First heard in 2018, the drama returns on BBC Radio 4 Extra for Christmas. If you’re up early, or looking for a daytime distraction, Auntie has dusted off a recent festive treat: Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology. With epic scope, the drama looks at some of the biggest figures in the mythos. It’s all drawn from … >
“A murder in the past. A mystery in the future” – Edgar Wright’s psychological thriller opens on 29th October. With less than a month until its release, a third (and presumably final) trailer has dropped for the new film from the director of the ‘Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy’ and Baby Driver. Here’s the synopsis, which … >
STUDIOCANAL is hosting an online event on January 29 to show classic episodes and discuss The Avengers at 60 In 1961, ABC television company brought The Avengers to our screens (black and white as they were) for an espionage thriller starring Ian Hendry as Dr David Keel and one Patrick Macnee as John Steed. The series … >
The BBC has just released a trailer for Black Narcissus and it promises Paradise, Perversion, Sanctuary and Sin The new BBC series Black Narcissus is raising the interest with a provocatively captioned trailer. The first episode is scheduled for 9 pm on Sunday the 27th December, with the third (and final) two days later at the … >
It’s just over a week until you can but your Radio Times double Christmas edition (other TV guides are available) but we have a good idea of the BBC Christmas 2020 plans There’s a vision behind the BBC Christmas 2020 programming, best expressed by Charlotte Moore, BBC’s Chief Content Officer: Let’s face it, it’s been a difficult … >
News has already broken that Rufus Sewell will return to Victoria this Sunday as former Prime Minister and the Queen’s confidante, Lord M, and now we have proof.
And so we come to the black sheep of the Bond family… Sean Connery left the building and George Lazenby picked up the reins in a film whose reputation seems to rise and fall depending on the phases of the moon. > Buy the complete James Bond collection on Blu-ray. The plot We start … >
When thinking of the best fictional spies, your mind most probably jumps to the likes of James Bond, Jason Bourne and Jack Bauer. But what is it that those three have in common, apart from the initials JB (anyone know why that’s a rule?) – they’re all men. Though they might not always be as … >
Following our recent retrospective of The Avengers, I thought to myself “Why can’t I be more like Emma Peel?” Now that I’ve realised I really don’t have the hips for crimpolene, I refocused myself to give you the rundown on seven of the best episodes… 1.16: ‘The Frighteners’ One of the few existing Season … >
One elegant spy. Three femme fatales. A dash of diabolical masterminds. Nineteen gallons of Champagne. What was it about? When Dr David Keel’s fiancée is murdered, Keel teams up with the mysterious John Steed in order to bring the killers to justice. It was only when Steed allied with judo fighting, leather wearing anthropologist … >