Sarah Hadland (Miranda) and John Thomson (Cold Feet) will lead the cast of BBC One Daytime’s new dramatisation of The Moonstone. The five-part adaptation of Wilkie Collins’ mystery novel will air over five consecutive afternoons later this year as part of the BBC’s #LoveToRead season, supported by BBC Learning. It is being adapted for screen by Rachel … >
The cast has been announced for a new heist thriller based on last year’s extraordinary robbery of £14m worth of jewels from London’s Hatton Garden Vault. The Hatton Garden Job began filming in London this week and is the first movie to catalogue the remarkable burglary. Downton Abbey star Matthew Goode and Nip Tuck star Joely Richardson will head up the cast. The … >
Brenda Blethyn is back as Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope in a sixth season of Vera. Set in contemporary Northumberland and Newcastle, ITV’s crime drama reunites Blethyn with co‐ stars Kenny Doughty, Cush Jumbo, Jon Morrison, Kingsley Ben‐Adir, Lisa Hammond and Riley Jones in four new stand‐alone films. Guest stars in Season 6 include Sharon … >
Created by Chris Boucher, former Blake’s 7 and Bergerac script editor, Star Cops was effectively a police procedural in space and one of the rare occasions where the BBC attempted to do some serious sci-fi; no bug-eyed monsters here, just duplicitous, criminal human beings. What was it about? Laid back Nathan Spring is a traditionalist … >