Hartswood Films founder/Sherlock’ EP, Beryl Vertue, passes at 90.

Hartswood Films founder, Beryl Vertue, passed away Saturday at the age of 90. While her name might not be top-of-mind, her legendary career work in British comedy and drama will live on for generations around the world. “It’s with the heaviest of hearts that we have to share the sad news that mum/Beryl passed away […]

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July 2019 is the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing — or is it?

Based on H. G. Wells’ science fiction novel of the same name, the BBC Four film ‘The First Men in the Moon’ tells the story of Julius Bedford (Rory Kinnear), who as a young man meets Professor Arthur Cavor (Mark Gatiss). Together, they travel to the moon and discover a terrifying secret deep beneath its seemingly-barren surface — in 1909.

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‘Sherlock’ creators ready to sink their teeth into ‘Dracula’

 Dracula is getting the Sherlock treatment, with the writers and producers of the hit BBC detective series reuniting for a new take on the 1897 Bram Stoker vampire classic. Sherlock co-creators/writers Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat will write the series with, Sue Vertue’s Hartswood Films producing. Verture, Moffat’s wife, served as producer for the brilliant Sherlock franchise. Much like the […]

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Doctor #12 comes face to face with the past in his final adventure, “Twice Upon a Time”

With much of Doctor Who-Nation still reeling (in a brilliant way) from the recent announcement that Broadchurch‘s Jodie Whittaker will be taking the keys to the TARDIS in 2018, the BBC just released an early trailer for the 2017 Christmas Special, “Twice Upon a Time”, the forthcoming Peter Capaldi finale as the Twelfth Doctor, and it’s all that […]

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‘Sherlock’ team set to sink their teeth into ‘Dracula’

Dracula is getting the Sherlock treatment, with the writers and producers of the hit BBC detective series reuniting for a new take on the 1897 Bram Stoker vampire classic. Sherlock co-creators/writers Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat will write the series with, Sue Vertue’s Hartswood Films producing. Verture, Moffat’s wife, served as producer for the brilliant Sherlock franchise. Much like the Sherlock concept […]

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What’s next for Benedict Cumberbatch? Playboy Patrick Melrose in Edward St Aubyn’s “Melrose”, of course.

If you’ve ever really wondered why it takes so much time between Sherlock series, one only has to look at the ever-expanding day planner that charts series star Benedict Cumberbatch’s daily life activities. While both Doctor Strange and The Hollow Crown were technically prior to the Sherlock S4 premiere in January 2017, since that time, he has spent his time filming The Current War where […]

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Finland jumps on the ‘Sherlock’ bandwagon

According to Radio Times, there’s about to be a new Sherlock in town. Well, in 2019 anyway. Sherlock North, to be produced by U.S. and Finnish production outlet, Snapper Films, is in the works charting the consulting detective’s time in Finland when he was on the run from Professor Moriarty. Based on an interlude in […]

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