Cinema/theatre/TV

After five sold-out development runs at the New Diorama Theatre in 2019 and Southwark Playhouse in 2020, 2021 and 2022, plus an extended Riverside Studios run last summer, Operation Mincemeat is back – now at the Fortune Theatre until 19 August, 2023. Anne Coates reviews.

We have teamed up with Polka Theatre to offer one family (or group of four) the chance to see this production of Michael Morpurgo's Little Manfred.

Kathryn Bingham reviews, Jurassic World Dominion, the last instalment in the Jurassic Park story.

Adapted for young audiences in terms of content and the length of the play, by Jude Christian, Hamlet at the National Theatre was a triumph.

Malory Towers returns for series two. The beloved children’s drama is set to land on BBC iPlayer with all episodes available from Monday 22 November. Adapted from the iconic novels written by Enid Blyton, the King Bert Productions and WildBrain co-production sees Darrell and the gang return for their second form, with adventure, fun and boarding school antics back in full swing.

Just released on Disney+, Pixar Animation Studios’ Dug Days, a new series of five shorts that follows the humorous misadventures of Dug, the lovable dog from Disney and Pixar’s Oscar®-winning feature film Up whose high-tech collar translates his thoughts into speech.

the newly launched parental controls which came to Disney+ with the launch of Star – the latest general entertainment brand to join the Disney+ family.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz performed in a sitting room near you – reviewed by Anne Coates.

This year we can't enjoy our usual seasonal treat of a panto at a theatre but production companies have been working hard to bring the shows into our homes. Harriet and Anne Coates had a fabulous, interactive experience with Tea Break Theatre's Sleeping Beauty? 

Book your tickets for Tea Break Theatre's Sleeping Beauty? on a pay what you can basis.

CBeebies announces Christmas in Storyland as this year’s Christmas Show which will be available to watch on Saturday 12 December on the CBeebies channel and BBC iPlayer.

This December, award-winning site-responsive and leading digital theatre-makers Creation Theatre present a surreal and anarchic adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz which will be performed LIVE online in real time, across two weeks from the 19 December to 3 January. 

BBC Newsround unveils exciting new changes to its format to offer more kids more news in more places.

This Christmas, "Blue Peter" legend Peter Duncan streams his new production of Jack and the Beanstalk directly into homes from 4 December to 10 January, for the perfect family treat, promising you boos, hisses, "he’s behind yous", a sing-a-long song and all the classic panto antics that we love.

Her husband took everything. Now she's taking back her life.  Eureka Entertainment are to release, ALICE, the debut feature film from multiple award-winning writer and director Josephine Mackerras, on selected digital platforms from 24 July 2020. Review by Anne Coates.

To mark World Theatre Day (Friday 27 March), the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is inviting people to join a live "watch along" from their living rooms on Saturday 11 April of a recording of their 2017 production of Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night, featuring Adrian Edmondson as Malvolio and Kara Tointon as Olivia.

From STX Entertainment an action-packed film to entertain the whole family: My Spy – reviewed by Anne Coates.

Greta Gerwig's film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, Little Women, is a triumph and a delight to watch, writes Anne Coates.