Brenda Blethyn first pulled on the distinctive fishing hat, scarf and gabardine coat back in 2010 when episode one of Vera started filming in the North East for ITV. Now, after 14 years and more than 50 episodes the award winning actress has confirmed she’s stepping down from the role of DCI Vera Stanhope after …
The Red King may have only just hit our screens, but a second series is already at the top of writer Toby Whithouse’s to-do list. Well, nearly at the top, once he’s finished reviving Bergerac for UKTV. In a week where it was confirmed that iconic ITV detective, Vera will be hanging up her hat …
If I was to produce a list of things that might tempt my wife to watch a new show, ‘zombie apocalypse’ and ‘based on a Playstation game’ would appear very near to the bottom of it, sandwiched somewhere between ‘features graphic scenes of seal clubbing’ and ‘presented by Joey Barton’. And yet, for nine weeks …
The true story of a young orphaned choirboy, whose scribbled plea to be remembered was found more than 100 years after he wrote it, will be told in a new BBC audio play. North East production company Sister Sounds have produced William’s Castle which will be broadcast on Radio 4 on the afternoon of April …
The guildhall on Newcastle Quayside was full to capacity on the morning of March 5, 1829, for the trial of a woman charged with murdering her mother. Jane Jamieson was accused of killing her mother with a poker in the town’s Keelman’s Hospital. On Sunday March 24 history will repeat itself with two performances at …
The Thick Of It is a British sitcom that lifted the lid on the inner workings and backroom hustles of the Government, as imagined by creator and chief writer Armando Iannucci. The show was first broadcast in 2005 when New Labour were in power and had gifted the term Spin Doctor to the world at …
The Bear tells the story of a revered and award winning chef, Carmen Berzatto Jeremy Allen White), who returns to his home town of Chicago to run a sandwich shop left to him after the suicide of his addict brother Mikey. The kitchen Carmen inherits is being run in a perpetual state of chaos and …
In the Summer of 2017 Ellis Short, chairman of newly relegated Sunderland football club, agreed to allow production company Fulwell 73 (named in homage to the club via the road next to its former Roker Park ground) extensive behind the scenes access to the team’s push for promotion straight back into the Premier League. Short …
The Handmaid’s Tale is based on the famous dystopian novel of the same name by the celebrated Canadian author Margaret Atwood. It tells the story of an America where the government has been overthrown by a totalitarian movement that hides behind religious dogma and is hellbent on removing women’s reproductive rights. Apparently in 1985, this …
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