ITV 2 to air Love Island: Australia after postponing UK edition

ITV 2 will air Love Island: Australia this summer to fill the channel’s reality TV void.

The dating series has become one of ITV’s biggest hits in recent years, with the channel even doubling up to air a second … Read More

BBC One acquires hit Australian drama The Heights

BBC One has acquired Australian drama The Heights.

At a time when schedules need filling and productions are preparing to resume filming, the Beeb is looking overseas to keep its daytime schedules filled. It has bagged the rights to the … Read More

Hollyoaks leads Channel 4 line-up on Snapchat

Channel 4 is heading to Snapchat with a wave of shows being reworked for the social video platform – and Hollyoaks is leading the way.

More than 300 short-form edits of Channel 4 content will stream on Snapchat’s Discover platform … Read More

VOD film review: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

Despite strong performances and vivid visuals, this uneven sequel fails to enchant.Read More

What We Do in the Shadows Season 2 set for June UK air date

Season 2 of the What We Do in the Shadows TV series finally has a confirmed UK air date, with the show set to premiere once more on BBC Two this June.

Based on the mockumentary horror comedy film of … Read More

Trailer: Reality Z arrives on Netflix this June

Reality Z, Netflix’s remake of Dead Set, arrives this June, and a new trailer gives us our first look at the Brazilian zombie series.

Adapted by director, screenwriter and executive producer Cláudio Torres, the show relocates Charlie Brooker’s horror satire … Read More

VOD film review: Guest of Honour

A superb performance by David Thewlis can’t quite redeem this uneven drama from Atom Egoyan.Read More

Criterion Channel releases free films focusing on Black lives

The Criterion Channel has released a collection of films focusing on Black lives.

The US streaming service, which launched last spring following the closure of FilmStruck, is the digital home of the Criterion Collection, known for its high quality of … Read More

Shudder makes Horror Noire available for free

Shudder has made Horror Noire available for free, in an act of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.

The documentary is one of the few non-fiction original projects released by the horror streaming service, which is operated by AMC. … Read More

MUBI Weekly Digest | 6th June 2020

MUBI follows Benedikt Erlingsson’s dark comedy Woman at War with a week of modern gems, from Una, directed by Seberg helmer Benedict Andrews (also behind the Young Vic’s A Streetcar Named Desire), to Hong Khaou’s Lilting and Mia Hansen-Løve’s Eden … Read More