Nicole Lampert

Ben Miller, 55, plays Professor Jasper Tempest, a genius Cambridge criminologist with OCD, alongside Frances de la Tour in new crime drama Professor T, which can now be seen on BritBox.

Julia Donaldson, 72, who grew up in Hampstead, is one of the world’s bestselling authors, with sales of 90 million books. She shares her tips for storytelling in a 27-lesson course for BBC Maestro.

Katherine Kelly stars as Sally in ITV’s Innocent II. The four-part follow-up to 2018’s Innocent, follows Sally after being cleared of murdering 16-year-old student Matty Taylor at a school in the Lake District.

Stars of Call The Midwife have revealed how they created the popular BBC1 drama for a decade. Writer Heidi Thomas admitted she didn’t have high hopes for the show when she was asked to write it.

To celebrate Agatha Christie’s Poirot’s centenary, a documentary for ITV hosted by Richard E Grant (left) with a stellar cast of contributors, looks at some stories behind the brilliant novelist.

Netflix’s eight-part series The Irregulars follows Baker Street Irregulars as they help Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The gang discovers London is under threat after being attacked by supernatural crows.

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To get in the mood for their love scene, Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan drank Prosecco. It was Saoirse’s birthday and the two had asked the director that filming the tryst should take place on this day

Richard Ramirez, then 25,was found guilty of 13 charges of murder in 1989. A New Netflix series reveals how the LA murder department’s youngest cop and a legendary detective solved the crime.

Carey Mulligan, 35, revealed that the stunt was part of a scene for pair’s new film The Dig which is based on the real-life discovery of a buried Anglo-Saxon ship in Suffolk in 1939.

Joanna Lumley, 74, plays the wife of Nigel Havers, 69, in new ITV drama Finding Alice. The six-part series follows Keeley Hawes as Alice, who suffers the unexpected loss of her husband.

The show, set on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie, started in 2011 with Ben Miller as DI Poole who was first in succession of fish-out-of-water British detectives.

Black Narcissus, the 1939 Rumer Godden novel that was turned into an Oscar-winning film, has been remade as a three-part BBC series starring Gemma Arterton.

Julia Donaldson stars in a novel adaptation called Zog and The Flying Doctors, which acts as a sequel to her hit adaptation featuring Zog that aired two years ago.

British actress Helena Bonham Carter, 54, voices a new animation of Quentin Blake’s classic children’s tale Clown, which airs on Christmas Day.

Bridgerton follows an aristocratic family in the Regency period of the early 19th century. First series of the Netflix drama is based on The Duke & I by American Jane Austen superfan, Julia Quinn.

Brigitta, 49, and Kris, 48, are among the hundreds of Brits who moved to Barbados to help keep their economy going during the pandemic. A new TV show follows their adventure.

The Crown’s Marion Bailey, who plays the Queen Mother, has spilled some of her backstage secrets ahead of the new season of the Netflix show.

The latest adaptation of Rebecca, voted the nation’s favourite novel three years ago, stars Lily James, Hollywood hunk Armie Hammer and Kristin Scott Thomas as housekeeper Mrs Danvers.