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On Friday, Prince William attended the Sovereign’s Parade at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst o behalf of his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II. The 36-year-old Duke of of Cambridge presented several awards at the event, including the Sword Of Honour, the Overseas Sword and the Queen’s Medal. He was dressed in appropriate military attire, the same outfit he […]...

Acorn TV is going global. The Svod service is launching in thirty new countries including Australia and India.

The service launched in the U.S. and Canada in 2011 before rolling out to twelve Latin American countries in 2018, will now be available across Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, India, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Venezuela, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Bahamas, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Grenada, St. Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, Antigua, Barbuda and Belize.

Available for $4.99 per month, the service is launching with a raft of UK titles including Martin Clunes’ Doc Martin, Daniel Craig’s Sword of Honour, The Bletchley Circle, Lynda La Plante’s The Commander and Above Suspicion, The Secret Agent, Traffik, Benedict Cumberbatch’s The Last Enemy as well as Irish drama Jack Taylor, Australian cop drama East West 101 and documentaries including Britain...

Chaplin writer to adapt novel for Wild Tales and Mad To Be Normal producers.

Bad Penny Productions has picked up rights to Graham Greene’s last published novel The Captain And The Enemy, which is being adapted for the big screen by screenwriter and novelist William Boyd (Chaplin).

The novel tells the story of a young boy named Victor Baxter taken away from his boarding school by a stranger to live in London. The mysterious stranger is simply known as “the Captain”.

In London Victor companions a sweet but withdrawn woman named Liza, serving as her conduit to the outside world. When Victor reaches manhood, he finally learns the secrets of the Captain.

The thriller includes smuggling, jewel theft and international espionage and culminates in a dramatic showdown in Panama.

In addition to Bad Penny’s Phin Glynn (Mad To Be Normal), other producers are Victor Glynn (That Good Night) and Axel Kuschevatzky (Wild Tales).

The film will...

We first told you back in July about Syfy giving the green light to the pilot Dominion, based on characters in the 2010 film Legion. Back then we had little to go on besides a sketchy paragraph about it being set 25 years in the future after an epic war between an army of angels and humankind.

Now we have more, including not only the casting of three major characters (at least two of whom are likely familiar to you) but a lot more in the way of plot and character detail.

Although I’m completely enthusiastic and encouraging about this pilot, the fact that one of the actors, Christopher Egan, was also cast in the pilot Gothica as Dorian Gray proves that casting a pilot by no means guarantees its pickup to series.

You have been warned; get excited about this, but don’t fall in love just yet:

Syfy Casts Christopher Egan,...

Tom was born on February 18, 1973 in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. His father was in the Royal Air Force, which meant that his family, including an older brother and younger sister, moved around quite a bit. He grew up on air bases in Swindon, Doncaster, and Devon. He attended Tauntons College in Southampton and trained at the Academy Drama school, where he was the recipient of the Stage Scholarship. It was at the Academy where he met his long-time girlfriend, Emma Linley, who he has been with since 1993. He landed roles on various TV movies and shows such as 'Children of the New Forest' and ''Good Kind Wenceslas'. But, he hit it big when he landed the role of Tom Ferguson on Coronation Street in 1999. Since then he has had lead roles in the Sky One TV show, 'Mile High' and 'Sword of Honour'. His career took off...