ITV has released some first look pictures for Shaun Evans spy drama Betrayal We now have first-look images from Betrayal, starring Shaun Evans (Until I Kill You, Endeavour, Vigil) and Romola Garai (The Years, The Hour) set to premiere on ITV1, STV, ITVX, and STV Player in 2026. Written by award-winning playwright and screenwriter David … >
ITV and Mammoth Screen have begun filming on Betrayal, their new spy series set in the world of MI5. We first learned of Betrayal last year, with Shaun Evans (Endeavour) in the frame to star. Now, as filming begins, we have further names to round out the cast of this four-part ITV thriller. Betrayal follows … >
Timed to coincide with StudioCanal’s online celebration of 60 years of The Avengers, Big Finish has revealed Linda Thorson (the original 1960s Tara King) will guest star in their next box set of full cast audio adventures Due for release in April 2021, The Avengers: The Comic Strip Adaptations Volume 05: Steed & Tara King stars Julian Wadham … >
Free for one week to celebrate The Avengers at 60 is Big Finish audio adaptation of The Norse Code As we’ve reported already, the cult British show The Avengers is 60 this very week (see our story on the STUDIOCANAL celebration event here). As we mentioned in that article, The Avengers has been recently revived on audio by Big … >
For their latest box set of adaptations, after two volumes drawn from Diana magazine, Big Finish have turned to the strips of TV Comic. Three volumes have been announced, the first expanding on tales from the Series 6 “Steed and Tara King” era of the television show. On screen, Linda Thorson’s Tara King may have … >
Following the success of the Lost Episodes and the comic strip adaptations comes the latest instalment in the Avengers universe on audio from Big Finish. Adapted by John Dorney from the 1990 novel by John Peel and Dave Rogers, Too Many Targets is a rip-roaring story of duplicity and subterfuge that “puts the team back … >
Available exclusively via the Big Finish website until the end of December, this is the second of two sets of adaptations of comic strips first printed in Diana comic in the late 1960s. Once more Julian Wadham is Steed and Oliva Poulet Mrs Peel. Like the first collection, this is four full-disc stories adapted by … >
For most people who watched British TV in the late 1960, the series The Avengers was about John Steed and Mrs Peel. Yes, we also had Tara King and Cathy Gale as companions to the bowler hatted Steed, but it’s Mrs Peel who most captured the show’s period feel of psychedelia, fun and champagne interspersed … >
Continuing to work their magic on The Avengers’ mostly incomplete first series, this latest boxset from Big Finish provides four further tales adapted from surviving scripts by writer John Dorney. Featuring Dr David Keel (Anthony Howell) as much as they do the enigmatic John Steed (Julian Wadham), the former’s medical practice and connections often provide … >
With episodes lost to the mists of time, as expensive videotape was routinely reused, a mere two full episodes exist from the first series of The Avengers. Of course, we are not talking about the popular Marvel franchise here, but rather the British 1960s television series of the same name which focussed on the exploits … >