Channel 4 orders Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared series

Channel 4 has ordered a new series based on the YouTube show Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared.

The cult hit has been viewed over a quarter of a billion times. Part-educational programming, part-existential nightmare, the mixed-media trip moves from kids-show … Read More

Shudder UK film review: The Beach House

A seaside holiday sinks into Lovecraftian apocalypse in this assured directorial debut filled with dread.Read More

Sky and Sony ink new long-term deal

Sky and Sony Pictures Television have extended their partnership with a new long-term deal that applies to the UK and Ireland, Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland.

The deal means that Sky Cinema will have the first pay window rights … Read More

Trailer: The Young Offenders return for Season 3 this July

“Try not to do anything illegal for the next 24 hours.” “How are we supposed to know what’s illegal?” That’s the sound of BBC Three’s The Young Offenders returning for a third season – and the new trailer promises it … Read More

Stateless review: A thoughtful immigration drama

Yvonne Strahovski is excellent in this pertinent, thoughtful immigration drama.Read More

Mrs America review: Playful, provocative period drama

Cate Blanchett is brilliant in this playful, provocative, stylish and highly entertaining drama about the battle for women’s rights in the 1970s.Read More

Royal Albert Hall streams National Ballet’s Cinderella

The Royal Albert Hall will stream the English National Ballet’s production of Cinderella for free tonight.

The inventive production, based on the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale, combined extravagant sets and costumes, surprising theatrical tricks and lively choreography – all … Read More

Jonathan Glazer’s Strasbourg 1518 to premiere on BBC Two

Jonathan Glazer’s latest film, Strasbourg 1518, will premiere on BBC Two this month.

Inspired by a powerful involuntary mania which took hold of citizens in the city of Strasbourg just over 500 years ago, Strasbourg 1518 is a collaboration in … Read More

Lynn + Lucy review: An intensely moving drama

Nichola Burley and Roxanne Scrimshaw are fantastic in this intensely moving tale of friendship and suspicion.Read More

Why you should tune into The Newsroom

Aaron Sorkin’s portrait of TV news is an overly earnest, well acted and compelling piece of escapism.Read More