Clive Owen in Monsieur Spade

Monsieur Spade – Clive Owen plays a retired Sam Spade

Ahead of its January release, AMC have shared a trailer for their upcoming series Monsieur Spade. The six-part story follows Sam Spade, the hard-boiled detective of The Maltese Falcon, in his retirement. For this 1960’s set show, Clive Owen steps into the role of Spade, who was created by writer Dashiell Hammett and made famous … >

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The Ninth Doctor Adventures - Hidden Depths

The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Hidden Depths – audio boxset review

Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor returns for a seventh boxset of adventures. This time, he enjoys three stories loosely themed around threats that lurk beneath the surface. As well as encountering old aquatic adversaries in a surprising setting, he tackles alien terrors in a 19th Century German spa and meets former companions in a dangerous retail … >

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The Ninth Doctor Adventures - Hidden Depths

Big Finish announce Christopher Eccleston vs the Sea Devils. In space!

We have the details of the next Ninth Doctor Adventures boxset: Hidden Depths.  Christopher Eccleston’s Doctor Who renaissance as the Ninth Doctor continues apace at Big Finish. With six boxsets of The Ninth Doctor Adventures already available, the audio producers have just dropped news of November’s release. Titled Hidden Depths, the set promises a meeting … >

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Doctor Who: Stranded 4 audio drama review

With Stranded 4, the Eighth Doctor’s time trapped in London comes to an end in familiar territory and a story telling experiment comes to an end When Big Finish released Stranded 1, a way to tell a different type of story by fixing the TARDIS in place, they picked London in 2020. Fact overtook fiction, and … >

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Doctor Who Stranded 2

Doctor Who: Stranded 2 audio drama review

Doctor Who: Stranded 2 continues on immediately from the previous boxset, but provides a substantial change in tone In our review of Stranded 1, we admired the bold experiment of forcing the Doctor (Paul McGann), Liv Chenka (Nicola Walker) and Helen Sinclair (Hattie Morahan) to spend time in 2020 London. We were treated to a set … >

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Doctor Who: Stranded 1 audio review

Doctor Who: Stranded 1 sees the Eighth Doctor (Paul McGann) facing a challenge like no other. In the wake of the epic Ravenous finale, having defeated The Eleven and multiple Masters, he must endure a truly alien environment: the Time Lord and his friends Liv (Nicola Walker) and Helen (Hattie Morahan) must live on their … >

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‘Boy Meets Girl’ Season 2 start date confirmed

The new six-part season of BBC Two’s romantic comedy Boy Meets Girl will start next month. Starring Rebecca Root, Harry Hepple (Misfits), Denise Welch (Coronation Street) and Janine Duvitski (One Foot in the Grave), the sitcom launched last September. > Buy Season 1 on DVD on Amazon. The story of a love affair between an older transgender woman and … >

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‘Boy Meets Girl’ is returning for a second season

BBC Two has announced the commission of a new season of romantic comedy Boy Meets Girl. Starring Rebecca Root, Harry Hepple (Misfits), Denise Welch (Coronation Street) and Janine Duvitski (One Foot in the Grave), the series launched on BBC Two in September. > Buy Season 1 on DVD on Amazon. The story of a love … >

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Win bundles of new BBC comedy on DVD!

Boy Meets Girl is TV’s first ever transgender rom-com, while Pompidou is Matt Lucas’s brilliant visual comedy series. To celebrate the release of the BBC Two shows on DVD this week courtesy of RLJ Entertainment’s Acorn Label, we’ve got sets of both DVDs to give away to three of our Twitter followers! For a chance … >

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