Win ‘In the Flesh’ soundtrack albums!

Composer Edmund Butt’s hauntingly romantic score to BBC Three’s BAFTA Award winning In the Flesh is released by Silva Screen Records on Monday 27 April. > Buy the album on Amazon. To celebrate, we’ve got albums to give away to four of our Twitter followers! > Read our review of the album. For a chance … >

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‘Mr Selfridge’ Season 3 episode guide

Period drama Mr Selfridge returns to ITV for ten new episodes, starring Emmy award-winning American actor Jeremy Piven. The drama is inspired by the life of charismatic American entrepreneur, Harry Gordon Selfridge, whose business in London’s Oxford Street has become a much-loved institution. Season 3 picks up in 1919 just after the end of World … >

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‘Doctor Who’ audio boxset review: ‘Dark Eyes 3’

This third ‘Dark Eyes’ collection for Paul McGann’s Eighth Doctor contains a slight change of tack, being entirely Dalek free. Instead, it is styled as “Doctor Vs Master” with the rival Time Lords clashing across the history of humanity’s war with The Eminence. The Master in question is Big Finish’s terrific home-grown incarnation, played to … >

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Win ‘Doctor Who’ Season 8 on Blu-ray!

Out on DVD and Blu-ray on Monday 24 November, the new season of Doctor Who finds Peter Capaldi at the controls of the TARDIS as the Twelfth Doctor takes the famous blue box on a brand new set of amazing adventures through space and time. > Order Season 8 on DVD on Amazon. > Order … >

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‘The Passing Bells’ Episode 5 review

Well, we probably could have seen it coming that it wasn’t going to end well. Our heroes meet at last, and oh irony of ironies, they find themselves duking it out, each delivering a fatal blow to the other just as the war’s end is announced. It doesn’t get much more senseless a death than … >

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Audio story review: Big Finish’s ‘The Night of the Triffids’

While CultBox is familiar with Day of the Triffids in its various forms, the announcement that Big Finish was adapting its sequel Night of the Triffids into an audio drama came as a bit of a surprise; chiefly as we had never heard of it. Simon Clark’s 2001 novel, adapted for audio by the author, … >

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Rewind: A look back at ‘At Home with the Braithwaites’

What was it about? Created by Sally Wainwright, At Home with the Braithwaites aired on ITV for 26 episodes from 20 January 2000 to 9 April 2003. The British comedy-drama series told the story of a suburban family from Leeds who found their lives changed forever when the mum wins 38 million pounds on the lottery. … >

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Win a brain food popcorn bowl with ‘The Walking Dead’ and NOW TV!

NOW TV has created the definitive sofa snacking must-have for fans of smash-hit zombie drama The Walking Dead – the Brain Food Popcorn Bowl. The exclusive snack-cessory is crafted in the likeness of a terrifying Walker from the ground-breaking series and comes bursting with bespoke ‘brain’ popcorn spilling out of the top of the bowl. … >

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Cast announced for BBC One’s ‘The Go-Between’ adaptation

The Paradise star Joanna Vanderham will lead the cast of BBC One’s adaptation of LP Hartley’s The Go-Between, part of the channel’s upcoming season of classic 20th century literature. Vanderham will play Marian Maudsley in the 90-minute film, alongside Stephen Campbell Moore (Titanic) as Trimingham, Ben Batt (Shameless) as Ted Burgess and Lesley Manville (Maleficent) as … >

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‘Snowpiercer’ movie review

Bong Joon-ho’s first English language film, based on a French graphic novel, is reminiscent of Jean Pierre-Jeunet and Terry Gilliam (indeed, John Hurt’s character is called Gilliam), and much like a train builds up momentum as it goes, peaking with about ten minutes to go before coming to a halt. As the clunky exposition captions … >

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