From Victoria Wood to Rose Matafeo: BBC announces Festival Of Funny

The BBC is aiming to make the nation laugh this month with a new Festival of Funny bringing together classic comedy and brand new stand-up specials.

Running until mid-March, the month-long event will include 14 hours of new content including … Read More

The Cleaner: Helena Bonham Carter, David Mitchell to star in Greg Davies’ BBC comedy

Helena Bonham Carter and David Mitchell will star in Greg Davies’ The Cleaner, a new comedy for BBC One.

The series is based on the award-winning, long-running German series Der Tatortreiniger (Crime Scene Cleaner) created by Ingrid Lausund. Written by … Read More

First look: Keeping Faith returns for Season 3

First look: Keeping Faith returns for Season 3

Eve Myles will return to our screens one more time as Faith Howells in the third and final season of Keeping Faith.

The legal drama first arrived on our screens back … Read More

Trailer: Bloodlands begins on BBC One this February

James Nesbitt is heading to BBC One this February for Bloodlands, and a new trailer gives us a first look at the crime drama.

Created by new writer Chris Brandon and produced by HTM Television (co-owned by Jed Mercurio and … Read More

Toast of Tinseltown: Matt Berry heads to BBC for new comedy series

Steven Toast is back – and he’s found a new home at the BBC.

Matt Berry will reprise his role as the middle-aged actor for Toast of Tinseltown, a new six-part series that follows Toast as he moves to Hollywood … Read More

BBC renews The Split for third and final season

The Split will return to BBC One for a third and final season.

From BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning writer Abi Morgan (River, Suffragette, The Hour) and executive producers Jane Featherstone (Chernobyl, Giri-Haji, Utopia), Lucy Dyke (The Split, Black Mirror, Ripper … Read More

Olivia Colman, Matt Smith to star in BBC’s Superworm

Olivia Colman and Matt Smith will team up for an animated adaptation of Superworm for BBC One.

Superworm, created by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, is a hero with a difference. Super-long and super-strong, he’s always on hand to help … Read More

Netflix leads 2021 Golden Globes nominees with Mank and The Crown

Netflix is leading this year’s nominations for the Golden Globes, with a whopping 42 nods under its belt. That’s primarily driven by Mank in the feature film race, with 7 nominations, and The Crown in the TV categories, with 6 … Read More

Sherwood: Quiz writer James Graham heads to BBC for crime drama

Quiz writer James Graham is heading to the BBC for Sherwood, a new crime drama.

The award-winning playwright and dramatist will draw on his experiences of growing up in post-industrial Nottinghamshire for his latest collaboration with House Productions, with whom … Read More

Never Rarely Sometimes Always and Netflix lead 2021 Indie Spirit Award nominees

The nominations for the 2021 Independent Spirit Awards were announced this week, and Never Rarely Sometimes Always and Netflix are leading the pack.

Eliza Hittman’s powerful abortion drama has seven nominations, the most of any picture and just ahead of … Read More