Over 50 years of British sci-fi television, the genre went from one golden age to another. The 1970s gave us bleakly devastating visions of the future, the 1980s gave us space invasions and comedy, the 1990s blended crime drama with sci-fi, and the 2000s remade shows from the 1970s and gave us Christopher Eccleston as two kinds of god.
Then came the 2010s, the birth of transatlantic co-productions and streaming. British sci-fi television was no longer the cheaper, shoddier counterpart to its US equivalent. The production values were glossy, the cast reached A-list heights, and the writing was what you’d expect from the most recent golden age of television. The age of cheap and cheerful sitcom-adjacent British science fiction was over… almost.
Dirk Gently (2010)
Stream on: BritBox (US); purchase-only on Prime Video (UK)
One final homemade hero! Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is Douglas Adams’ less well-known creation. He...
Then came the 2010s, the birth of transatlantic co-productions and streaming. British sci-fi television was no longer the cheaper, shoddier counterpart to its US equivalent. The production values were glossy, the cast reached A-list heights, and the writing was what you’d expect from the most recent golden age of television. The age of cheap and cheerful sitcom-adjacent British science fiction was over… almost.
Dirk Gently (2010)
Stream on: BritBox (US); purchase-only on Prime Video (UK)
One final homemade hero! Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is Douglas Adams’ less well-known creation. He...
- 4/19/2024
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Where are the Skins cast now? Short answer: absolutely everywhere.
While the show did earn critical acclaim as well as a cult following over the course of its seven series, when this scrappy teen comedy drama launched on E4 in 2007 few could have predicted just how many household names it would spawn.
Among Skins’ impressive alumni are actors who went on to win Oscars and Baftas, play lead roles in hit movies like Slumdog Millionaire and Get Out, not to mention star in hit shows like Game of Thrones and Peaky Blinders.
Let’s take a look at some of the Skins cast’s best roles:
Joe Dempsie – Game of Thrones
Playing party animal Chris in Skins was in a way good preparation for Joe Dempsie’s later role as Gendry in Game of Thrones, as both characters have some pretty serious daddy issues: Chris’ dad (played by Green Wing...
While the show did earn critical acclaim as well as a cult following over the course of its seven series, when this scrappy teen comedy drama launched on E4 in 2007 few could have predicted just how many household names it would spawn.
Among Skins’ impressive alumni are actors who went on to win Oscars and Baftas, play lead roles in hit movies like Slumdog Millionaire and Get Out, not to mention star in hit shows like Game of Thrones and Peaky Blinders.
Let’s take a look at some of the Skins cast’s best roles:
Joe Dempsie – Game of Thrones
Playing party animal Chris in Skins was in a way good preparation for Joe Dempsie’s later role as Gendry in Game of Thrones, as both characters have some pretty serious daddy issues: Chris’ dad (played by Green Wing...
- 9/13/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
You’ve got your Casualty and Doctors – medical soaps that have been around forever and will hopefully stay around forever to reliably entertain, educate and break in the stars of tomorrow. Next, there are your factual medical shows of questionable taste – Embarrassing Bodies, 101 Things Removed From the Human Body and other fleshlump-zoo tours that’d put anybody off their dinner.
And then there are the following – quality 21st century hospital dramas, documentaries and comedies, all of which present their unique take on the world of medicine. Leave your own recommendations below.
Call the Midwife
Watch on: BBC One and BBC iPlayer (UK); PBS Masterpiece (US)
If you know, you know. And if you don’t know, then you haven’t been paying attention. There’s a popular misconception that BBC One’s long-running Sunday night drama Call the Midwife is a sickly sweet, rose-tinted, tweer-than-twee nostalgia-fest. Nuns on bicycles! Cockneys with hearts of gold!
And then there are the following – quality 21st century hospital dramas, documentaries and comedies, all of which present their unique take on the world of medicine. Leave your own recommendations below.
Call the Midwife
Watch on: BBC One and BBC iPlayer (UK); PBS Masterpiece (US)
If you know, you know. And if you don’t know, then you haven’t been paying attention. There’s a popular misconception that BBC One’s long-running Sunday night drama Call the Midwife is a sickly sweet, rose-tinted, tweer-than-twee nostalgia-fest. Nuns on bicycles! Cockneys with hearts of gold!
- 7/15/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Wanna see a zookeeper get pooed on? Then have we got news — and some footage — for you!
“The Secret Life of the Zoo,” a British series imported to this side of the pond by Animal Planet, is returning to cable on Saturday with its Season 5 (stateside) premiere. In addition to disclosing the U.S. premiere date, TheWrap has your first look at the new run of episodes.
Watch the Season 5 preview via the video above — don’t pooh-pooh it.
Hazel the flamingo, you nasty.
Also Read: 'Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous' Is Open for Business in New Trailer for Netflix Animated Series (Video)
In the Season 5 premiere of “The Secret Life of the Zoo,” Chester Zoo keepers work tirelessly to save the mischievous Girlie, one of the critically endangered blue-throated macaws, after she escapes from the zoo as her more reserved sister Lady calls out for her to return, according to...
“The Secret Life of the Zoo,” a British series imported to this side of the pond by Animal Planet, is returning to cable on Saturday with its Season 5 (stateside) premiere. In addition to disclosing the U.S. premiere date, TheWrap has your first look at the new run of episodes.
Watch the Season 5 preview via the video above — don’t pooh-pooh it.
Hazel the flamingo, you nasty.
Also Read: 'Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous' Is Open for Business in New Trailer for Netflix Animated Series (Video)
In the Season 5 premiere of “The Secret Life of the Zoo,” Chester Zoo keepers work tirelessly to save the mischievous Girlie, one of the critically endangered blue-throated macaws, after she escapes from the zoo as her more reserved sister Lady calls out for her to return, according to...
- 7/31/2020
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
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