Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as John Watson / image from the BBC “Most people blunder around this city and all they see are streets and shops and cars; walk with Sherlock Holmes, you see the battlefield.” What? No way. Is he …
Q. Why did Sherlock Holmes measure the Monopoly Board? A. To see if the game was a-foot. With humour like that, it’s no wonder we were passed over as script writers for the new adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, which begins on BBC1 this Sunday at …
What do you call a well-known newsreader who is about to take on a singing and dancing role in a stageshow for charity? Jon Snow! The Channel 4 news presenter with his amazing range of ties made a singing and dancing cameo in Showstopper! at …
An official BBC stage version of Dr Who will begin its 25-date tour at Wembley Arena. Dr Who Live will see the time travelling fringemeister and companion Amy battling against Daleks, Cybermen and Weeping Angels. The story, penned by Who supremo Steve Moffatt, will be …
As previously noted, the Sci-Fi-London film festival begins today. We think the excitement might be getting to reader Vicki Garner’s head: Have you noticed that the design of the Dalek “skirt” is strikingly similar to the columns at the end of the platforms at Whitechapel …
It’s now 70 years since our city and other parts of the UK came under nightly attack from the German air force. It’s a story that will never grow old for the telling. Tonight, Tony Robinson begins a new show looking at civilian life during …
Or so it seems watching this four minute montage of exploding buildings, slithering monsters and flashing ray guns. The clip forms part of the campaign to bring the World Science Fiction Convention to London in 2014. Trying to identify the films and TV programmes is …
Anyone who holds a spyglass to such things has long known that a new TV version of Sherlock Holmes is in production. But we seem to have missed a press release somewhere. Every newspaper is today running a story about the show, which will feature …
The most Londony shows on TV and radio this week. Monday A History of the World in 100 objects (Radio 4, 19.45-20.00) Relics from the first attempts at cookery, from the British Museum. Inside Out (BBC1, 19.30-20.00) Dan Cruickshank investigates the archaeological remains of Shakespeare’s …
Bringing you the most Londony shows on TV and radio over the coming week. Monday Inside Out (BBC1, 19.30-20.00) The local magazine programme looks at light pollution in London, and how to join the Queen’s Household Cavalry. The Queen in 3D (C4, 21.00-22.00) Even the …
Competitive cooks of South East London brace yourselves: Come Dine With Me – the best reason to work from home these days – needs a bunch of hugely ill-matched, foodily ambitious contestants for the new series. Best if you’re deluded about your ability to put …
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