Tag: BBC


  • TV round-up: 4th – 11th July

    This week’s TV round-up includes True Blood and a new twist on Come Dine With Me.

  • TV round-up: June 20th – 26th

    Read this week’s TV round-up which includes the likes of Friday Night Dinner, Fargo and Wallander.

  • BBC reveals cast for The Casual Vacancy

    The cast for the BBC three-part mini-series is to consist of the likes of Michael Gambon, Rory Kinnear and Keeley Hawes.

  • Hay Festival 2014 to be broadcast on BBC

    The BBC has announced that it will broadcast Hay Festival of Literature on radio, television and online platforms this year. Events will be broadcast over BBC Radio stations 2, 3, 4, and 6 Music in addition to BBC Radio Wales and Radio Cymru. There will also be television coverage on BBC One’s The One Show and BBC World News. The annual festival, which […]

  • It’s official! Ripper Street is back thanks to Amazon

    Amazon commissions a third series of axed-BBC drama Ripper Street for their new Prime Instant Video streaming service.

  • Review: Silent Witness: In a Lonely Place Part 1

    The show moves to Scotland to unearth some dark and disturbing crimes.

  • Review: Silent Witness: Coup de Grace, Part 2

    The story concludes with a disappointingly predictable revelation, writes Barnaby Walter.

  • Sam Smith tops BBC’s Sound of 2014 poll

    Sam Smith is better known for his collaborations with Disclosure and Naughty Boy.

  • Bombay Bicycle Club – ‘Luna’

    Bombay Bicycle Club preview summery new track, ‘Luna’.

  • Banks is #3 in the BBC Sound of 2014

    Banks has come third in the BBC Sound of 2014 list.

  • Sampha is #4 in the BBC Sound of 2014

    Electronic & soul artist Sampha has been announced as #4 in the BBC Sound of 2014 list!

  • Philippa Gregory TV drama The White Queen will return

    With The White Queen a big success in the US, the American cable channel Starz decides to continue adapting the works of Philippa Gregory without the BBC.

  • Review: Silent Witness: Commodity, Part 2

    As this week’s complicated case concludes, Barnaby Walter wonders if audiences were left satisfied and why nobody ever turns the bloody lights on.

  • BBC considering reversing decision to axe Ripper Street

    After sparking outrage from viewers, the BBC are looking at the chances of enabling the show to return “but at better value to licence fee-payers”.