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Apr

Sphero BB-8 can board your Millennium Falcon for just £104 at Amazon


The little BB-8 unit unit can now be yours for just £104, just make sure you keep him safe from the prying eyes of the First Order. The Sphero robot can connect to your smartphone allowing you to pilot the mobile unit around the home. Amazon has subtracted 20% off the original listing price, making this quite the steal for Star Wars fans.

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The unit has also received numerous updates, with one actually making it possible for BB-8 to sit through the latest Star Wars film and react to action on-screen. Be sure to check out the listing for BB-8 as we’re not entirely sure as to when this discount will come to an end.

  • Our review of the Sphero BB-8

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28
Apr

LG Stylus 2 hits O2 UK with DAB support for all your favorite radio shows


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LG Stylus 2 is the first smartphone with DAB radio support and you’ll be able to pick up the handset on O2 in the UK. The mobile network has announced that consumers will be able to purchase the LG phone right now on O2 Refresh. The best part about the Stylus 2 is how you’ll be able to enjoy your favorite radio stations without using your data allowance, all thanks to the added DAB radio support.

O2 notes the carrier holds exclusivity over the Stylus 2 in the UK. You’ll be able to pick up the phone on monthly contracts starting from £19 a month, or you can purchase it outright for £219.99. To serve as a reminder, the Stylus 2 comes with a 5.7-inch HD display, 1.2GHz quad-core processor, 13MP main shooter (with 8MP front-facing camera), 1.5GB RAM, 16GB of internal storage, and a 3000mAh removeable battery. There’s Android 6.0 Marshmallow onboard alongside LTE support.

See at O2

28
Apr

Tesla Model X preview: An SUV without compromise?


Tesla has been making waves in the car industry with the Model S, an all-electric car that not only offers blistering performance, but offers a range that leaves most other current electric cars on the sidelines. Tesla is taking its successes with the Model S and applying them to its next model, the Model X. 

The Tesla Model X is an SUV that sits in the 5+2 camp. It’s certainly not as big as the Land Rover Discovery, BMW X5, or Volvo XC90, but more akin to the Qashqai, Discovery Sport, or BMW X6.

Looking to address the range fears of electric vehicles, and bring you the everyday practicality of an SUV, is the Tesla Model X a perfect pairing, or is it a compromise conundrum?

Tesla Model X design

More approachable than the executive-focused Model S, the X comes with a robust, but futuristic look, with distinct SUV stylings. That look starts at the front of the car with its signature nose, lacking a traditional front grill. The lines run over the huge panoramic windscreen that flows over your head and into the roof. And, lest we forget, the car’s most polarising feature, those Falcon Wing doors, that punctuate the design in the centre of the car.

It’s a contemporary styling, sticking to a family nose similar to the refreshed Model S and the incoming Model 3. The rising roofline has a hint of Citroën about it, another company that’s employed the panoramic windscreen to good effect, if not with the drama of the Model X. But rather than opt for a squared hatch back as you find on many SUVs, the Model X opts for a fastback, dropping the roofline back down to the rear. That gives it those BMW X6 looks, rather than X5 looks.

The ride height can be adjusted to four different settings from “high” to “baller” (according to a spokesperson), again adopting solutions offered by a number of SUVs to help them cross from on-road stability or off-road comfort, but the Model X doesn’t carry offroader looks. It’s a stylised look, closer to the “active” or crossover models we’ve seen more of lately.

That fastback styling and Falcon Wing door approach does bring with it compromises though. Windows for the third row, if you opt for the expanded seating configuration, are almost non-existent. Although that roofline quickly drop, it’s still fairly high at the point that the Falcon Wing doors open, making them incredibly high. A talking point they might be, but they’re not without compromise too.

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Tesla Model X Falcon Wing doors

One of the most defining elements of the Model X are the Falcon Wing doors. They are futuristic, cool, gob-smackingly exciting, and yet at the same time possibly the most impractical thing we’ve seen on a car of this type for a long time. If you aren’t sure what Falcon Wing doors are, the rear doors of the Model X open upwards and outwards, raising from the centre of the roof into the sky. It’s like a clever version of the DeLorean from Back to the Future, but suitable for all walks of life.  

To combat car parks, the door is actually in two folding parts, which is why we guess they’re referred to as Falcon Wing doors, rather than gull-wing, which appear on an eclectic mix of car models, like the famous Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing Coupé.

As you can imagine for an American Telsa Model X owner, doors that open upwards and outwards present little problem: large driveways, big company car parks and spacious shopping malls are a staple of life in the USA. The doors, packed with sensors to avoid them smashing into anything, will allow you to park in the tightest of American car parking spaces and still open and let you out.

The idea is to give you more space and easier access to the rear seats, with Tesla saying it’s going to be better for parents getting kids into the rear and so on.

For the rest of us those doors have could be problematic. The chances are, here in the UK, you won’t have anywhere near the same kind of space afforded to Americans. We can imagine the scene: you drive to your local multi-storey car park, where it’s already pretty difficult to park and the ceiling is only marginally higher than your car, and wonder how on earth you are going to get even the smallest of children out of the back row of seats.

At least with a standard car door you can contort yourself to squeeze through a narrow gap, but you can’t really get on your hands and knees to crawl up through a tiny gap. To get in the Model X, you’ll likely have to drive out of the parking space and climb in. The Falcon Wing doors also mean that the roof isn’t somewhere you can use to load up your car: that’s no roof box or bike rack, although you can fix one to the rear tow hook.

Maybe that doesn’t matter: as the Tesla Model X is electric, it may not be your first choice of holiday/vacation cars because of the range, but when you’re unloading Jack and Jill outside the school gates, everyone will be watching you and those doors.

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Tesla Model X interior

Moving inside and the Model X is the space age experience we’ve come to expect from Tesla. The dashboard, which is much more refined than the first Model S to come to the UK, is both plush and solid. It’s not a carbon copy either, with a few new additions over the current Model S. There’s now a central compartment situated between the driver and passenger seat where you would normally find the handbrake or gear stick, with plenty of storage space, cup holders, and USB charging points for your phones or gadgets.

The dashboard is dominated by two large displays, one for the driver, the other a huge central touchscreen. The latter, virtually identical to the Model S offering, delivers everything from mapping information, to controlling the ambient lighting in the car. It is here you can set performance options, turn on Ludicrous Speed – if you’ve selected the optional extra when you bought the car – or merely surf the Internet when stuck in traffic. The lack of buttons is a breath of fresh air, as is the minimalist flowing lines and mix of matte and gloss surfaces.

Move back through the cabin and the minimalist approach continues, perhaps a little too much. The second row of bucket seats has little or no storage space. The backs of the seats are covered in a black gloss shiny, somehow smudge-free plastic, and when combined with the white synthetic leather seats that are wipe clean, delivers a space age, yet clean feel. If you aren’t vexed by the lack of storage space, you will be by your reflection staring back at you.

That lack of storage and isolation continues to the third row. Tesla allows the Model X to be configured in three options. A five seater, a six seater, and a seven seater. Opting for the six seater removes the middle seat on the second row (the two remaining seats are also made slightly bigger), while the seven seater option puts two smaller seats in the boot, and unlike the Model S, they do face forward.

You might think that’s a good thing, but it might not be. Although more traditional, those third row seats get zero visibility, and unless you are under 4ft tall, zero space. The problem is that the second row of seats neither move forward very much nor fold. You can’t look through the seat in front of you, and because of the fastback design you can’t even look out of the window. This must be what a dog in a cage in the boot of a car feels like.

The issue of the non moving second row of seats also has a second problem. They don’t fold down to create larger load space as they do in a standard estate for example, meaning the boot is one of the smallest we’ve seen in an SUV. Want to use it to haul large amounts of rubbish to the tip, transport a couple of bikes, or move some furniture? Forget it. You have to compromise. 

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Because the second row of seats don’t fold in half, this is the maximum size of the boot in the Model X

Tesla Model X battery power

The Model X, depending on which model you get, will give you a range between 260 and 303 miles on a single charge according to Tesla. Their are three models currently listed by the company. The Model X P90D, the 90D, and the 75D. Prices haven’t been confirmed but a Tesla spokesperson we talked to suggested prices would range between £70,000 to £90,000 depending on the configuration. 

The P90D delivers the fastest SUV on the market with a top speed of 155mph and a 0-60mph in 3.8 seconds. Opt for the Ludicrous Speed Upgrade (the P90DL) and you can knock a further .6 seconds off to bring it to a 0-60mph time of 3.2 seconds. There is no denying you’ll be able to get to school quicker than probably anyone else on your street.  

In practice and we suspect those range distances will vary, in the same way a phone battery does depending on how you use it. Tesla admit that the performance enhanced version featuring Ludicrous mode will deliver less range if you drive without caution for the battery, while driving like “Miss Daisy” will let you go further. 

Range won’t be an issue for most, and combined with Tesla’s network of Superchargers, as long as you are happy to stop for a coffee on longer trips you should have no problem. But the Tesla Model X feels like it’s been designed for the school run, rather than the run to the sun. There’s no shortage of SUVs that never see a grassy verge, let alone go offroading, so perhaps that doesn’t matter.

But range is only half the story. Tesla has foregone manual controls for most of the car’s features opting instead for gadgetised control. There is no manual option to close the Falcon Wing doors for example, and you shut the front driver door by pressing the brake pedal.

There are cool toys though, the Model X has four suspension options which can all be controlled automatically via GPS based on your location, as well as the usual array of Tesla options like Autopilot to help assist your driving, and Summon to help you park your car in your garage at the end of the day, again without really having to do anything yourself.

This is embracing the electric dream 100 per cent.

First Impressions

The Tesla vision of the electric car is supposed to remove the need to compromise. The Model X is supposed to be a car that allows you to have electric and an SUV, to have utility and space. For Americans we suspect that still holds true. This is a unique SUV with plenty of smart features, a distinctive design and doors you won’t find anywhere else. It’s a car that isn’t cut from the same cloth, and that carries some appeal.

The Model X claims to be the fastest SUV on the planet and for those who are buying it as a beefed up saloon who have no plans to pile loads of kids in the back, it delivers something as sexy as the Model S, but in a more versatile package.

The issue is that once you start asking it to deliver equal to, or better than, an SUV in Britain, the more compromises you have to address. Boot space, the Falcon Wing doors, and an isolating rear cabin space see the Model X facing a mass of rivals that through conventionality, may offer more convenience.

Where replacing your executive saloon with the Model S has lots of appeal, replacing the humble Nissan Qashqai, or the more assured Land Rover Discovery, may bring with it a compromise too far. Of course we’ve a lot to still learn about the day-to-day experience of living with the Tesla Model X.

28
Apr

Learn how to take better pictures


Have you ever wanted to get more from your camera, or to understand how to actually use it rather than just using the “Automatic” setting all the time? 

Udemy’s courses are designed to take you through the process of understanding your camera so you can take better pictures with without having to rely on the automatic settings any more.

The Improve your Photography course (£45) is designed for photographers who are using their camera’s “automatic” settings and are ready to progress to full manual control.

Understanding that automatic mode will get you the picture you are after most of the time, the Improve your Photography course will help you fix that elusive ten per cent of photos you take that are not currently working out the way you want.

Each section of the course is nicely broken down into bite sized videos allowing you to visually see what you need to master rather than having to understand complicated diagrams and wordings in a boring text book and the presenting style is clean, concise, and easy to understand.

The course covers everything from setting the shutter speed, aperture, ISO and white balance, as well as, how to choose the correct lens and settings to control sharpness. It covers all types of cameras from DSLRs to compact, to compact system cameras, to even covering tips for your smartphone.

The course includes over 23 lectures and 1.5 hours of content and is presented by Paul Cooper, Photographer at Bailey Cooper, Director of Qualifications at Master Photographer’s Association.

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If that sounds a little to advanced or daunting (it shouldn’t), then the Photography Masterclass: Your Complete Guide to Photography (£25) course starts things from beginning a little bit and is aimed at those looking to learn more about photography beyond snapping pictures on their phone.

This course is designed to teach you the ins and outs of photography, even if you have little to no experience with it.

The course aims to help you improve your skills, take stellar images, and even make money from your photos.

Topics covered include:

•   Understand How Cameras Work and What Gear You Need

•   Master Shooting in Manual Mode and Editing Photos

•   Follow Our Photo Adventures and See How We Shoot Photos Ourselves

•   Use Stabilization, Composition, and Lighting

•   Learn How to Sell Photos or Start a Photography Business

With over 255 lectures and 14.5 hours of content, you are sure to find plenty of answers to your many questions, and because it’s all done online you can take your time over the course so you can set the pace you learn or pick and choose the parts you want to focus on. 

28
Apr

Angry Birds Action: Rovio goes the whole hog with biggest game yet


After the incredible success of the original Angry Birds, it can be argued that the series has been superseded in popularity by games by developers that embraced the free-to-play model faster than Rovio.

Look at the top grossing apps on Apple’s App Store today and you won’t see an Angry Birds game anywhere near the top 10. Not even in the top 20.

The Candy Crush franchise, Game of War and Clash of Clans rule the roost these days and Rovio has to do something special to get back its mojo.

That’s not to say the company isn’t still successful; Angry Birds 2 has been downloaded more that 85 million times to date. But it needs something to thrust the Angry Birds back into the limelight. A movie, perhaps?

The Angry Birds Movie opens in UK cinemas on 13 May and could well be the fulcrum for an Angry Birds revival. Rovio has also created a new game to run alongside its release that is its most ambitious yet. It is effectively betting the farm on Angry Birds Action for iOS and Android.

The game itself is interesting. It takes the original bird-flinging idea but now that the birds (and piggies) have legs and wings, adds extra elements to come up with something familiar but fresh.

You still pull back and release the ill-tempered feathered friends on well constructed levels, but this time they are collecting eggs (or sweets in later levels) rather than dispatching porkers. And the action is viewed from above.

It makes for a cross between the original Angry Birds and mini-golf, with a dash of pinball thrown in for good measure.

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Accurate aiming will bounce the bird off well-place objects and, hopefully, collect all the eggs on screen in one fell swoop. In a way, each level has par and you must complete it therefore in as few attempts as possible.

Levels are also split into three sections to complete, and as there are a set number of birds (lives) you can use, you really don’t want to be wasting turns.

To make things even more interesting, the levels on Bird Island have a random element, with a spin wheel before each potentially adding extra obstacles. Sometimes they can even help, with bomb crates clearing levels quickly when you crash into them.

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After levels have been completed, not only do you get up to three stars to show how well you did, each star also gives a key to an unlock, with gems, coins and extra turns on offer. You’ll need the latter perhaps the most as, like many free-to-play games, you are limited as to how many levels you can play in a go. And with only three on offer until the requisite timer ticks down, it’s stingier than a lot of peers.

However, we’ve found extra turns to be regularly rewarded, so play sessions have a way of extending beyond enforced limitations.

You can also pay real cash for gems in order to buy additional lives in the game, when you are close but not close enough to complete a particularly tough section. That’s an obvious addition in the age of free-to-play business models. Rovio though has other ways for you to enjoy and enhance the game, and not through in-app purchases.

Thanks to the movie release, there will be a lot of merchandise available over the coming weeks and months. Several key partnerships with major brands will see a flood of Angry Birds tie-in products, several of which are already on shop shelves. MacDonald’s is also branding its Happy Meals with Angry Birds for a while.

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These are important to the game in that each comes with a “Bird Code” – a small augmented reality target that, when scanned using the button in the game your phone or tablet, adds extra content to Angry Birds Action, even entire mini-games.

Special edition Pez dispensers and Peperami sticks come with them, for example, and each has a different mini-game that you can unlock just by scanning the code on the packet or product. Angry Birds Lego sets have codes too, which unlock games but also 3D views of the final build.

Each mini-game also unlocks power-ups to help your progress in the main levels of Angry Birds Action, and there are thousands of Bird Codes to be found worldwide. Get your phones ready now collectors. And plane tickets.

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It’s a massive scale operation, but Rovio hasn’t stopped with AR enhancements. It also has a selection of secret levels in the game, based on Piggy Island, that can only be unlocked if you watch the movie in the cinema.

At the end of the film, while the end credits roll, you are encouraged to get out your phone and load the game. It will recognise the audio and unlock the extra content – offer a video of an exclusive alternative ending too. Clever technology is at work too, to prevent users from recording the audio and others using that for unlocks.

It’s odd that you’ll be able to wave around your phone in a venue that normally, positively frowns on such a thing, but it’s only after the movie has finished and other customers are leaving.

First Impressions

Angry Birds Action is a fun and capable game in itself, but it is its AR extension that is most interesting.

Being rewarded for scanning Bird Codes placed on products you might buy already is good. And you don’t necessarily need to buy merchandise yourself. You can always ask someone else if they will kindly let you scan their Happy Meal box in MacDonald’s, for example.

Some might see it as a cynical attempt to sell more Angry Birds products, but it actually provides Rovio with an alternative revenue stream to in-app purchases, which in itself benefits the player as there are fewer things you need to buy in the game using real cash.

We also asked Rovio whether it will employ Bird Code support in future or even past games through updates and that’s a possibility, based on the success of Angry Birds Action. That would make the existing AR codes out there even more useful.

Whether it will put Angry Birds back to the top of the tree is yet to be seen, but Angry Birds Action is fresh enough to have a jolly good go.

It’s available on the iTunes App Store and Google Play now.

28
Apr

The Iron Man Civil War Xbox One is the best console you’ll never own


We’ve seen plenty of special edition Xbox One consoles in the last couple of years, with a different coloured or designed model coming out with just about every major release, but we can safely say that the customised Iron Man variant is the best.

It is, quite simply, stunning.

Sadly though, it is extremely unlikely that any of us will ever get your hands on one. It has been made in very limited numbers to promote the upcoming Marvel Studios film, Captain America: Civil War, and is seemingly being given away in a competition in France only.

Xbox France posted pictures and a video of the Civil War Xbox One on its Twitter and Facebook pages. It was allegedly designed and made by the fictional Tony Stark, Iron Man himself.

What makes it extra special is the centrepiece – an illuminated ring that apes the arc reactor Stark has implanted in his chest to keep him alive.

The white gamepad also has the arc reactor motif instead of the Xbox button at the top.

It is a stunning looking bit of kit and we want one, naturally.

Like we say, only Xbox France is giving units away at present. If we find out that Xbox US or UK is likely to follow suit, we’ll let you know through an update.

28
Apr

What is Ed Balls Day and why is #EdBallsDay trending on Twitter?


You might have noticed a strange hashtag at the trending charts on Twitter today, at least in the UK. “#EdBallsDay” is riding strong with more than 20,000 tweets today alone.

But what is Ed Balls Day and why are so many posting funny comments about it online?

Well, it is five years to the day since British politician and ex-shadow chancellor Ed Balls either accidentally or intentionally just tweeted his own name for everyone to see. It read, simply, “Ed Balls”.

Ed Balls

— Ed Balls (@edballs) April 28, 2011

It became a bit of a viral hit back on 28 April 2011 and since then, the same day each year, thousands commemorate it in amusing fashion.

Memes, gifs, funny tweets galore, Ed Balls Day is celebrated online on 28 April every year. It is perhaps even more popular than Balls himself ever was.

The former Labour MP and chairman of Norwich City FC is yet to post something himself to mark the special occasion. He probably won’t, in fact.

However, there are still plenty of great tweets you can check out posted with the hashtag #EdBallsDay.

Here are some of our favourites for you to enjoy right here.

#EdBallsDay! @wwebalor pic.twitter.com/gfkvNqbBuT

— WWE UK (@WWEUK) April 28, 2016

Happy #EdBallsDay from us at Square Enix pic.twitter.com/rnUHik0kgf

— Jamin Smith (@JaminEatWorld) April 28, 2016

TwistED DoughBALLS. #EdBallsDay pic.twitter.com/FwTWc82XHD

— Domino’s Pizza UK (@Dominos_UK) April 28, 2016

Happy #EdBallsDay everyone pic.twitter.com/TCHQjrLU2Q

— General Boles (@GeneralBoles) April 28, 2016

How many #EdBallsDay cards did you get? pic.twitter.com/PFFIH49aWL

— Ed Balls Day (@_EdBallsDay) April 28, 2016

The excitement is building ahead of #EdBallsDay tomorrow. Here’s @WillB2BContent’s take https://t.co/iZP6nlkiiJ pic.twitter.com/scCKoRXgny

— B2B Marketing (@MarketingB2B) April 27, 2016

Let us know if you have any of your own that you’ve spotted and love in our comments below…

28
Apr

Uber tests stricter waiting time charges for late passengers


If you’re not showing up for your Uber, you might get charged sooner than you think. The company is trialling fees if you keep your driver waiting more than two minutes after they arrive at the pickup spot. The waiting period was previously five minutes (the same time given by its rival Lyft), though during these tests, drivers were still required to wait five minutes before they charge a full no-show fee. Uber is also adding a cancellation fee if a customer cancels a pickup two minutes after ordering one, which can range from $5 to $10 depending on the area.
Uber uses a similar rule with its carpool rides, when multiple users split the cost of a trip. The pilot program is reportedly running in Phoenix, Dallas, New Jersey and NYC. According to CNN Money, Uber says the cancellation fee is there compensate drivers for their time. “Drivers’ time is valuable, and while we expect riders to request a ride only once they’re ready, we know that waiting for a rider at their pickup location can be frustrating,” the company said in a statement. It added that delays and cancellations affect Uber’s ability to deploy drivers “efficiently.”

Source: CNN Money

28
Apr

UK doctors say smokers should be encouraged to use e-cigarettes


If the British public needed reassurance that e-cigarettes are healthier than traditional smoking, a new report from Royal College of Physicians (PCP) has done just that. In a 200-page document, leading UK doctors have moved to quash the “increasingly common misconception” that vaping is dangerous and said that smokers should be “reassured and encouraged” to switch to e-cigarettes.

Although the long-term effects of e-cigarettes aren’t yet known, the PCP says that the likelihood of there being a “hazard to health” arising from sustained vapour inhalation is “unlikely to exceed 5 percent of the harm from tobacco smoke.” This mirrors a Public Health England (PHE) report that said that e-cigarettes are 95 percent less harmful than tobacco.

Doctors also found there was no evidence to suggest that e-cigarettes normalize smoking or serve as a gateway to regular tobacco: “None of these products has to date attracted significant use among adult never-smokers, or demonstrated evidence of significant gateway progression into smoking among young people.”

Smoking-related diseases cost the National Health Service (NHS) more than £2 billion (around $2.9 billion) each year, which equates to over 2 percent of its budget. It’s also the biggest avoidable cause of death and disability in the UK. While the PCP believes e-cigarettes make a “major contribution” to improve the lives of millions of people, there still needs to be “careful management and proportionate regulation.”

This might include the licensing of more vaping solutions — British American Tobacco’s e-Voke pen is currently the only e-cigarette prescribed by the NHS — and a possible EU requirement that all products undergo emissions tests that allow consumers to identify the best and cleanest products. It also means that most smokers will need to buy their own e-cigarettes, at least until more manufacturers decide to offer their products as “quit smoking aids.”

“The growing use of electronic cigarettes as a substitute for tobacco smoking has been a topic of great controversy, with much speculation over their potential risks and benefits,” says Professor John Britton, chair of the RCP’s Tobacco Advisory Group. “This report lays to rest almost all of the concerns over these products, and concludes that, with sensible regulation, electronic cigarettes have the potential to make a major contribution towards preventing the premature death, disease and social inequalities in health that smoking currently causes in the UK.”

Via: BBC News

Source: Royal College of Physicians

28
Apr

BBC and Netflix team up to remake ‘Watership Down’


The BBC and Netflix have teamed up to produce a new version of Richard Adams’ seminal children’s novel, Watership Down. The pair will “reinterpret” the story into a four-part animated mini series that’ll air in 2017 on the BBC in the UK and globally on the streaming service. The new production hasn’t scrimped on the cast, with heavy-hitters like James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, John Boyega and Sir Ben Kingsley voicing the main characters. It’ll be the third time that the novel has been adapted for the screen, firstly as a film in 1978 and then again for TV in 1999.

In fact, the film version has something of a reputation amongst the children of Britain who regularly saw it on Saturday afternoons. The novel’s brutal depiction of a series of rabbits trying to find a new home just before their warren is destroyed is crammed full of on-screen violence. The film didn’t shy away from depicting this, and one columnist for the Guardian described it as “the film that frightened me most.” According to the Verge, producer Rory Aitken said that the new version won’t “shy away” from the novel’s darkness, although it won’t be as scarring as the film.

This is the first time that the BBC and Netflix have put money behind the same production, but the BBC is no stranger to teaming up with other broadcasters. As well as its partnerships with various PBS stations in the US, it’s already co-funded three seasons of Ripper Street for Amazon Prime. The corporation has also signed numerous distribution deals to get its back-catalog of shows onto Netflix in the US and elsewhere. Most recently, the pair agreed to distribute the revived Top Gear that’ll air in opposition to Amazon’s homegrown rival with Jeremy Clarkson.

Via: The Verge