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Fantastic Beasts: Stephen Fry to present natural history programme for BBC One
January 13, 2020 | David FarnorStephen Fry is stepping into David Attenborough’s shoes with new BBC One series Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History.
Produced in partnership with Warner Bros. and London’s Natural History Museum, the documentary will explore the origins and stories of mythical creatures … Read More
What’s coming soon to NextUp in January 2020?
January 13, 2020 | David FarnorThere are no chances of January blues with NextUp, which has a month stuffed with stand-up comedy to begin the new year.
The subscription video-on-demand platform specialising exclusively in stand-up comedy specials champions the most exciting names in stand-up comedy, … Read More
Trailer: Netflix’s Airplane Mode touches down this January
January 13, 2020 | David FarnorA thousand likes in only a minute. That’s the norm for Ana (Larissa Manoela), a digital influencer in Netflix’s new original movie Airplane Mode.
The new trailer for the film shows Ana’s routine as the face of a famous … Read More
Apple TV arrives on smart TVs this year
January 13, 2020 | David FarnorApple TV will arrive on smart TVs this year, as the online giant’s rollout of its new app continues.
Apple TV+ is the latest venture from the tech firm, a subscription video service that includes original series such as The … Read More
A blagger’s guide: Love Island 2020
January 12, 2020 | David FarnorSpring is here, which means for the first time, Love Island is breaking out its new, twice-yearly run in an attempt to dominate conversations around you even more. ITV 2’s reality dating series, which first premiered back in 2015 (technically, … Read More
What’s coming soon to All 4 in January 2020?
January 11, 2020 | David FarnorAll 4 is doing its best to keep you on the sofa and from any new year’s resolutions this January, with the return of Walter Presents’ most watched show of 2019 and the debut of a new animation from Genndy … Read More
Keeley Hawes, Joanna Lumley, Gemma Jones star in ITV’s Finding Alice
January 11, 2020 | David FarnorKelley Hawes will lead an all-star cast in ITV drama Finding Alice.
The contemporary six-part series follows a woman whose husband’s sudden and accidental death unearths a trail of secrets, debt, suspicion and criminality.
Created by Roger Goldby, Keeley Hawes … Read More
The MUBI Weekly Digest | 11th January 2020
January 11, 2020 | David FarnorMUBI kicks off its annual awards season this week with John M. Stahl’s Imitation of Life and Capturing the Friedmans, served with a side order of Richard Linklater and Bergman, but the real prize is the start of a retrospective … Read More
Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal heads to All 4
January 11, 2020 | David FarnorGenndy Tartakovsky’s Primal is coming to All 4 this January, finally giving a UK TV release to the hit US series.
Tartakovsky is one of the most exciting animators working today, having created such modern classics as Dexter’s Laboratory and … Read More
Watch: Full trailer lands for Netflix’s Ragnarok
January 11, 2020 | David FarnorThe end of the world is coming this January, and one boy from a small town in Norway might just be the answer.
That’s the starting point for Ragnarok, Netflix’s new super-powered coming-of-age thriller. From the creator of Borgen, Adam … Read More