The stylish UK original show Culprits stars Gemma Arterton, Kirby and Eddie Izzard. Updated 26/10/23: Disney+ drops a very swish looking trailer for their new thriller from filmmaker J Blakeson. Ahead of its November 8th launch, on Hulu in the US and Disney+ elsewhere, there’s a trailer abroad for Culprits. Focussing on the central character … >
The show’s final run of episodes at the BBC is coming to dominate your Sunday nights. Season 6 of Peaky Blinders is nearly upon us. Thanks to the pandemic it’s been a long time coming, but in the upcoming run, Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) will have to contend with the continuing rise of the Nazi … >
The BBC have dropped an epic, gun-filled promo for Series 6 of Peaky Blinders. The long-awaited final series of series of Peaky Blinders has landed. Running since 2013, the show has become a jewel in the BBC drama crown and it looks like it aims to go out on a high. Series 5 ran during … >
Daniel Radcliffe stars in Guns Akimbo coming to Amazon Prime later this month Continuing to take roles that aren’t Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe stars in 2019 film Guns Akimbo, available on Amazon Prime from July 16. Amazon has dropped an official trailer with the brief logline: Daniel Radcliffe is Miles, a self-proclaimed nobody who unwillingly becomes a participant … >
The BBC has confirmed that Dickensian has been axed after just one season. The 20-part period drama series launched last December, initially attracting over 5 million viewers. However, had halved by the show’s tenth episode. Created by Tony Jordan (Hustle), Dickensian was set within the fictional realms of Charles Dickens’ critically acclaimed novels and cost an estimated £10m to make. > Buy Dickensian … >
Here we are at last. Dickensian Episode 20, finally. Sorry, I meant, finale. The finale. Ahem. There were times I thought we’d never get here. Even if you have enjoyed Every Single Episode of Tony Jordan’s cobble-stone uneven and overly long literary mash-up prequel, you have to admit it feels like it’s been on forever. … >
Stephen Rea, Pauline Collins, Caroline Quentin and Peter Firth lead the cast of BBC One’s Dickensian. Created by Tony Jordan (Hustle), the 20-part drama series is set within the fictional realms of Charles Dickens’ critically acclaimed novels. Dickensian brings together some of literature’s most iconic characters, including Scrooge, Fagin and Miss Havisham, as their lives … >
Finally. Finally! After weeks of meandering storylines and terrible double entendres, Dickensian lives up to the promise of its beginnings, with two episodes that are entertaining, and both for different reasons. This is what the show should’ve been like all along. So while I usually lump both together in a review, it’s worth separating them … >
It struck me, entering Hour Seven of Dickensian, and staring down the double-barrel of another of Mrs Bumble’s excruciating entendres (her Figgy Dowdy is ‘Extra moist’ this week), that this is a series which is a full four hours longer than BBC One’s War and Peace, and yet feels like it has half as much … >
They’re really putting the dick in Dickensian this week. In news that will surely redefine forever the way you read Oliver Twist, or watch Sir Harry Secombe belting out ‘Boy for sale!’ in Lionel Bart’s eponymous musical, we discover that corpulent literary fixture, Mr Bumble, has a nickname for his penis. It seems to be … >