BBC Two has announced the commission of The Luminaries, a new drama based on award-winning novelist Eleanor Catton’s novel. Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize, The Luminaries is a 19th century tale of adventure and mystery set on the Wild West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island in the boom years of the 1860s … >
Scottish comedy Two Doors Down is back on BBC Two later this month for a second season. The residents of Latimer Crescent will return for more domestic disasters in six new half-hour episodes. Season 2 begins at 10pm on Monday 21 November on BBC Two. Written by Gregor Sharp and Simon Carlyle, the sitcom launched in April. … >
The team from No Such Thing as the News are back with a second helping of fascinating facts and off-beat news items, switching from their previous Friday night slot to Wednesday evening. Dan Schreiber is joined by James Harkin, Anna Ptaszynski and Andrew Hunter-Murray, the four presenters of the QI podcast No Such Thing as … >
Olivier-award winning actress Denise Gough and Victoria star Tom Hughes will lead the cast of BBC Two’s Paula. The new three-part revenge drama about a brief encounter that ends in violence is written by Conor McPherson, in his first original television series. Directed by Alex Holmes (Coalition, House of Saddam), Paula begins filming in Belfast next month. Writer … >
After a bit of blip with the slightly underwhelming Home From Home, BBC Two’s run of sitcom pilots hits back with a vengeance in the form of Our Ex-Wife. A sitcom starring Robert Webb and Victoria Hamilton as divorced parents of two Jack and Hillary, who have built a successful divorce on hate and seeing … >
Home from Home is BBC Two’s second offering in its ongoing season of sitcom pilots. Johnny Vegas and Joanna Page buy a rundown holiday home in the Lake District and have a difficult first day with their well-off neighbours Adam James and Emilia Fox. A promising set-up with the possibility of some good class-based humour … >
The first of BBC Four’s three recreations of lost sitcom episodes sees The Fast Show’s Simon Day take on Britain’s favourite bigot Alf Garnett in a performance of Till Death Us Do Part’s 1967 episode ‘A Woman’s Place Is In The Home’. And it being a near word-for-word rendition of the original script is what … >
BBC Two’s run of new comedy pilots for its Sitcom Season starts with The Coopers Vs the Rest, a sitcom starring Paterson Joseph and Tanya Franks as Toby and Tess Cooper; the struggling parents to three adopted children. While it’s a solid first bat for a new sitcom, it’s not without its problems. Things pick up … >
BBC Two has announced the commission of a brand new drama series from best-selling author and screenwriter Tom Rob Smith (Child 44). Described as a political and psychological thriller series, MotherFatherSon “sits at the intersections of police, politics and the press, as much a family saga as it is a savage, unflinching study of power and how even the … >
Ben Elton’s Upstart Crow will return to BBC Two for six further 30-minute episodes and a Christmas special in 2017. Commissioned as part of the BBC’s Shakespeare Festival 2016, marking the 400th anniversary of the writer’s death, the first season launched on BBC Two last month, averaging over two million viewers. Actor David Mitchell commented: “I’m thrilled that we’ll be … >