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Exclusive: Paramount+ UK & Ireland has commissioned UK thriller series The Revenge Club (w/t), with Slow Horses and Peaky Blinders star Aimée-Ffion Edwards alongside Line Of Duty star Martin Compston in the lead roles of Emily and Calum.

Based on the upcoming debut novel The Othello Club by J.D. Pennington, the series follows six strangers brought together by a divorce support group who quickly transform from therapy-seeking victims into architects of retribution. With little in common beyond their pain, they form an unlikely bond. What begins as a cathartic outlet quickly spirals into something far more dangerous. Rights were acquired from Rosie Gurtovoy at Pfd. Production is underway in the UK.

Joining Edwards and Compston as the other members of the club are BAFTA and Emmy winner Meera Syal (Goodness Gracious Me) as Rita, Sharon Rooney (Barbie) as Rachel, Douglas Henshall (Shetland) as Steve, Chaneil Kular (Sex Education) as Tej...

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Bookie is a comedy-drama series created by Chuk Lorre and Nick Bakay. The Max series follows a veteran bookie as he tries to survive in the face of sports gambling legalization while also dealing with unstable clients and worried family members. Bookie stars Sebastian Maniscalco, Omar Dorsey, Andrea Anders, Vanessa Ferlito, Jorge Garcia, Maxim Swinton, and Rob Corddry. So, if you loved the dark comedy, a bit of crime drama, and compelling characters in Bookie here are some similar shows you should check out next.

Mr. Inbetween (Hulu & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – FX

Mr. Inbetween is a dark comedy crime-drama series created by Scott Ryan. Based on Ryan’s 2005 film The Magician, the FX series follows Ray Shoesmith, an assassin and a divorced father who tries to find a balance between his life of crime and being a loving father.

Harlan Coben has dominated the industry with his fantastic spread of thriller novels. From Miracle Cure to Six Years, the acclaimed author certainly knows how to produce a gripping page-turner. The writer has also stuck contracts with certain TV networks, ensuring that these tales can be brought to life.

In 2018, Coben signed a contract with Netflix, allowing the streaming service to adapt some of his most famous novels. All of these shows have done very well commercially and have also extended the writer's incredibly devout audience. As such, some fans struggle to pick their favorite Harlan Coben Netflix series.

This French Mystery Is Teeming With Dizzying Twists Gone for Good

This sleek European drama centers on Guillaume Lucchesi, who is burdened by grief. After losing his first love, Sonia, as well as his brother Fred, he is bombarded by flashbacks and uncertainty. But, when his current girlfriend, Judith, disappears at his mother's funeral,...

Welcome to the island of St Jory, population: one less than there used to be.

A year ago, St Jory teenager Cai Prideaux went missing and the police did very little about it. Now there’s a new sheriff in town in Sgt Grace Narayan (Anjli Mohindra), an outsider with an unbending belief in the letter of the law that’s ruffling feathers among the locals. The islanders, you see, are used to running things their own way. The True Way.

That’s the Hot Fuzz-meets-The Wicker Man premise for The Red King, an original six-part series written by Being Human creator Toby Whithouse and directed by Daniel O’Hara and Lisa Clarke. It’s a crime drama/folk horror mash-up that uses murder mystery trappings to tell a story about religion, insularity and national identity.

St Jory is your typical folk horror island in that there’s nothing typical about it.

The “Sexy Beast” prequel series at Paramount+ has found its cast, Variety has learned.

The original U.K. drama will star James McArdle as Gal Dove and Emun Elliott as Don Logan, the roles played by Ray Winstone and Ben Kingsley respectively in the original 2000 film.

The show follows Gal and Don as best friends and small-time thieves living the good life in ‘90s East London. The series will explore Gal and Don’s complicated relationship as Gal finds himself descending into the seductive madness of the London criminal world during the vibrant and volatile 1990s, while falling in love with DeeDee.

Sarah Greene is Deedee, a captivating adult film star, who has the potential to turn Gal’s whole life upside down. DeeDee was played by Amanda Redman in the film

Stephen Moyer is Teddy Bass, a rising name in the gangster world, who Gal and Don are offered...

Paramount+ has set the lead cast for its upcoming drama series Sexy Beast, the prequel to the 2000 cult British gangster movie, which is set to premiere in 2023.

The series will track the origin story of the Gal Dove, Don Logan and Teddy Bass characters, played in the movie by Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley and Ian McShane, respectively. It will explore Gal and Don’s complicated relationship as Gal finds himself descending into the seductive madness of the London criminal world during the vibrant and volatile 1990s, while falling in love with DeeDee.

James McArdle (Mare of Easttown) leads the cast as Gal Dove, with Emun Elliot (The Gold) starring as Don Logan, Gal’s best friend. The pair are small-town thieves living the good life in ‘90s East London.

Sarah Greene (Normal People) is Deedee, an adult film star with the potential to turn Gal’s whole life upside down.

Exclusive: Cush Jumbo (The Good Fight), James Nesbitt (The Missing), Richard Armitage (The Stranger) and Sarah Parish (Bancroft) have been set as cast in the series adaptation of Harlan Coben’s New York Times bestselling novel Stay Close at Netflix.

Nicola Shindler is exec producing the project for Studiocanal-owned Red Production Company, alongside Coben, Danny Brocklehurst and Richard Fee. Creator Coben is penning the eight-episode show alongside lead writer Brocklehurst and Fee. Juliet Charlesworth (Happy Valley) is series producer and Daniel O’Hara (The Stranger) is lead director and an exec producer.

In keeping with previous Coben adaptations at Netflix, Stay Close will be relocated from the U.S. to the UK. The story follows three people living comfortable lives who each conceal dark secrets that even the closest to them would never suspect; Megan (Jumbo), a working mother of three; Ray (Armitage), the once promising documentary photographer, now stuck in...

Last night's new Doctor Who episode, The Girl Who Lived, marked the debut of guest star Maisie Williams as Ashildr. The Girl Who Lived was the first entry of a two-part episode, with the actress returning for next week's The Woman Who Lived, airing Saturday, October 24 on BBC and BBC America. Today, BBC revealed two new trailers for The Woman Who Lived, featuring Maisie Williams and series star Peter Capaldi.

The Woman Who Lived is set in 1651 England, where the deadly Highwayman 'The Knightmare' and his sidekick stalk the dark streets of London. But when they find loot that's not of this world, they come face to face with The Doctor. Who is the Knightmare in league with? And can the Doctor avoid the hangman's noose and protect Earth from a devilish betrayal? Rufus Hound and Todd Kramer also guest star in next week's new episode.

The previous episode, The...

Back in March, BBC America announced that Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams will be guest starring in a Season 9 episode of Doctor Who. While we saw Maisie Williams pop up in a recent trailer, we still haven't heard much about who she's playing in the beloved series. Today, the network has released a new trailer for this week's episode, The Girl Who Died, which gives us another look at her character, who, according to TV Line, is named Ashildr.

The episode centers on the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and Clara (Jenna Coleman), who have been captured by Vikings. The Time Lord and his companion step up to help protect their village from Space Warriors from the future, known as the Mire. Outnumbered and outgunned, their fate seems inevitable. So why is the Doctor preoccupied with a single Viking girl? Presumably, Maisie Williams' Ashildr is this "single Viking girl," who...

Beethoven, erotic eyebrows, and the concluding part to Under The Lake's Doctor Who story. Our spoiler-filled review of Before The Flood...

This review contains spoilers. Our spoiler-free review is here.

9.4 Before The Flood

The pressure's on once there's been a terrific opening episode of a Doctor Who two-parter. I enjoyed last week's base under siege first part, Under The Lake, enormously, and some - but not all - of the spooky tone of that comes across to parts of Before The Flood.

But also, writer Toby Whithouse isn't content to just do more of the same. He's got the space afforded to him to explore a Doctor Who story over the course of an hour and twenty minutes, and for this concluding part, that means he has time to split the Doctor and Clara up.

At first, to be fair, you might just be wondering what on earth is he up to?...

The follow-up to Under The Lake may not quite match its predecessor, but taken as a whole, the two-part story is a strong one...

It'd be fair to say that Before The Flood doesn't quite open in the manner you expect.

Having set up a terrific cliffhanger at the end of last week's Under The Lake, writer Toby Whithouse promptly pulls the rug, and takes a left turn, with the Doctor talking to camera, and specifically telling us to Google a given term. It might just be worth doing that, too. For a minute, I thought I'd tuned into the wrong episode, but eventually, it does all make sense.

Credit, then, for a refreshing gamble. Under The Lake was very much classic Doctor Who in feel, and here, a few chances are taken to knock away the warm feeling of familiarity. It's a gamble that does come with consequences: there's...

Doctor Who is about to unveil one of its creepiest monsters in a long while - the Fisher King.

The creature - seen facing off with Peter Capaldi's doctor in new pictures - is voiced by Peter Serafinowicz, with Slipknot's Corey Taylor (no, really) providing its horrific scream.

Our Time Lord hero will also come up against another less threatening alien, with Paul Kaye guest-starring as Prentis, a mole-like creature from the planet Tivoli.

Of course, before any of that, the show will have to resolve just how the Doctor is going to escape being turned into a ghost - the grisly fate that apparently awaited him at the close of Saturday's 'Under the Lake'.

Doctor Who continues this Saturday (October 10) at 8.25pm on BBC One.

New episode 'Before the Flood' is written by Being Human creator Toby Whithouse - reuniting with Daniel O'Hara, who previously directed 8 episodes of the BBC Three series.

A base under siege, a Peter Andre reference, and a cracking slice of old-style Doctor Who. It's our spoiler-filled review of Under The Lake.

This review contains spoilers. Our spoiler-free review is here.

9.3 Under The Lake

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Right then. There’s an isolated base, with a diverse crew on board. There’s a threat, from which there’s no obvious sign of escape. There are corridors, which are set to be run down with as much determination as you would expect. And there’s the arrival of the Doctor and his companion, just as the fit is hitting the shan.

What do you mean you’ve seen it all before?

"You actually poo-pooed the ghost theory?"

For his first Doctor Who episode following series 7’s middling A Town Called Mercy, Being Human creator Toby Whithouse has dug deep into the stylings of classic Doctor Who.

Doctor Who series 9 keeps the standard high with chilling, intriguing mystery, Under The Lake, written by Toby Whithouse...

Ah, I really loved this. Under The Lake is old school Doctor Who, using ingredients that we've seen many times before. Yet Toby Whithouse - back on Doctor Who duties for the first time since A Town Called Mercy in 2012 - brings lots of ideas of his own to a really effective episode.

It's the first of a two-parter, and, as we saw with The Magician's Apprentice/The Witch's Familiar, that instantly allows space to be breathed into the story. That particularly aids a ghost story such as Under The Lake, where lots of little details are set into place, some of which the episode begins to scratch at.

Impressively, though, the episode still gets going really rather quickly. Just because the pacing is steady, too, Under The Lake is never less than interesting.

Sneak Peek new footage, plus images and synopsis from the upcoming "Doctor Who" episode titled "Under The Lake", airing October 3, 2015 on BBC America as the first part of a two-part episode (followed by the episode "Before the Flood"), both written by Toby Whithouse and directed by Daniel O'Hara:

"...under a lake, in the dripping gloom of an underwater base, stands a gleaming black space ship, recovered from the lake bed. Nothing is inside – but when the base crew start dying, they make a terrible discovery: ghosts are real! And their friends are refusing to stay dead!

"'The Doctor' and 'Clara' arrive to find a base under siege from beyond the grave. But how can the dead be walking? What has brought them back? When the Doctor discovers the truth, it is more terrifying than any simple ghost story..."

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Last month at Comic-Con, BBC debuted the first trailer for Season 9 of Doctor Who, while announcing that the show will return September 19. If you've been chomping at the bit for new footage since then, you're in luck, as the network has revealed the second Doctor Who trailer today, which offers a few new glimpses at guest star Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones). We still don't know exactly who the actress is playing yet, but here's what lead writer and executive producer Steven Moffat had to say about the actress' role in a statement from March.

"We're thrilled to have Maisie Williams joining us on Doctor Who. It's not possible to say too much about who or what she's playing, but she is going to challenge the Doctor in very unexpected ways. This time he might just be out of his depth, and we know Maisie is going to give him...

Last Updated: August 6, 2015

Doctor Who is the persistent subject of rumours - from the credible to the outright absurd - and it can be difficult to separate what's fact from what's fiction.

Lucky for you, dear reader, that Digital Spy is on hand to cut a swathe through the nonsense - these are the facts, 100% confirmed, about series 9 of the world's greatest science-fiction series.

Filming began on the 9th series of Doctor Who - its 35th run overall - on January 5, 2015 for a planned transmission in the autumn. Steven Moffat will serve as lead writer and executive producer for the fifth time.

Peter Capaldi will return for his second full series as the Doctor, while Jenna Coleman will be back for her third run of episodes as Clara Oswald.

Coleman was widely expected to be leaving the series in the 2014 Christmas special - and indeed had planned to exit -...

Exploding with epic and thrilling adventures, Doctor Who returns to BBC America on Saturday, September 19 in the new season of the hit show. The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) is joined by Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) for time travel on a cinematic scale. Having the time of their lives, the pair meet new and old monsters, and go on a journey that takes them to deadly alien planets, creepy underwater bases, Vikings villages, a global Zygon uprising, and leads them through hidden alien dens, to the very end of time itself. Meeting monsters old and new the Doctor will come face to face with Missy (Michelle Gomez), a city of Daleks, deadly mercenaries called the Mire, terrifying ghosts and more. The series debuted the first trailer for Doctor Who Season 9 at Comic-Con, which features new guest star Maisie Williams. Having filmed in Cardiff since January, Peter Capaldi had this to say in a statement.

Filming has begun in Cardiff for Season 9 of Doctor Who and includes a star-studded guest cast. The new season will be back on BBC One in Autumn 2015. The episodes currently being filmed are written by Toby Whithouse (The Game, Being Human), produced by Derek Ritchie and directed by Daniel O'Hara (Silent Witness 2015, The Game, Being Human). Here's what Steven Moffat, lead writer and Executive Producer, had to say in a statement.

"An amazing guest cast for a brilliantly creepy two-parter by Toby Whithouse. Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman are back in Cardiff, back in the box, and back in action - for one of our scariest adventures yet!"

On set filming for the new series, Peter Capaldi added the following statement.

"The adventures begin again for myself and Jenna and I'm delighted to be back filming my second series of Doctor Who."

Paul Kaye who played Thoros of Myr in...

Filming has begun on the ninth series of Doctor Who with a two-part script by Toby Whithouse.

Whithouse's two-parter will be directed by Daniel O'Hara (Being Human).

As previously announced, Game of Thrones actor Paul Kaye will play a guest part, while additional cast includes The Missing's Arsher Ali, Grantchester's Morven Christie and Torchwood's Colin McFarlane.

"As a kid of the 1970's, the two shows you always watched were Top of the Pops and Doctor Who, they were unmissable," said Kaye.

"I actually wrote a song called 'Looking for Davros' in my first punk band and I sang it like a demented Dalek. I got to present Totp back in the mid '90s and landing this role in Doctor Who completes the dream double.

"Peter is a perfect Doctor and I'm loving every minute of the experience, even the five hours in make-up. What a treat...

Doctor Who series nine has apparently hired its first director in Being Human's Daniel O'Hara.

O'Hara's client page on The Agency site appears to list him as director for two episodes of the BBC sci-fi drama's next run.

His credits include eight episodes of Being Human between 2011 and 2013, and three episodes of spy series The Game by Being Human creator - and Doctor Who writer - Toby Whithouse.

O'Hara also helmed four instalments of Cbbc's Wizards vs Aliens - co-created by Russell T Davies - as well as episodes of Silent Witness, Beaver Falls and Skins.

The ninth series of Doctor Who - launching on BBC One in late 2015 - will again star Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman, with the latter having recently confirmed her involvement with the new episodes.

The series premiere, written by showrunner Steven Moffat, is titled 'The Magician's Apprentice'.

Doctor Who: 9 things that series...

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Filming is currently underway in South Africa on a new E4 comedy drama series from Company Pictures (the makers of Skins) called Beaver Falls, which follows three British university graduates who have landed jobs at an elite American summer camp.

The 6 x 60 minute series, created by newcomer Iain Hollands, and directed by Jack Clough (Skins) and Daniel O'Hara (Skins, Being Human), stars a hot young cast of emerging acting talent.

25 year old Scottish actor Samuel Robertson plays Flynn. Dundee-born Sam (represented by Curtis Brown) played Adam Baldwin in Coronation Street, and then went on to play cool art history student Innes Maitland in River City.

26 year old Arsher Ali (represented by United Agents), who recently starred in Four Lions plays Ali. Arsher graduated from E15 drama school in 2006 and was named as one of Screen International's U.K "Stars Of Tomorrow" in 2007.

John Dagleish (also Curtis Brown), who plays Barry,...