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2025

Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special 2025

The Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special 2025 sees six couples battle it out under the glitterball to be crowned the Strictly Christmas Champion. Hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman will oversee the festivities for their final time, while Head Judge Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, and Anton Du...


23rd December 2025
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The Other Bennet Sister First Look Clip

Scandal! Mary Bennet is causing quite the spectacle in Meryton… The Other Bennet Sister offers a fresh take on one of Jane Austen’s most unassuming characters: Mary Bennet. Forced to step out of her sisters’ shadows, Mary embarks on a journey of self-discovery – finding love, and most importantly herself,...


16th December 2025
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Titanic Sinks Tonight

On Sunday 14 April, Titanic was five days into her maiden voyage to New York, sailing with 2,208 passengers and crew onboard. She was the largest ship the world had ever seen. As most passengers prepared for bed, a message was received from a ship 20 miles ahead, warning that...


15th December 2025
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Two Doors Down Christmas Special

When Eric and Beth put their tree up earlier than usual, they unwittingly kick off the Christmas season in Latimer Crescent. What starts as a labour-saving convenience quickly turns into a flurry of festive activity, as neighbours start to gear up for the holidays in their own unique ways. Colin...


10th December 2025
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Strike – The Running Grave

Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger return for the next instalment of Strike in The Running Grave, the seventh (5x60min) story of the BBC’s hit crime drama in co-production with HBO and Warner Bros. Discovery and based on J.K. Rowling’s best-selling crime novels written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Strike is...


10th December 2025
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First look at Babies – a powerful love story

First look pictures for Stefan Golaszewski’s new six-part drama Babies have been released. Starring Siobhán Cullen (Bodkin, Obituary) and Paapa Essiedu (Black Mirror, The Capture), Babies is a gripping, tender and urgent love story that explores the resilience of a couple navigating the heartbreak of pregnancy loss. The series follows...


5th December 2025
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Dear England First Look

The BBC has released the first look at James Graham’s new drama Dear England. The four-part series is based on James Graham’s Olivier-award winning play of the same name about Gareth Southgate and the England men’s football team. It is produced by Left Bank Pictures (This City is Ours, The...


4th December 2025
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Hamburg Days

The BBC has acquired Hamburg Days, a forthcoming drama series recounting The Beatles’ early days as a band for BBC iPlayer and BBC One from Turbine Studios. The six-part series is a W&B Television (a LEONINE Company) and Turbine Studios production for ZDF, the BBC and AGC Television. Based on...


3rd December 2025
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Legacy Of Spies Announced

The BBC and MGM+ have announced landmark John le Carré series Legacy of Spies by award-winning The Ink Factory (The Pigeon Tunnel, The Night Manager) in co-production with Amusement Park Film (All Quiet on the Western Front) and in association with 127 Wall Productions and Paramount Television Studios. Written by...


2nd December 2025
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BBC Christmas 2025 TV

The BBC unveils a whole host of magical moments to entertain all the family over the festive fortnight across TV channels and BBC iPlayer. The unmissable line-up will bring people together this Christmas in a way that only the BBC can. Audiences will delight in a smorgasbord of spectacular treats...


25th November 2025
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Mammoth is back!

Mammoth is back! The hit comedy about PE teacher Tony Mammoth, thought to have perished in an avalanche during a school trip in 1979 and getting a second chance at life, returns to BBC Two and iPlayer on Monday 1 December at 10pm. Mike Bubbins (Death Valley, The Socially Distant...


21st November 2025
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Time – Series Three

The BBC have announced the third series of Jimmy McGovern’s BAFTA-winning hit drama Time, set in a young offenders’ institution. The three-part drama will be led by David Tennant (Rivals, Thursday Murder Club) as Prison Officer Bailey with Siobhan Finneran (Happy Valley, Out of the Dust) reprising her role as Marie-Louise,...


20th November 2025
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Dustfall acquired for BBC iPlayer and BBC One

The BBC has acquired Dustfall, a gripping new six-part crime drama series starring internationally renowned actor Anna Torv (The Newsreader, Territory), for BBC iPlayer and BBC One from Federation International. Based on the novel The Unbelieved by Vikki Petraitis and adapted for television by BAFTA nominee Dianne Taylor (After the...


20th November 2025
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Riot Women gets a second series

Riot Women, the hit drama series by multi-BAFTA award-winning writer Sally Wainwright, will return to the BBC for a second series. The first series, which launched in full on BBC iPlayer in October and concluded its weekly BBC One run on Sunday 16 November, has been widely praised by critics...


20th November 2025
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Line of Duty returns for series seven

Jed Mercurio’s hit thriller Line of Duty, produced by World Productions, will return to the BBC for a seventh series with Martin Compston, Vicky McClure and Adrian Dunbar reprising their roles. Line of Duty last aired in 2021, and the series six finale was the biggest drama episode [excl. soaps]...


18th November 2025
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Civilisations: Rise and Fall – Everything you need to know

The moments when four ancient worlds faced disaster are brought to life in an epic new series exploring Rome, Egypt, the Aztecs and the samurai of Japan. Drawing on the beautiful art and artefacts left behind by these four cultures, now held in the British Museum, the series reveals the...


18th November 2025
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Barry Evans returns to EastEnders

Another Albert Square legend is heading back to Walford this December, as Shaun Williamson reprises his iconic role of Barry Evans for a special episode in Nigel’s dementia storyline. Although it’s been over 21 years since Barry last stepped foot in Walford, his character remains etched into the history of...


16th November 2025
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The War Between the Land and the Sea is set to launch with a double bill

The BBC has announced that the highly anticipated series The War Between the Land and the Sea is set to launch with a thrilling double bill on Sunday 7 December from 8:30pm simultaneously on BBC iPlayer and BBC One. The five-part series follows Barclay (Russell Tovey), a low-level UNIT staff...


14th November 2025
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Pat Evans to return to EastEnders

This December, EastEnders icon Pat Evans is set to return to Walford for a special episode in Nigel’s dementia storyline as Pam St Clement reprises her legendary role. Made famous for her eccentric wardrobe, countless love affairs, explosive storylines, and who can forget those earrings, Pam put Pat Evans/Harris/Butcher on...


14th November 2025
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Kay & Keating join Daytime’s line-up for 2026

Head of BBC Daytime and Early Peak Commissioning, Rob Unsworth, has announced two brand new commissions for 2026 at the Belfast Media Festival, as well as the recommission of the fourth series of hit quiz The Finish Line with Roman Kemp and Sarah Greene which will also get a week...


12th November 2025
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Daddy Issues Returns for S2 – Interviews

Set in Stockport the new series will see Gemma (Aimee Lou Wood) coming to terms with life as a mum while Malcolm (David Morrissey) is just thrilled to be a grandad. But wherever Malcolm is, Derek (David Fynn) is never too far behind. Good job Gemma can turn to best...


10th November 2025
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Men of the Manosphere

Following Hunting The Catfish Crime Gang and Hunting the Online Sex Predators, BBC Northern Ireland and BBC Three have commissioned a new 1×60′ documentary film presented by James Blake, Men of the Manosphere. In this latest film James Blake meets young men seeking status, wealth and women, and explores the...


5th November 2025
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The Celebrity Apprentice Christmas Specials line-up announced

This festive season, a host of famous faces are stepping into the boardroom as The Apprentice returns with two celebrity Christmas specials in aid of BBC Children in Need. The celebrities taking part are AJ Odudu, Angela Scanlon, Charlie Hedges, Eddie Kadi, Jake Wood, JB Gill, Kadeena Cox, Matt Morsia,...


5th November 2025
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Kingdom – Everything you need to know

Coming to BBC One and iPlayer, Kingdom is an epic six-part series narrated by Sir David Attenborough from the BAFTA award-winning BBC Studios Natural History Unit. Across six episodes in one of the most ambitious wildlife series ever made, Kingdom follows four rival animal families over five years, telling their...


4th November 2025
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Historic broadcast unearthed

The speech by none other than the former Prime Minister, David Lloyd George was broadcast prior to the 1935 general election. The so-called Welsh Wizard took to the airwaves from Bangor to criticise the government of the day. Professor Jamie Medhurst from the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies...


31st October 2025
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Fang-tastic further casting details for The Reluctant Vampire

BBC Comedy has a Halloween treat for you with news of the spec-dracula cast to star alongside BAFTA winner Lenny Rush (Am I Being Unreasonable?) in a trapped between two worlds sitcom, The Reluctant Vampire, produced by Boffola Pictures for BBC iPlayer and BBC One, in co-production with ZDFneo. The...


30th October 2025
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The War Between the Land and the Sea imagery released

The War Between the Land and the Sea is due to launch in the UK on BBC iPlayer and BBC One this December, with new imagery released teasing the thrilling drama. The five-part series will showcase how the world reacts when a fearsome and ancient species emerges from the ocean,...


30th October 2025
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Shetland’s O’Donnell and Jensen Share the Secret to Series 10

Acclaimed murder-mystery drama Shetland returns for a tenth series as Calder and Tosh are drawn to a remote village following the sinister murder of an elderly woman. As they begin to unravel life in this close-knit community, shocking, long-buried secrets rise to the surface with unexpected consequences for all –...


28th October 2025
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Alan Partridge’s guide to mental wellbeing

Alan Partridge is on a mission! #HowAreYouItsAlanPartridge #AlanPartridge #Comedy The beloved and, to be fair, revered broadcaster returns to Britain after a year in Saudi Arabia to ask some important questions.


26th October 2025
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