Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. 12 series, 73 episodes and 31 years after the series premiered in 1988, Red Dwarf will head back into the studio, this time for a 2-hour feature film with Craig Charles, Chris Barrie, Danny John-Jules and Robert Llewellyn confirmed to be back as Lister, Rimmer, The Cat and Kryten (a.k.a. Service Mechanoid 2X4B-523P).
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As previously announced by the producers of Death in Paradise and recently reported here at Tellyspotting, the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie will be getting a new sheriff in town when DI Jack Mooney leaves his post during the forthcoming ninth series which returns to BBC1 in January 2020. While the announcement of the […]
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According to the BBC and reported by the Evening Standard, milkmen are returning to London as millennials are ordering glass milk bottles in a bid to reduce plastic waste. The catalyst for the surge in millennials using glass bottles is being attributed, in part, to David Attenborough’s Blue Planet II.
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After three years and 20 solved murders, Ardal O’Hanlon and the BBC have confirmed that the former Father Ted star will leave the most dangerous island in the world following the forthcoming series 9 of Death in Paradise.
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Lord Grantham himself, Hugh Bonneville, will join an all-star cast as filming begins today on the 3-part comedy series, Sandylands, for UKTV Gold. Set in a seaside town, the comedy already sports a who’s who cast including Sanjeev Bhaskar (Kumars at No 42, The Indian Doctor, Unforgotten), David Walliams (Little Britain), Sophie Thompson (Four Weddings and a […]
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It was Sunday, 5 October, 1969 that Monty Python’s Flying Circus premiered at 10:55p on BBC1. Leave it to the greatness of Southpark to acknowledge the 50th anniversary of Monty Python’s Flying Circus last night with a brilliant wind up of the classic John Cleese/Michael Palin Dead Parrot sketch.
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I love October for several reasons. One has to do with Turner Classic Movies launching their annual archive of scary movies many of which haven’t seen the light of day since the movie opened and, for good reason. Thursday night’s entry, The Devil’s Own (released in the U.S. as The Witches) was a 1966 Hammer Films production […]
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Billed by Saturday Night Live as the first theatrical release movie you have to rent from the library, Downton Abbey is no stranger to parody. Whether it was previous SNL skits, the recurring Jimmy Fallon Downton Sixbey spoofs, The Ellen Show‘s sketch with Ellen helping Minnie Driver audition for a role in the series, the Red Nose […]
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At long last, H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds gets an Edwardian England makeover on the BBC this Autumn. What makes this particular adaptation so appealing is that instead of being set in present day (or, in the U.S. for that matter), it will remain true to the novel’s original 1898 Victorian England setting.
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With tonight’s premiere of the final series of Poldark on PBS, viewers will be in on the beginning of Ross Poldark’s long ride from the Cornish coast into the sunset and out of our lives. … Where we left off…. In Season 4’s unforgettable finale, Elizabeth drank a highly dangerous labor-inducing potion and delivered a small but healthy […]
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