Netflix UK TV review: Homeland Season 5

It’s hard to image a more suitable title for Homeland’s Season 5 opener than “Separation Anxiety”. After Season 4’s about-turn into good-again territory, drawing a line in the sand between now and the Brody-bogged days of Seasons 2 and 3, … Read More

Game of Thrones most downloaded TV of 2015, as major UK pirates jailed

Game of Thrones is once again the most pirated TV show of the year, according to TorrentFreak.

HBO’s fantasy epic was downloaded 14.4 million times in 2015 via BitTorrent, according to TorrentFreak, making it the most illegally watched series in … Read More

Interstellar and Furious 7 most pirated movies of 2015

Interstellar and Fast & Furious 7 were the most pirated movies of 2015, according to one company.

Piracy tracking firm Excipio monitored activity from the beginning of January through to Christmas Day, revealing that blockbusters were the most downloaded titles … Read More

ITV’s Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands gets early online premiere

ITV’s Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands is available to watch online before its TV broadcast for today only.

The new re-imagining of one of literature’s most epic tales stars Kieran Bew as the titular hero, with a cast that includes … Read More

Crunchyroll gets its own Christmas TV special

Crunchyroll had its own Christmas special this year on US TV – a rare feat for a VOD service.

The ad-supported site is one of the go-to places for legal streaming of anime in the UK, the US and other … Read More

Sky 1’s Fungus the Bogeyman: Behind the scenes

Imagine a world deep underground, where no human comfort is to be found… That’s where Sky 1 is taking families during the Christmas holidays with its new take on Fungus the Bogeyman, which begins tonight at 6pm.

The adaptation of … Read More

Orphan Black Season 4 teaser trailer released

A new teaser trailer has been released for Orphan Black Season 4.

The Canadian sci-fi series, created by Graeme Manson and John Fawcett, stars Tatiana Maslay as Sarah Manning, a con artist who discovers that she is the product of … Read More

Narcos loses another showrunner ahead of Season 2

Narcos has lost another showrunner ahead of the show’s second season, after Adam Fierro departed just before Christmas.

Netflix’s original series, which chronicles the real-life stories of the US and Colombian efforts in the 1980s to battle Pablo Escobar and … Read More

VOD film review: I Origins

This open-minded sci-fi from Another Earth’s Mike Cahill and Brit Marling takes a long hard look at what makes us human and then asks: what if?Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Fargo Season 2, Episodes 9 to 10

Fargo’s second season concludes with a resounding bang – a lot of them, in fact – after a mid-section that took a couple of missteps. Where Episodes 6, 7 and 8 ramped up the plot and tension, Episode 9 confidently … Read More