‘Miranda’ mum Patricia Hodge to star in ‘Mrs Hudson’s Radio Show’ for Radio 4
The two-part radio series will star Hodge as Sherlock Holmes’ landlady and housekeeper.
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Get a first look at Benedict Cumberbatch in Channel 4 drama ‘Brexit: The Uncivil War’
Cumberbatch had to spend a bit more time in makeup for this role than he did for ‘Sherlock.’
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BBC and Netflix to draw fresh blood with ‘Dracula’ adaptation
‘Sherlock’ co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss are ready to sink their teeth into this three-part mini-series.
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At long last, Martin Freeman grabs lead detective role in ‘A Confession’
The ‘Sherlock’ star will play a D.S. who deliberately breaches police procedure to catch a killer, losing his career.
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Blimey! Tellyspotting turns 9!
Our shared recognition that British comedy and drama are the best telly on telly has made it easy to look forward to year 10 and beyond.
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Headed by Sir Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, ‘King Lear’ cast list reads like a Who’s Who in British acting
Lear’s other daughters are Emily Watson as Regan and Florence Pugh as Cordelia.
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Maureen Lipman packs her bags and heads to ‘Coronation Street’
After almost ten years of covering British comedy, drama, pop culture and pretty much everything British, today is a first. As in the first time we write about Coronation Street. Listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running television soap opera, the series premiered on 9 December, 1960 and centers on Coronation Street […]
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Former ‘Doctor Who’ showrunner to adapt ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ for HBO
With the TARDIS barely in is rearview mirror, former Doctor Who and current Sherlock showrunner, Steven Moffat, is headed back to the small screen to adapt Audrey Niffenegger’s novel The Time Traveler’s Wife for HBO. Much like his well-documented, long-term fanboy feelings toward Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes character, Moffat has long been a fan of the 2003 science […]
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Benedict Cumberbatch turns attention to Brexit in new Channel 4 drama
Reason #(I’ve lost count) why Benedict Cumberbatch can do no wrong. Following a drop-dead brilliant performance as Patrick Melrose, the Sherlock and Doctor Strange star will play Dominic Cummings, the leading strategist and Campaign Director of Vote Leave, in Brexit (w.t.), the one-off drama written by award-winning writer James Graham and directed by Toby Haynes (Black Mirror, Doctor Who). Principle […]
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Sherlock/Mycroft intercepted audio suggests ‘the game is on’
In celebration of Sherlock Holmes Day on Tuesday, an ‘intercepted transmission’ of a seemingly innocent exchange between Whitehall grandee Mycroft Holmes and his consulting detective younger brother Sherlock hints that the British government is considering enlisting the help of members of the public in a mysterious project. Exactly what this ‘mysterious project’ might entail remains to be […]
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