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Stars: Martin Portlock, Megan Placito, Peter DeSouza-Feighoney, Kit Green, Kelly Rian Sanson, Chrissie Wunna, Nicola Wright | Written by Scott Chambers, Rhys Frake-Waterfield | Directed by Scott Chambers

The most recent entry in the so-called Poohniverse, and the first one not to feature Pooh, Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare, has arrived. With Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey and its sequel both being steaming piles of, well, poo, I was going to skip this. But surprisingly, I started hearing quite a few positive things about it.

While most of the films that director Scott Chambers, aka Scott Jeffrey has been involved with are borderline unwatchable fare like Dragon Fury, he does have the occasional entertaining effort like The Gardener to his credit, so it wasn’t entirely beyond the realm of possibility that Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare would actually be decent. Hoping for the best, I decided to give it a chance.

Stars: Martin Portlock, Megan Placito, Peter DeSouza-Feighoney, Kit Green, Kelly Rian Sanson, Chrissie Wunna, Nicola Wright | Written by Scott Chambers, Rhys Frake-Waterfield | Directed by Scott Chambers

The most recent entry in the so-called Poohniverse, and the first one not to feature Pooh, Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare, has arrived. With Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey and its sequel both being steaming piles of, well, poo, I was going to skip this. But surprisingly, I started hearing quite a few positive things about it.

While most of the films that director Scott Chambers, aka Scott Jeffrey has been involved with are borderline unwatchable fare like Dragon Fury, he does have the occasional entertaining effort like The Gardener to his credit, so it wasn’t entirely beyond the realm of possibility that Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare would actually be decent. Hoping for the best, I decided to give it a chance.

Queen Elizabeth II was the first British monarch to become a film and television character while she was still on the throne. Raucous historical romps about Henry VIII and Elizabeth I were all very well, but showing what a living king or queen got up to behind closed palace doors? That was another, almost treasonous matter. Even as recently as 1991, when Prunella Scales starred in a BBC film of Alan Bennett’s National Theatre play “A Question Of Attribution,” Bennett said “it still feels quite bold to portray her in the flesh.” And the practice was still contentious enough in 2020 for the UK’s then Culture Secretary, Oliver Dowden, to ask Netflix to put a disclaimer on screen before every episode of “The Crown,” explaining that the show was not actually a documentary.

But like so much else during Elizabeth II’s uniquely long reign, the protocol changed to a...

Showtime Networks is partnering with the U.K.'s Channel 4 on a new drama series titled Meadowlands, while Sci Fi Channel has greenlighted an expanded second season of the reality series Who Wants to Be a Superhero? Meadowlands, starring British actors David Morrissey (The Deal) and Lucy Cohu (The Queen's Sister), focuses on a family trying to escape its past while confronting an even more uncertain future. The series picks up as Danny (Morrissey) and Evelyn Brogan (Cohu), along with their two teenage kids, enter a witness protection program and are moved to a bucolic neighborhood to begin a new life, but they soon realize it's not so easy to escape their past. The eight-episode series, produced by Ecosse Films, will go into production this month in England, with the U.S. premiere on Showtime set for summer. (The U.K. title of the series is Cape Wrath.)...

BBC America has acquired three dramas from British television for next year. The BBC Three drama series Conviction, a thought-provoking saga about what drives people to kill, will air in January. Six one-hour episodes of Conviction were made. Another six episodes of Murder Prevention, which originally aired on Five, also were acquired. Murder is a crime drama about a special unit that solves cases before they happen. A feature-length movie from Channel 4 about Princess Margaret, The Queen's Sister, is slated to air on the cable channel next spring.

LONDON -- Royalty, terrorism, food and war provide an eclectic mix for the upcoming Channel 4 fall season announced here Thursday by programming head Kevin Lygo. Heading the lineup is The Queen's Sister from RDF-owned Touchpaper, a biopic of the late Princess Margaret set against the backdrop of London in the swinging sixties. The drama will chart the unconventional life, loves and eventual isolation of the British Royal Family's most rebellious member, amid the hedonism of a nation transitioning from post-war gloom to the era of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Newcomer Lucy Cohu plays Margaret, with Toby Stephens as her husband Anthony Armstrong-Jones and David Threlfall as Prince Phillip.