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First announced last November, Hammer’s ScreamBoard app is now available from Apple’s App Store and iTunes for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The free app allows horror fans to mix their own selections of classic Hammer film sound clips and comes preloaded with assets from two classic titles, Four Sided Triangle and The Quatermass Xperiment. …

The BFI says it has discovered the oldest surviving film to contain a Charles Dickens character. Dating from 1901, The Death of Poor Joe was discovered by BFI researcher Bryony Dixon while researching early films of China. Dixon noticed a catalogue entry referring to a film called The Death of Poor Joe which she realised…

A channel offering the week’s most popular and talked-about content from Channel 4 will launch later this year. 4seven will be available major TV platforms and is the first new channel from the broadcaster since More4 launched in 2005. Announcing the new channel, David Abraham, Channel 4 Chief Executive, said it would “give viewers more…

Monday sees the UK premiere of Alcatraz, a new US series from JJ Abrams screening on Watch. The show’s premise is simple enough – almost 40 years ago three hundred inmates and their hards vanished from Alcatraz, only to start re-appearing on the streets of modern day America. A task-force headed by Sam Neill, himself…