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  • Third series for BBC One’s Sherlock

    Third series for BBC One’s Sherlock

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    BBC One’s Sherlock will return for a third series, co-creator Steven Moffat has confirmed. The second series of the critically acclaimed re-telling of SirArthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes concluded on BBC One on Sunday evening. Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman star as Sherlock and Watson respectively alongside Rupert Graves as Inspector Lestrade and Una Stubbs…

  • Commemorative stamp labels to mark Bond’s 50th anniversary

    Commemorative stamp labels to mark Bond’s 50th anniversary

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    James Bond film can help shape the 50th anniversary celebrations of everyone’s favourite spy. 007 film producers EON Productions and Royal Mail will celebrate 50 years of Ian Fleming’s secret agent with a sheet of commemorative labels featuring the top 10 Bond posters. The labels will sit alongside ten, first class, Union Flag stamps. Fans…

  • C4 commissions new War on Terror drama

    C4 commissions new War on Terror drama

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    Channel 4 has commissioned a new single drama whcih tackles the questions: In the War on Terror is torture ever justified? Written by Guy Hibbert (Blood and Oil, Five Minutes of Heaven, Omagh), Complicit explores the murky moral compromises that underpin the hidden intelligence war. The drama’s main character Edward, an MI5 officer, wrestles with…

  • January eBook release for The Talented Mr Ripley

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    Patricia Highsmith’s celebrated psychological thriller The Talented Mr Ripley is finally getting an eBook release. Apple’s iBooks store is accepting pre-orders for the title accepting pre-orders for the title and is listing an expected release date of January 31st and sale price of £3.99. The book can also be ordered from both Amazon.co.uk for Kindle…

  • Three confirms it will stock Nokia’s Lumia 710

    Three confirms it will stock Nokia’s Lumia 710

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    UK mobile users will soon be able to get their hands on Nokia’s budget-friendly Lumia 710 courtesy of Three. The handset runs the Mango version of Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system and includes social network apps as standard, ensuring updates and messages appear on one screen via the People Hub. The Lumia 710 has a…

  • ITV commissions ‘age gap’ romance drama

    ITV commissions ‘age gap’ romance drama

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    ITV has commissioned a new three-part drama about the relationship between a 25 year old man and a woman 20 years his senior. Described as “a powerful relationship drama”, Leaving focuses on 25 year old Aaron who lives with his parents in Warrington.  He’s failed to find work since leaving university and – to cap…