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After the UK Government's recent surprise budget from Liz Truss' new Conservative government that cut taxes and raised spending, the British currency, the pound sterling, fell of a cliff, falling to its lowest point against the dollar since before decimalisation It has recovered a little since, in anticipation of the Bank Of England's impending announcement[...]

Emily and Rosie Mortimer, daughters of John Mortimer, are writing a reboot of Rumpole Of The Bailey, this time with a female lead as Rumpole.

They have engaged the services of SRO Audiences to look for couple contestants, asking "Are you in a committed or long term relationship? Have you ever been curious about seeing other people outside of the relationship?" British Swinging/Throuple Dating TV Show, Looking For Couples Firecracker Films, with offices in London and Glasgow, are part of The Tinopolis[...]

That said, I also love relaxing reality programs that are very rooted in the real world, like The Great British Bake Off (or The Great British Baking Show if you're watching on Netflix) Watching everyone trapped in little video chat boxes has just gotten a little depressing for me, so I'm super glad that they[...]

Netflix's The Big Flower Fight, hosted by comedians Vic Reeves and Natasia Demetriou, was fun and informative, and filled our floral needs.

The comics industry is a bit up in the air at the moment and the British comic book scene seems suddenly more isolated from America and Europe simultaneously It's like a double Brexit Before all this was going down, Berry was working on an anonymous survey to help get a better picture of everyone making[...]

And naturally, for a British superhero team, they will debut in the new Marvel event comic, Empyre The sun never sets  – I mean it's right there in this artwork ripped from an upcoming presentation which really looks like RB Silva's work Hey, we did it to DC yesterday, we're doing it to Marvel today[...]

And they seem to come in response to yesterday's video from Momentum that used Batman and the Joker to talk about taxation and modern-day British politics and priorities. Visiting a vehicle manufacturer in Warwickshire, he gave a speech that included the following observation; Today Britain has more Nobel Prize winners than any country aside except the[...]

Trying to arrange a deal with Europe that gets rid of free movement of travel in Europe, but also preserves the rights of EU citizens in Britain, and British citizens in the rest of EU, deal with Northern Ireland keeping an open border with the Republic Of Ireland despite about to be in two very[...]

Confidential) has his remembering skills back, because it looks like he's going to need them for his next project, Netflix's British teen supernatural drama series The Innocents Created by Hania Elkington (The North London Book of the Dead) and Simon Duric (McMafia), Pearce is set to play the character Halvorson opposite Sorcha Groundsell (Clique) and[...]

Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls [Public domain], Wikimedia CommonsMoving ahead with a project that the network is hoping is more "Gumball Rally via Fast and the Furious" and less The Cannonball Run, British broadcaster Sky is moving ahead with futuristic racing drama Curfew. The eight-episode series stars Sean Bean (Game of Thrones) and Malachi Kirby (Roots), and follows[...]

Looks like Dushane and Sully will be running the mean streets of London for another season, as Netflix has ordered a new season of British crime drama Top Boy The first two seasons originally aired in 2011 and 2013 the U.K on Channel 4 and are currently available globally on the streaming service Now, the[...]

The Mark Gordon Company will produce with 20th Century Fox Television, and Entertainment One will handle international rights. The potential one-hour drama would follow a British gangster who comes to Los Angeles with his family for the funeral of his eldest son When he learns his son didn't die in an accident and that he was[...]

She is a struggling politician, is the Deputy Prime Minister of the British government, but her personal life is falling apart, she doesn't believe in the political system anymore and she is preparing to quietly step down from her position after the upcoming General Election. Hactivist group 'Nidus', known for releasing leaked documents to the general[...]

Which could be a rework of Turok, Valiant did abandon a trademark attempt at "Dinosaur Hunter" last year. But that's a dragon. Savage Turok: Dragon Hunter? There was a strange social media commentary tease last year…. Bud do you know what that really reminds me of? A British football team coat of arms…. After all, it;'s been known for[...]

Well, my mind has been blown. And no doubt will my daughters' minds when they wake up. In fact I feel like waking them up now. But no, one more night in

Adi Tantimedh writes, There's a lot of admirable scholarship on the history of British comics that's been done, but still not enough of British Girl's comics Back in the Sixties all the way to the Eighties, weekly girls' comics were plentiful alongside the Beano, Dandy, Topper, 2000AD and various war and action comics before dying the[...]

A very nasty pharma-conspiracy thriller. Available on Region 2 DVD and Blu-Ray. Secret State If you wondered why the CIA were so incompetent and powerless in Homeland, much of it was not wanting to scare the horses and let the viewers know exactly what the secret services can do if they want.Secret State, a remake from the ground[...]

On sale at Kapow this weekend, and coming through Diamond shortly, is the Incomplete Sleaze Castle from Markosia. That's if it gets the numbers it needs.

Very Important People is a relatively new Channel 4 impressions sketch show from Morgana Robinson and Terry Mynott targeting modern day celebrity. And in

This week a number of DC stores had a midnight opening to sell Justice League #1 and Flashpoint #5. The UK missed out as stores only got their comics on

In the UK, there's no real thing as a fixed price for an American comic book. Diamond UK sell comics to shops depending on the discount they qualify for

Tonight on Channel 4 in Britain, a documentary The Superheroes Of Suburbia made by Christian Watt looked at British real life superheroes and found, as with all superheroes, their Achilles heel. Or in one case, his Achilles digestive system. Will, who works in finance, in sleepy south coastal town of Torquay's only real life superhero, the Dark[...]

This is the final print issue of the drugs-themed comedy British comic, Wasted What is it with Brits and issue eights, the same number as Dodgem Logic went to before it decided to go online, as Wasted is now doing as well. Either way, this final issue leaves us with a smorgasbord of names, including Kelly[...]

Okay, this looks like a good one. The Fades is a new series debuting on BBC3 later in the year. But next weekend you can see a preview at the MCM London

Comics Launch Pad is a very different kind of comic convention. While usually comic book professionals attend conventions for free, at Launch Pad they pay

Let's take a quick trip through recent comic history through the power of old British TV shows about comics See the change in comics culture, attitudes, trust in the future and, well, clothes and hairstyles. Here's a  Channel 4 documentary  from 1989 looking at Watchmen, DKR, Crisis, etc and takes its theme as "The Day[...]

America is the home of the superhero. Both in comics, TV and film, America is where the superhero has had most commercial success. So why does it seem

Basically a list of cool British TV DVDs of stuff, the majority of which is not available in the US normally, or if they are, in in a diluted form What with Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up, consider this a handy dandy way to be cooler than your friends and get in on something early. Anyone[...]

Ferg Handley and Kev Hopgood's dramatic historical adventure comic Lawless is the latest announced serialised number for next year's British newstand anthology Strip Magazine. Ferg I've known of old, he's currently best known for his work on the war-time newstand comic, Commando, while Kev Hopgood is the co-creator of War Machine The comic is the story[...]