Television

  • Midsomer Murders – ITV announces Barnaby’s new sidekick

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    Gwilym Lee is to joining Midsomer Murders as the new sidekick to DCI John Barnaby (Neil Dudgeon). The actor replaces Jason Hughes who played DS Jones in more than 50 episodes opposite both original series star John Nettles and successor Dudgeon. Lee will play DS Charlie Nelson in the new five-part series which starts filming…

  • Lord Sugar to step down from YouView

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    Lord Sugar is to step down as Chairman of YouView, the broadcast and streaming TV service backed by the UK’s biggest broadcasters and ISPs, in the next few weeks. The Apprentice star was called in to oversee YouView’s route to market after it missed a number of expected launch dates. His involvement helped the platform,…

  • BBC announces BBC Two HD launch date

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    A new HD version of BBC Two HD will launch next month, replacing the current BBC HD channel which shows selected content from BBC Two, Three and Four. The channel will be a simulcast network version of the BBC Two schedule and will go live at 6am on Tuesday 26 March. Announcing the launch date,…

  • SyFy announces The Man In The High Castle adaptation

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    Philip K. Dick’s Hugo Award-winning novel The Man In The High Castle is to turned into a 4-hour miniseries by Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions. Dick used the novel to depict a startling alternate history in which Nazi Germany and Japan were victorious in World War II. The series will be produced by Scott Free…

  • 666 Park Avenue – trailer

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    Debuting on ITV 2 next week, 666 Park Avenue is an American supernatural drama series loosely based upon the novel of the same name by Gabriella Pierce. The show follows a couple who learn that the Manhattan apartment building they just moved into could be possessed by a mysterious demonic force. 666 Park Avenue starts…

  • Yes, Prime Minister – clip

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    The brand new series of Anthony Jay and Jonathan Lynn’s Yes, Prime Minister debuts on Gold tomorrow with David Haig taking over the role of Prime Minister Jim Hacker. The six-part series sees Hacker back in office as PM and leading a coalition government confronting the greatest economic crisis in a generation. As always, his…