Welcome to the Podcast Roundup for January 2023 – our favourites in the worlds of CultBox. Our picks this month, in no particular order, are… Full Disclosure S2, Ep120 – George Takei Promoting his new West End musical Allegiance, this is primarily a discussion of the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. The Star Trek … >
Maternal, which also stars Lisa McGrillis, will focus on three working mothers on the NHS frontline. itv have commissioned a new six-part drama exploring the lives of three female Doctors in the post-pandemic NHS. The show follows their stories, each juggling the demands of both motherhood and medicine. Maternal‘s cast has three high-profile names: Parminder … >
The first trailer for Channel 4’s upcoming anthology series based on author Philip K. Dick’s short stories has landed online.
Over their time spent together in BBC One’s detective drama, Sherlock Holmes and John Watson have faced a number of threats to themselves and those close to them. They have confronted criminals of all kinds, from dangerous organisations to foes hiding in plain sight. > Buy the complete Season 1-3 boxset on Amazon. Here we … >
Spooks movie The Greater Good arrrives in cinemas next year, starring Game of Thrones actor Kit Harington. With Peter Firth reprising his role as Harry Pearce, CultBox decided to take a look back at the spy drama’s previous spooks to see which other characters made it out alive and could possibly return… Zoe Reynolds … >
To celebrate BBC Worldwide’s release of Fleming: The Man Who Would be Bond on Monday 10 March, we’ve got DVDs to give away to five of our Twitter followers! For a chance to win, just follow @CultBoxTV on Twitter and tweet the following text: Follow @CultBoxTV and RT for a chance to win 5 x … >
Dominic Cooper stars as Ian Fleming in Sky Atlantic’s new four-part drama, which follows the James Bond author from underachieving playboy to key figure in the Admiralty, drawing parallels between the writer and his iconic creation.
So this week, Ian Fleming runs around spending money that isn’t his, sleeping with women he shouldn’t, drinking too much and generally getting whatever he wants. In quieter moments, he sets up a covert ops team, writes up plans for the original CIA, and confuses the Nazi war machine by chucking corpses into the sea with fake ID papers.
We remember a time when Moonraker was on every Christmas. It seemed like there was no other Bond film in existence. It certainly seemed like no other Bond films got shown throughout the year.
Sky has released a set of videos looking at the making of Fleming, Sky Atlantic’s upcoming series about the life of James Bond author Ian Fleming.