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Steven Knight's latest drama offering is making its way to the BBC this weekend following the worldwide success of Birmingham-based gangster thriller, Peaky Blinders.Knight's work on Peaky made several of its stars household names across the globe, with leading star Cillian Murphy nowadays dominating the awards circuit after landing the titular role in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer. This time around, Knight has returned to the West Midlands and once again travelled […]

BBC’s new drama This Town, the brainchild of Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, is hitting screens on Monday.Levi Brown, who stars as protagonist Dante Williams in the six-part series, opened up about an injury he received while filming the drama.The programme, filmed in the Birmingham area, tells the story of an extended family and group of youngsters who are drawn into the Midlands’ two-tone music scene at the dawn of […]

Sam Taylor-Johnson has responded to the criticism she and her husband Aaron Taylor-Johnson have received over their 24-year age gap. The couple has the spotlight on them once again after he has been rumoured to be the next James Bond, whilst she is currently directing the upcoming Amy Winehouse biopic. The pair met back in 2009 on set of the film Nowhere Boy, and at the time the Bullet Train […]

Time is running out to watch exclusive live channels, award-winning boxsets and everything in the Netflix catalogue for £0. Sky TV will cut-off new customers from taking out its 30-day free trial at 11.59pm on March 31.Order before midnight on March 31 and you'll get a Sky Stream box with access to 100+ live channels in HD and a Netflix subscription. Cancel anytime during the 30-day free trial period and […]

The BBC has been accused of “abandoning” Britain’s Christian faith after it made the decision to axe a traditional Easter service broadcast.The programme, which would have broadcast a traditional religious service from King’s College, Cambridge, was dropped in favour of religious coverage elsewhere across the broadcaster’s platforms.King’s College Easter service has been a staple of the BBC lineup for more than a decade, having been shown on television since 2010.Following […]

Former Gladiators presenter John Fashanu has given an open and honest verdict on his friendship with Ulrika Jonsson after the pair spent five years together on the BBC sports competition show.After Fashanu left in 1997, Jonsson continued presenting the show until 2000 where it was eventually pulled off air. The high-intensity sports game show came with a lot of competition but also friendships between Fashanu, Jonsson and the Gladiators. At […]

Sir David Attenborough has lauded the BBC and the licence fee ahead of its price rise and his own return to screens.As part of the BBC Studios' natural history unit (NHU), Attenborough and his team have spent the past five years filming and piecing together upcoming docu-series Mammals. Premiering on Sunday, March 31, Attenborough's latest project comes just days before the BBC plans to increase the licence fee in April.The […]

A former BBC chairman has suggested that the license should be means-tested so that lower-income households pay "less than those people who are well off".Richard Sharp said everyone should be able to access BBC content - and subsidised accordingly.The 68-year-old added that the corporation offers much more than rival platforms such as Netflix.It comes after director-general of the BBC, Tim Davie announced plans to look into a licence fee reform.Richard […]

Louis Gossett Jr has died at the age of 87, it's been announced.The Oscar-winning actor's cause of death is yet to be confirmed but he announced in 2010 that he'd been diagnosed with prostate cancer.His cousin Neal L Gossett confirmed the news, telling AP: "Never mind the awards, never mind the glitz and glamor, the Rolls-Royces and the big houses in Malibu."It’s about the humanity of the people that he […]