Idris Elba inks first-look deal with Apple TV

Idris Elba has inked a first-look deal with Apple TV.

The actor, who is also a producer, director and musician, is best known for his role as Luther in the BBC crime drama and Stringer in HBO’s The Wire, as … Read More

Michaela Coel and Cynthia Erivo to headline BBC’s Creative Diversity Xperience

Michaela Coel and Cynthia Erivo will headline the BBC’s Creative Diversity Xperience, a new two-day online event.

Taking place on 28th and 29th July, the virtual showcase will celebrate the “vibrancy, innovation and leadership of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic … Read More

Viola Davis’ JuVee expands first-look deal with Amazon

Viola Davis and actor/producer Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions have expanded its exclusive first-look deal with Amazon Studios.

Amazon studios inked the agreement with JuVee back in 2018 and saw the artist-driven, Los Angeles-based production company produce feature films for Amazon … Read More

First look UK TV review: The Plot Against America

HBO’s adaptation of Philip Roth novel is a chilling dissection of how fascism can take hold of a civilisation.Read More

True Crime Tuesdays: Unsolved Mysteries

Netflix’s reboot of the armchair detective series is a pivotal moment for true crime TV.Read More

Girl Powered: Channel 4 commissions Spice Girls documentary

Channel 4 has commissioned a new documentary series about the Spice Girls.

Provisionally titled Girl Powered: The Spice Girls, the series tells the complete story of the best-selling girl band of all time.

Using hundreds of hours of archive footage … Read More

Trailer: Curzon to stream Parasite Black and White Edition this July

Curzon Home Cinema will be releasing Parasite Black and White Edition this July, and a new trailer gives us a fresh look at the visually reworked version of Bong Joon-ho’s thriller.

The Kims are living a marginal life when their … Read More

ITV orders Stephen Lawrence drama following fight for justice

ITV has ordered a new drama about the fight for justice following the murder of Stephen Lawrence.

A three-part sequel to the groundbreaking single drama, The Murder of Stephen Lawrence, the series will simple be called “Stephen”. Produced by Hat … Read More

Mr Harrigan’s Phone: Netflix and John Lee Hancock bring Stephen King story to screen

Netflix, Blumhouse and John Lee Hancock are teaming up to bring Stephen King’s new story, Mr Harrison’s Phone, to the screen.

The tale is just one of four novellas in If It Bleeds, the latest collection of stories from the … Read More

Disney+ UK review: Hamilton

Hamilton is a work of art that attracts all sorts of hyberbole. So comprehensive and effusive is the love for this hip-hop-history musical that you’ve almost certainly heard about it and you’ve probably already seen it. So here’s an extra-outsized … Read More