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Posted March 11, 2020 - No Comment

‘Red Dwarf: The Promised Land’ delivers comedy gold with a first look trailer

At long last, we get our first look at the return of the greatness of Red Dwarf and their new feature length special, Red Dwarf: The Promised Land. The new special will see Lister, Rimmer, Kryten (a.k.a. Service Mechanoid 2X4B-523P) and Cat meet three cat clerics, played by Tom Bennett, Mandeep Dhillon, Lucy Pearman, who worship Lister as their God. Lister vows to help them as they’re being hunted by Rodon, the ruthless feral cat leader (Ray Fearon) who has vowed to wipe out all cats who worship anyone but him.

Posted March 10, 2020 - No Comment

Post ‘Great British Bake-Off’, Mel & Sue get the band back together in ‘Hitmen’

Former Great British Bake Off presenters Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc have swapped meringues for murder (thanks, RadioTimes.com for the perfect analogy) in new comedy series Hitmen, in which they star as unconventional ‘hitmen’, Fran and Jamie. This time around, there will be no commenting on soggy bottoms instead focusing on burying bodies and not baking.

Posted March 9, 2020 - No Comment

Q&A with Adrian Dunbar as 2nd series of ‘Blood’ premieres today!

Compared to Broadchurch and The Killing, Blood is an Irish mystery called “a dark, addictive and unmissable crime drama” by The Guardian. Adrian Dunbar (Line of Duty) stars as Jim Hogan, a respected doctor in a small Irish town, with three adult children — and with secrets. Ahead of today’s American premiere, Tellyspotting had the great good fortune to be able to sit down for a delightful chat with series star, Adrian Dunbar.

Posted March 7, 2020 - No Comment

‘Yes Minister’ co-creator/writer, Jonathan Lynn, answers the question — Whatever happened to Sir Humphrey and PM Hacker?

A new stage play, penned by Yes Minister original co-writer Jonathan Lynn will explore the post Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister world of former Permanent Cabinet Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne), and former Prime Minister Jim Hacker (Paul Eddington).

Posted March 3, 2020 - No Comment

Don’t Panic! Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy to celebrate 42 years this Sunday!

It was 42 years ago this coming Sunday on 8 March 1978 at 10:30p on BBC Radio 4 where the face of radio comedy changed forever. H2G2 was unleashed on the world. It was seemingly an ordinary Thursday lunch for Arthur Dent until his house gets demolished. Unfortunately, for Arthur, the weekend has only just begun.

Posted February 29, 2020 - No Comment

As filming begins on the 7th series of ‘Endeavour’, series 8 is commissioned!

With returning series set to premiere later this year from Grantchester, Father Brown, Death in Paradise, Shakespeare & Hathaway, Shetland, Midsomer Murders, Vera and, of course, Endeavour, 2020 is shaping up to be another banner year from a drama standpoint for the BBC, ITV, PBS and your local public television station. With Endeavour, Shaun Evans reprises his role as […]

Posted February 27, 2020 - No Comment

‘Sport Relief’ set to bring it, once again, going after bent coppers in ‘Line of Duty’ spoof

Aside from the fact that the BBC Sport Relief efforts happen to be one of the biggest fundraising events in the UK, it’s a country-wide effort to ‘get active, raise cash and change lives’ according to event organizers. If you reside outside of the UK or happen to be the one person within the UK that aren’t […]

Posted February 26, 2020 - No Comment

‘Inside Man’ next up from the mind palace of ‘Sherlock/Dracula’ co-creator, Steven Moffat

The mind palace of former Sherlock and Dracula co-creator Steven Moffat is about to get busy again. We had the good fortune to cross paths earlier this month with the former Doctor Who showrunner in the hotel lobby during the 2020 BBC Showcase in Liverpool along with his wife and Hartswood Films Executive Producer, Sue Vertue. They took a […]

Posted February 25, 2020 - No Comment

Happy Birthday, George Harrison — 25 February 1943

Sometimes known as ‘the quiet Beatle’, George Harrison would have been 77 years young today. The Liverpool-born musician, singer-songwriter, music and film producer and, oh yeah, lead guitarist of the Beatles passed away in November 2001 of lung cancer at the very young age of 58. While most Beatles fans will immediately identify with songs written […]

Posted February 24, 2020 - No Comment

A Charley Paris Mystery — A BBC Radio 4 / BBC Radio 4 Extra must listen.

While I have been a huge fan of BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 4 Extra for a number of years, I had somehow never heard of the Charley Paris Mystery series. A friend who was in town recently turned me on to it and once he said that it starred Bill Nighy, I was all in.