Hollywood can be a difficult beast to tame. It would be naive to think that every young wannabe who moved to LA to find fame was exactly the same in every respect, and there is bound to be some diversity within the personal lives  of those who call Tinseltown home. We live in a world [...]

  Broadway baby Jonathan Groff will reprise his role as Jesse St James on Glee this season, according to his friend and co-star Lea Michele. Groff appeared as sometime paramour of Michele’s character Rachel Berry who eventually turned on her and returned to rival glee club Vocal Adrenaline. He was in four episodes over seasons [...]

At the risk of receiving an angry phone call from Ryan Murphy as so many TV reviewers have – all gleeks will recognise the trope of Good Glee and Bad Glee. Last night’s episode, ‘Asian F’, was Good Glee. Throwing the spotlight on criminally under-used Harry Shum Jr as Mike Chang the episode employed the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In the second of our ‘Miracle Day’ interviews leading up to the finale we talk to writer Jane Espenson about the challenges of writing for an established show, the relative freedoms of cable and what’s next for Torchwood.   EOS : Do you feel a big responsibility in writing for an established show with an [...]