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Stephen King on Monday dropped by The Late Show to discuss his new crime novel, Billy Summers.

While catching up with host Stephen Colbert, the iconic wordsmith explained that he had to alter plot details in his new book due to the pandemic. He began writing Billy Summers in 2019 before there was a global crisis.

“I had a couple of characters that I had to get off the stage for reasons that have to do with the plot … so I said, ‘I’ll put them on a cruise ship,'” King began. “And then Covid came along and I said, ‘No, this ...

Stephen King on Monday dropped by The Late Show to discuss his new crime novel, Billy Summers.

While catching up with host Stephen Colbert, the iconic wordsmith explained that he had to alter plot details in his new book due to the pandemic. He began writing Billy Summers in 2019 before there was a global crisis.

“I had a couple of characters that I had to get off the stage for reasons that have to do with the plot … so I said, ‘I’ll put them on a cruise ship,'” King began. “And then Covid came along and I said, ‘No, this ...

‘When somebody decides to call a character Brock Blennerhassett,’ says Michael Smiley, ‘you think, well, that hasn’t just come off the top of your head, there must be something going on there!’ What’s going on with Blennerhassett, his lead role in new darkly comic Victorian drama Dead Still, is strange, timely and layered, says Smiley.

Dead Still, available in the UK now to stream on Acorn TV, is ‘a dark, funny, proper period drama set in Dublin in Victorian times’ Smiley explains. His character Blennerhassett is part of the Anglo-Irish landed gentry who’s broken away to work in the experimental field of memorial photography, taking pictures of posed corpses for bereaved families. ‘That was a big thing in Victorian times because of the British Empire being in mourning after Prince Albert died.’

The series blends a murder mystery with gallows humour and colonial Irish politics. ‘All of...

From the visionary mind behind 2020 Oscar-winner “Parasite“, Bong Joon-Ho’s star-studded dystopian sci-fi thriller “Snowpiercer” is making its way to Blu-ray and DVD for the very first time in the UK.

Set in 2031, the entire planet is frozen and the world’s only survivors live aboard the Snowpiercer: a train that’s been hurtling around the globe for the past seventeen years. Within the carriages the remnants of the human race have formed their own divisive economic and class system.

This is all set to change when Curtis (Chris Evans) leads a group of lower-class citizens, who live in squalor at the back of the train, on a fight to the front of the Snowpiercer to share the food and wealth equally among the inhabitants. Each section of the train holds new surprises for the rebel group as they battle their way from carriage to carriage. A revolution has begun…...