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"Someone, somewhere, unbeknownst to us, laying a trap..." "What have you done?!" BBC & BritBox have revealed official trailers for the new murder mystery mini-series titled Towards Zero, created by BBC for streaming on BBC's iPlayer. It just launched this week and is available to watch now online if you're curious to find out what is going on in this family. An explosive love triangle, a formidable matriarch, and a house party of enemies. Based on the classic mystery by the best-selling author, Agatha Christie, adapted from her novel also titled "Towards Zero". After a scandalous celebrity divorce, a British tennis star - Nevile Strange - and his ex-wife make the unthinkable decision to spend a summer together. This three-part whodunit series involves a recently divorced British tennis player holidaying at his aristocratic aunt's house on the south coast of England in the 1930s, where a widow suddenly ends up dead.

Today, BritBox and the BBC released first-look pictures of Towards Zero, based on the classic mystery by the best-selling author of all time, Agatha Christie. The series was adapted for the screen by BAFTA-nominated Rachel Bennette (Nw) and directed by the Olivier Award-winning Sam Yates (Magpie).

Featuring coastal views, heated summer soirees, and a trip to Wimbledon Centre Court, the new pictures give a first glimpse at Lady Tressilian (Anjelica Huston), Inspector Leach (Matthew Rhys), and British tennis star Nevile Strange (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) – seen here with the two ladies in his life: ex-wife Audrey (Ella Lily Hyland) and new wife Kay (Mimi Keene).

Photo courtesy of BritBox/Mammoth Screen

Clarke Peters, Anjana Vasan, and Jack Farthing are also seen in the new pictures from the series, which co-stars Jackie Clune (Motherland), Grace Doherty (Call the Midwife), Khalil Gharbia (Mary & George), and Adam Hugill (Sherwood).

England, 1936. After a scandalous celebrity divorce,...

Academy Award winner Anjelica Huston, Mike Flanagan repertory company member Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Ella Lily Hyland (Fifteen-Love) are set to star in Towards Zero, a three-part adaptation of the 1944 Agatha Christie mystery novel.

The BBC production is now filming in Bristol and Devon, and will stream Stateside on BritBox.

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Adapted by BAFTA-nominated Rachel Bennette and directed by the...

Oscar winner Anjelica Huston will lead a three-part adaptation of Agatha Christie’s classic mystery novel “Towards Zero” from the BBC and Britbox International.

Set in England in 1936, “Towards Zero” follows British tennis star Nevile Strange (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) and his ex-wife Audrey (Ella Lily Hyland), who “make the unthinkable decision to spend a summer together at Gull’s Point, their childhood home and the coastal estate of Nevile’s aunt, Lady Tressilian (Huston),” the plot description reads.

“With unfinished business between the former childhood sweethearts, plus the presence of Nevile’s new wife Kay (Mimi Keene), tensions are running high. Add to this a long-suffering lady’s companion, a mysterious gentleman’s valet, an exiled cousin with a grudge, a venerable family lawyer, an inquisitive orphan and a French con man, and soon there will be murder,” the synopsis continues. “A troubled detective must rediscover his purpose to untangle a toxic web of jealousy,...

Michael Caine has announced his retirement, declaring his newest feature, The Great Escaper, to be his swan song.

Previously, Caine had floated the idea of retirement, and in a new interview with BBC Radio 4's Today, the accomplished actor said that he's now officially retired. He attributes part of this decision to the lack of leading roles that will be coming his way now that he's in his 90s. Caine also explained how the high acclaim that The Great Escaper has received has him feeling like it's a good time to step away, as this will let him wrap up his career on a high note.

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"I keep saying I'm going to retire. Well, I am now," Caine said. “I’ve played the lead [in The Great Escaper] and it’s got incredible reviews. The only parts I’m going to get now are old men.

There’s nothing more delightful than watching Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman revel in all of that cheeky queer subtext on “Sherlock.” We have the show’s out creator, Mark Gatiss, to thank for it. Gatiss is ditching the undertones for overtones in “Queers,” a new short series commemorating the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act (sic), which partially decriminalized sex between two men in the U.K. Featuring performances from Britain’s brightest out actors, such as Alan Cumming, Ben Whishaw, and Russell Tovey, each episode is written by a different prominent Lgbt writer. BBC America released a first trailer for the series today, and it’s flecked with all sorts of period costume magic.

According to the BBC, the show is a series of monologues from different figures throughout the fifty years, using inspiration from 1957’s Wolfenden Report, the HIV crisis and the 1967 Sexual Offence Act itself.

Jackie Clune, front left, in Julius Caesar: I thought, ‘When am I going to get the chance to play Julius Caesar?’. How many actresses my age get to do that. I don’t know any. So it was irresistible really' Photo: Helen Maybanks In all the conversations I had with the cast of Phyllida Lloyd’s filmed version of the Donmar Warehouse’s all-female Julius Caesar, the idea of ‘breaking the mould’ came up repeatedly. Jackie Clune, who plays the title character, says that there are still battles to be fought for older women, even though actresses including Maxine Peake, Tamsin Greig and Glenda Jackson have all recently taken on traditionally male Shakespearean roles in Hamlet, Twelfth Night and King Lear.

The comic and actress who, at 51, is the same age as Greig, says: “I turned down other work last year that was quite lucrative because I thought, ‘When...

Harriet Walter as Brutus. Phyllida Lloyd: 'The project was originally to try to help redress the imbalance of opportunities for women in the theatre' Photo: Helen Maybanks

Director Phyllida Lloyd is a champion of strong women's roles, with films including Mamma Mia! and The Iron Lady. In Julius Caesar, she captures the all-women production from Donmar Warehouse, starring Harriet Walter and Jackie Clune as Brutus and Caesar and framed as a production of the Shakespeare play within a women's prison. The result, which was shot over multiple nights is, though not a film in the traditional sense, a lot more than you might expect from a 'filmed play'. I caught up with Lloyd as the film premiered at Edinburgh Film Festival, to talk about the project.

Amber Wilkinson: Can you tell me a bit about the origins of the theatrical project. The female casting works very well, not...

Author: Linda Marric

Directed by Phyllida Lloyd and staring the legendary Dame Harriet Walter, one of Donmar Warehouse’s most talked about and critically acclaimed Shakespearian Trilogy plays Julius Caesar will be getting a cinematic outing when it is released on July 12th. The play’s innovative nature and unique selling point resides in its all female cast playing male roles,, staring Jackie Clune as Julius Caesar and Walter as Brutus. Lloyd’s decision to set the play in a fictitious female prison, with some former real life prisoners as part of the cast, was a strike of genius which saw the cast take their roles to heart and manage to add a much needed freshness to these well known characters.

Last month, at a special cast and press screening for the film, we had the chance to talk to Harrier Walter about her role as Brutus. We asked her...

Author: Guest

As a row of women, led by prison guards, are marched onto a sparse and industrial set, the Julius Caesar that audiences are familiar with is revived and remodelled in Phyllida Lloyd’s adaptation of the Shakespeare classic, in this first instalment of the Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy.

The cast, exclusively female, and for some, their first experience of performing Shakespeare, not only bring a different voice to a stereotypically male dominated production, but at the same time provide a platform for voices of those who may feel excluded from mainstream society and culture.

Led by theatre veteran Harriet Walter, Donmar’s Julius Caesar pushes Shakespeare into new territory, bringing it bang up-to-date with current issues relating to gender, the prison system, fear and diversity. The audience on screen: set in the round, and filmed over two nights, allows for seamless camera placement. Part prison, part Rome: It smashes...

Louisa Mellor Jun 1, 2017

Some exciting new UK drama and comedy commissions are making their way to TV over the next year or so…

We know, we know. You still have two episodes of Fargo season two before you can think about starting season three. You’ve already fallen behind on American Gods. Your planner memory is chock-a-block with Big Little Lies and that Oj Simpson thing and some Spanish prison series your workmate bullied you into recording. You’re struggling to make time for Twin Peaks. New Game Of Thrones is just around the corner. And guess what, Netflix UK have just added a whole new season of It’s Always Sunny, those sods. You need a list of new TV show recommendations like you need a hole in the head.

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And yet, as long as they keep making them, we’ll keep recommending them.

In an effort to discover and support a next-generation of voices in front of and behind the camera, the BBC is embarking on a series of initiatives including training programs and an Lgbt project curated by Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss. Queers has been written by a group of up-and-upcoming Lgbt writers for BBC Four. There are eight 15-minute monologues (penned by Keith Jarrett, Jon Bradfield, Gareth McLean, Matthew Baldwin, Michael Dennis, Jackie Clune, Brian Fillis…...