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There’s a new trailer for World on Fire, the Masterpiece war drama from The A Word’s Peter Bowker that bows Sunday, October 15, on PBS.

The series looks at World War II through the eyes of ordinary people from all sides of the conflict. The new seven-episode season will follow the first year of the war, starting with the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and ending with the Battle of Britain.

The cast includes Lesley Manville (The Crown), Jonah Hauer-King (The Little Mermaid), Ahad Raza Mir (Resident Evil), Mark Bonnar (Guilt) and Gregg Sulkin (Runaways).

In 2019, PBS joined the BBC for a second season of the drama that starred Helen Hunt as a war correspondent. Season 2 has already dropped in the U.K, where viewers have noticed the absence of Hunt, as well as Sean Bean, Arthur Darvill and Brian J. Smith — due to a combination of scheduling...

Hit BBC drama “Happy Valley” will come to an end after its third season.

Sally Wainwright’s BAFTA-winning series — an early British drama success story that sold to broadcasters around the world and landed on Netflix in the U.S. and other key markets — will shoot season 3 in and around West Yorkshire in 2022, the BBC confirmed on Tuesday. While a third, six-episode round of the policing series has always been on the cards, Wainwright’s busy writing schedule has left a considerable gap since season 2 last aired on the BBC in 2016, and the creator was keen to get a next season of HBO-bbc drama “Gentleman Jack” out of the way before tackling season 3.

For its final season, production on “Happy Valley” is changing hands, with BBC Studios-backed Lookout Point taking over from Studiocanal’s Red, a longtime Wainwright collaborator until recent years. Lookout Point will co-produce with AMC Networks,...

Exclusive: Billions’ Damian Lewis and The Affair alum Dominic West are in negotiations to headline and executive produce a limited series adaptation of bestselling Cold War espionage thriller A Spy Among Friends for Spectrum Originals and UK streamer BritBox.

The six-episode A Spy Among Friends, based on Ben Macintyre’s book, comes from former Homeland executive producer Alexander Cary, Sony Pictures Television and ITV Studios. It is tentatively scheduled to premiere in the fall of 2021.

A Spy Among Friends follows the defection of notorious British intelligence officer and Kgb double agent, Kim Philby (West), through the lens of his complex relationship with MI6 colleague and close friend, Nicholas Elliott (Lewis). The show examines espionage through their friendship, the fallout of which affects East-West relations to this day.

Philby was a British spy who notoriously defected to the Soviet Union in the 1950s, betraying secrets to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War.

Exclusive: PBS is joining the BBC for a second season of Helen Hunt-fronted war drama World on Fire and has set a premiere date for the first season.

The U.S. public broadcaster will air the first season on Sunday April 5 2020 on its Masterpiece strand but has already signed up to co-produce the second season of the period thriller ahead of its TX.

Earlier today, the BBC revealed that it had renewed the series, produced by Victoria producer Mammoth Screen, following the UK finale.

World on Fire is written by The A Word’s Peter Bowker; it is a multi-stranded drama that looks at World War II through the eyes of ordinary people from all sides of the conflict. The first seven-episode season will follow the first year of the war, starting with the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and ending with the Battle of Britain.

It stars...

The BBC has launched its first look trailer for its upcoming high-end Second World War drama “World On Fire.” The seven-part series stars rising British actors Jonah Hauer-King and Julia Brown alongside an impressive ensemble that includes Academy Award-winner Helen Hunt, Oscar-nominee Lesley Manville, and Sean Bean – who all feature in the action-packed trailer.

Peter Bowker’s drama follows the first year of the Second World War, told through the intertwining fates of ordinary people drawn from Britain, Poland, France, Germany and the U.S. as they grapple with the effect of the war on their everyday lives.

The cast also includes Zofia Wichłacz, Brian J. Smith, Parker Sawyers, Tomasz Kot, Bruno Alexander, Johannes Zeiler, Eugénie Derouand, and “Doctor Who” and “D.C.’s Legends of Tomorrow” star Arthur Darvill. The project was first announced in October 2018.

Bowker serves as executive producer alongside Damien Timmer and Helen Ziegler for Mammoth Screen,...

“Every war is different until it’s the same…” The BBC and PBS have unveiled the first trailer (below) for period war drama World on Fire.

Helen Hunt and Sean Bean star in the series, written by The A Word’s Peter Bowker and produced by Victoria producer Mammoth Screen. Launching later this year on BBC One and recently acquired by the U.S. public broadcaster for its Masterpiece strand, the series is a multi-stranded drama that looks at World War II through the eyes of ordinary people from all sides of the conflict.

The first seven-episode season will follow the first year of the war, starting with the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and ending with the Battle of Britain.

The cast also includes Lesley Manville (Mum), Jonah Hauer-King (Little Women) and Julia Brown (The Last Kingdom), Polish Academy Award-winner Zofia Wichłacz (Warsaw 44) and Brian J. Smith (Sense8...

PBS has acquired Helen Hunt-fronted British drama World on Fire. The public broadcaster will air the BBC series, which is produced by Victoria producer Mammoth Screen on its Masterpiece strand.

The announcement was made by Masterpiece Executive Producer Rebecca Eaton at the TCA summer press tour.

The drama is written by The A Word’s Peter Bowker; it is a multi-stranded drama that looks at World War II through the eyes of ordinary people from all sides of the conflict. The first seven-episode season will follow the first year of the war, starting with the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and ending with the Battle of Britain.

It stars Hunt as a “complicated” war correspondent as well as Sean Bean Jonah Hauer-King (Little Women) and Julia Brown (The Last Kingdom), Polish Academy Award-winner Zofia Wichłacz (Warsaw 44) and Brian J. Smith (Sense8) along with Parker Sawyers (The Autopsy of Jane Doe...

Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings star Sean Bean is joining the cast of BBC One drama World on Fire.

The actor will star alongside Helen Hunt (As Good As It Gets) and Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) in the seven-part World War II epic.

Also joining the cast is A Very English Scandal and The Inbetweeners star Blake Harrison, Yrsa Daley-Ward (Today Will Burn), Ansu Kabia (The Long Song) and Ewan Mitchell (The Last Kingdom).

The Mammoth Screen-produced drama is written by The A Word’s Peter Bowker. It is a multi-stranded drama that looks at World War II through the eyes of ordinary people from all sides of the conflict. The first seven-episode season will follow the first year of the war, starting with the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and ending with the Battle of Britain.

Polish Academy Award-winner Zofia Wichłacz (Warsaw 44) and Brian J. Smith...

Helen Hunt is to star in Mammoth Screen’s BBC One WWII drama World on Fire.

The As Good As It Gets and Mad About You star will lead the cast alongside Phantom Thread’s Lesley Manville and rising British stars Jonah Hauer-King (Little Women) and Julia Brown (The Last Kingdom).

The epic drama is written by The A Word’s Peter Bowker. It is a multi-stranded drama that looks at World War II through the eyes of ordinary people from all sides of the conflict. The first seven-episode season will follow the first year of the war, starting with the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and ending with the Battle of Britain.

Also joining the cast is Polish Academy Award-winner Zofia Wichłacz (Warsaw 44) and Brian J. Smith (Sense8) along with Parker Sawyers (The Autopsy of Jane Doe), Tomasz Kot (Cold War), Bruno Alexander (Eden), Johannes Zeiler (Faust) and...

Lucan focuses on the life of Lord Lucan, aka Richard John Bingham, the 7th Earl of Lucan, a suspected murderer who disappeared without trace in 1974. ITV has commissioned the two-part drama which examines the events surrounding the bludgeoning death of Lucan’s children’s nanny Sandra Rivett, after which the Lord escaped a police search. Rory Kinnear (Skyfall) will play Lucan whose whereabouts and eventual fate have remained a mystery for nearly 40 years. The movie will also tell the story of Lucan’s exploits as a member of the Clermont Set, a group of British high-rollers who regularly met in a Mayfair casino. Christopher Eccleston and Michael Gambon also star. Jeff Pope, whose credits include the upcoming Philomena, wrote the screenplay. The drama is produced by ITV Studios/GroupM Entertainment. Exec producers are Pope, Francis Hopkinson (Wallander), Quentin Curtis, Richard Foster and Tony Moulsdale. Producer is Chris Clough. Adrian Shergold...

These Doctor Who stories are flashing before my eyes at a fair old pace. It seems like only yesterday that I was reviewing 20th anniversary tale The Five Doctors. Now it's the turn of 25th anniversary story Silver Nemesis. Given the lightning speed passing of time, it'll probably seem like days before I'll be sitting before a 50th anniversary special. Given the Gold anniversary, it'll probably be set on the planet of Voga, as an army of Axons do battle with the natives and The Doctor – presumably to the strains of the dreary Spandau Ballet dirge, which always sounds to me like an elephant's got stuck halfway down a water slide at a swimming pool for yuppies.

Too bad then that Silver Nemesis doesn't quite live up to the high expectations of being the official 25th anniversary story. Don't get me wrong, it's reasonably entertaining fare, but there's a whole host of problems lurking around.

Everywhere we look, it seems like we're constantly told what films we should love. Visit a bookshop, and there will be at least half a dozen brick-sized tomes purporting to be the definitive guide of the Quintessential Films That You Should See In Your Next 50 Lifetimes. Not only that, but TV channels are also getting in on the act by listing the Top 100 Films Of All Time, during which the likes of Paul Ross or Nikki from Big Brother 7 chat inanely about the first time that they saw The Phantom Menace or some other movie “classic”.

Why bother with all that though? Both lists would take a good few hours to wade through, so instead, how's about tracking down a copy of season 24 closer, Dragonfire?

Yes, really. Dragonfire has so many visual and textual references to past classic films that you half expect Barry Norman to have penned the story.

The proverbial has hit the fan in a big way for the 6th Doctor. Despite his good intentions with the Vervoid evidence, he's now on a charge of mass genocide, after he reduced the walking plants to a pile of leaves on a sunny Autumn day.

Naturally, this is fantastic news for the Valeyard, whose mania has reached red-faced proportions. It's becoming fast obvious that The Valeyard is up to no good – the black-clad buffoon has just revealed his real dastardly self by starting to laugh evilly at regular intervals. Yes, how to give the game away in one fell swoop – start to go “Bwa ha haah!” – after all that hard work building up a credible case against The Doctor, The Valeyard's just committed professional suicide.

But at least the trial's starting to finally get somewhere. Better still, The Doctor's managed to nab some help from the most unlikely source.

More than halfway into The Trial Of A Time Lord, and The Doctor's not a happy camper. Not only is he being hectored by Judge Doom on a constant basis, he's also trying to come to terms with the loss of Peri, whose attempts to pre-empt the Mitchell Brothers from EastEnders were cruelly thwarted by an angry Yrcanos. No wonder he starts the ninth instalment with a face longer than Jimmy Hill's chin.

But that Dunkirk spirit slowly manifests itself as The Doctor now begins His defence. It's an odd choice – he evidently thinks that being an outer space Hercule Poirot will somehow absolve himself of all the charges laid against him. So welcome to the Murder On The Orient Express In Space portion of the trial, which is better known as Terror Of The Vervoids.

Now Doctor Who has attempted murder-mystery dramas in the past, with the likes...

It’s using some of the money released by cancelling the show for two new comedy drama series. Channel 4 paid £60-65 million in a three-year deal for the Big Brother rights. Big Brother was thought to be moving across to Five but I understand talks between producer Endemol and Five have now stalled. (Endemol declined comment.) Beaver Falls, a new 6-part show for digital channel E4, follows three British lads who con their way into an American summer camp for the ridiculously beautiful offspring of Manhattan’s rich and powerful. The camp thinks it’s getting three British blue-bloods. (Hang on, I can feel a Us remake coming on already...) The show is executive produced by Charlie Pattinson for Company Pictures (Skins, Shameless), produced by Liz Lewin and created by Iain Hollands. Naked Apes, which is being made for the main channel, is also a 6-parter about the lives,...

Further to our exclusive "Skins" casting call November 19, 2009, MTV reports that the new North American version of the sexy, UK teen soap series "Skins" will start lensing the first of 10 one-hour episodes in Toronto this month.

Created by father and son team Bryan Elsley and Jamie Brittain for Stormdog Films, "Skins" will feature an ensemble cast "...as they navigate complex relationships, the politics of friendship and difficulties of daily life in their formative years..."

In 2009, MTV secured the rights to create a North American version of the original UK "Skins" series, now in its 5th season, with 'unknown' teenagers cast in lead roles and 'real' teens contributing to the creative structure of each episode.

The UK series, airing on E4 won the 2009 'BAFTA Audience Award' and 'Best Drama Series' @ the 2008 Broadcast Awards.

"Skins" is co-produced by E1 Entertainment and Company Pictures, a division of ALL3MEDIA, the same company that...

Further to our exclusive Skins casting call November 19, 2009, MTV reports that the new North American version of the sexy, UK teen soap series Skins will start lensing the first of 10 one-hour episodes in Toronto this month. Created by father and son team Bryan Elsley and Jamie Brittain for Stormdog Films, Skins will feature an ensemble cast "...as they navigate complex relationships, the politics of friendship and difficulties of daily life in their formative years..." In 2009, MTV secured the rights to create a North American version of the original UK Skins series, now in its 5th season, with 'unknown' teenagers cast in lead roles and 'real' teens contributing to the creative structure of each episode. The UK series, airing on E4 won the 2009 'BAFTA Audience Award' and 'Best Drama Series' @ the 2008 Broadcast Awards. Skins is co-produced by E1 Entertainment and Company Pictures, a division of ALL3MEDIA, the same company that...

First rumoured a year ago, a film version of the British teenage drama series "Skins" is finally moving forward reports The BBC.

The E4 and Channel 4 series follows a group of teens in their final two years of pre-College schooling who are trying to grow up and find love and happiness despite questionable parenting and teachers who more want to be friends (and lovers) rather than authority figures.

The show, which frankly deals with teen sex and drug use, starred the likes of Dev Patel ("Slumdog Millionaire"), Nicholas Hoult ("About a Boy") and Jack O'Connell ("Eden Lake"). The show is notable for completely changing its entire cast every two seasons to follow a new batch of kids.

Company Pictures, Stormdog Films, CinemaNX and Film4 are jointly developing the sub-£20 million project which will shoot on location in Bristol and the Isle of Man starting in September for a release...

Channel 4 confirms that it's pressing ahead with a movie of its teen drama, Skins...

The success of Bristol-set teen drama Skins continues to build and build. A fifth and sixth series were commissioned by E4 in March, and on the back of the series' continuously rising audience figures, Film4, along with producers Company Pictures and Stormdog Films, have confirmed that a Skins movie is due to go into production later this year.

The involvement of Skins writer Jack Thorne and series creator Brian Elsley have been confirmed for the feature, as have director Charles Martin and producer Chris Clough. Shooting is set to begin in Bristol and the Isle of Man this year, with a target release pencilled in for next summer.

With Skins confirmed for the big screen, surely it's only a matter of time before we see Grange Hill being given a feature length reboot? Any takers?...

London -- British television teenage drama "Skins" is growing up to become a movie scripted by series writer Jack Thorne and show creator Bryan Elsley.

The big screen treatment is being backed and developed by Film4, the standalone filmmaking arm of Channel 4 which currently broadcasts the hit show on its digital channel E4.

U.K. film and television production labels Company Pictures and Stormdog Films and sales, finance and distribution house Cinemanx are also backing the ambitions.

The television show, now four seasons old, has been heralded by viewers and critics alike as a ground-breaking portrayal of teenage life in the U.K. complete with controversial drug taking scenes, sex and drinking featuring heavily in the show.

The movie is scheduled to go into production later this year in Bristol and the Isle of Man and backers said it will feature many of the familiar characters from the four seasons.