Richard Armitage has signed up to star in a Sky1 adaptation of one of ex-sas solider Chris Ryan's novels. The six-part series, titled Strike Back, also features Andrew Lincoln, Jodhi May, Orla Brady, Laura Greenwood and Nicola Stephenson. The drama follows the lives of two former soldiers, Major Hugh Collinson (Lincoln) and discharged veteran John Porter (Armitage), as they're about to meet for the first time in seven years in a Middle East hostage crisis. "As with all Sky1 dramas, not only will …
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The format of the History Channel’s Moonshot is a strange one. Similar to their prior Manson, the film contains both authentic documentary footage (interviews in that film, and verite footage of actual events in this one) and fictionalized re-enactments, but unlike that film, this one has the distinct disadvantage of following in the footsteps of many, many well-produced films and television shows about Nasa in the 1960s, whereas nothing comparable had really been produced about Manson. That’s not always a liability (Lord knows they’ll always be enough room in national consciousness for another television movie about Hitler), but Moonshot turns it into one, taking too many cues from prior films to make its pseudo-documentary style feel like anything other than a cost saving gimmick.
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Christmas might be a depressingly distant memory prompting you to pack away all your favourite festive films, but for one couple a Christmas movie has helped change their lives. 30-year-old Dan Ferguson and his girlfriend 28-year-old Caroline Thomas from Cardiff are planning to marry next year and all thanks to a romantic proposal inspired by rom-com Love Actually. The couple is big fans of the Richard Curtis flick and so when Dan suggested they snuggle up and watch it, Caroline was none the wiser. That was until the scene where Andrew Lincoln’s Mark reveals his love for his best friend’s missus Juliet (Keira Knightley) through cardboard signs. This scene had been cut and replaced with homemade footage of Mark performing his own version with T-shirts emblazoned with romantic slogans culminating with “Will you marry me?”
Decked out in a number of brightly coloured T-shirts the It consultant striped

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"On July 20 1969 three men made history as the men on a mission to land on the moon. The eight-day journey aboard Apollo 11 was one of the most watched events ever. This film tells what it was like to be at the heart of the mission that changed the world. I know, my name is Buzz Aldrin. I was there."
The Moon was once a source of bizarre science-fiction and fantasy stories because it was such an unexplored mystery.
All that changed on July 20, 1969. History was made as the first men landed and walked on the moon.
The Apollo 11 mission was one of the most watched events ever and the amazing story is recreated in the docu-drama Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, on ITV at 10.50pm on Monday, exactly 40 years after the landing.
Starring Daniel Lapaine (Hotel Babylon, Muriel's Wedding) as Neil Armstrong, James Marsters (Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
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