CARRY ON SCREAMING

DRACULA

ETA: TBC

Bram Stoker’s creation has been brought to the screen more than any other fictional character – how do you bring something fresh to the story? Sherlock’s Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss are more than up to the job, having already tackled Holmes and (in Moffat’s case) Jekyll, but don’t expect a modern-day update: this BBC One adaptation will be a period piece, in three feature-length parts. The key was “making Dracula the hero of his own story, and less of a shadowy presence,” according to Gatiss. Magnificently-monickered Danish actor Claes Bang certainly looks the part – if you’re going by public perception, rather than what Stoker originally wrote; with his slicked-back, jet-black hair he looks like he’s stepped off the wrapper of a ’70s Dracula ice lolly! Filming’s taken place at the recently reopened Bray Studios, ancestral home of Hammer horror. Here’s hoping the spirit of Sir Christopher Lee was watching over proceedings.

IT CHAPTER TWO

ETA: 6 SEPTEMBER

In 1988, The Losers’ Club defeated the child-snatching entity It, forcing it to retreat into’s “definitely bloodier than the first”. expect It to appear as a giant spider though, as shonkily realised in the 1990 miniseries…