Dodger: Christopher Eccleston, Billy Jenkins to star in BBC family drama

May 8, 2021 | David Farnor

Christopher Eccleston (The A Word, The Leftovers) is stepping into the shoes of Fagin for new BBC family drama Dodger.

The 10-part adventure is a funny, optimistic, fast-paced comedy drama full of jeopardy. Set before the events of Charles Dickens’ … Read More

Digital Theatre review: Macbeth (Christopher Eccleston)

May 14, 2020 | David Farnor

Christopher Eccleston is a wonderfully gruff Macbeth in this doom-laden RSC production.Read More

VOD film review: Where Hands Touch

May 11, 2019 | David Farnor

Earnest performances and good intentions can’t redeem this misjudged WWII romance.Read More

UK VOD TV Review: The Leftovers Season 1, Episode 3

October 5, 2014 | David Farnor

“It was a test. Not for what came before but what came after. It was a test for what comes now.”

The Leftovers has been ambling along for the last two weeks, waiting, like its audience, for a solution to … Read More

VOD film review: Thor 2: The Dark World

February 24, 2014 | David Farnor

This ho-hum superhero sequel suffers from a weak villain and bloated plot.Read More

Doctor Who: Christopher Eccleston’s best episodes

November 21, 2013 | Simon Kinnear

2005. The rumours reckoned Bill Nighy or (God forbid) Alan Davies. Instead, Russell T Davies bagged one of the country’s leading actors to highlight that the return of Doctor Who, after a long hiatus, was thinking big.

Eccleston delivered with … Read More