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  • BBC commissions more New Tricks

    BBC commissions more New Tricks

    New Tricks, the BBC One drama about a team of retired detectives investigating unsolved crimes, has been recommissioned for two further series. The show – now in its eighth series – is a regular ratings puller for BBC One and stars Dennis Waterman, Alun Armstrong, James Bolam and Amanda Redman.

  • Brad Pitt heads cast of Moneyball

    Brad Pitt heads cast of Moneyball

    Brad Pitt and Philip Seymour Hoffman head the cast of Moneyball, a new film from writer Aaron Sorkin. The film tells the story of Billy Beane (Pitt), general manager of the Oakland Athletics, who attempts to build a competitive baseball team on a tight budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players. Based on…

  • Trailer – Gus Van Sant’s Restless

    Trailer – Gus Van Sant’s Restless

    Sony Pictures will be releasing Restless, a coming of age drama about two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, who forge a deep and lasting love. Described as “provocative and stirring”, the film has been directed by Gus Van Sant and stars Henry Hopper and Mia Wasikowska. Van Sant has…

  • Scarface Blu-ray

    Scarface Blu-ray

    Brian DePalma’s iconic gangster movie Scarface, which charts the rise of drugs kingpin Tony Montana (Al Pacino) and has inspired countless films and games, comes to Blu-ray for the first time this week courtesy of Universal Home Entertainment.

  • Celebrate 30 years of the Trotters with GOLD

    Celebrate 30 years of the Trotters with GOLD

    Digital TV channel GOLD is celebrating the 30th anniversary of hit sitcom Only Fools and Horses. The channel is screening every episode of the series and, as part of its celebrations, has recreated the Trotter’s famous flat in a secret tower block location in Peckham and released avideo of The Lovely Jubbly dance. Stars John…

  • Sony announces new ebook reader

    Sony has announced an update to its ebook reader, which it claims is the lightest on the market. Weighing 168 grams and just 8.9mm thin, the WiFi enabled, 6” PRS-T1 is both smaller and lighter than the previous generation of readers and the company says the device can “easily fit into a bag or pocket”.…