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  • The Event DVD Review

    The Event DVD Review

    As previously noted, season one of US drama The Event comes to DVD and Blu-ray on October 3rd. You can read out interview with series star Jason Ritter here. We’ve been treated to an advance look at the DVD edition courtesy of Universal Pictures UK. As with any series, the boxset will primarily appeal to…

  • Warrior – review

    Warrior – review

    I don’t know much about about mixed martial arts (MMA), in fact everything I know I learnt from this film and I’d initially assumed the filmmakers had invented the sport for the movie. So, my confession of ignorance safely on the record, Warrior is a film set within the violent world of MMA, a world…

  • Pay Per View failure hits Virgin Media’s TiVo

    Pay Per View failure hits Virgin Media’s TiVo

    Virgin Media customers who have upgraded to the company’s TiVo box found themselves unable to watch a Pay Per View showing of the Mayweather vs Ortiz fight thanks to an unknown glitch.

  • DVD release for Russell Howard’s latest tour

    DVD release for Russell Howard’s latest tour

    Russell Howard’s Right Here, Right Now tour, which he performed to over 240,000 fans across the country, comes to DVD this autumn.   The show is the third of Howard’s live tours to come to DVD – his Russell Howard Live (2008) and Russell Howard Live – Dingledodies (2009) have sold over 400,000 copies and both dominated…

  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Premiere Special

    Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Premiere Special

    The Big Picture interviews Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt and Benedict Cumberbatch at the premiere of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Tomas Alfredson’s big screen adaptation of John le Carre’s classic spy thriller. The film sees Oldman take up the mantle of legendary spy George Smiley – immortalised on the small screen by…

  • New Frank Skinner sitcom comes to Radio 4 in October

    New Frank Skinner sitcom comes to Radio 4 in October

    A new sitcom written by and starring Frank Skinner starts on BBC Radio 4 on 5th October. Don’t Start co-stars IT Crowd’s Katherine Parkinson as one half of bickering couple Kim and Neil (Skinner). Each week the audience will join the coupe for a different argument.