Immediately after the news about The Gentlemen’s future, the streaming giant confirmed that it was greenlighting returns for a string of hit shows – including a few updates that fans have waiting a long time for.
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Here’s a quick round-up of all the series that Netflix teased comebacks for as part of Monday’s mass announcement…
House Of Guinness will get a season 2
James Norton, Louis Partridge and Anthony Boyle in House Of Guinness
Steven Knight told Netflix’s Tudum: “It was such a joy to bring the Guinness story to the screen, so I’m beyond thrilled to be continuing the story of one of the world’s greatest dynasties into season two.
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“I can’t wait to dive deeper into these characters and their complex relationships as they expand the Guinness empire […] there’s so much more to find out about them. We’ll see how they grow up because House Of Guinness is about a family growing up together.
“Even in season one, they change quite a bit. In season two, it will be interesting to see what changes and what stays the same.”
Legends
Tom Burke, Jasmine Blackborow, Steve Coogan, Aml Ameen and Hayley Squires on the set of Legends
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Speculation about whether Legends would get a season two – and how exactly that might work – has been rife ever since the show premiered back in May.
Helmed by The Gold creator Neil Forsyth and led by a sprawling all-star cast that includes Steve Coogan and Tom Burke, the six-part series was a hit with viewers, presenting a dramatic retelling of a real-life British heist that took place in the early 1990s.
Because it was inspired by true events, some wondered exactly how a second season of Legends would work, but Netflix has now revealed that we’re about to find out.
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Neil Forsyth enthused: ““I’m delighted to have the opportunity to tell a new story in the fascinating and unique world that Legends offers, and to show just how dangerous, thrilling, and important their work became in the late 1990s.”
Meanwhile, Netflix has teased that the new episodes will see “the unlikely team” being “drawn back into the world of undercover maneuvering, with the outside world none the wiser”.
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Back in January, Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker announced that an eighth run of his dystopian technological anthology series was in the works – so it’s not exactly news that it is returning.
However, on Monday, Netflix announced that production is now underway, although they were predictably cryptic when it came to revealing any more.
“Production has already begun. And that’s all we can say,” the wrote in an X post.
He added: “I can confirm that Black Mirror will return, just in time for reality to catch up with it. So, that’s exciting. That chunk of my brain has already been activated and is whirring away.
“It’s a useful thought experiment when approaching a new story. I’ll often think of, ‘Well, what haven’t we done yet, and what tone am I looking for? … Where does this track come on the album, and what musical direction are we going to go into?’. We’ll find out.”
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Being Gordon Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay’s Netflix series is getting a second run
Onto reality and docuseries territory now, with the news that Gordon Ramsay is once again letting Netflix’s cameras back into his life.
The streaming service announced on Monday that production on a second season of Gordon Ramsay had already begun, enthusing: “Unbelievably we’ve been let back inside Gordon’s kitchen *and* home as he attempts to balance ever-expanding business ventures with family life.
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“Good luck, chef!”
At Home With The Furys
At Home With The Furys is getting a third season
The fate of the reality series At Home With The Furys has also been confirmed, with more episodes now in the pipeline.
Netflix revealed that production on the third season is now up and running, teasing: “Follow along as the whole family relocates to the Isle of Man, Venezuela gets married to Noah, and Tyson prepares for a potential blockbuster showdown with Anthony Joshua.”
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F1 fans will no doubt be thrilled to hear that Netflix has given the go-ahead to a ninth season of the behind-the-scenes doc Drive To Survive.
“Now fans will again get the chance to take a peek into what has been happening in the paddock across the 2026 championship, which has already witnessed some big storylines ranging from the emergence of youngest-ever title leader Kimi Antonelli through to an ever-changing pecking order as the development race evolves,” a post on the F1 website read.
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Meanwhile, executive producers James Gay-Rees and Paul Martin said (in unison, we suppose…?) that “this year we’re going to go deeper than ever before into the hidden spaces of this fantastic sport”.
Supacell
Supacell fans’ patience is about to be rewarded
Plenty of shows on this list have tested fans’ patience while they wait for updates – but few have kept viewers hanging quite as long as Supacell.
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The gritty supernatural show premiered in the summer of 2024, with a second run of episodes being confirmed shortly afterwards.
However, two years later, we’re still waiting – although Netflix said on Monday that the show recently “wrapped” its filming.
Creator Rapman wrote on Instagram back in June: “Due to circumstances out of our control we had to pause production for a while. But filming is finally done! I’m currently in the edit getting it ready.”
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“It’s coming and I PROMISE it will be worth the wait,” he added.
James Norton has said he feels “proud” to be part of a show like House Of The Dragon, which leans into practical effects as much as possible, particularly in a climate when AI is becoming more prominent.
The British actor joined House Of The Dragon in its third season, and can currently be seen in action as Ormund Hightower.
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Speaking to Jessie Ware on her podcast Table Manners, James admitted: “I’ve got to say, like in the world of AI, I feel like shows like House of the Dragon stand for something important because so much of what you see is actually real.”
“I mean, the dragons aren’t,” he quickly added of the Game Of Thrones spin-off. “But even the heads of the dragons are real.
“So when you see the dragon [in House Of The Dragon], what we see as actors is about three people all dressed in blue, like the Blue Man Group, head to toe in blue. They’re holding these big sticks, and they have the dragon’s head on it, and they have the wings as well on sticks, and so they move. They’re like puppeteers.”
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House Of The Dragon is now into its third season
Reflecting on the rise of AI in the entertainment industry, and the world at large, he said it is “really humbling and encouraging to be on a set” like House Of The Dragon.
“It’s incredible,” he enthused. “Basically, the studio builds are vast and so detailed. I mean, everything like my sword, the armour, it was all so intricate, and there were teams of people who made my sword. You know, they have an old-fashioned blacksmith fashioning the metal.”
Back in 2023, he lamented that Game Of Thrones’ central dragons “were like all the same”, while in House Of Dragon, the mythical creatures “had personality” and “came alive”.
On Thursday, the Bafta winner announced that she had made the decision not to carry on with the format – at least for the time being.
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“Sometimes you have to try something to see how it fits, and I realised I was just too nervous to enjoy it,” she said in a statement.
“Maybe one day I will give it another try, but for now I already have the best jobs in the world and absolutely love the shows I’m doing.”
Claudia added: “I’m incredibly grateful to the BBC for giving me the opportunity, to the guests who agreed to come and chat to me, and the production team who were simply excellent.”
He told the Daily Mail: “What Claudia did was The Claudia Winkleman Show, and that’s what she’s supposed to be doing.
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“She shouldn’t be trying to be me. She should be trying to be Claudia, and she nailed that.”
The BBC’s director of entertainment enthused: “Claudia’s warmth and quick wit made The Claudia Winkleman Show an absolute joy.
“Whilst we loved the show, we fully respect her decision and would like to thank Claudia and the brilliant team at So Television for bringing the series to screen on the BBC.”
Claudia can currently be seen in action in the latest season of the Channel 4 competition series The Piano, and will return to TV’s most famous castle for the second iteration of The Celebrity Traitors in the autumn.
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This time around, the all-star cast will include comedians Miranda Hart, James Acaster and Joe Lycett, actor Bella Ramsey, former Little Mix star Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Oscar nominee Richard E Grant.
On Thursday afternoon, the BBC revealed that Cach would be the second former Love Island star to be taking part in the new series, joining fellow champion Dani Dyer on the line-up.
He said: “I have grown up watching the show with my family and am so excited to now be part of the cast.
“Dancing is a huge passion of mine and I can’t wait to learn ballroom and do the Foxtrot for the first time!”
Since leaving the vila, he’s enjoyed work as a model and DJ, and become a major presence on social media, with the BBC noting that he has accrued tens of millions of likes on TikTok, thanks to his posts “showcasing his Afrobeat, hip-hop and street dance moves”.
The BBC has confirmed that plans for a new Doctor Who special this Christmas will no longer be moving forward.
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Earlier this month, Russell teased that an announcement about the special was due imminently, following reports in The Sun suggesting the one-off special could be “scrapped”, due to bosses struggling to find an actor to take over from Ncuti Gatwa as the next Time Lord.
“After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and [production company] Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode,” a press release read.
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“This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the Tardis lands once more, it does so in all its glory.”
Russell T Davies pictured at Comic-Con in 2024
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Elsewhere in their statement, they said that “the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year”.
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“Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come,” they insisted, adding that “details of the tender will be announced in due course”.
Following the latest announcement, Russell confirmed he was stepping down as showrunner effective immediately.
“And so GOODBYE from me to Doctor Who but HELLO to a big new future for the show, as the BBC announces it’s putting the show out to tender,” he told his Instagram followers.
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He continued: “As a result, there won’t be a Christmas special – we only cooked that up to guarantee a future when no one knew what would happen, but now we do know, there’s no need for it.
“You’ll have to wait a bit longer for new Doctor Who… but you’ll be waiting for MORE Doctor Who than a one-off. So it’s worth it!”
“For the record: there was no script, I never wrote it, and no actor was ever approached to play the next Doctor,” he added. “You may disagree; fine, sit in that chair and wait to be proved right. You’ll wait a lonnng time.
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“Now I’m as excited as anyone to see what comes next!”
Russell returned to Doctor Who for its 60th anniversary specials, which featured the return of David Tennant and Catherine Tate to the franchise.
After that, he oversaw two series with Ncuti at the helm.
It turns out that filmmaker Curry Barker found inspiration from an unlikely source when he was putting together his hit horror movie Obsession.
A huge critical and commercial success, Obsession centres around two close friends whose lives are forever changed after one makes a wish for the other to love him “more than anyone else in the fucking world”.
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When his wish comes true, things take a disastrous, and tragic, turn – with Curry getting the idea for his film from an iconic episode of The Simpsons.
Speaking to Triple J before Obsession’s release, the director explained that he had invited some friends over to watch an episode of the comedy It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, which he made a guest appearance in.
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“Before the episode [aired] there was a Simpsons episode where [Bart] has a monkey paw, and he’s making wishes and stuff,” he recalled.
Of course, Simpsons fans will know already that he’s referring to the show’s second ever Halloween special, Treehouse Of Horror II, which includes a segment where the family travels to Morocco and buys a cursed monkey’s paw at a market, which grants their wishes with sinister consequences.
The Simpsons’ brush with a monkey’s paw was an unexpected inspiration for Obsession
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He continued: “I was just excited to see my Always Sunny episode, but it hit me right then and there on the couch that Obsession idea that I had would be perfect if it was a wish movie.
“And so I actually remember the moment, I remember being on the couch, and being like, ‘oh my god’ and writing. It down. And after that, I just kept developing and developing that idea.”
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In a separate interview with Variety, he said that after watching the Treehouse Of Horror special, he got to “thinking that I’ve never seen a straight crazy horror” based on that concept.
“We’ve seen ‘be careful what you wish for’ tons of times,” he noted. “But we’ve never seen my version of it. I instantly started thinking about what I could do with that…”
For what it’s worth, the Simpsons episode in question is based on WW Jacobs’ short story The Monkey’s Paw.
He then considered going with a “wishing well”, “shooting stars” and “a wishbone”, before deciding on creating his own device, the One Wish Willow.
Since its release last month, Obsession has become one of the year’s most popular new films, with an enviable critical score of 96% on Rotten Tomatoes and 4.2 stars from fans on Letterboxd.
While Sydney remained tight-lipped on the debate throughout the season, it seemed she had something to say about it all in a post shared on Instagram before the season finale aired.
Alongside a series of behind-the-scenes snaps from season three – including some of the more racy set-ups involving her character – Sydney said simply: “It’s called… acting.”
In the past, Sydney has repeatedly called out the “double standard” she has noticed around the way male and female actors who have appeared nude on screen are treated.
Back in 2022, she told The Independent: “When a guy has a sex scene or shows his body, he still wins awards and gets praise. But the moment a girl does it, it’s completely different.”
Elsewhere in the same interview, she also made a point of saying: “I’ve never felt like Sam [Levinson, Euphoria’s creator] has pushed it on me or was trying to get a nude scene into an HBO show. When I didn’t want to do it, he didn’t make me.”
He claimed: “In terms of the story that we set out to tell, which is a story about addiction and its consequences, this feels like the end to me.”
Bafta-winning screenwriter Russell T Davies has another critical hit on his hands thanks to his new show Tip Toe.
The unflinching new drama stars Alan Cumming and David Morrissey as two neighbours who find themselves in a feud that quickly spirals out of control with disastrous results, while diving into thorny issues like online radicalisation, prejudice against the LGBTQ+ community, misinformation in the digital age and generational conflict.
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During a recent interview with HuffPost UK, Russell called Tip Toe an “urgent” and “necessary” reflection of a world that is “out of control” and “at war with ourselves”, which critics have certainly agreed with so far.
Ahead of episode one’s premiere on Sunday, reviews have near-unanimously praised the series – the latest TV offering from the creator of shows like Queer As Folk, Years And Years and It’s A Sin – which they’ve hailed as “chilling”, “devastating”, “terrifying” and “unforgettable”.
Here’s a snippet of what the critics are saying about Tip Toe…
“This is urgent, state-of-the-nation stuff from one of our shrewdest screenwriters […] Tip Toe isn’t just sobering; it’s visceral and chilling viewing for all queer people and everyone who loves and supports us.”
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“At times it feels as subtle as a brick in the face. But when Davies steps down from his pulpit and lets his characters breathe, his storytelling is visionary, devastating, passionate and humane. And we should listen.”
Alan Cumming as Leo in Tip Toe
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“Alan Cumming is extraordinary in this terrifying, landmark queer drama […] While this series is a fiction, and one that makes its arguments with sledgehammer grace, it is sadly not absurd, or abstract.”
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“Tip Toe, the latest gut-punching drama from Russell T. Davies – his first since the life-altering It’s A Sin – is an alarming, though not inaccurate, portrayal of what it’s really like to be unapologetically gay in a Britain that hates us […] Tip Toe is Davies at his most impassioned; a wake-up call that this is not a time to be complacent.”
“Television writers will tell you that they never want to come across as preachy, and that good drama should ask teasing questions and then step away. The sense in Tip Toe is that Davies is done with this kind of pussyfooting around, and is up for a scrap.
“It makes for a drama that takes wrong turns but is never less than bold and, in the round, deeply stirring. TV polemic is back, loud and proud.”
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David Morrissey plays Clive in Russell T Davies’ Tip Toe
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“Tip Toe may be an extreme example of how frenzied that intolerance can become. Its dialogue, with long, culturally-charged monologues, can also be a little tiring. But it should be all of these things […] A word of warning, though, from someone who literally watches TV for a living: by the end, this is the most distressing series I’ve ever seen. It’s not rewatchable, but it’s unforgettable.”
“[Tip Toe] lacks the discipline that made his other state of the historical/future nation pieces, Years and Years or It’s a Sin, so powerful and moving, but the strands begin to interweave, momentum builds and if the extremity of the conclusion still doesn’t quite ring true, everyone has worked hard to get it as close to authentic and emotionally credible as possible.”
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The first two episodes of Tip Toe are now streaming on Channel 4, with the final three following on Sunday 7 June.
Rivals’ robust approach to intimacy co-ordination is already well-documented, with Victoria telling fans at the Hay Festival on Sunday that both she and Aidan were required to wear “modesty equipment” for the shoot.
Or, at least, that was the plan.
“It was long, pink and a fucking plaster,” the actor said, as reported by The Times. “You take the plaster, you jam it on and hope it stays there.”
She continued: “I have to be honest with you – under a storming shower, it doesn’t stay there for long. You give up. You just realise that glue is not what it was in the 80s.”
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Victoria Smurfit and Aidan Turner in Rivals’ second season
Victoria previously praised the show’s “fantastic” intimacy coordinators, who help facilitate its many, many sex scenes safely for actors and crew members, while promoting season one.
“Pretty much all of the characters have to de-robe at some stage, whether it’s for comedy, love or power, so we had two intimacy coordinators,” she told The Gloss.
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“They were fantastic because, what I’d never realised before, was how much they bring to the camera angles and the story-telling. It’s not just to protect the actors; it’s much deeper.”
Similarly, she told Evoke: “The intimacy coordinators were amazing, all 27,000 of them because they were able to [explain], ‘This is what sells the story of the sex’, because each of the sex scenes for everybody is telling a story about the characters and how they function.”
As a result, the hardest part of shooting each of these scenes, she claimed, was worrying “how cold are we going to be in this outfit?”.
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Rivals continues on Friday 29 May and 5 June, before taking a mid-season break and returning later in 2026.
Rivals actor Luca Pasqualino has revealed he came close to landing a major role in a very different British show that has also gone on to become a huge hit internationally.
During a recent interview with HuffPost UK to promote the new episodes of the Jilly Cooper bonkbuster, Luca was asked if there was an audition he missed out on earlier on in his career that still “haunts” him today, to which he admitted that there was “definitely” one that came immediately to mind for him.
“One that I got really, really close to that sort of sticks out was Ted Lasso,” he explained, before sharing that he’d tried out to play striker Jamie Tartt in the Apple TV+ series.
“I got down to [the last few], went and met Jason Sudeikis, had two tests for it, and I was so close. But my friend Phil Dunster, he got the part in the end. And he was so good.”
Luca continued: “If you watch [something that you’ve auditioned for] and the person who gets it is really awful or whatever, it makes you feel worse.
“But [Phil] was so good, it’s like, ‘OK, fine, I get it. This is going to be an easier pill to swallow’.”