It’s official: Little Britain is coming back to TV next week. Co-creators Matt Lucas and David Walliams have confirmed to the BBC that they’ll reunite for for the network’s coronavirus charity special The Big Night In. They haven’t said which characters they’ll play in the sketch, which will be the first time Little Britain has […]
Are you ready for a return visit to Little Britain? Because the show’s co-creator David Walliams says it’s “definitely” coming back. Walliams and co-creator Matt Lucas reunited last fall for a one-off radio special, Little Brexit, and now they’re planning to revive their classic characters again. “I would say there will definitely be some more […]
Sir Michael Caine has signed up to play Fagin in a new big screen adaptation of Oliver Twist. Simply titled Twist, the movie is being billed as a “modern interpretation” of the classic Charles Dickens story. The title character is being reimagined as a “streetwise artist living on the streets of modern-day London,” makers Sky […]
We last saw Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler on-screen together in 2011’s romantic comedy Just Go With It. The two are teaming up again for the 2019 Netflix original movie called Murder Mystery, reports ComingSoon.net. The first look photo, released via Netflix, is making the rounds online: https://twitter.com/etnow/status/1119372603360047104 The modern day whodunit follows a NYC […]
“The God Complex” is the second Doctor Who story in a row in which Amy Pond’s survival relies on testing her faith in the Doctor to beyond endurance. This time he has to break her trust entirely in order to save her life, and rather than this leaving a lasting impact on Amy, it seems to […]
Despite being one of the most famous authors of all time, Agatha Christie has sometimes been criticized for featuring stale gender stereotypes in her books and plays. But in fact, she fought Victorian literary conventions, which saw women painted as frivolous and focused on men, to bring the public gutsy females with great minds. Christie’s […]
Next Friday (March 13) the BBC enlists the help of celebrities, actors, musicians and the British public as part of their Red Nose Day telethon, to raise money for the charity Comic Relief. Regular followers of British TV will remember this is often a chance to get some A-listers in to take part in sketches […]
True Anglophiles will either already have an idea who Adrian Mole is, or will have an enormous treat ahead of them when they find out. Whereas anyone who lived in Britain during the ’80s and ’90s will already know, and will be saddened by the news that his creator, Sue Townsend, has died at the […]
It’s not nice to talk down to people, so if you are of any age between ten and twenty and any of these suggestions are simply too young for you, that is fine. But there is a skyful of exciting worlds to explore, a galaxy of astonishing British literature for children who are old enough […]
Director Mike Newell’s film adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, starring the Britished up cast of Jeremy Irvine (War Horse), Toby Irvine, Holliday Grainger (The Borgias), Ralph Fiennes, Robbie Coltrane, Sally Hawkins, Jason Flemyng, William Ellis, David Walliams and 2013 Anglo Fan Favorite semifinalist Helena Bonham Carter, has been on the shelf for an entire year but great […]