with the myriad wonders of the universe around us: light.

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‘Twenty Twelve’: Episode 2 review

After an opening episode that some felt was disappointing, given the quality of the writer and cast, it’s a relief to announce that the second instalment of Twenty Twelve is very much up to the high comic standard of John Morton’s previous work.

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Win ‘Skins’ DVDs!

E4’s multi BAFTA award-winning drama Skins is back for its fifth series and a third generation of cast. With more sex, booze, drugs and anarchy than ever Series 5 is available to own on DVD from Monday 21st March, packed with exclusive extras. To celebrate, we’re giving away 3 copies of the Series 5 DVD! … >

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‘Doctor Who’ TV Movie ‘needed different story’, admits director

The director of the Doctor Who TV Movie has revealed that he was “disappointed that [the show] wasn’t picked up” for a full series in America following the its broadcast in 1996. Introducing Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, the TV Movie was a co-production between America’s Fox Network, Universal and the BBC. Despite strong … >

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‘The Promise’ DVD review

What with particularly turbulent times in the Middle East recently, this epic four-part war saga from BAFTA award-winning director Peter Kosminsky (Warriors, The Government Inspector), set in the disputed Palestinian territories, certainly has a timely feel.

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Geoffrey Sax (‘Christopher And His Kind’) interview

Directed by Geoffrey Sax (Doctor Who: ‘The Movie’, Stormbreaker), BBC Two’s new one-off drama Christopher And His Kind stars Matt Smith (Doctor Who) and explores novelist Christopher Isherwood’s formative years in 1930s Berlin in the run-up to the Second World War.

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