Leicester Comedy Festival 2021: The online line-up and how it works

The Leicester Comedy Festival is going online for 2021, with more than 50 live comedy events and specials streaming throughout February.

The event, which runs from Wednesday 3rd to Sunday 21st February, will bring stand-up, podcasts, interviews, game shows and … Read More

MUBI Weekly Digest | 30th January 2021

After the exclusive release Dea Kulumbegashvili’s debut Beginning – about a Jehovah’s Witness who undergoes a dramatic crisis of faith – MUBI continues to spotlight interesting filmmakers this week, including Carl Theodor Dreyer, Harry Dean Stanton in his swan-song performance … Read More

Teaser: The Mighty Ducks Disney+ series set for March release

The Mighty Ducks are returning to our screens this March, Disney has confirmed.

The new Disney+ series, titled The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, is set in present-day Minnesota, where the Mighty Ducks have evolved from scrappy underdogs into a powerhouse … Read More

BBC iPlayer checks in to Bates Motel

BBC iPlayer has bagged the rights to all five seasons of Bates Motel.

The deal, with NBCUniversal Global Distribution, will give BBC iPlayer the full box set of the show, which aired in the US between 2013 and 2017 and … Read More

James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley join The Great Celebrity Bake Off

James McAvoy and Daisy Ridley are among the famous faces about to pick up a rolling pin and enter the Bake Off tent, as The Great Celebrity Bake Off returns to Channel 4 this spring.

Across five new episodes 20 … Read More

Noah Baumbach signs exclusive deal with Netflix

Netflix and Noah Baumbach are making it official, with the Marriage Story, Frances Ha and Mistress America director inking an exclusive deal with the streamer.

The two are far from strangers. Baumbach’s first film with Netflix was The Meyerowitz Stories … Read More

Good Grief: Sian Clifford to star in streaming play

Sian Clifford will be treading the virtual boards this February for a new romantic comedy play streaming online.

Lorien Haynes’ Good Grief follows two friends who, after the tragic loss of a woman they loved, navigate the five stages of … Read More

Disney+ Star: What will be available at launch in the UK?

This February sees Disney+ step up its streaming game, as the House of Mouse adds its long-awaited adult section to its subscription streaming platform.

Called Star, the brand will be home to thousands of hours of movies and television from … Read More

Deutschland 89 set for March debut

Deutschland 89 will premiere on UK TV this March, we can finally confirm.

The follow-up to to Deutschland 83 has been anticipated ever since the German drama premiered on Channel 4 back in 2016. The Germany spy drama was the … Read More

Netflix orders Skull Island animated series

Netflix is teaming up with Legendary Television for a new Skull Island animated series.

The first animated show based on Legendary’s Skull Island, it opens a new chapter in Legendary’s expanding Monsterverse franchise. Beginning in 2014 with Godzilla, continuing with … Read More