Recently a study by the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies suggested that smoking in films could significantly increase the chances of impressionable young people taking up the habit themselves. The recommendation in the report that films featuring smoking should be automatically rated 18 would have given that rating to Disney’s 101 Dalmations, Grease and [...]

We asked our contributors to tell us the shows they’re most looking forward to this autumn. Ruairi Loughran looks to the skies.. Pan Am Pan Am is ABC’s new period drama about the crew of 1960s Pan American World Airlines, America’s most glamorous way to fly. Created and written by Jack Orman (ER) and directed [...]

The BBC has caused consternation amongst Whovians by cancelling Doctor Who Confidential, the behind the scenes show which has accompanied every series since the 2005 reboot starring Christopher Eccleston. The move comes as BBC Three controller Zai Bennett concentrates its slimmed-down budget on original programming in the 9-10.30pm slot. The show began as a 30 minute edition [...]

We asked our contributors to tell us which shows they were looking forward to this autumn. David Bedwell goes for dinos on Fox and zombies on AMC. There are a few heavy hitters coming this year. Fox’s Terra Nova, starring Jason O’Mara (Band Of Brothers, Life On Mars US) and Stephen Lang (Avatar), features a [...]

EOS asked its team of writers to tell us what they were excited about this fall season. Alison Chenoweth tells us about her love for Raising Hope. Raising Hope is about to begin its second season on FOX, which  cancels shows pretty often so I usually try not to get too attached to any new [...]

The next time someone accuses you of ‘wasting time’ by sitting and playing games all day, refer them to the players of Foldit, an online game which has brought scientists one step closer to curing HIV by sucessfully making an accurate model of one of the enzymes of a retrovirus. By competing in teams to [...]

Peter Dinklage took a surprise acting Emmy at this year’s Primetime awards for his role as Tyrian Lanister in the popular Game of Thrones but there was some consternation amongst fans that the show was beaten by  Mad Men in the drama series category. Convention organiser Sean Harry, who is running Throne Con in the UK in [...]

The BBC have taken 14 of the 15 television writing nominations in the Writers’ Guild Awards Shortlist. The only representative of any other channel is Peep Show (Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, Channel 4) which is nominated for best sitcom alongside  Lead Balloon (Pete Sinclair and Jack Dee) and Rev (James Wood and Jonathan Harvey).  Other notable [...]

Moving a show to a new channel is always risky, but there are some TV juggernauts which are thought to be move-proof. Big Brother, with its mix of drama, voyeurism and unwitting stars was thought to be one of them, but all is not well down in Borehamwood. Big Brother is losing viewers rapidly, with [...]

The 2011 Student Film Festival is now open for submissions and will take place from the 3rd to the 5th of February 2011. The Student Film Festival was co-founded by Naqisa Silva, a film student of the London school of the arts; Umar Khan, a graduate in the Communications and Media from Brunel University; and [...]

In our final interview on the run up to the ‘Miracle Day’ finale we speak to John Barrowman about costume, Cardiff and Captain America. EOS : How did you indoctrinate the newcomers into your particular way of working? JB : I did the first scenes with everybody naked. No, I was really pleased when Mekhi [...]

Only two days to go until the finale of Torchwood : Miracle Day. Eve Myles tells us what the transition was like from Cardiff to California and the problems of kicking ass in heels. EOS : What was the change in scenery like from Cardiff to Southern California? EM: It was wonderful. My partner loved [...]

Not long to go now before the finale of Torchwood : Miracle Day. We caught up with Mekhi Pfifer to ask him about Rex and what it was like to be a nerd in Harlem. EOS : You said on the panel that you grew up ‘a nerd in Harlem’. MP : Well when I [...]

The Creative Arts Emmys were awarded last night, and while Boardwalk Empire and Mildred Pierce led the pack there were awards for some of the season’s most memorable TV moments. Robert J. Ulrich and Eric Dawson rightly walked away with the award for casting for a comedy series for their work on Glee. Last season [...]

Andy Whitfield, the Welsh actor best known for his portrayal of the eponymous hero in Spartacus : Blood and Sand has died aged 39 after a long battle with cancer. Whitfield was born in Amlwch but moved to Sydney in the late nineties and switched from engineering to acting, appearing in a number of Australian [...]