Jessica Raine, Keeley Hawes and Felicity Kendal to guest star in ‘Inside No. 9’

More guest stars for the third season of BBC Two’s Inside No. 9 have been announced. Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith’s dark anthology comedy series will return later this year with six new episodes, directed by Guillam Morales (Julia’s Eyes). Joining the previously confirmed Jason Watkins (Being Human) and Philip Glenister (Life on Mars) are … >

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Win Channel 4’s comedy-drama ‘No Offence’ on DVD!

The complete first season of No Offence, Channel 4’s outrageously rude, critically acclaimed cop comedy-drama from the creator of Shameless, Paul Abbott, will be released on DVD on Monday 10 August from FremantleMedia International. > Buy No Offence on DVD on Amazon. To celebrate the release, we’ve got DVDs to give away to four of … >

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Channel 4 orders second season of ‘No Offence’

Paul Abbott’s police procedural drama No Offence will be back on Channel 4 next year. Joanna Scanlan (DI Vivienne Deering), Elaine Cassidy (DC Dinah Kowalska) and Alexandra Roach (DS Joy Freers) will begin filming eight new episodes in Manchester in early 2016. Other returning cast members include Will Mellor, Paul Ritter, Colin Salmon, Ste Johnston, … >

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‘Utopia’ Season 2 soundtrack album review

Channel 4 really went straight for the spoon when it came to Utopia‘s fate, didn’t they? Skipping the chilli or bleach, they just scooped Dennis Kelly’s dark dystopian drama right out of the future schedules, never to be seen again. Some torturers have no finesse. So while we don’t have a third season to look … >

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‘Utopia’ Season 2 soundtrack album confirmed

An album featuring music from Utopia‘s second season will be released next month. Utopia 2: Original Television Soundtrack will be released by Silva Screen on Monday 8 December. > Order the album on Amazon. Cristobal Tapia de Veer’s soundtrack for last year’s first season was featured in Mojo Magazine’s Top Ten 2013 soundtracks at No.4 … >

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‘Utopia’ axed by Channel 4

Channel 4 has today confirmed that Utopia will not be returning for a third season. Written by Dennis Kelly, the conspiracy drama launched last year and Season 2 concluded in August. Kelly previously revealed that he had plans for two more seasons. > Here are 5 reasons why Utopia deserves a third season. A Channel … >

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5 reasons why ‘Utopia’ deserves a third season

Utopia’s second season shut up shop in deliberately ambiguous fashion, as you probably suspected it would, leaving enough dangling plot threads and questions to cats-cradle into a third season. That’s if the show gets one. Writer Dennis Kelly may have plans for a third and fourth season, but ratings for the show have been disappointing, … >

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‘Utopia’ Series 2 finale review

If recent weeks have taught us anything, Humanity’s big fear isn’t terrorism or nuclear war. It’s getting sick. Ebola is the latest spectre. Before that it was SARS, Swine Flu, Avian Flu. We’re terrified of our demise being delivered by a sneeze. We fear sickness, because we fear a lack of control. We like to … >

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‘Utopia’ Series 2 Episode 5 review

While Series 2 has lost much of the obliqueness of its predecessor – and there is no doubt that Utopia this year has used its torture spoon to feed you plot rather than push perplexities in your eye – the fact there are fewer questions has left greater space to admire performance of its talented … >

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‘Shameless’ creator’s new police drama ‘No Offence’ begins filming

Alexandra Roach (Utopia), Joanna Scanlan (Getting On) and Elaine Cassidy (The Paradise) will lead the cast of Channel 4’s new police procedural series, No Offence. Created by TV writer Paul Abbott (Shameless, State of Play), the eight-part series has started filming in Manchester and will air on Channel 4 in 2015. No Offence‘s cast also … >

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