After a brilliant first season and with a second on the way HBO’s Emmy-nominated fantasy drama Game of Thrones continues to expand its already huge cast and we noticed that it’s a veritable Brit fest! I was half expecting to get a call myself there’s that many Brits arriving in season 2. With loads of…
British author Neil Gaiman has confirmed that he is due to start work on adapting his novel ‘American Gods’ for a TV series to be made by HBO. Gaiman who is believed by many to have breathed new life in to the graphic novel genre is probably best know for his graphic novel series, The…
The BAFTA award winning drama Criminal Justice, first shown on BBC1 in the UK in 2008 is to be remade for American broadcaster HBO. The US remake will be re-written for a US audience by Steve Zaillian (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) and The Wire’s Richard Price. The original show was written by Brit…
BBC 2 and HBO are working together to turn the Robert Graves historical novel I, Claudius into a new miniseries. The book which was first published back in 1934 tells the history of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty and Roman Empire with all it’s madness, murder and backstabbing as seen by Claudius who later became emperor. The…
Good news if you are a fan of the the shows The Borgias or Game of Thrones with their (nearly) all Brit casts, as both Showtime & HBO have confirmed that second seasons are on the way. The Borgias, created by Irish director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) was officially renewed yesterday for a second…
A few weeks ago we brought word that British graphic novelist and author Neil Gaiman was having his brilliant award winning America Gods adapted for the big screen. Further news reports now indicate the book may end up as an HBO series as deadline.com announced the project was brought to HBO by Playtone partners Tom…
British Oscar winning actress Kate Winslet will be appearing in HBO television mini series Mildred Pierce. Premiering on March 27th at 9pm ET. Starring alongside Kate will be Guy Pierce, Rachel Evan Wood and Brian O’Byrne and this years Oscar winner for Best Supporting actress Melissa Leo. Mildred Pierce is the story of a single…
A Game of Thrones is a HBO series based on the first book in A Song Of Ice And Fire, a series of fantasy novels by American author George R.R. Martin. In 2009 HBO filmed a pilot episode of the television adaptation and now follows the ten episode series expected to premiere in April 2011. This is the…
HBO have released a trailer and two preview interviews for the second series of The Ricky Gervais Show. The show is an animated version of the record breaking podcasts that Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant made with their former radio show producer Karl Pilkington. In their original radio show Karl only made brief appearances but Ricky and Stephen found the…
We’ve already made our suggestion for TV highlight of the week however we feel we need to add a second recommendation. The co-creator and star of The Office (the original British version) is doing the talk show rounds this week promoting his special stand up show Out Of England 2, on HBO this Saturday December…
November 21 will see the release of the remastered version of the album Some Girls (1978) by The Rol…
Having held one of the most massive and epic tours in the history of world stadium rock, U2 are rele…
We have three copies of this amazing BBC Drama DVD to giveaway. Through three parts and three of Bri…
I don’t think you can go too wrong when you have two unbelievable British dramas, one old, one…
Three great movies arriving on DVD this week. There is urban action, urban comedy and something comp…
Having been on tour for almost two years with their hugely successful fifth studio album The Resista…
If you don’t know already, the new Coldplay album Mylo Xyloto gets released today! The bands f…
With a couple of new British movies out this week it was no surprise to see a number of Brits hittin…
Rihanna and Calvin Harris stay at the top of the British singles chart this week as The Wanted almos…
You may remember last year British comedian Catherine Tate appearing on the US version of The Office…
