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Future seasons of Channel Four’s Shameless could run for shorter episodes due to budget cuts at the terrestrial broadcaster. The comedy-drama’s fifth season, which aired earlier this year, ran for 16 episodes and the sixth, expected to hit screens early next year, is expected to match that. However, any further seasons could be cut by as much as half. According to the […]

The BBC has been accused of ageism as plans to revamp the long running Sunday morning rural affairs show Countryfile has seen all of its middle-aged female presenters ‘Moria Stewart-ed’ from the show. MediaGuardian reports that Countryfile – which will be moving from its traditional Sunday morning slot to a new evening peak-time broadcast – has ditched all of its […]

  Following the highly successful and critically acclaimed one-off film broadcast earlier this year, The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency returns as a six-part series, based on Alexander McCall-Smith’s internationally best-selling novels. Filming has begun on location in Botswana for BBC One, HBO and The Weinstein Company.   The first-ever drama series filmed and set in Botswana, the six-part 60-minute series […]

  Find out what happens in the next episode of the popular CBBC series The Sarah Jane Adventures, a spin-off from Doctor Who starring Elisabeth Sladen.       The Temptation of Sarah Jane BBC One, Monday 1st December. 4.35 pm Part Two: Clyde and Rani, trapped in a devastated alternative world with the survivors of mankind, make a desperate […]

  Find out what dangers await the Survivors in the next episode of the re-imaged BBC drama series, based on the novelisation of the 1970s series by Terry Nation.     Episode Three BBC One, Tuesday 2nd December. 9pm   Abby stumbles across a community that could hold the key to everyone’s future, as Adrian Hodges’s re-imagining of the classic […]

  The dark series starring Martin Shaw as a priest continues on BBC One.       Episode Four BBC One, Thursday 4th December. 9pm.   Father Jacob is called to a woman’s health clinic where supernatural forces seem to be at work, as the drama continues. Sister Ruth is concerned about his involvement. Jacob passes a group of disabled […]

  Find out what happens in this week’s episodes of Heroes and Sanctuary.           Sanctuary [Week 49] Episode Eight: ITV4, Monday 1st December. 9pm   Will (Robin Dunne) gets a call from Joe Cavanaugh (Kavan Smith), a former colleague in the police force, who grudgingly concedes that his suspicious suicide case desperately needs Will’s rare expertise […]

  When Arthur kills a unicorn while out on a hunting trip, a curse descends on Camelot, as the magical family drama continues. Could this be the end for the mythic city?     Merlin: Episode Eleven BBC One, Saturday 29th November. 7.35 pm.      When Arthur kills a unicorn while out on a hunting trip, a curse descends […]

  In an interview with the breakfast magazine show GMTV Little Britain stars Matt Lucas and David Walliams confirm they’ll be doing another series of the American version of their hit sketch show.     In an interview with the breakfast magazine show GMTV Matt Lucas and David Walliams, stars of the BBC sketch show Little Britain, confirmed they’ll be […]