The Famous Five return for two more feature length adventures. The BBC have confirmed the return of its reimagined version of The Famous Five for a second series. Filming had begun on two new adventures. The new run builds on the initial trio of films for the sleuthing quintet. The first landed for Christmas 2023, … >
Sky Arts’ celebration of the birth of HG Wells concludes this week with ‘The Moth’ and ‘The Purple Pileus’, adapted from the author’s short stories. In ‘The Moth’ Rupert Graves (Lestrade in Sherlock) stars as Professor Hapley, an entomologist in the middle of a personal feud with Professor Pawkins. Hapley takes great delight in ridiculing … >
When Arthur Wing Pinero, the Victorian theatre world’s ultimate funny-man, wrote his very own ‘woman with a past’ problem-play, no-one could have predicted its immense success. Or, for that matter, its subsequent vanishing into obscurity.