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Poirot and Marple to return to ITV in 2012
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ITV has commissioned eight new Poirot and Marple films which will go into production in 2012. David Suchet will return as Hercule Poirot and complete Agatha Christie’s canon of stories about the fastidious and brilliant Belgian detective. The Poirot films which will go into production during 2012 are: Labours of Hercules; Dead Man’s Folly; The…
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BBC announce new cast members for Silk
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Phil Davis, Frances Barber and Indira Varma have joined the cast of Silk, Peter Moffat’s legal drama which follows a chamber of barristers. The show drew average audiences of 5.9m for its first series which aired earlier this year. The new cast members join series stars Maxine Peake and Rupert Penry-Jones and Neil Stuke. Kate…
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Trailer: Eddie Murphy’s Thousand Words
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Eddie Murphy stars as fast-talking Hollywood agent Jack McCall in comedy-drama Thousand Words McCall’s insincere patter is his chief weapon, but it irritates his assistant Aaron (Clark Duke), threatens his marriage to Caroline (Kerry Washington) and gets him into trouble repping guru/author Dr. Sinja (Cliff Curtis). Jack suffers karmic repercussions from Sinja’s magical Bodhi tree,…
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Dave’s One Night Stand returns this week
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Ardal O’Hanlon, Tim Vine, Reginald D Hunter, Stephen K Amos and Tommy Tiernan are the latest comedians to head home for Dave’s One Night Stand. The series returns this Thursday (17th November). As before, the stand-up supremos return back to their comedy roots to give Dave viewers a very personal tour of their own home…
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Torchwood Miracle Day – on DVD and Blu-ray this week
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As previously reported, the complete four seasons of Torchwood are available on Blu-ray from this week. Miracle Day, the latest instalment of the Doctor Who spin-off ended its latest BBC One run in September but fans of Captain Jack (John Barrowman) and his team can now re-live their adventures right from the very beginning in…
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Meet Doctor Who? That’ll be £120
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£99 for a ticket plus £25 for an autograph OR a photograph. That’s what BBC Worldwide expect Doctor Who fans to pay at next year’s official fan convention. How can the BBC justify such a high cost to meet the publicly paid creative team behind a publicly owned show? Because they’ll easily find 3,000 hardcore…