The Wales-made drama that could be just what you are looking for after the end of Line of Duty
The Pact will be on BBC later this month and stars a Coronation Street favourite and a Breaking Bad actress
15:34, 2 MAY 2021
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The Pact airs on BBC later this month (Image: BBC)
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Fast forward 150 years into the future, and the vision of Earth that humans are faced with is in equal parts intriguing and terrifying - or so decrees new sci-fi series Intergalactic. With police swapping cars for spacecraft as they patrol the skies and prisoners being transported away from Earth to far-flung colonies, the prospect is undeniably bleak. And yet it s an intrinsic part of the allure of Sky One s latest space-based show. Black Mirror actress Imogen Daines, who plays convicted cyber-hacker Verona says: You ve got the Common World - which is the Earth-based government, which is masquerading as a democracy but is, in fact, a dictatorship - and I think anyone living in America would just chime with that immediately.
Spring really is a magical time… especially if it means taking home
A Discovery Of Witches Season Two on Blu-ray, DVD and digital. Not only that, but the second season can also be bought as part of a box-set of both seasons, meaning newcomers and hardcore fans alike can all binge both series of the fantasy romance!
Check out the trailer for Season Two below…
A Discovery Of Witches sees Diana (Teresa Palmer,
Lights Out) and Matthew (Matthew Goode,
Watchmen) hiding in time, now in the fascinating and treacherous world of Elizabethan London.
Here they must find a powerful witch to help Diana master her magic and search for the elusive Book of Life. In the present day, however, their enemies have not forgotten them…
The second season of
A Discovery Of Witches picked up the story of historian (and witch-in-training) Diana Bishop and vampire Matthew Clairmont as they fled through time to Elizabethan London to escape sinister witch Peter Knox.
While Diana s aunts Sarah and Em hid out at the de Clermont family mansion, Sept-Tours, Matthew s vampire son Marcus vowed to protect his daemon friends Nathaniel and pregnant Sophie from Knox and fellow scheming members of the Congregation, while also beginning a romance with auctioneer Phoebe.
By the end of the season, Diana and Matthew were finishing their adventures in 16
th century London and preparing to time-walk back to modern day Sept-Tours. Unfortunately, if and when they get there they will be met with tragedy – Peter Knox, fascinated by Sophie s newborn baby, who is a witch, has beat them to it.
(Disney+, Friday, 3:01 a.m.): It’s only been a week since the finale of
, but let’s face it, everyone still wants more. Disney+ is here to deliver with this new comprehensive documentary series that will go behind-the-scenes of all its MCU television shows once they air, starting with
WandaVision. Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, the rest of the cast and the creative team will pull back the curtains on how the production’s surprising concept took shape by drawing inspiration from classic sitcoms.
Isabel: The Intimate Story Of Isabel Allende (HBO Max, Friday, 3:01 a.m.): “The series will delight the author’s fans through and through. Even viewers unfamiliar with Allende are likely to find the tale of a mom trying to figure out a balance between work, life, military resistance, and exile engrossing, despite some of the production’s shortcomings.” Read the rest of Ines Bellina’s review of this limited series here.