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The Exorcist series axed by Fox
May 12, 2018 | David FarnorFox has excommunicated The Exorcist from its TV line-up, with the show given the official chop this week.
More than four decades after the Academy Award-nominated film, The Exorcist spin-off series is a thriller following two very different priests tackling … Read More
The Weekly MUBI Digest | 12th May 2018
May 12, 2018 | David FarnorMUBI is heading to Cannes once again this year, with the world’s biggest film festival taking over the subscription service to offer a collection of Croisette favourites. Every year, the creme de la creme of the movie industry flock to … Read More
Eurovision 2018: The 8 must-see songs from Semi-Final 2
May 11, 2018 | David FarnorNothing fills us with the same mix of dread and excitement as Eurovision. And while 2018’s first Semi-Final (read our highlights here) was an impressive showcase of continental talent, the second Semi-Final was a smorgasbord of everything we love about … Read More
The Last Man on Earth cancelled after four seasons
May 11, 2018 | David FarnorThe Last Man on Earth has been cancelled after four seasons.
The comedy series about the end of the world is one of the funniest TV shows around, and has been since it first premiered back in 2015.
It follows … Read More
The next Love, Simon? Netflix unveils trailer for Alex Strangelove
May 11, 2018 | David FarnorNetflix is taking a leaf from Love, Simon’s book with its new high school romance, Alex Strangelove – and a new trailer gives us a launch at the promisingly raunchy result.
The film follows Alex Truelove (Daniel Doheny), a high … Read More
Eurovision 2018: The 7 must-see songs from Semi-Final 1
May 10, 2018 | David FarnorGet your costume changes, drinks and lots of glitter ready, because it’s that time of year again: Eurovision is back.
The Eurovision Song Contest final screens around the world on Saturday 12th May, bringing the joy of music, extravagant … Read More
Trailer: BBC One unmasks A Very English Scandal this May
May 10, 2018 | David FarnorHugh Grant and Ben Whishaw are together at last in new BBC One drama A Very English Scandal, and a new trailer gives us our first look at them in action.
It is 1960s England, homosexuality is illegal and the … Read More
Francesca Reale joins Stranger Things Season 3
May 10, 2018 | David FarnorHaters Back Off star Francesca Reale has joined the cast of Stranger Things Season 3.
Reale, who stole scenes as the rational sister of Miranda Sings (Colleen Ballinger) in the Netflix comedy, is reteaming with the streaming giant to become … Read More
The Handmaid’s Tale Season 2 May UK air date confirmed
May 9, 2018 | David FarnorThe Handmaid’s Tale Season 2 will premiere in the UK on Sunday 20th May, we can confirm.
Hulu’s TV series, based on Margaret Atwood’s seminal novel of the same name, is set in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society … Read More
BBC Two to air Atlanta Season 1
May 9, 2018 | David FarnorAtlanta is heading to BBC Two this weekend, with Season 1 of Donald Glover’s show finally hitting Freeview.
The series, which is created by and written by Glover, follows two cousins as they work through the Atlanta music scene in … Read More