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Stars: Michael Smiley, Dominic Coleman, Spencer Brown, James Lance, Sophie Colquhoun | Written by Rutger Andrée Wiltens, Alex Martin | Directed by Daniel Wilson

Tales of musicians who sold their soul for fame are common enough, Crossroads, Trick or Treat, Dark Roads 79 and The 27 Club are just a few examples. The Devil Went Down to Islington is a little different, however. It tells the tale of a music teacher who makes a Faustian bargain while drunk, only to panic when he realizes what he’s done.

It actually opens like a bizarre action film with Father Crowley using switchblade crosses to fight a pair of masked figures who are attacking a panicked man. He defeats them, but in the end Satan claims another soul.

John Robertson Has had a morning from hell, and he hasn’t even sold his soul yet. He fails to save his cat from the garbage truck, then an Ofsted inspector shows up,...

Stars: Jack Roth, Andrew Tiernan, Tim Bentinck, Sophie Colquhoun, Daniel Kendrick, Carolyn Backhouse, Paul Westwood, Louis Dempsey | Written and Directed by Joe Martin

Us and Them… Sums up the current state of the scocio-political climate perfectly don’t you think? The haves and the have-nots. The rich and the poor. It’s a class war that has been raging for longer than many can remember and one that won’t be ending anytime soon. And that idea of a class war, the struggle between rich and poor, seems to be what writer/director Joe Martin is aiming for with this, his first feature film. Only he does it by way of a home invasion thriller!

The film tells the story of three rough and ready British lads, intent on making a grand and brutish statement on economic inequality in the UK, use one upper crust family as their sacrificial lamb.

A banker’s family home is invaded by thugs in a gritty drama whose message gets swamped by a third-act bloodbath

When posh young woman Phillipa (Sophie Colquhoun) brings her boyfriend back to meet her callous banker dad (Tim Bentinck) and prissy mum (Carolyn Backhouse), lunch is rather spoiled when class warfare breaks out. The boyfriend Danny (Jack Roth), turns out to be not only a rude young chap with a broad Estuary accent, he’s also an armed robber.

Determined to fill in the chip on his shoulder and make daddy pay for all the banking bailout of 2008, he and his mates (Andrew Tiernan and Daniel Kendrick) tie up the family and threaten them with violence unless dad opens his home safe. But first Danny insists on giving them lectures about their moral turpitude while filming himself as jokey intertitles introduce flashbacks. All in all, the effect is like...

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To mark the release of Tango One on 19th March, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on DVD.

Vincent Regan stars in this British crime drama co-written and directed by Sacha Bennett. With a team of undercover agents on his tail, notorious drug dealer Den Donovan (Regan) finds himself facing a dilemma as he looks to protect his criminal empire and the life of his daughter. The cast also includes Sophie Colquhoun, Enrique Arce and Joseph Millson.

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Mark Schwahn has been accused of sexual harassment by 25 female crew members who work on his E! soap “The Royals.” The women all signed an open letter in which they describe “repeated unwanted sexual harassment” at the hands of Schwahn. The creator was accused of similar allegations earlier this week by the female cast and crew of “One Tree Hill.”

“Upon reading a statement from the ladies of ‘One Tree Hill,’ a statement from their Royal sisters could not possibly go unwritten,” the letter begins. The women say they were aware of the rumors surrounding Schwahn’s behavior on the set of “One Tree Hill” but went into the filming of “The Royals” hoping they were “just rumors.” “By the time we wrapped this had irrevocably proven not to be the case,” they write.

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Just three days after female cast and crew members from One Tree Hill released a joint statement accusing former showrunner Mark Schwahn of sexual harassment, the women of The Royals, Schwahn’s current TV project, are following suit.

RelatedOne Tree Hill Creator Accused of Sexual Harassment by Cast and Crew Members

Twenty-five actresses and female staffers from the E! drama contributed to the statement, which was released Thursday, claiming that Schwahn engaged in “repeated unwanted sexual harassment of multiple female members of cast and crew.”

Hours earlier, Royals star Alexandra Park released her own statement on social media, in...

The most that any of us can hope for is just surviving. Isn’t it time we started living? Us and Them squarely takes on economic pressures that are building in the UK (and frankly, issues that are affecting nearly every other country on the map these days), as Danny (Jack Roth), a member of the lower class who recently lost his father to suicide, decides to take his frustrations out on a wealthy banker and his family to inspire others in his predicament to start fighting back against the elite. But when his plan goes south, that’s when all hell breaks loose, and we see just how much of a motivator money can be, especially when it comes to murder.

Us and Them begins with Phillipa (Sophie Colquhoun) taking her boyfriend, Glen (Paul Westwood), home to meet her affluent parents. On their travels to the family estate, the...

Exclusive: Jack Roth will star in the Joe Martin-directed feature.

London based Parkland Pictures has taken worldwide sales rights on Joe Martin’s drama Us And Them.

The film stars Jack Roth (Brimstone) as a disenfranchised young man who plans to take the family of a wealthy banker (Tim Bentinck) hostage before forcing him to gamble with their lives.

Further cast include Andrew Tiernan (The Pianist), Sophie Colquhoun (The Inbetweeners Movie) and Daniel Kendrick (Ripper Street).

Director Martin also wrote the screenplay for Jeremy Sokel’s production outfit Under The Woods Productions.

The feature will be produced by Danielle Clarke, who previously collaborated with Martin on documentary Keep Quiet, which premiered at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival in April.

Parkland’s current slate also includes Rebecca Ferguson thriller Despite The Falling Snow.

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To celebrate the upcoming release of Anti-Social on DVD, available to buy from 14th September, we’re giving 5 lucky WhatCulture readers the chance to win a copy.

Inspired by the spate of smash and grab robberies that hit the news between 2012 and 2013, this action-packed gangland thriller is set amidst London’s sub-cultures, with Dee (Gregg Sulkin), an anarchic graffiti artist, confronting the system, and his brother Marcus (Josh Myers) a smash and grab robber, trying to make it rich with a jewellery store crime wave. For the pair being anti-social is a way of life.

As Dee finds acceptance with the city’s art scene, Marcus becomes a rising underworld face and his ambitions escalate. But when a savage gang war erupts, Dee is forced to remember who he is, as Police and rival criminals close in on the family and Marcus’ gang defiantly prepare to take down...

ITV2 hit comedy Plebs will get a repeat run on the main ITV channel this summer.

The show was ITV2's highest-rating scripted comedy and its 14 episodes from series one and two will be shown across 10 weeks on ITV from Monday, June 29 at 10.40pm.

ITV's Director of Television Peter Fincham said: "We are thrilled with the response to the first two series of Plebs.

"It really is a wonderful thing - and we're really proud to have this comedy as part of our ITV family."

Plebs stars Joel Fry, Tom Rosenthal, Ryan Sampson, Sophie Colquhoun, Lydia Rose Bewley, Doon Mackichan and Karl Theobald.

The series featured cameos from Danny Dyer, Shaun Williamson, Jim Rosenthal and Simon Callow.

It centres around Marcus, Stylax and their slave Grumio and is billed as "a modern comedy in an ancient setting".

A third series of Plebs has already been confirmed for ITV2.

It's not easy being Prince Liam on The Royals. Especially when you have two gorgeous women who are after you. #princeproblems First there's Ophelia (Merritt Patterson), the sweet girl-next-door (who literally lives next door to Liam at the palace) and is the daughter of the family's head of security. But don't you dare call Ophelia a commoner—not only is she smart but she isn't afraid of anyone...not even the Queen of England herself. Then there's Gemma (Sophie Colquhoun), the stunning socialite who is the ideal daughter-in-law on paper. She's rich, poised and practically perfect—aside from the fact that she left Liam in the dust ten months ago...and now she wants him...

It's a "royal" print-off! Michelle Obama stepped out in Cambodia to continue her Asian tour promoting the "Let Girls Learn" education initiative in a printed skirt and top look from Alice + Olivia (completely the colorful, fun yet put-together look we've come to expect from Flotus). Just two weeks earlier, The Royals star Sophie Colquhoun attended the E! series' premiere party at The Standard in Los Angeles wearing an Alice + Olivia ball skirt in the same print. We think this abstract look is chic in both incarnations: The structured two-piece looks flawless on the first lady, while Colquhoun's ball skirt version is equally striking. But we can't help but mention that...

Is there potential truth to the rumors that Prince Liam (William Moseley) is indeed a playboy? In this sneak peek at tonight's all-new episode of The Royals, the prince is caught by surprise when he shows up at his dorm room after an afternoon date with Ophelia (Merritt Patterson), only to find his ex-girlfriend Gemma (Sophie Colquhoun) sitting on his bed wearing nothing but lingerie. The sexy socialite tries to warm Liam up with some friendly conversation, but when she starts grilling him about Ophelia, that's when Gemma's true intentions show. "I'm not with her," Liam exclaims. "We're just hanging out." "Good," Gemma says. "Because you're all...

Plebs has been commissioned for a third series.

The ITV2 comedy series will return following strong numbers for the previous run, according to Broadcast.

The second series, which premiered last September, earned a consolidated audience of 924,000.

Plebs stars Joel Fry, Tom Rosenthal, Ryan Sampson, Sophie Colquhoun, Lydia Rose Bewley and Tom Basden.

It centres on three young men (Fry, Rosenthal, Sampson) who try to hold down jobs and climb the social ladder in Ancient Rome.

The sitcom debuted in March 2013, and is executive produced by Caroline Leddy and Sam Leifer.

Watch a trailer for Plebs below:...

This review is based on the first three episodes of season 1, which were provided to us prior to broadcast.

It’s not even faint praise to write that The Royals is exactly the kind of scripted drama that one would expect E!, a network notorious for noxious reality trash like The Girls Next Door and Keeping Up with the Kardashians, to make. Dully acted, preposterously written and populated by generically photogenic characters almost as loathsome as E!’s reality “stars,” the series is so train-wreck terrible that it’s difficult to even recommend it for hate-watching.

Peering inside the gates of Buckingham Palace to look at the strange, sordid and thoroughly silly lives of a British royal family (writer-creator Mark Schwahn has been careful with his articles, noting that The Royals isn’t about the actual royal family – because the kind of audience member E! hopes to attract apparently needs...

On E!'s upcoming series The Royals, Elizabeth Hurley plays the queen of a fictional modern-day British monarchy. In addition to her calm husband King Simon (Vincent Regan), playboy son Prince Liam (William Moseley) and her wild daughter Princess Eleanor (Alexandra Park), there are many other colorful and unforgettable members of the court, among them socialite Gemma (Sophie Colquhoun), Liam's snobby ex-girlfriend, and Princess Maribel (Hatty Preston), one of Prince Cyrus' (Jake Maskall) eccentric daughters. We sat down with Sophie and Hatty, who dished on their roles, co-stars, what it's like living with each other, and much more. "It's interesting to see the other scenes and how they relate to...

You know what's even better than an on-screen romance? An on-screen love triangle! After all, what girl doesn't want two gorgeous men fighting over her affection? In the upcoming series The Royals, which stars Elizabeth Hurley as the fictional queen of modern-day England, one of the exciting love triangles we'll get to see is with Queen Helena's playboy son Prince Liam (William Moseley), who is torn between his new love interest, Ophelia (Merrit Patterson) and then sudden return of his former flame, Gemma (Sophie Colquhoun). Penned by One Tree Hill creator Mark Schwahn, The Royals is centered around the fascinating (and chaotic) lives of a fictional British monarchy, and will show what really goes on...

E! has announced that their first dramatic series, The Royals, will debut on March 15th at 10pm. The cast includes Elizabeth Hurley, William Moseley, Alexandra Park, Vincent Regan, Merritt Patterson, Jake Maskall, Ukweli Roach, Tom Austen, Sophie Colquhoun, and Oliver Milburn. Joan Collins will guest star.

Here are the details:

E! Sets Premiere For First Scripted Drama Series “The Royals” For March 15Th At 10Pm Et

The Ten Episode, Hour-Long Original Drama Created By Mark Schwahn Stars Elizabeth Hurley, William Moseley, Alexandra Park, and Vincent Regan As The Devious Family At The Helm Of The Series’ Corrupt Monarchy

Los Angeles – December 4, 2014 – Love, hate, lust and revenge will be taken to a delightfully decadent new level when E! premieres the network’s first scripted series, “The Royals,” on Sunday, March 15that 10pm Et.

Cilla: ITV, 9pm

The mini-series based on the life of Cilla Black concludes in this episode.

Following the success of her second number one record, Cilla (Sheridan Smith) starts to shed her cheeky girl-next-door image. Both her relationships with manager Brian and boyfriend Bobby (Aneurin Barnard) are on the rocks as a result, but something even bigger threatens to ruin the newfound success of our rising star.

24 Hours in Police Custody: Channel 4, 9pm

A new observational documentary series from the company that brought you 24 Hours in A&E begins tonight.

Viewers are led into the working lives of Bedfordshire Police around the clock, from the centre of investigations and interrogations to Luton prison. This episode follows the story of a man arrested on the suspicion of conspiracy to murder.

Never Mind the Buzzcocks: BBC Two, 10pm

In the new series of this comedy pop quiz show, Welsh...

Premiering this week to TV screens is a new comedy from ITV2. Whilst recent British comedies have been more contemporary and reflecting the trials and tribulations of modern British life, Plebs opts for something different: the location of Ancient Rome as its main backdrop.

WhatCulture managed to speak to one of the stars of the new sitcom, Lydia Rose Bewley, who gained attention for starring in 2011’s The Inbetweeners Movie.

So, what is Plebs?

Well its set in ancient Rome centred around three boys who live in a mudhut. I play their slave called Metella, who sorts of gets dragged into a lot of their escapades.

Tell us a bit more about your character and how she’s involved overall in the story?

As I said, my character’s called Metella and she’s a slave, but really has a lot more going on in her head than most of the other characters do.

Picture the Inbetweeners gang in togas and you won't be too far off ITV2's new sitcom Plebs - Tom Rosenthal, Joel Fry and Ryan Sampson star as three lads out to make it big and get lucky in Ancient Rome, and Danny Dyer pops up too as a rugged gladiator!

Rosenthal, who plays Marcus, took the time to speak to Digital Spy about the show - read on for all the scoop on Roman haircuts, pornographic vases and "strange sexual behaviours"!

What did you think when you first heard about Plebs?

"My agent got in touch and the initial idea really appealed to me - to be honest. It sounded very different to what your normal fodder is. Then, when I read it, I was really excited and ultimately I just wanted to work with [co-creator] Tom Basden, who's got such an amazing pedigree and is such an amazing stand-up in his own right,...

Picture the Inbetweeners gang in togas and you won't be too far off ITV2's new sitcom Plebs - Tom Rosenthal, Joel Fry and Ryan Sampson star as three lads out to make it big and get lucky in Ancient Rome, and Danny Dyer pops up too as a rugged gladiator!

Rosenthal, who plays Marcus, took the time to speak to Digital Spy about the show - read on for all the scoop on Roman haircuts, pornographic vases and "strange sexual behaviours"!

What did you think when you first heard about Plebs?

"My agent got in touch and the initial idea really appealed to me - to be honest. It sounded very different to what your normal fodder is. Then, when I read it, I was really excited and ultimately I just wanted to work with [co-creator] Tom Basden, who's got such an amazing pedigree and is such an amazing stand-up in his own right,...

The delectable Anna Popplewell (below) has left the land of Narnia and hasn't looked back when she boarded writer/director John Hales' 'Passengers' this past Summer. Unlike many young women whom would jaw-drop at the possibility of having unlimited wardrobe space for their shoe collection this young lady decided to hop on to the new British thriller from Ratio Films. The project, described as a 'hard-hitting psychological horror thriller', is based on a story by Hales and Carole Budgen. The British cast also consists of the sexy Sophie Colquhoun ('Captain America: The First Avenger'), Jack Derges ('Dungeons and Dragons: The Book of Vile Darkness), Danny Szam, Ian Weichardt, Calvin Dean ('Tormented') and Tom Bacon. Check the plot details below....

Chronicles of Narnia star, 23 year old Anna Popplewell (represented in the UK by Sasha Leslie Management) leads the cast in Passengers, a hard-hitting pyschological thriller which was filmed in and around Birmingham in October.

Written and directed by John Hales (represented by Ed Hughes at Linda Seifert Management), Passengers is the story of a group of intoxicated lads driving to a music festival, who seriously injure a young nurse in a night time collision. They make matters far worse by trying to cover up their mistake by hastening the demise of their victim. This, they come to seriously regret as they realise the extent of their culpability and as an unseen killer proceeds to take brutal vengeance.

Jack Derges, a recent Arts Ed drama school graduate, now represented by Hamilton Hodell, stars as Jed Warner. 

Calvin Dean (represented by Williamson and Holmes), who starred as Darren Mullet in Tormented, plays Rog.

EastEnders bosses have today expressed their delight after the new series of EastEnders: E20 surpassed 1.2 million views across BBC Online and BBC Three. E20 returned for its third run on September 20 and show producers have seen a 50% increase in the programme's online audience since the launch. This year's series, which is now half-way through its run, focuses on troubled trio Faith (Modupe Adeyeye), Donnie (Samuell Benta) and Ava (Sophie Colquhoun), who all came together on Albert Square amid desperate times in their lives. Covering topics such as family breakdown, bullying and teen sex, the new episodes were developed in conjunction with BBC Learning to address issues in the Pshe curriculum. EastEnders: E20 producer Deborah Sathe commented: "I am thrilled to see E20 has sustained its position as a front-runner (more)...

The second episode of EastEnders: E20's third series sees Ava, Donnie and Faith interacting with more of the EastEnders regulars as they resort to desperate measures to get food. While Donnie (Samuell Benta) tries to pull a fast one on Kim at the Minute Mart, Ava (Sophie Colquhoun) targets Masood and Faith (Modupe Adeyeye) turns her attention to the chip shop. Later, after a day of mixed success, the trio are given reason to fear that they've been discovered... (more)...

EastEnders: E20 star Sophie Colquhoun has revealed that the internet spinoff will have a grittier tone this year. E20 returned for its third series on Tuesday and will play out online and on BBC Three over the next five weeks, focusing on three young characters who hide out together on Albert Square. Colquhoun, who plays runaway Ava Bourne on the show, told Digital Spy: "It's very different this year as it's taken a very different tone. It's very gritty, it's a lot more real, it's a lot more dramatic, a lot more sensitive, and I think it's addressing issues that are very prevalent today. "Although a lot of these issues are regularly pointed at in drama, they're never actually discussed and that's what we're pushing to do in this series. We want to say that these things are happening, they're not going away (more)...

EastEnders star Modupe Adeyeye has predicted that Fatboy Chubb could be a good match for her character Faith Olubunmi. Faith was recently seen making a move on Fatboy (Ricky Norwood) on the main soap and they will continue to share scenes on the new series of EastEnders: E20, which launched yesterday. EastEnders: E20 also sees Faith develop a crush on troubled Donnie Lester (Samuell Benta) while hiding out with him and Ava Bourne (Sophie Colquhoun) on Albert Square. Adeyeye told Digital Spy: "Faith really likes Donnie. I think Donnie would like Faith too, but she gives away everything on a plate. She doesn't let you find anything out about her or keep anything back, she just puts it all out there." Asked to name the better match for Faith, she replied: "I'd say Fatboy, because even though she brushes him off, Fatboy actually (more)...

EastEnders: E20 returns tomorrow as series three launches on the online spinoff's official website. Show bosses have now released a new trailer for the opening episode, showing Mercy's sister Faith (Modupe Adeyeye) preparing to make an impact by making her outfit as revealing as possible. The preview also shows a dramatic moment as Donnie (Samuell Benta) and Ava's (Sophie Colquhoun) minibus crashes just outside of Walford, which is what brings the troubled duo to Albert Square for the new series. EastEnders: E20 will (more)...

Eastenders spin-off E20 returns on 20 September 2011 with three new troublesome teens - Ava, Donnie and Faith to shake things up in Albert Square for Series 3.

Sophie Colquhoun (represented by Independent Talent) plays Ava, described as a closed book, who can look after herself. People think she's a bit stuck-up, which is odd for a girl who's spent the last while in the care system. She comes across as certain, definite, even hard. But underneath that cool and brittle façade, Ava has a secret past which she is constantly trying to get away from but will it follow her to Albert Square?

Sophie graduated from Guildhall drama school in 2009 and has previously appeared in a number of film and TV productions including Channel 4's The It Crowd. "Who ever thought working [on E20] could be so much fun!" confesses Sophie. "It has been amazing experience"

25 year old Samuell Benta (represented by I...