Few novels have excited as much love and devotion as Andrew O’Hagan’s Mayflies, a funny, tender but heart-rending tale of male friendship. Now, only two years after its publication, an adaptation is coming to the BBC, an astonishingly quick turnaround for television drama.
John Torode MBE and Greg Wallace MBE are back to put 20 celebrities through their paces over six weeks to see who has what it takes to be crowned Celebrity MasterChef champion.
Celebrities from the comedy world, sporting scene, music industry and screen and stage will be taking part.
Last year’s winner was Team GB Paralympian Kadeena Cox, and this year’s famous faces will take part in the classic challenges, Under the Cloche, The Street Food Challenge and Dinner Party Dish.
The first series, which concluded yesterday, launched to over six million viewers.
It followed two shocking murder investigations which shatter the community of Sherwood, a Nottinghamshire village still divided by a Miners’ Strike that took place three decades before.
It is writer Graham’s most personal work, having been inspired by real events that occurred in his own home Nottinghamshire mining village.
The four-part drama, written by Daf James, focuses on a queer, Welsh adoption story.
Gabriel is a singer and all round artistic extraordinaire in Cardiff’s queer club space called Neverland, who decides to adopt his first child with his partner Andy.
However, Gabriel has old wounds that need to be healed, leading him to go on a journey of self-discovery and repair the fractured relationship with his dad before he can be the parent he needs to be to 7-year-old Jake.
When you write a show, you hope you’ll get good viewing figures, you hope people will like it. But the global response that we’ve had, this huge emotional response – you don’t expect that when you write telly.”
This was the visibly moved writer of Gentleman Jack, Sally Wainwright, interviewed for a sensitive and poignant new observational documentary, Gentleman Jack Changed My Life, made by Leeds-based Screenhouse Productions.
The BBC One crime drama set on the fictional island of Saint Marie will deal with the fallout of the shock twist dropped on Commissioner Selwyn Patterson (Don Warrington) at the end of series 11.
In the feature length Christmas special, the gang will need to work together to handle a complex case.
Series 12 may see the addition of a mystery daughter for Commissioner Patterson, as well as the usual capers and whodunnits.
Best friends Amanda Holden and Alan Carr are coming together to renovate an old and crumbling property in Italy to see if they can make a masterpiece.
The eight-part series will see the duo join the ‘One Euro’ home buyers who are travelling to the sunny climes of Sicily to own a slice of heaven at a discounted price.
The pair both love travel and interior design and will spend the summer settling into the Sicilian way of life, renovating a dilapidated house into a luxury holiday home.
Following on from the Comedy Playhouse which initially aired in December 2020, the series will follow the shenanigans of the Jessop family.
The family faces everyday challenges, from changing careers, keeping the excitement alive within a marriage, kidnapping a dog, undergoing a healthy lifestyle change, wrecking a swimming pool and sabotaging a wedding.
Stacey and her team will challenge another six families to clear out their homes, providing loads of useful hacks and tidying tips for viewers to use in their own lives. More than just a traditional home makeover show, Sort Your Life Out sees families lay out every single possession as they decide what stays and what can be discarded, recycled or sold.
The new series will see Suranne Jones return to her role as Anne Lister, with Sophie Rundle reprising her role as Anne Lister’s now wife, Ann Walker. Based on the real-life diaries of Anne Lister, some of which were written in code, Gentleman Jack’s second series will follow the couple as they set up their home together at Shibden Hall as wife and wife, in Yorkshire 1834.
