From Taboo to Doctor Who: BBC teases bright new year with 2017 trailer

2017 is officially here and it can only be better than 2016, right? That will be the case, if the BBC has anything to do with it.

TV had a stonkingly good 12 months last year – you can see … Read More

Netflix snaps up UK rights to supernatural series Beyond

Netflix has snapped up the UK rights to supernatural series Beyond.

The show, which got the green light from ABC Family Worldwide last year, is created by Adam Nussdorf, whose previous credits include writing several episodes of TRON: Uprising and … Read More

VOD film review: Me Him Her

A compassionate but overwhelmingly trippy romcom.Read More

VOD film review: A Story of Children and Film

Playful, poetic and profound filmmaking.Read More

UK TV review: The Grand Tour Namibia Special (Episode 7 and 8)

Pathetic attempts at controversial banter. Celebrity Braincrash. The American and his one joke. Halfway through the first season and the problems with Amazon’s motoring show are clear. The idea of returning to the old Top Gear special format for a … Read More

Amazon UK TV review: The Man in the High Castle Season 2 (Episodes 6 to 10) – spoilers

Warning: This contains spoilers. Not caught up with The Man in the High Castle Season 2? Read our spoiler-free review of the opening episode here.

The breathtaking revelation of a different Juliana living in our version of 1962 was the … Read More

Catch up TV review: We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, Maigret’s Dead Man, The Arrivals, A Big LEGO Christmas, Cooke & Moore’s Missing Sketches

What’s available on-demand on Freeview? Keep up-to-date with our weekly catch-up TV column, including reviews of shows on ITV Hub, new releases on All 4 and a guide to My5.

(For BBC TV reviews and round-ups, see our weekly Best … Read More

This week’s new releases on BFI Player+ (1st January 2017)

Heard of BFI Player? Well, there’s also BFI Player+, a subscription service that offers an all-you-can-eat selection of hand-picked classics.

Every Friday, Mark Kermode highlights one of the collection’s titles with a video introduction. This week, following Mark’s highlighting … Read More

Walter Presents kicks off 2017 with Norwegian thriller Acquitted

Walter Presents is kicking off 2017 with Norwegian thriller Acquitted.

All 4’s online channel, dedicated to foreign-language TV shows from around the world, Walter Presents launched in the UK in January 2016. Since then, the site has given us shows … Read More

Game of Thrones most pirated show of the year

Game of Thrones is once again the most pirated TV show of the year.

Figures from TorrentFreak show that HBO’s fantasy epic took the crown for the most torrented TV series on the web in 2016, the fifth year … Read More