Following the news that there was going to be a new ‘top cop’ on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie (The Royle Family‘s Ralf Little) which followed the news that DI Jack Mooney (Ardal O’Hanlon) would be leaving the popular BBC1 series early on in the new series, Death in Paradise has announced a new slate of […]
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As we find our collective selves a mere 4 days removed from Halloween, it must be the beginning of the Christmas season, right? While we traditionally have a bit of a break as we wait for the greatness of the John Lewis ads or the brilliant long-running Heathrow bear ads, UK catalogue retailer Argos kicks […]
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Like The Day the Earth Stood Still, this never gets old. Since 2010, Halloween has been about two bits of small screen greatness that should be considered ‘must see TV’. The annual Simpsons Halloween Special and the 2010 ‘newcomer’ on the block which came from the brilliant mind palaces of Reece Shearsmith (League of Gentlemen, The Widower, Chasing Shadows) and Steve […]
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Based on Bram Stoker’s classic novel of the same name, the mind palaces of Sherlock co-creators, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss have teamed up with Hartswood Films for Dracula, the 3-part BBC/Netflix series that digs deep into the undead life of the vampire that single-handedly made evil sexy. In addition to it being a bit of a Sherlock reunion of […]
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While Sir Julian Fellowes spent much of his early post-Downton Abbey series days slowly releasing his book in serial format via an online app in weekly installments, Belgravia turned into pretty much what one would expect from a Sir Julian Fellowes effort…complete with secrets, scandals and more drama than the law allows. How Sir Julian found time to […]
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What could Bing Crosby (Deep in the Heart of Texas, I’ll Be Home for Christmas), Bobby Pickett (Monster Mash), The Shangri-Las (Leader of the Pack), Wings (Give Ireland Back to the Irish), The Kinks (Lola) and The Wizard of Oz Film Cast (Ding Dong the Witch is Dead) possibly have in common? Singing songs that were deemed too dangerous for BBC broadcast, obviously.
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Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. 12 series, 73 episodes and 31 years after the series premiered in 1988, Red Dwarf will head back into the studio, this time for a 2-hour feature film with Craig Charles, Chris Barrie, Danny John-Jules and Robert Llewellyn confirmed to be back as Lister, Rimmer, The Cat and Kryten (a.k.a. Service Mechanoid 2X4B-523P).
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As previously announced by the producers of Death in Paradise and recently reported here at Tellyspotting, the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie will be getting a new sheriff in town when DI Jack Mooney leaves his post during the forthcoming ninth series which returns to BBC1 in January 2020. While the announcement of the […]
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According to the BBC and reported by the Evening Standard, milkmen are returning to London as millennials are ordering glass milk bottles in a bid to reduce plastic waste. The catalyst for the surge in millennials using glass bottles is being attributed, in part, to David Attenborough’s Blue Planet II.
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After three years and 20 solved murders, Ardal O’Hanlon and the BBC have confirmed that the former Father Ted star will leave the most dangerous island in the world following the forthcoming series 9 of Death in Paradise.
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