Remembrance of the Daleks - Gilmore, the Doctor and Professor Rachel Jensen

The CultBox Podcast Roundup – September 2024

Here’s our September 2024 Podcast Roundup – what we’ve been listening to in the worlds of CultBox.  In no particular order, our picks this month are… The News Agents (3rd Sept) – Michael Sheen Actor Michael Sheen on playing Prince Andrew in Prime Video’s A Very Royal Scandal, as well as memories of Frost/Nixon, his … >

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Ayoade Crystal Maze

The Crystal Maze: more celebrity episodes announced, including a Derry Girls special

Richard Ayoade will return to host another batch of celebrity episodes of The Crystal Maze, it’s been confirmed. The new star-studded specials will start airing in June 2018, which isn’t very far off at all. In a particularly fun piece of news, we’ve learned that one of the new Crystal Maze episodes will be a Derry Girls special, with Jamie-Lee … >

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The IT Crowd

Top 10 episodes of The IT Crowd

Ten years since The IT Crowd began, we’ve picked out our ten all-time favourite episodes of Channel 4’s sitcom. > Buy the complete Season 1-4 box set on Amazon. 10. ‘The Internet Is Coming’ (2013 Special) In this hour-long final episode, Jen and Roy become internet-famous for all the wrong reasons when an incriminating video … >

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The IT Crowd

What are the cast of ‘The IT Crowd’ doing now?

Can you believe it’s now been ten years since The IT Crowd first appeared on our TV screens? The award-winning Channel 4 sitcom aired for four seasons from 2006 to 2010, ending with a special episode in 2013. > Buy the complete Season 1-4 box set on Amazon. A whole decade after Jen first ventured … >

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Rewind: Matt Berry and Richard Ayoade’s ‘AD/BC: A Rock Opera’ revisited

Before becoming known to a wider audience on The IT Crowd, Richard Ayoade and Matt Berry made their first television appearances in the brilliant Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, a pastiche of low-budget ‘80s horror. A second season of Darkplace was discussed but sadly never commissioned, following low viewing figures and concern from Channel 4 bosses as … >

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Rewind: ‘Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace’ revisited

A decade after it originally aired, we take a look back at Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, Channel 4’s spoof of bad 80’s horror television. > Buy Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace on DVD.   What was it about? Running for six episodes in early 2004, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace focused on ‘a show within a show’ as fictional horror … >

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Win ‘Strange Hill High’ DVDs!

Hit animated series Strange Hill High is released on DVD by FremantleMedia International on Monday 21 July. To celebrate the release, we’ve got DVDs to give away to three 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 … >

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