Benidorm will be back on ITV next year with nine brand new episodes. The award-winning comedy returned for a ninth season last week, winning its time slot with 4.9m viewers. Season 10 begins filming this month and will air on ITV in 2018, with legendary comedy duo Hale & Pace joining the cast as undercover detectives investigating Tim Healy’s character Les/Lesley, who … >
‘I was just showing off,’ admits Steve Pemberton’s character in ‘The Riddle Of The Sphinx’. The line may be a sly acknowledgment of he and co-creator Reece Shearsmith’s habit of often delivering a riddle wrapped up in a mystery, inside an enigma. This latest episode of Inside No 9 will be possibly one of the … >
David Walliams is adapting his children’s novel Ratburger for Sky1 with Gnomeo and Juliet writer Kevin Cecil. The adaptation will star the author alongside Sheridan Smith (Cilla), Mark Benton (Waterloo Road), Nigel Planer (The Young Ones) and Ben Bailey Smith (Law and Order: UK). Walliams commented: “I am thrilled my book is coming to Sky and especially … >
Witless will return to BBC Three for another season. Written by Lloyd Woolf and Joe Tucker, the hit comedy stars Kerry Howard (Him And Her) and Zoe Boyle (Downton Abbey) as flatmates Leanne and Rhona, whose lives are thrown into disarray after witnessing a gangland shooting. Witless launched in April 2016 and a second season premiered on BBC … >
‘The Phantom Menace was eighteen months ago, Tim.’ How time flies… Premiering on Channel 4 in 1999, Spaced brought nerdery into the light and sparked its own army of decade-spanning hardcore fans. Amongst them Quentin Tarantino. Ooh. Get them. Nearly eighteen years since the Spaced title graphic first whooshed onto our screens, here are CultBox’s … >
ITV has announced that the ninth season of Benidorm will begin next week. The award-winning comedy is back with nine brand new episodes. The new holiday season kicks off at the Solana resort with the return of two popular characters – Liam (Adam Gillen) and Sam (Shelley Longworth). The Dawsons arrive for a new holiday … >
You know the drill by now, so say it with us: if you haven’t yet seen the latest episode of Inside No 9 – titled ‘The Bill’ – then turn around now, get on iPlayer, and rectify the situation before doing anything else. The writing and performances are as strong as ever, and even in … >
Ill Behaviour, a new comedy thriller from the creator of Fresh Meat, will make its debut on BBC iPlayer as a box set later this year. Written by BAFTA-award winning Sam Bain (Peep Show), the three-part series will air also on BBC Two at a later date. Ill Behaviour stars Chris Geere (Waterloo Road), Tom Riley (Da Vinci’s Demons), Lizzy Caplan (Mean Girls), Jessica … >
As the dark nights draw in, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s anthology series Inside No. 9 returns for a third season. Pemberton has hinted that it’s quite a dark set of stories this time around, teasing that there are ‘two or three episodes where we’ve pushed the horror element.’ Regular viewers will be steeling themselves: … >
A third season of Inside No. 9 arrives on our TV screens this month, so let’s take a look back at its creators’ previous comedy venture, Psychoville. Psychoville was broadcast on BBC Two from 2009 to 2011, and its run consisted of two seasons and a Halloween special. The dark comedy thriller was the brainchild … >