‘Shakespeare & Hathaway — Private Investigators’ looks to be another gem of a series from the mind palace of Will Trotter, who also heads the BBC Daytime Drama Department in his spare time.
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David Mitchell returns in the main role of William Shakespeare when the third series of the Ben Elton comedy Upstart Crow begins Wednesday, August 29 at 8.30pm on BBC Two. This time around we’ll see busy at work and home as he struggles to juggle his roles as father, husband, commuter and literary genius. Series 3 will also see […]
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Upstart Crow, the BBC2 comedy starring David Mitchell as William Shakespeare, will return later this year for a a second Christmas special and a third series with several new cast members in tow. In keeping with the tradition started in series two where Emma Thompson (Brideshead Revisited, Love Actually, Harry Potter, Howards End, Fortunes of […]
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Shakespeare is believed to have died on his birthday, 23 April 1616, in Stratford-upon-Avon. To honor his life this year, there have been endless efforts put together across the land this weekend to celebrate the Bard’s 400th anniversary from television to film to theatre and classical music. One of the most creative and interesting celebrations, however, […]
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In case you thought that David Tennant was sitting around idly after his run as the Tenth Doctor on the long-running science fiction series, Doctor Who, ended, think again. Tennant, earlier this year, ended a Stratford-Upon-Avon, then London, run of the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet. If that wasn’t enough, Tennant reprised the role recently, […]
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