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I've seen the first episode of Adult Material, the new drama coming to Channel 4 and All4 very soon, sytarring Hayley Squires, Alex Jarrett, Siena Kelly, Phil Daniels and Rupert Everett, but am not allowed to say anything about it. But I can show the first trailer. So I will. Here it is. Just… maybe […]

Year Of The Rabbit was a bit of a smash hit for Channel 4 last year. A comedy thriller parodying seventies cop shows, but set in Victorian London, it starred Matt Berry as the eponymous Inspector Rabbit, Freddie Fox as his posh partner Strauss and Susan Wokoma as the country's first female police officer (fopper?) Mabel […]

Following up on Bleeding Cool's own Rich Johnston's live reporting from UK broadcaster Channel 4's 2020 programming launch event (where we learned that E4 is the new UK broadcast home for new "Arrowverse" series Batwoman), we've got word on a new reality-based, televised social experiment that's sure to grab some serious attention, social media response […]

At the Channel 4 2020 launch this morning, in the very fashionable Wild By Tart cheek by jowl to Victoria station, we got a first clip of Boys, the new drama from Russell T Davies, set in the London gay community during the AIDS crisis in the eighties. The show is still in production, but […]

With the new year underway, The CW's "Arrowverse" is waking from its long winter's nap to the start of some major changes. Only episodes remaining, Arrow is shuffling off the network's programming coil – making The Flash the "elder states-show" of the "Arrowverse". Ruby Rose-starrer Batwoman continues solidifying her role in the changing universe, as […]

Fans of Adult Swim's Rick and Morty counted down the months and days until Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland's animated mayhem returned to their screens. That wait ended early last month with season premiere "Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat" (reviewed here), where we got a crash course in "death crystals" and gained a deeper […]

Channel 4 has released six new comedy shorts, 'Blaps' just in time for Christmas, the largest amount ever released in one go. Available for free on All 4 and on YouTube, feature up and coming talents Sam Campbell, Fran Bushe, Tash Marshall and Jonny Pelham alongside Marek Larwood (Sorry I've Got No Head, Fast and […]

It is either the best media buying strategy ever – or the worst. In recent days, there has been significant publicity for Channel 4's documentary series Dispatches, which aired tonight, criticising Amazon for the way their treat staff, with undercover filming highlight incidents that contradict Amazon's expressed working practices, such as toilet breaks and sickness […]

Fans of Adult Swim's Rick and Morty have been counting down the months and days until Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland's animated mayhem returned to their screens once more (with five episode airing in 2019, beginning Sunday, November 10, at 11:30 p.m). Well, that wait is now officially over with season premiere "Edge of Tomorty: […]

I sit typing away while a number of the cast and crew of The End Of The F***ing World throw shapes across the floor in the Genesis Cinema in London's East End. We've just had the premiere of the first two episodes here on the big screen, they have aired in the UK on Channel […]

Tonight, Channel 4 are launching the second series and/or season of The End Of The F***ing World, their TV show based on the comic book by Charles Forsman that was also a global hit for Netflix. Premiering on Channel 4 and All4 at 10pm, about two hours after it does here, it will so stream […]

Next week sees the release of the much-anticipated second season of The End Of The F***ing World from Channel 4, based on the comic book by Charles Forsman. Available on Channel 4 in the UK on the 4th of November and internationally on Netflix on the 5th of November. The soundtrack to the first season of the […]

Next week sees the release of the much-anticipated second season of The End Of The F***ing World from Channel 4, based on the comic book by Charles Forsman. And they are all over MCM London Comic Con this weekend. But ahead of the second season, available on Channel 4 in the UK on the 4th […]

No, not The Boys, that's something else entirely. Boys is the new drama written by Russell T Davies, of Queer As Folk, Casanova, Second Coming, Doctor Who, A Very English Scandal and Years And Years. That's not where it stops getting confusing. Russell's last big drama was Years And Years for the BBC. And Boys […]

Naked Attraction is a British television dating game show, broadcast at night on Channel 4, in which a clothed person selects one other contestant to date from six naked people, whose bodies and then faces are revealed through successive rounds, from the bottom half up. Broadcast late night, nothing is blurred or blanked, everything hangs […]

Ben Wheatley as a writer and director is best known for his work in the thriller and horror genres, including the psychological horror films Kill List and A Field in England, the J. G. Ballard adaptation High-Rise, and the action comedy Free Fire. More recently he has directed episodes of Doctor Who as well as thriller Strange Angel for […]

If you're a fan of the Walking Dead universe, things are pretty sweet right now – especially from the perspective of AMC's Fear the Walking Dead. Aside from having an epic appearance at this year's Comic-Con International: San Diego (or SDCC to most of us), we learned not only had the series been picked up […]

It's not a bad time to be a fan of the Walking Dead universe – especially from the perspective of AMC's Fear the Walking Dead. Aside from having an epic appearance at this year's Comic-Con International: San Diego (or SDCC to most of us), we learned not only had the series been picked up for […]

The BAFTA TV Drama awards of 2020 are going to be a bloodbath. Fleabag vs Gentlemen Jack vs Years And Years vs Killing Eve – and that's only on the BBC. With comedies from Channel 4 like Catastrophe and The Year of The Rabbit elbowing their way in – and to that number we now […]

Channel 4 has added Keeley Hawes, Sally Phillips, and Jill Halfpenny to the cast of its upcoming comedy, Year of the Rabbit. Set in Victorian London, which is also where Bleeding Cool's own Rich Johnston lives, Year of the Rabbit stars Matt Berry as "hardened booze-hound cop," the titular Detective Inspector Rabbit. "He's aided and abetted […]