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Ozzy and Jack Osbourne recently spent months road tripping across the United States for the second season of their travel series, Ozzy & Jack’s World Detour. Along the way they took in the diverse sights, sounds, tastes and smells of this great nation. However, there was one stop they never want a visit again—the Body Farm.

“It should not be mistaken for a health retreat!” Ozzy was quick to point out during an interview with People.

In actuality, the so-called farm is a research facility in Texas where students study forensic anthropology. “It’s basically how dead people decompose,...

A modestly budgeted, female driven, adult-targeted potential franchise launching serial killer thriller feature. It's something that Hollywood hasn't really done much of since the late 1990s, back in the days when the two A.J.'s (Ashley Judd & Angeline Jolie) had book adaptations like "Kiss the Girls" and "The Bone Collector" tailored for them into solid little films.

One adaptation of a crime thriller novel series long in the works has been that of the Kay Scarpetta character from acclaimed author Patricia Cornwell. Fox 2000 acquired the film rights to the sixteen books (at the time) featuring the opera-loving workaholic coroner in 2009.

The plan was to craft an original forensic science-centric story based on the character rather than a direct adaptation of one specific novel such as "The Body Farm" or "From Potter's Field". It was also being shaped as a vehicle for Jolie, and would've kept the dark and grizzly tone of the books.

A horrific harvest is coming soon to Greenville, Wisconsin, when students will have a chance to dig up actual human and animal corpses from a secret burial site nicknamed “The Body Farm.” Photo: Wisconsin Sickness According to the site Wisconsin Sickness, the Body Farm is part of a program at Fox Valley Technical College which teaches students in Forensics how to detect, uncover and gather data from buried remains. The macabre program is based on a similar study founded at the University of Tennessee's Anthropological Research Facility, which was set up to examine the effects of freezing temperatures on dead tissue, and whether natural scavengers are drawn to frozen, buried carcasses. In addition to being buried in an open field, the bodies may also be hidden in buildings, cars and swimming pools... but if you're thinking of a road trip to do a little corpse research of your own, you...

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ITV's follow-up to 2011's Marchlands, new five-part supernatural drama Lightfields, has released a first trailer...

Fans of recent BBC drama The Secret Of Crickley Hall might like to keep an eye out in the schedules for Lightfields, ITV's follow-up to 2011's Marchlands.

Due to air this spring, Lightfields tells its story using the same multi-period structure as its ghostly predecessor, with episodes unfolding the tale of a WWII tragedy, the haunting repercussions of which are felt by characters in 1976, and again in the present day.

Written by Simon Tyrell (Survivors, The Body Farm) and directed by Damon Thomas (Prisoners' Wives, Dirk Gently, Sirens), Lightfields star the likes of Skins' Dakota Blue Richards, Misfits' Karla Crome, The Bill's Danny Webb, and half of this generation's answer to the Gold Blend couple: BT ad man, Kris Marshall. 

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“How do you keep law in a lawless town,” the question is asked. The 1889 H division of East London is the answer we are given; the antidote to the chaos of Whitechapel.

On Sunday the 30th January, BBC1′s Ripper Streets burst onto our screens; the first episode of an eight-part series of a Victorian age, police procedural set in London’s East End. Created by the writers Richard Warlow (Mistresses, Waking the Dead), Julie Rutterford (Life on Mars, Shameless), Declan Croghan (Waking the Dead, The Body Farm) and Toby Finlay who have sculpted the story in the aftermath of the Whitechapel murders, six months following Jack the Ripper’s last murder. The main cast is headed by Matthew Macfadyen (Spooks, Pride & Prejudice, Anna Karenina), a talented stage and screen actor who fills the boots of Detective Inspector Edmund Reid; based on his real life namesake, head of H Division...

The BBC has confirmed that crime drama The Body Farm will not return for a second series. The Waking the Dead spinoff starred Tara Fitzgerald as Dr Eve Lockhart and Keith Allen as her ally Di Craig Hale. The first series ran from September 13 to October 18 last year, but no further episodes will be produced, according to the Radio Times. While the series premiere attracted an audience of 6.3m, viewing figures had dropped to 4.3m by the sixth and final episode. Parent series Waking the Dead - starring Trevor Eve and Sue Johnston - drew to a close in April 2011 after (more)...

Crime drama The Body Farm lost viewers on Tuesday evening, but still proved way too strong for ITV1's icy reality show 71 Degrees North, overnight data has revealed. The Body Farm, starring Keith Allen as Detective Inspector Craig Hale, continued with 4.75m (20.3%) on BBC One in the 9pm hour, down by 500k on last week's debut episode. However, the drama easily outperformed 71 Degrees North, the show featuring celebrities such as Martin Kemp, Amy Williams and Brook Kinsella taking on challenges in Arctic conditions, which averaged 2.6m (11.2%) for ITV1 in the 9pm hour and 151k (0.9%) on +1. Elsewhere, Mayday Mayday fetched 2.68m (12.1%) on ITV1 from 7.30pm. Missing Millions had 2.48m (10.5%) in the 8pm hour, but lost out to Holby City's 5.35m (22.7%) on BBC One. The Bomb Squad grabbed 1.6m (13.5%) (more)...

The BBC have found a suitably preposterous successor to Waking the Dead while the sub-prime crisis gets the full-star treatment on Sky Atlantic

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For those who can't get enough of rotting, bloated corpses – and the long tailback of TV forensics dramas suggests there's someone on every sofa who fits this bill – The Body Farm was the perfect Tuesday night alternative to Hairy Bikers' Meals on Wheels.

The series is a spin-off from the popular Waking the Dead insofar as it gives further employment to Tara Fitzgerald as alluring Dr Eve Lockhart, now in charge of a mysterious-sounding lab set up in the middle of nowhere to carry out mysterious-sounding research on bodies supplied by mysterious-sounding "donors". Having possibly confused myself with the trailers,...

Tara Fitzgerald has insisted that her new show The Body Farm is separate from parent series Waking The Dead. The actress will reprise her role as Eve Lockhart in the new BBC One drama, which also stars Keith Allen. "There's no mention of the older show or winks to it," she told TV Choice. "This is a new show and at no stage does Eve talk about what she was doing before." She added that her character will be "in charge of a young team of geniuses" in The Body Farm. "[Eve]'s certainly moved out of the lab and she runs the shop," explained the star. "There's a sense of family. Eve is slightly parental and we don't see them at home. Home appears to be the body farm." Fitzgerald insisted that Lockhart will be the only Waking (more)...

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2011 has produced some great dramas so far but as we head into the Fall, the major networks may have saved the best until last. The BBC and ITV tend to play their cards close to their chest so the exact air dates for many shows remain unknown and some shows that are slated for 2011 may end up being pushed back to 2012. However, as things stand right now, the following dramas are likely to be among the best British TV shows aired in what remains on 2011.

Downton Abbey Season Two. Fans in the USA will have to wait until early 2012 to the see the next installment of Julian Fellowes’ wildly popular period drama but fans in Britain only have to wait until next month for the new season to begin.

Undisclosed. According to Philip Glenister’s own website,...

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Waking The Dead spin-off The Body Farm is set to air on BBC One sometime in September. The new six-part drama features Tara Fitzgerald who reprises the role of Dr Eve Lockhart who previously appeared in Waking The Dead. Fitzgerald is joined in the cast by Keith Allen who takes on the role of Detective Inspector Hale.

In The Body Farm, Lockhart is conducting scientific research on decaying corpses at the aptly named farm when a budget cut looks set to shut down her operations. Hale offers her the chance to continue her work – but as part of his investigative team. The series is created by Declan Croghan and the executive producers are Trevor Eve and Susan Hogg. The exact air date has yet to be announced.

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