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18 May

Why The Woman in the Window Fails to Channel Alfred Hitchcock

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This article contains The Woman in the Window spoilers. Joe Wright’s The Woman in the Window is not shy about its Hitchcockian influence. It’s there in both subtle and overt ways from the very first scene. During one of the film’s opening shots, the camera pans around Amy Adams’ ridiculously spacious New York City brownstone and passes a television screen that is inexplicably playing the ending to Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954) in slow-motion, with Jimmy Stewart wrestling against the grip of an out-of-frame Raymond Burr. With a very similar premise to Rear Window—a slightly deranged New Yorker pries into…
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12 Jan

New British Comedy TV Series for 2021: BBC, Channel 4, Sky, Netflix, ITV

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An inter-generational zombie horror-comedy, an Alan Partridge-presented travelogue, Rowan Atkinson fighting a bee… 2021 British TV comedy is a broad church, and that’s before we’ve come to all the stand-ups slicing up their Edinburgh shows into streaming half-hours and Daisy May Cooper playing a 17th century witch. Here’s the info about those new shows and more. This list will be kept updated through the year as new commissions, casting and release dates arrive. Here’s a look back at the new British comedies that arrived in 2020, here are the new British dramas on their way this year, and here are…
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12 Jan

New British comedy TV series from 2020: BBC, Channel 4, Sky, Dave, Amazon, Netflix

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2020 in British TV comedy brought us Maisie Williams as a kickass survivalist in a pickle, and a new parenting comedy from the hugely talented Simon Blackwell and Chris Addison starring Martin Freeman. To add to that, there was also a fresh batch of comedians playing exaggerated versions of themselves in self-penned sitcoms, including Katherine Ryan, Mae Martin, Sara Pascoe, Kayleigh Llewellyn, Lucy Beaumont and Jon Richardson.  Here’s the skinny on all those new shows and more. Here’s what arrived in 2019, and here are the new British TV dramas that arrived in 2020. Breeders After their excellent 2014 relationship comedy Trying…
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04 Jan

New British TV Series for 2021: BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky Dramas and More

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Among the detective dramas and high-stakes thrillers due to arrive on British television in the next year or so, there are a clutch of sci-fi, supernatural and horror shows also coming our way. They include Sky One’s Intergalactic – the story of a wrongly imprisoned galactic pilot who breaks out of space jail with a gang of other high-security female prisoners – and Netflix’s fantasy novel adaptations Half Bad, Cuckoo Song, Lockwood & Co.,and The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – respectively, tales of witches, supernatural pacts, ghost-hunters, and a woman who jumps between bodies in her quest to solve…
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23 Oct

Stath Lets Flats Series 3: Channel 4 Renews its Funniest* Comedy

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Netflix may be busily wielding the scythe of cancellation (give us back our GLOW, you curs) while Covid-19 is doing its level best to mess up all that’s good in the world (Peaky Blinders, cinemas, and holding hands with strangers on the bus) but thanks to Channel 4, there’s hope on the horizon. Stath Lets Flats is officially returning for a third series. And he hasn’t even had an egg for energy or nothing. The comedy’s three-Bafta win earlier this year gives the renewal news a ‘well, dur’ slant. If the cast were up for it, of course Channel 4…
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18 Oct

The Osbournes: Night of Terror to Horrify Travel Channel on Oct. 30

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“What is this that stands before me,” Ozzy Osbourne asked on the song “Black Sabbath” by his band Black Sabbath. “Figure in black which points at me. Turn ’round quick and start to run. Find out I’m the chosen one.” Yes, The Prince of Darkness himself was picked to appear on Travel Channel’s two-hour special, The Osbournes: Night of Terror. This will be the first time Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne join their offspring Jack and Kelly Osbourne on their first-ever paranormal investigation together. The Osbournes: Night of Terror premieres Friday, Oct. 30 at 9 p.m. The event is part of…
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15 Oct

Link Tank: Fun Facts About Disney Channel’s Halloweentown

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Remember Halloweentown, one of Disney Channel’s original movies? Check out some fun facts about this spooky season classic! “For Disney Channel Original Movie fans, spooky season can only mean one thing: It’s time to watch Halloweentown. The 1998 film about teenager who discovers her grandmother is a witch who lives in another magnificently monstrous dimension is a Disney Halloween classic. Here are 13 facts about the beloved four-movie franchise.” Read more at Mental Floss. Our bodies’ nutritional needs change as we age. Check out these five tips on what to eat and how to properly maintain a healthy diet. “Protein…
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10 Oct

The Holzer Files Season 2 Returns to Travel Channel on Oct. 29

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The Holzer Files season 2 went through reams of files to choose all-new investigations into Hans Holzer’s paranormal mysteries. The investigative series launches with a special Halloween week premiere on Thursday, Oct. 29 at 11 p.m. ET. The team, led by investigator Dave Schrader, psychic medium Cindy Kaza, equipment technician Shane Pittman and researcher Gabe Roth, investigates true hauntings from the recently discovered case files of America’s first ghost hunter, Dr. Hans Holzer. “We knew when we greenlit The Holzer Files, we had something special on our hands, but we didn’t realize just how much of a paranormal pandora’s box…
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01 Oct

Classic 1970s Horror Movies Coming to Criterion Channel in October

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It’s a great time to be a horror fan. Not only are Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video and Shudder awash with all kinds of horror movies old and new, but the Criterion Channel is getting in on the gruesome action with a month’s worth of horror titles from the 1970s. The subscription service is the digital offshoot of the Criterion Collection, which for more than 35 years has been providing definitive archival home video versions (first on laserdisc, then later DVD and Blu-ray) of classic and contemporary films from around the world. Criterion launched its streaming service last year as…
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18 Sep

Travel Channel Announces Third Annual Ghostober Event

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If you’re afraid sticky-fingered children will invade your social distancing to get at your favorite candy, lock the doors and tune into “Ghostober.” Halloween rules again all month long on Travel Channel. Its third annual paranormal programming event takes viewers on “spine-chilling adventures to the other side – where tales of poltergeists, ghostly creatures, demons and even a few legends will keep you company,” according to their press statement. Travel Channel’s “Ghostober” begins Sept. 27 and runs until Halloween. “Halloween is Travel Channel’s Superbowl, and with more people at home than ever before, we plan to deliver an over-the-top slate…
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17 Sep

The Walking Dead Launches Live Streaming Channel on Twitch

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For a show that just technically called it quits, The Walking Dead isn’t showing much signs of death just yet. AMC Networks and Twitch today announced the creation of a new live streaming Twitch channel which will house a whole host of TWD content called The Walking Dead Universe.  The Walking Dead Universe will be an online location for fans to gather and discuss The Walking Dead franchise while taking in some live original content produced by AMC. The Twitch page is live now and advertising a “Launch Party” at 3 p.m. PT on Sept. 20. AMC has partnered with…
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11 Sep

Taskmaster Series 10: First Trailer Pokes Fun at Channel 4 Dropping Show Years Ago

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Like that guy who didn’t sign The Beatles and those publishers who turned down the first Harry Potter book, Channel 4 must have spent some portion of the last five years kicking itself. A little kick every time Taskmaster – the comedy show it developed but then let go – was nominated for a Bafta, another little kick every time the show set a ratings record for its home on digital channel Dave, and yet another kick every time the show received a giddy press write-up. Kick no more, Channel 4. Taskmaster is once again yours. After airing nine series…
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10 Aug

New British TV Series for 2020: BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky Dramas and More

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On top of the returning British dramas expected back in the coming year (His Dark Materials, Marcella and Unforgotten to name just three), below are the many, many, many new UK TV series we’re hoping to see arrive in 2020 and beyond. You’ll find original drama from Russell T. Davies, a new space-set sci-fi from Sky, true crime series, contemporary thrillers and the usual hefty number of literary adaptations and period dramas coming your way. Here’s the same for all the new British comedy on its way in 2020. We’ll keep this list updated as new commissions, casting news, broadcast details…
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24 Jul

Devil’s Road: The True Story of Ed and Lorraine Warren to Open Shock Docs on Travel Channel

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Ed Warren was a self-taught ghost hunter, and his wife Lorraine was a spiritual medium, and their mythology led to the classic horror films The Amityville Horror and The Conjuring. The paranormal pioneers will be featured in Travel Channel’s upcoming Devil’s Road: The True Story of Ed and Lorraine Warren. The two-hour special is the first in a new umbrella series called Shock Docs, which are scheduled to air throughout the fall. The special premieres on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 7. “In these ‘shockumentaries,’ we start at the beginning and explore why these places and cases remain the most famous…
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10 Jun

Best NOW TV documentaries: the Sky Documentaries Channel Content Available to Stream

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A new channel arrived on Now TV last month called Sky Documentaries boasting a whole range of series and features. It’s a treasure trove of deep dives into a massive range of subjects, from sports to music, crime to scandal to important moments in history. There’re a load of great shows on the channel, and what you pick will surely depend on what you’re interested in but we’ve rounded up a least of really great docs to get you started. We’ll keep this list updated and add more recommendations as they arrive. McMillions (2020) This six part series documents the…
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16 Dec

Channel Zero: Candle Cove

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Rent It The Season:"Creepypasta" can be viewed as the internet's equivalent to a scary campfire story. Sometimes, an example of this online storytelling starts and ends with a single online post that functions as self-contained short fiction, perhaps generating posts in the comments section underneath that accentuate the attempted real-world intentions presence of the piece; other times, it involved a string of participants that add to the urban legend mythology or straight-up expand upon the tale itself. One of such phenomenon involves Candle Cove (click here for the original text), a mythical 70s television show that featured pirates engaging in…
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