UKTV, Britain’s biggest multichannel broadcaster, today announced it has acquired The White Princess and that will air on Drama. The epic historical drama stars Jodie Comer (Doctor Foster, Thirteen), Suki Waterhouse (The Bad Batch) and Michelle Fairley...
Netflix has announced that international best-selling thriller novel, Quicksand, will be the next gripping series from head writer of The Bridge, Camilla Ahlgren. Quicksand (Störst av Allt) is based on the best-selling novel by Malin Persson Giolito which has been...
Victoria Jaye, Head of TV content or BBC iPlayer has announced a number o new commissions to kick off 2015. Nine original comedy shorts will go live on Friday 13th February to mark Valentine's Day. These include Love Song in which Bill Bailey reimagines one of his...
Tempting though it is to base this entire review around my appreciation of Lena’s hair (so long, so shiny, so Pre-Raphaelite) I shall drag myself back to trying to find answers to the numerous questions this thriller poses. *thinks for a few moments* Nope, nada. I do...
This week, finally, some things became clear. And then a whole load of new twists made everything confusing again. It does seem like we will get a satisfying conclusion in three weeks time, although I am concerned that a second series has been commissioned. We began...
Let’s deal with poor Lena and her horrific scar first. To all of you about to google ‘keloid’, please don’t. I just did and they’re not pretty. But yes, it could be a keloid rather than some freaky psychic wound. Although we did have another example of one twin being...
Channel 4 needs a hit on their hands and so are attempting to steal BBC4's glory by bringing us hot new French drama The Returned. After the ropey second season of Homeland and The Killing US ending with a limp, they are going all out with a bleakly shot, supernatural...
Channel 4 have unveiled the trailer for new series Dates from Bryan Elsley, creator of the seminal E4 show Skins. Dates steps into the social minefield that is 21st century dating and stars; Ben Chaplin (Thin Red Line), Sheridan Smith (Quartet), Andrew Scott (The...
Oscar and BAFTA award-winner Jim Broadbent (Exile, Cloud Atlas, Iris, The Iron Lady, Moulin Rouge) will star as Tommy Butler in film two of Chris Chibnall’s (United, Broadchurch) The Great Train Robbery for BBC One. Other cast include Robert Glenister (Hustle), Tom...
BAFTA Award nominated actress OLIVIA COLMAN (Tyrannosaur, Twenty Twelve, Rev) will co-star in The Suspicions of Mr Whicher II : The Murder In Angel Lane alongside PADDY CONSIDINE (The Bourne Ultimatum, Submarine, Red Riding), who returns to the role of...
Last year BBC1 had one of their bigger successes with The Paradise a costume drama set in a department store in the late 19th century. Though the series was a ratings winner there was controversy surrounding the decision to air the episodes before production had...
David Tennant leads the cast in a brand new 2-part drama for BBC4. Spies of Warsaw is based on the novels of Alan Furst is described as a thrilling spy story set in Poland, Paris, London and Berlin in the years leading up to the Second World War. French and...
Tonight this advert will debut on BBC1. The trailer offers a sneak peak at some of the new dramas, comedy and documentary we're all bound to be talking about in 2013. Favourites like Silent Witness, Death in Paradise and Luther are due return but the trailer also...
For me, the true centrepiece of the BBC festive schedules was Restless, an adaptation of the spy thriller by William Boyd. The luminous cast included Hayley Atwell, Rufus Sewell, Michelle Dockery, Charlotte Rampling and Michael Gambon. I confess to being a huge...
Whether you like them or not, period dramas certainly have their place in the schedules of 2012. Dowton Abbey and Call the Midwife have drawn massive audiences this year so you can't blame ITV for trying their luck at another period piece for a dark Sunday night. The...
I really can't believe we're already in December and that means it's time to look ahead three weeks to what the festive television schedules will look like. We already know that ITV1 are hoping another Christmas special of Downton Abbey will see them win the ratings...
It's fair to say that the majority of Michael Winterbottom's films court controversy most notably the sexually explicit 9 Songs and the incredibly violent The Killer Inside Me. His most recent TV work was the Rob Brydon/Steve Coogan sitcom The Trip however, despite it...
When Abi Morgan’s 1950s newsroom drama The Hour debuted last summer it opened to mixed responses from critics with some praising the period detail while others thought the dialogue was fairly clunky. However the series was incredibly well-received in America...
ITV’s Monroe was one of my favourite drama series of 2011. The cast were all superb, the storylines emotional and engaging and let’s just face it, James Nesbitt can do no wrong. The series, which revolved round the life and work of Neurosurgeon Monroe was bound...
I can still recall the tears, the angry tweets, the absolute shock even now... TV lovers the country over went into mourning when the BBC made the decision to axe favourite spy drama, Spooks after ten successful series. People feared their lives may never be the same...
Contributed by Matt Donnelly So far it looks as if 2012...
James Nesbitt (The Hobbit, Occupation, Cold Feet) and the strong ensemble cast from the acclaimed first series are joined by Neil Pearson (Bridget Jones' Diary, Between The Lines, Drop the Dead Donkey), Tracy-Ann Oberman (Doctor Who, EastEnders)...
Over the last few years I’ve been longing for ITV to return to their drama heyday and in the last few weeks it would appear they’ve been listening to pleas. Every week has seen one new drama after another start. Monday saw the beginning of a new...
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