If you’re still suffering from Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms, the upcoming spin-off movie may not be the only remedy. Shooting started yesterday (April 10) on Belgravia, a new six-part period drama from the writer-creator and production company behind Downton, Julian Fellowes and Carnival Films. With filming underway, the limited series – which will air on […]
BBC AMERICA will premiere the BAFTA-nominated Prey on Thursday, February 25 at 10/9c. The series airs in two three-episode parts, each centered on a case investigated by DS Susan Reinhardt (Rosie Cavaliero). Fans of the BBC AMERICA series Life on Mars will see familiar faces in each story, with John Simm and Philip Glenister playing […]
BBC One are gearing up for their latest major comedy launch this week, as school-based sitcom Big School makes its debut on Friday night. The show marks the return of Doctor Who‘s Catherine Tate to British comedy after the former sketch show titan spent the last few years guesting in the U.S. version of The Office, alongside David Walliams (Little Britain) […]
Education, as is so often said, is the passport to the future. And in this case, the future holds six episodes of a new comedy show set in a British secondary school and starring David Walliams, Catherine Tate and a small, but carefully-selected gang of actors that should be very well known to Anglophenians. It’s […]
Brighton is a popular resort town on the southern coast of England, but it’s not exactly a place you might seek out in wet, windy late February. That is, unless you’re a fan of British television. BBC Showcase, known as the world’s biggest TV trade show by a single distributor, makes its current home in […]
To whomever decided to put John Simm (Life On Mars, Doctor Who), Philip Glenister (Life On Mars, Demons), Marc Warren (Hustle), and Max Beesley (Hotel Babylon, Survivors) in a show together, God bless you. The four Anglophile faves star in the new series Mad Dogs, which premieres on the UK broadcaster Sky in February. According […]
A holiday TV advertisement for British department store Marks & Spencer features a veritable who’s who of BBC AMERICA talent. There’s AbFab‘s Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley, Occupation‘s James Nesbitt, and Life On Mars‘ Philip Glenister. Also, you’ll see perennial British favorites Stephen Fry, Twiggy, Myleene Klass, and yes, even Wallace & Gromit. Watch it […]
So ABC’s version of Life On Mars has been cancelled, canned, axed. Are you shocked? Good riddance, I say. I won’t reiterate all of the problems I had with the remake, but let’s just say the show was a misfire from Day One. Star Jason O’Mara may have been delicious with his shirt off, but […]
The story for Ashes To Ashes was being set up in the Life On Mars finale, reveals producer Jane Featherstone in today’s Independent. Ashes To Ashes opens “in modern-day London, where Alex Drake has been investigating the tape handed over to the police by Sam Tyler in the final episode of Life on Mars. ‘All […]
The Times has some info on the upcoming Life On Mars spin-off Ashes to Ashes. The 1980s will find Gene Hunt, played by Philip Glenister, coming up against Thatcherism and new policing practices. Ashley Pharoah says, “A very specific era of policing is coming to an end. I think there’s a slight sense of melancholy […]
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