SPOILERS If Hard Sun proves anything, it’s that you should never mix work and family. For instance, I have to clap my hands over my ears and yell ‘LALALALALALA!’ whenever my dad tries to talk to me about Hard Sun. Work and family have been part of a messy, violent knot since Episode 1, but … >
Aiden Turner has been talking about the upcoming fourth series of the BBC costume drama, and how much longer it will run.
Park Chan-wook will direct a six-part adaptation of The Little Drummer Girl in 2018, and the cast is… well… crikey.
The BBC has announced that it will be continuing with its series of Julia Donaldson/Axel Scheffler-inspired animations, with a version of one their classic children’s books due for Christmas Day 2018.
There’s been quite a few tweets this past week from people saying they’ve finished #HardSun, and lauding it as a drama well worth a watch. That’s good to hear if you’ve not seen it all yet, especially as many crime dramas can start strong, only to drag on too long and fizzle out near the … >
Welcome to the slow road of weekly Hard Sun reviews. I’m sipping the series slowly, like a fine cognac, or Pepto Bismol. By now you may have watched the entire 8 episodes. In fact, you could’ve watched them all several times over. Judging by the iPlayer charts you might well have: it’s proved very popular. … >
After previously pulling the adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Ordeal by Innocence from the schedules, it’s now been announced that the BBC will now recast its star Ed Westwick.
Take a cursory glance at Twitter (the best kind of glance), and you’d be misled into thinking that the world was going to end any day now. Fortunately BBC One’s new Saturday night diversion ‘Hard Sun’ gives us all a cheerily optimistic 5 years before the great big horrid orange death-ball eradicates us all. The … >
A two thousand-and-something year old man said it last Christmas, and it feels even more apt now: ‘Everything ends, and it’s always sad. But everything begins again too, and that’s always happy.’ And that’s what we have right here. An ending and a new beginning. Sad and happy all at once. Very Moffat. The mourning of … >
Just in time for bonfire night, BBC One has a brand new period drama for us in the form of Gunpowder – the under-told story of the attack on parliament in 1905 that would inspire the burned effigies and fireworks we enjoy (bonfire night is quite weird, isn’t it?) annually today.