As it reaches it’s five year anniversary, I decided to rewatch Doctor Who star Matt Smith’s 90-minute BBC film Christopher and His Kind. Directed by Geoffrey Sax (the director 1996’s Doctor Who TV Movie, don’t you know?), the 2011 biopic is based on the memoirs of English novelist Christopher Isherwood, a young man who travelled to Berlin in … >
Although presented as an unknown by the press, the young Matt Smith had a fair track record our screens before taking the role of the Eleventh Doctor. Post-Doctor Who, he has already started to make waves in Hollywood. Following last year’s Terminator movie with Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) and Ryan Gosling’s Lost River, the 33-year-old … >
Like the Queen’s Speech and a miserable Christmas in Walford, high quality period dramas are fixed points on our TV screens at Christmas.
Yesterday we went along to the British Library for the launch of Great Expectations, screenwriter Sarah Phelps’s (Oliver Twist, EastEnders) three-part take on Dickens’ classic novel about a boy with big dreams who learns that moral worth matters more than social status.
The X Files star Gillian Anderson and Poirot star David Suchet have been cast in a new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, set to air this Christmas on BBC One.
Stormbreaker director Geoffrey Sax has revealed that there are no plans for a sequel to the 2006 British spy film, which starred Alex Pettyfer (I Am Number Four) and Mickey Rourke.
Christopher And His Kind director Geoffrey Sax has revealed that he would “very much welcome the chance” to work with Matt Smith again on an episode of Doctor Who.
Starring Matt Smith (Doctor Who), BBC Two’s Christopher And His Kind airs at 9.30pm tonight and explores novelist Christopher Isherwood’s formative years in 1930s Berlin in the run-up to the Second World War.
The director of Christopher And His Kind has spoken about transforming Belfast into 1930s Berlin for the filming of the new one-off drama.
The director of the Doctor Who TV Movie has revealed that he was “disappointed that [the show] wasn’t picked up” for a full series in America following the its broadcast in 1996. Introducing Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, the TV Movie was a co-production between America’s Fox Network, Universal and the BBC. Despite strong … >