Peter Moffat's epic drama The Village makes its welcome return to BBC One this week, as Series Two begins. The inhabitants of The Village are stumbling out from beneath the shadow of the Great War as the series presses on to explore the 1920s in its journey to tell...
Filming on the BBC One Sunday night hit drama, The Musketeers, has got underway in Prague this week for a second series, with Marc Warren (Hustle, Mad Dogs) joining the cast to play the Comte De Rochefort, a dashing and persuasive aristocrat with a talent for sword...
Filmng has began in Derbyshire on the second series of The Village, BBC One's critically acclaimed drama, with six more episodes for broadcast later this year. Peter Moffat's epic story charts the life and turbulent times of one English village through the 20th...
Welcome to a week when the majority of the TV highlights came on Sunday night. First up we have the BBC's blockbuster period drama Call the Midwife. Fresh from another extremely successful Christmas Special, this third series sees change afoot for the nuns and...
The Musketeers got off to an impressive start looking at the overnight ratings. The first of ten episodes launched on BBC One last night (Sunday 19 January) with a peak audience of 7.7 million and an average of 7.4 million and 28.9 % share of the audience winning the...
I’d like to rectify something I said about the BBC’s new barnburner of a series in a previous article. Upon a re-watch I’ve come to the conclusion that my statement – “… The Musketeers dances the thin line between serious drama and Atlantis-style entertainment before...
With the mammoth rollercoaster that was the Sherlock finale just past and the UK still reeling in the aftermath, the BBC have followed it up with The Musketeers, a new Sunday night venture from Primeval’s Adrian Hodges. It’s exactly what you’d expect - an onslaught of...
Welcome to this final Matt on the Box instalment of 2013 where I look back at the major shows that played in the funny week between Christmas Day and New Year's Eve. Starting with three programmes from Christmas Day we find the show that got the biggest peak audience...
Did we like it? We've got plaudits aplenty for this drama which managed to be popular yet intelligent and full of big name actors who are not just in it for the pay check. What was good about it? • Writer Sally Wainwright adopts a welcome harder edge than with her...