Olivia Colman (Broadchurch) and Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh) will star in Flowers, a pilot episode for a new Channel 4 comedy series. Written by Will Sharpe (Black Pond), the 30-minute pilot will be produced by Kudos (Utopia, Spooks) and is not intended for transmission. Flowers is described as “an imaginative and visually stunning narrative … >
Channel 4 has commissioned a third season of Toast of London. Nominated for six awards in this year’s British Comedy Awards, the show was originally broadcast as a one-off for Channel 4’s Funny Fortnight season of comedies in August 2012 marking the channel’s 30th birthday. Toast of London stars Matt Berry as eccentric actor Steven … >
Channel 4 has commissioned a new comedy series from Nighty Night creator Julia Davis. Written by Davis, Morning has Broken will also feature the actress as Gail Sinclair, the ‘Queen of Daytime’ and star of ‘Good Morning… with Gail Sinclair’. The six 30-minute episodes will see things begin to go wrong for Sinclair after eight … >
Channel 4 has announced a one-off documentary special featuring Gogglebox‘s ‘posh couple’ Steph and Dom Parker. At Home with Steph and Dom will see Nigel Farage – their local MP candidate – experience a wine-fuelled evening with the couple in what Channel 4 describes as “an entirely new style of television interview, where chaos ensues as … >
The cast has been announced for Channel 4 and AMC’s new drama series Humans. Based on the hit Swedish sci-fi 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. > Like Humans on … >
Channel 4 has announced that the second season of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. will begin in the UK this later this month. The new 22-part season starts at 8pm on Friday 24 October on Channel 4. Agent Coulson is back and ready to rebuild S.H.I.E.L.D. However, he is forced to branch out to find resources … >
The fourth season of Homeland will begin in the UK later this month. The US political thriller returns to Channel 4 on Sunday 12 October, with Carrie (Claire Danes) working as a case officer in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Season 4 features Merlin actor Bradley James and Spooks actor Raza Jaffrey. Other new cast members include … >
Maisie Williams will play a teenage girl battling with an anonymous cyber-stalker in Channel 4’s new real-time thriller from the makers of Blackout. Best known as Arya Stark in HBO’s Game of Thrones, Williams stars as Casey Jacobs, a teenager who experiences the worst the web has to offer – from peer-to-peer bullying to advanced … >
The final chapter in Shane Meadows’ This is England saga has started filming in Sheffield. Directed by Shane Meadows, This is England ’90 is written by Meadows and Jack Thorne (Glue). Meadows commented: “We will see an enormous transformation in the lives of our cast over these final four stories as Shaun writes his final … >
Channel 4 has announced the stars of the upcoming feature-length Black Mirror Christmas special. Featuring “three interwoven stories of Yuletide techno-paranoia “, the 90-minute episode‘s cast includes Jon Hamm (Mad Men), Rafe Spall (One Day) and Oona Chaplin (Game of Thrones). Jon Hamm’s character will appear in all three stories, “binding them together into a suitably … >