The Handmaid's Tale starring Elisabeth Moss

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ will air on Channel 4

The highly regarded Hulu TV series The Handmaid’s Tale will now show over here on terrestrial TV. Channel 4 today announced that it has will show the acclaimed US drama series The Handmaid’s Tale. Starring Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Samira Wiley, Max Minghella, and Yvonne Strahovski, it will premier on UK screens later this month. Based on the … >

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Timothy Spall to lead cast of Channel 4’s first Philip K. Dick drama

Channel 4 has announced the cast for the first of its upcoming dramas based on the short stories of award-winning sci-fi novelist Philip K. Dick. A co-production between Channel 4 and Sony Pictures Television, the “hugely ambitious” anthology series will be written and executive produced by Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica) and Michael Dinner (Justified) alongside Breaking Bad … >

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Documentary horror series ‘Nightmares’ coming to Channel 4

Channel 4 has ordered a new docu-drama series depicting “chilling tales of real life horror stories.” Featuring “straight-to-camera documentary interviews and visually-striking, elegantly realised and terrifying drama”, each week Nightmares will tell single, spine-tingling story, drawing on eyewitness testimonies. The official synopsis for the four-part series reads: “Witnesses will recount stories of paranoia, paranormal activity … >

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Channel 4 announces ‘The ABC’ school drama from ‘East is East’ and ‘Shameless’ writers

Filming is underway on a new Channel 4 drama series set in a vibrant and multicultural Yorkshire comprehensive school. The ABC heralds the channel’s return to 8pm week night drama and production began on location in Yorkshire earlier this month. The six-part series is created by Ayub Khan Din (East is East), Kevin Erlis (Shameless) and Malcolm … >

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Channel 4 to search for the UK’s most talented Lego builder

Channel 4 has announced the commission of an all-new competition format series, Masters of Lego. The four-part series will see Britain’s biggest Lego fans of all ages compete against each other to build ambitious brick creations. The six competing pairs will have their design, originality and construction skills put to the test in a battle to be crowned … >

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