BBC Three has confirmed that the second series of zombie drama In the Flesh will start in the first week of May. Series 1 aired on BBC Three last March. The six new episodes will revisit the cauldron of Roarton where the living and the undead have reached a fragile peace. After the shocking events … >
Being Human star Damien Molony and the show’s creator Toby Whithouse are amongst the guests taking part in a cult TV panel discussion at the BFI in London next month.
There comes a point while reading Apocalypse Now Now – and it’s roughly the halfway point – when you’re presented with a scene of such graphic and perverted gruesomeness that you actually feel you brain trying to shut down in order to save itself from having to picture what’s on the page.
We’re only halfway into 2013 and there has already been some brilliant new drama and comedy on British TV screens this year.
BBC Three has announced the commission of a full series of zombie drama In the Flesh.
You’ll have noticed this already, but In the Flesh has not been about zombies. It’s been a kitchen sink drama, disguised by rotting flesh. The pale skin and the mutated eyes designed to attract your attention as, underneath, the thoroughly human message of the show has played out: the human capacity for love and forgiveness. It just so happens that the restless dead make a great allegory for laying things to rest.
Coming soon to BBC Three, three-part drama In The Flesh tells the story of zombie teenager Kieren Walker (Luke Newberry) and his reintegration back into both the local community and the heart of his family. Episode 1 Sunday 17 March 2013, 10pm > Read our review. After his death four years ago, his friends … >
An old favourite made a triumphant return to ITV this weekend as the young blood struggled to maintain its strong start.
Last week’s zombie lynching? What zombie lynching?
The final shocking events of Episode 1 may still haunt many of you, but as we open on Episode 2 of Dominic Mitchell’s undead drama, the killing of Ken Burton’s rehabilitated wife is scrubbed clean; washed from the tarmac and covered over with idle chit-chat. An act of un-remembrance at a time when the those killed during the uprising are being honoured by the massed ranks of the Human Volunteer Force.
The second episode of BBC Three’s new zombie drama sees Kieren find himself on a Human Volunteer Force hunting mission.