One of my main criticisms of last week’s episode of The Fall was that I didn’t really get to connect with either of the central characters. However, this second instalment opened things up a bit more as we got to know a few more of the minor characters a little bit more. In addition a couple of subplots have been set up to run alongside Stella’s investigation into Paul Spector’s murder spree, namely one concerning corruption in the Belfast Police Force.

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Gillian Anderson first hit our screens playing Dana Skully in the extra-terrestrial X Fies series, and subsequent movies, 20 years ago.

In that time she has been voted Worlds Sexiest Woman by a lads mag, whilst securing her place in the TV hall of fame for two generations, and gathered more cult followers than you can shake a stick at!
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Anybody who’s accustomed to TV murder mystery dramas knows that we never really meet the killer until the last episode. For example, part of the success of the excellent Broadchurch was that everybody could have go at guessing who the killer was. But at the same time, some crime dramas suffer from the fact that the killer’s motivation is never explored in great detail. That’s definitely not the case with The Fall, in which the killer is literally unmasked within the first five minutes of the drama. The rest of the series then looks like it will play out as a cat and mouse drama with a brilliant DCI brought in to review the case of one of the murderer’s previous victims.

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As fans of David Tennant’s ITV drama Broadchurch will know, the series was one of the most gripping and polished dramas to have aired on the channel not only this year, but for some years…

And it’s been reported today that the BBC are keen to cash in on the viewing public’s renewed lust for crime dramas with their own offering entitled The Fall.

Starring former X Files actress Gillian Anderson in the role of Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson, the drama will focus on the hunt for a serial killer when the show begins next month. Read more & comment »

One of the most anticipated contemporary dramas of the year, HANNIBAL, comes to Sky Living HD on 7th May at 10pm. Lead by a stellar cast including HUGH DANCY (The Big C, Hysteria, Martha Marcy May Marlene), MADS MIKKELSON (The Hunt, Casino Royale) and LAWRENCE FISHBURNE (The Matrix, CSI, Man of Steel), this 13-part series from show runner BRYAN FULLER (Pushing Daises, Heroes) takes its cue from Thomas Harris’ classic novel Red Dragon.

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The BBC have revealed that it’s to air a lavish adaptation of children’s book Room on the Broom over Christmas, and they’ve lined up an all star voice-over cast including Britain’s Got Talent judge David Walliams, X Files star Gillian Anderson and former Gavin & Stacey star, Rob Brydon.

The corporation says of the show, “The premier of the half-hour animated special Room on the Broom, will light up faces and warm the cockles of every family on their sofa this Christmas, when it broadcasts as a festive highlight on BBC One.”

Room on the Broom is described as an “enchanting tale” of friendship and family that has been adapted by the same creative team that made The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo’s Child.

The award-winning book was written in 2001 by Children’s Laureate Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. It features a kind witch who invites a collection of animals to join her on her broom, much to the frustration of her pet cat… Read more & comment »

The BBC have just announced that Gillian Anderson – who shot to fame in US cult series, The X Files – has been cast in the lead role of new BBC2 drama, The Fall.

Written by Allan Cubitt, The Fall is described as “a gripping psychological thriller that forensically examines the lives of two hunters.”

One of those “hunters” is a serial killer, who stalks his victims in and around Belfast, while the other is a talented female Detective Superintendent Gibson – Anderson – who’s on secondment from the MET.

The Fall consists of five episodes which will follow the police investigation while uncovering the intricate story of the lives that become entangled by the horrific murders, including how they affect both the killer’s and the victims’ families… Read more & comment »

Gillian Anderson (The X Files, Bleak House, The Crimson Petal And The White) and David Suchet (Piorot, Maxwell) will star alongside Ray Winstone (Sexy Beast, Nil By Mouth, Vincent) and Douglas Booth (Worried About The Boy, Christopher And His Kind) in Sarah Phelps’ (Oliver Twist, EastEnders) bold new adaptation of Great Expectations made by BBC Drama production for BBC One.

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Romola Garai (Emma, Atonement), Chris O’Dowd (IT Crowd, The Boat That Rocked), Gillian Anderson (The X Files, Bleak House), Richard E Grant (Withnail And I, Gosford Park), Shirley Henderson (Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, Charles II), Amanda Hale (Murderland, Bright Star) and Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, The League Of Gentlemen) have begun filming on BBC Two’s bold four-part adaptation of Michel Faber’s international best-selling novel, The Crimson Petal And The White, made by Origin Pictures.

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Gillian Anderson has revealed that she was almost fired when she fell pregnant after the first series of X Files.

The actress, who played FBI agent Dana Scully in the hit show, thinks it was only the dynamics between her and agent Mulder (David Duchovny) that saved her role.

“They would have loved to have punished me but realised there was steam picking up. I thought they were overreacting but now I see it from their perspective,” WENN quotes her as saying.

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It seems that X Files actress Gillian Anderson is in talks regarding a role Doctor Who.

The show’s writers apparently want Gillian to appear in a one-off special episode as “a deadly enemy of the Time Lord.”

Her role would be as renegade Time Lady The Rani, who is “a glamorous but evil scientific genius”. The role was previously played by Kate O’Mara when the show was on in the 80s.

An Doctor Who insider told the Daily Express, “Gillian obviously has a massive sci-fi following and it’s felt that it would be a major coup to have her appear in Doctor Who… Read more & comment »