Showing 376 - 390 of 576 articles tagged "BBC"

• Posted Wednesday 10/24/18 at 9:03PM EDT

  Amazon plans to remake Britain's DJ mockumentary People Just Do Nothing

  The BBC comedy series, about a group of DJs in a working-class suburb, has aired four seasons since 2014.

• Posted Wednesday 10/24/18 at 9:03PM EDT

  Bodyguard is thrilling and maddening, but never boring

  The six-episode BBC drama, which arrives on Netflix today, "succeeds almost immediately at setting the hook and then races for...

• Posted Monday 10/22/18 at 10:25PM EDT

  Doctor Who's Rosa Parks episode brought the franchise back to its educational roots

  When Doctor Who launched in 1963, it was intended to be an educational show for families as much as a...

• Posted Monday 10/22/18 at 10:08AM EDT

  Doctor Who delivered with a Rosa Parks episode that was hard to pull off

  "I’m not sure Doctor Who has ever faced a higher level of difficulty than it did with 'Rosa,'" says Caroline...

• Posted Monday 10/22/18 at 10:08AM EDT

  Top Gear announces new hosts

  With Matt LeBlanc stepping down, British comedian and TV host Paddy McGuinness will take over as host along with former...

• Posted Saturday 10/20/18 at 2:43AM EDT

  Toni Collette owns the screen on Netflix's Wanderlust

  Episodes of the six-part open-marriage drama from Netflix and BBC are markedly confident and finely cut -- a rarity for...

• Posted Wednesday 10/17/18 at 3:23PM EDT

  Jodie Whittaker's Doctor Who wax figure is a dead ringer

  Check out the lifelike wax replica unveiled by Madame Tussauds in Britain's Blackpool.

• Posted Monday 10/15/18 at 9:45AM EDT

  Dracula from Sherlock creators is coming to Netflix and BBC

  Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss will write and produce three 90-minute episodes that will re-introduce the world to Dracula, who...

• Posted Monday 10/15/18 at 9:45AM EDT

  Richard Gere: The world of TV and movies "has turned upside down"

  Gere was promoting his first major TV series, BBC's MotherFatherSon, at Cannes on Monday when he said of working on...

• Posted Monday 10/15/18 at 9:45AM EDT

  Doctor Who unveils trippy new title sequence

  The kaleidoscopic new title sequence is the creation of John Smith, a visual effects artist, who created his own opening...

• Posted Thursday 10/11/18 at 7:53PM EDT

  BBC pledges to bring more female stories to TV following the success of Jodie Whittaker's Doctor Who

  "45% of the dramas we've commissioned at the BBC in the last two years are from female writers… It's not...

• Posted Wednesday 10/10/18 at 10:46PM EDT

  Doctor Who gets the "Honest Trailers" treatment

  While mocking the modern version of the BBC franchise, the Honest Trailer on Doctor Who manages to educate newcomers, explaining...

• Posted Wednesday 10/10/18 at 1:29PM EDT

  Helen Hunt to lead the cast of BBC's epic World War II drama World on Fire

  The Oscar-winning Mad About You alum is set to return to TV in World on Fire in a yet-to-be-revealed role.

• Posted Tuesday 10/09/18 at 6:10PM EDT

  NBC plans to remake Whites, the 2010 British kitchen workplace sitcom

  BBC opted to cancel Whites after one six-episode season in fall 2010.

• Posted Tuesday 10/09/18 at 12:15PM EDT

  What made Jodie Whittaker's Doctor Who debut so impressive was that it was an extremely typical episode

  "When Whittaker’s casting was announced, legions of Whovians made both their excitement and displeasure known," says Caroline Framke.