A brief new trailer for the second season of French supernatural drama The Returned has been unveiled. Eight new episodes began filming last September, with all the original cast returning. Season 2 will begin on Canal+ in France this autumn, before airing in the UK on Channel 4. Watch the teaser… The official synopsis for … >
It’s taken me until the penultimate episode of Channel 4’s superlative Sunday sci-fi drama to realise something. Have you noticed how big the Hawkins family kitchen is? It’s massive. A wipe-down hangar for cooking and conversation. A space that’s fortuitously big enough for kitchen sink dramas, the impromptu Synth triage of Max, and an awkward … >
With its reunions, partings, and moving backstory, Episode 6 of Humans is basically a national televised Voight-Kampff test for viewers of Channel 4. If you got through the whole hour without any of the standard human emotions trickling across your brain and toward your face then you shouldn’t be reading this. You should be plugged … >
Smart, glossy, engaging (and that’s just the cast), Humans is great drama, but there are a lot of questions still to be answered, and Episode 5 isn’t shy about asking a few more. So this review may be bit question-mark heavy, if that’s alright? See, I’ve started already. The most nagging question might be ‘What … >
With its big sci-fi concepts, questions of consciousness, and sexy robots, Humans can invariably bring out the Sunday night philosopher in you. Especially when you ponder age-old Asimovian questions such as ‘where is the line that separates AI from human consciousness?’ And, at what point do you mark the definition between £20,000 electro-sex-doll and someone … >
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was in the news earlier this week, with his prediction that in the future robots would, rather than kill us with the laser eyes and chainsaw hands, keep us as pets, because we’d be so helpless and adorable. Not as adorable as little Sophie ‘Potato’ Hawkins mind you. But does he … >
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, … >
Last week’s opening episode of Humans was watched by over 4 million viewers (all of them properly human, I’m sure), making it Channel 4’s highest-rated drama in over a decade. Couple that with Gemma Chan’s hint that there’s scope for a second season, and you may as well get used to Synths being around you … >
Channel 4 has announced the re-commission of Raised By Wolves for a second season. Caitlin and Caz Moran’s comedy will be back for six new 30-minute episodes next year. Starring Helen Monks, Alexa Davies, Rebekah Staton and Philip Jackson, the first season of Raised By Wolves launched on Channel 4 in March and attracted an … >
When you lift your head from the screen for a moment and think about it, we have an odd relationship with our gadgets. We take a cold lump of circuits into our homes, bedrooms, pockets, and we train it into being our own, one swipe or tap of personal information at a time. Memories, selfies, … >