With less than a month to go, another trailer has been released for the latest season of Succession. The long-awaited third run of the high stakes corporate/family drama promises an almighty battle in the wake of the media bomb dropped by Kendal Roy (Jeremy Strong) dropped at the end of the last season – his … >
Sky confirms that the darkly comic corporate family drama will return this autumn The compelling show about the Roy family, who sit atop an imperiled media empire, will return for its third run this autumn, somewhat delayed thanks to the pandemic. Picking up on the explosive events of the season 2 finale, Logan (Brian Cox) … >
A new book 42 — The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams will offer a unique insight into his life and work You can help fund a book drawn from the papers of Douglas Adams, lodged with his alma mater St Johns College, Cambridge, and celebrating his genius. After his death in 2001, Douglas Adams’s papers … >
The BBC has announced a raft of sonic festivities for Christmas 2020 covering all major BBC Radio stations and BBC Sounds. There really is something for everyone. The BBC’s announcement is a vast list of programmes across its radio / streaming channels; we’ve rejigged it by theme and picked our highlights. Music BBC Sounds promises … >
Natasha and her family have packed up their things (along with a couple of wounded soldiers, because Natasha is just the sweetest little honeydew that ever there was) when she spies a bedraggled Pierre wandering the street. He can’t come with them, he tells her, because he’s going to kill Napoleon. That’s nice, dear. Pierre … >
Here we take a look at some of Doctor Who‘s famous guest stars who you might not have recognised… Peter Kay as The Abzorbaloff in ‘Love & Monsters’ Zoe Wanamaker (Harry Potter, My Family) as Lady Cassandra in ‘The End of the World’ and ‘New Earth’ Ian McKellen (The Hobbit, X-Men) as … >
Mr Selfridge writer Andrew Davies has adapted Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 literary masterpiece War and Peace for BBC One. Directed by Tom Harper (Peaky Blinders), the six-part series stars Lily James (Downton Abbey) as Natasha Rostova, James Norton (Grantchester) as Prince Andrei Bolkonsky and Paul Dano (12 Years A Slave) as Pierre Bezukhov. The cast also includes … >
I shouldn’t like to have lived in the Russia of War and Peace, as pretty as it may have been. The consequences of Natasha’s momentary lapse of sanity have come to light: James Norton plays Andrei here with a stoicism so fragile you can see his brokenness leaking out through the fractures in it – … >
Andrew Davies’ new adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel War and Peace arrives on DVD and Blu-ray on Monday 8 February. Set in Russia, 1805 and starring Paul Dano (Love and Mercy), Lily James (Downtown Abbey) and James Norton (Happy Valley), the epic six-part series is also available to download and keep from BBCStore.com. > … >
So, sweet Natasha and nice Andrei get themselves engaged after all – but there’s a catch! At his grumpy dad’s insistence, he has to spend a year abroad first, backpacking through Europe, presumably. This will definitely end well for our lovebirds, won’t it? Meanwhile, Nicolai’s mum and dad politely request that he marry a nice … >