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 [...]

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 [...]

Big Brother is back.  Channel Five has resurrected the main show, and last night’s episode provided the first real glimpse of the new housemates in action.  The episode struggled to get one million viewers, making it the lowest rated Big Brother episode to date – but I watched, as the rest of the nation couldn’t [...]

                Straight off the back of the squeeful news that Zachary Quinto will make a return to TV in American Horror Story we learn that bosses have cast stone cold fox Teddy Sears as his on-screen boyfriend. AHS features a haunted house which becomes inhabited by an unlucky [...]

In an ambitious cross promotion actors  Anton Yelchin and Christopher Mintz-Plasse visited the Big Brother house to plug their new movie Fright Night. In last night’s highlights viewers were treated to an extended trailer in the first ad break before Yelchin and Mintz-Passe entered the house to deliver tickets to a special screening of the [...]

You know you’re watching an indie film when it starts with a deep and meaningful monologue by apubescent teenager – not forgetting the Belle & Sebastian-inspired soundtrack and sunspots overthe New York landscape. But, add in adorably quirky characters (namely Charlie And The Chocolate Factory’s Freddie Highmore) and a handful of laugh-out-loud moments and it’s [...]

1hr 15 minutes of stale entertainment is what I endured last night watching this show, for a numberof valid reasons I and a few others agree it’s time to call it a day with its yearly occupation on ITV1. All faith is lost in the cause of this show, we are aware that its weekly [...]

ABC Family’s new show Switched at Birth comes as a pleasant surprise. The show unravels the lives of teenage girls Bay and Daphne as their worlds are turned upside down after finding out that they were mistakenly switched at birth having spend 16years growing up in a family that isn’t even theirs. The new situation [...]

Entering into its 24th year, the well-known Singapore International Film Festival returns this year from 15 to 25 September with a new slate of programming relating to local and international film culture. A wide variety of film movies, documentaries and animations will be screened during the two-week event. In fact, this year, there has been [...]

It has been a week since the Singapore Toy, Games and Comic Convention 2011 (STGCC) wrapped up last Sunday at the Suntec Convention Hall. According to official reports, an estimated 30,000 people were at the convention last weekend. And based on indications from most exhibitors, artists, the guests and fans, this year’s show was visibly [...]