There’s a heatwave going on, and cousin Cathy is coming over to visit. Della doesn’t have the good china to dig out, but the guest does get to have a can of fizzy coke, a privilege not awarded to the rest of the family. Cathy is immediately funny and interesting (‘She’s had experience of life … >
With one right of passage (your first period) covered in the previous episode, we’re onto another: buying decent underwear. Germaine (Helen Monks) hopes the lingerie department will introduce her to a grown-up world of lace and frills. Matriarch Della, a romantic not given to romanticism, is more pragmatic. When you’re a teenager on an estate … >
This first episode of Channel 4’s Raised by Wolves is a triumphantly confident opening to a series. Sure, there was a pilot last year, but that is in no way required viewing to get up to speed: it can be assumed that this episode wouldn’t have been much different even if it was the first … >
Channel 4’s End of the World Night will reveal the fate of humanity this spring. The special one-off 90-minute programme will take a look at the science facts behind the science fiction, with some of the world’s foremost academics evaluating the many threats to our civilization, and answering the question ‘How will the world end?’. … >
Channel 4 has released the first image of Merlin star Colin Morgan in Humans. Based on the hit Swedish drama Real Humans, the eight-part series is written by British duo Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley (Spooks). Vincent and Brackley have also written the upcoming Spooks movie, Spooks: The Greater Good. The pic features Ivanno Jeremiah as … >
Channel 4 has announced that Indian Summers will return for a second season next year. The epic period drama about the final years of British colonial rule in India began last month, starring Julie Walters (Harry Potter), Henry Lloyd-Hughes (The Inbetweeners), Jemima West (The Borgias), Nikesh Patel (Bedlam), Roshan Seth (Ghandi) and Lillete Dubey (Monsoon … >
A drama of the old days of England. An England of Brideshead Revisited and A Jewel In The Crown, the sort of dramas that the BBC has a worldwide reputation for. But, despite what your memory tells you, those two programmes never aired on the BBC (they were both, in fact, ITV gems) and this … >
Channel 4’s new period drama about the final years of British colonial rule in India will begin in February. The epic ten-part series launches at 9pm on Sunday 15 February on Channel 4, starring Julie Walters (Harry Potter), Henry Lloyd-Hughes (The Inbetweeners), Jemima West (The Borgias), Nikesh Patel (Bedlam), Roshan Seth (Ghandi) and Lillete Dubey … >
Channel 4 has announced the recommission of new comedy Catastrophe for a second season. Written by and starring Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney, the show launched on Channel 4 last week and pulled in an average consolidated audience of 1.2 million viewers. Catastrophe follows an Irish woman (Sharon Horgan) and an American man (Rob Delaney) … >
The first trailer for the new season of French supernatural drama The Returned has been released. Season 2 will begin on Canal+ in France this autumn, before airing in the UK on Channel 4. Eight new episodes began filming last September, with all the original cast returning, and the shoot is expected to continue until … >