VOD film review: Kill Your Friends

Director: Owen Harris Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Tom Riley, Georgia King Certificate: 15 Watch Kill Your Friends online in the UK: Amazon Prime / Apple TV (iTunes) / Prime Video (Buy/Rent) / TalkTalk TV / Rakuten TV / Google Play

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BBC Three orders second season of Asian Provocateur

BBC Three has ordered a second season of Romesh Ranganathan’s travel series, Asian Provocateur.

Fresh from his nomination for Best Entertainment Performance at the forthcoming Bafta Television Awards, the comedian will return to BBC Three for more Asian Provocateur, after … Read More

Netflix’s The Defenders set to start shooting this year

Netflix’s The Defenders looks set to start shooting this year, Charlie Cox has announced.

The actor, who plays Daredevil in Marvel’s Netflix original series, was speaking at a press event in Paris, which has seen Netflix make a raft of … Read More

David Wenham to play Harold Meachum in Iron Fist

David Wenham has joined the cast of Iron Fist.

The actor, who is best known for his roles in The Lord of the Rings and 300, has signed up to play Harold Meachum in the Netflix original superhero series.

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BBC launches iPlayer Kids app

The BBC has launched a new iPlayer app especially for kids.

Called BBC iPlayer Kids, the app will put younger viewers in control of watching and downloading their favourite CBeebies and CBBC shows on iOS, Android and Kindle Fire devices.

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Sam Heughan launches #TartanTuesday as Outlander returns to Amazon Prime Video

Scottish actor Sam Heughan is urging people across the UK to wear tartan every Tuesday for the next month.

The star of Outlander, and supporter of Bloodwise, today launches the initiative – clad in a bright red tartan scarf – … Read More

Walk This Way: EU VOD scheme returns with superheroes and men on the edge

The UK may be debating whether to leave the EU, but when it comes to streaming entertainment, we’ve never got on better with our continental cousins: while All 4 is releasing foreign-language TV on its VOD channel Walter Presents from … Read More

Magnifica 70: Coming soon to Walter Presents in May

Hot on the heels of Deutschland 83 and Spin, Walter Presents has lined up its latest show: Magnifica 70.

The HBO Latin American series takes place in 1970, with Brazil under military dictatorship. Film censor Vicente leads a boring and … Read More

UK TV review: Vikings Season 4, Episode 6 and 7

Warning: This contains spoilers.

How far Vikings has come since those opening episodes! Michael Hirst’s historical drama has gone all the way from exploration of The Other to political drama to action thriller – and, in Episodes 6 and 7 … Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Better Call Saul Season 2, Episode 8

Warning: This contains spoilers.

If Episode 7 of Better Call Saul’s second season was a showcase for the show’s editing, Episode 8 goes to the other extreme with no cuts at all in its opening sequence. The Breaking Bad prequel … Read More