The Hardacres returns to 5 this spring as first‑look images and casting details are revealed for series 2 Until then, series 1 is still available to stream on 5 What is Hardacres and who stars Inspired by the bestselling novels by CL Skelton, The Hardacres stars Claire Cooper (The Continental, The Peripheral) and Liam McMahon … >
How do you even begin staging one of the most oft-performed plays of all time? Oscar Wilde’s 1895 masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest has been done with an all-male cast, all-black cast, all-nude cast, with puppets, as an opera, as a musical, and been adapted for film and TV. Well, Adrian Noble’s new production … >
This week’s episode of Inside No. 9 is the third of the second season, which makes it literally Episode No. 9. It’s probably reaching to read too much into such things, particularly as the programmes were almost certainly recorded out of sequence, but there’s still a pleasing symmetry in that there’s a return to roots … >
People complain about telly not being nearly as good as it used to be. Annoyingly, those sort of people are exactly the type who probably aren’t taking a chance on this anthology programme in the style of Tales of the Unexpected and Comedy Playhouse, which is not only as good as telly used to be, … >