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This nation needed a laugh in the 1930s, and Hollywood provided. The year 1936 was brightened by Theodora Goes Wild, a pairing of Melvyn Douglas and Irene Dunne. This was the movie, in fact, which spun Dunne’s career from dramatic roles to comedic ones.

Dunne plays a small-town Sunday school teacher who has secretly written a bestselling book, full of scandalously sexy scenes. Her nom de plume keeps her secret, but in a screwball comedy, someone always overhears. What will the ladies of the town think? Don’t worry, Theodora – everybody loves a celebrity.

Let’s get the obvious pairing...

Pumpkin-man gets his revenge this October! When a local farmer is the victim of a horrible joke gone wrong, bloody revenge becomes the only way to satisfy the monster he has become.

Assisted by his beloved pumpkins, a sweet farmer discovers that spilling blood is his new found glory to anyone who dares trespass on his private land. Unfortunately for a group of innocent survivalists, their survival skills are soon put to the test and the local villagers are soon dragged into the bloody fight. Will Metheringham scripted.

Maria Lee Metheringham's atmospheric horror treat Pumpkins comes to digital and DVD October 15 from High Octane Pictures. Pumkins stars Tamara Glynn, Dani Thompson,Gareth Hale Kat Clatworthy and Roland Marshall rolling onto disc and digital this October.

Pumpkins is new 80′s style horror from writer and director Maria Lee Metheringham, which has been selected to play at the Horror-on-Sea Film Festival on Sunday 21st January. I got chance to ask Maria a few questions about making the film, her influences and adapting to changes during the shoot.

What can we expect from the film Pumpkins?

I would describe Pumpkins as an Ambient/Atmospheric horror. It combines elements of 80′s style classic horror films rolled into one feature. It’s not meant to be a gore film but it is meant to be visually creepy, eerie and suspenseful. Hopefully you will experience the old school settings along with an atmospheric journey.

What was your inspiration for writing the film Pumpkins?

It started off as a short to be included in another 80s style horror feature film we were writing but we liked the story so much we turned...

The British are coming! The Hollywood Reporter reports that BBC has plans to launch a U.S. streaming player next year. "Next year, we’re launching a new Ott [over-the-top] video service in America offering BBC fans programs they wouldn’t otherwise get,” said director general Tony Hale. He said the aim would be to showcase “British actors, our program makers and celebrating our culture.” Of course, a number of popular BBC shows, like Doctor Who, are already available on streaming services like Hulu and Netflix, so this would hopefully give a bigger offering. Hale didn't go into further details like the price or launch date, so the real question now is whether the U.S. player will exist in time for us to watch the next season of Sherlock.

What do we know about Doctor Who series 9 so far, and what threads is it likely to pick up? Here's what we know so far...

This article contains spoilers for Doctor Who series 8.

If the ending of Doctor Who series 8, Death In Heaven suggested one thing - appreciating we've got a Christmas special to come (with Nick Frost as Santa!) - it's that series 9 of the revived show will somewhere along the line feature Gallifrey. It's been teased very heavily again, even if its location is still a mystery. So as we look ahead to Doctor Who series 9, let's kick off with one or two story threads, that remain ripe for exploration. After all, the Doctor had what he thought were the exact coordinates for his home planet, and couldn't wait to see if it was there. It wasn't, but Death In Heaven does offer a good hint that series...

Director: Terry Gilliam; Screenwriter: Pat Rushin; Starring: Christoph Waltz, Matt Damon, Mélanie Thierry, David Thewlis, Ben Whishaw, Tilda Swinton; Running time: 107 mins

Described by esteemed filmmaker Terry Gilliam as the final part of his dystopian satire trilogy, following Brazil and Twelve Monkeys, The Zero Theorem is an uneven endeavour that feels thematically outdated despite its futuristic setting. Gilliam's visceral prowess constantly bolsters the fable, which follows Christoph Waltz's corporate worker bee Qohen as he tries to solve a mathematical formula that could unlock the meaning of life. Clearly The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy was out of print.

Increasingly reclusive, Qohen has to contend with his patronising boss Joby (David Thewlis) and the soul-sapping machinations of the 'Management' and Matt Damon's amusingly attired boss. But the apparently amorous affections of a mysterious femme fatale called Bainsley (Mélanie Thierry) pose a huge conundrum to the increasingly beleaguered drone.

The Zero Theorem...

Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway isn't original, isn't clever and isn't always that funny. However, it's a hefty improvement on ITV's recent Saturday night output - Splash!, everything with Keith Lemon - and luckily for Ant & Dec it's a million miles away from Red Or Black.

Over 7 million tuned in for the first episode last week. The simple format of celebrity guests, silly challenges, pranks and a shrieking studio audience hasn't been tweaked or altered during the show's three-year hiatus. It's still Noel's House Party but without Mr Blobby and an irritating bloke with a beard.

The boys have a new feature that involves humiliating a member of the audience by raking through their embarrassing Twitter updates, but that was the closest Takeaway came to a nod to modernity. Cosier than a cup of hot chocolate, a sheepskin rug and a blanket, Ant & Dec's enduring appeal stems from...

In 10 years, the 'little fat bloke' from Reading has become a comedy god. But after the 'mong' row, and on the eve of his new TV show Life's Too Short, have we fallen out of love with Ricky Gervais? Plus Ricky Gervais: a prize clown – in pictures

Ricky Gervais was enjoying a relatively quiet time, promoting his new show, when I met him a few weeks ago at his office in Hampstead. We had a nice chat, he talked about comedy, explained in the abstract that causing offence isn't in and of itself a bad thing, then a few days later managed to offend everyone so violently that he wound up being lectured on morality by the front page of the Sun.

He had tossed out a reference to "mong" on Twitter and, when challenged, defended and aggressively reused it on the basis that the word had evolved from...

One of the finest new sitcoms of recent times has now arrived on DVD – and you can win yourself a copy…

Just take a look at the opening episode of Modern Family, if you get a chance. When was the last sitcom that started in such confident style? Black Books, perhaps?

Modern Family is easily one of the most promising new comedies to come out of the States in some time, and to celebrate the arrival of its first season on DVD in the UK, we've got five full season boxsets to give away. Five! Count ‘em!

To be in with a chance of winning, just answer the following question, and get the answer to us by 4pm BST on Thursday 14th October 2010. And the very best of luck to you...

Which duo created Modern Family?

A Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan

B Waldorf and Statler

C Hale and Pace...

Two Ronnies and Spitting Image writer Laurie Rowley has died, aged 68. Rowley, who also penned work for Not The Nine O'Clock News, Hale and Pace and Alas Smith & Jones, is survived by his wife Joyce and children Leslie and Johanne. Clive Anderson, who worked with the writer on scripts for his chatshow, told The Guardian: "[Laurie] did a good line in jokes, old and new, about baldness and hair loss, an area in which he was always slightly ahead of me. "To younger writers, he laid down all sorts of rules about gag writing. Don't use numbers: the (more)...