David Hollingsworth

David Hollingsworth

Editor

David is the What To Watch Editor and has over 20 years of experience in television journalism. He is currently writing about the latest television and film news for What To Watch.

Before working for What To Watch, David spent many years working for TV Times magazine, interviewing some of television's most famous stars including Hollywood actor Kiefer Sutherland, singer Lionel Richie and wildlife legend Sir David Attenborough. 

David started out as a writer for TV Times before becoming the title's deputy features editor and then features editor. During his time on TV Times, David also helped run the annual TV Times Awards. David is a huge Death in Paradise fan, although he's still failed to solve a case before the show's detective! He also loves James Bond and controversially thinks that Timothy Dalton was an excellent 007.

Other than watching and writing about telly, David loves playing cricket, going to the cinema, trying to improve his tennis and chasing about after his kids!

Latest articles by David Hollingsworth

David Bradley as Argus Filch in Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire

I love that Paul Whitehouse has been cast as Argus Filch in the Harry Potter TV series — can the makers now cast Bob Mortimer as Peeves?

By David Hollingsworth published

Paul Whitehouse will be great as Filch in the new Harry Potter series

TV Shows

Benidorm could return to ITV for new series or special reveals creator

By David Hollingsworth published

Derren Litten, the show’s creator, says he's spoken to ITV about the return of the comedy

Comedy
Peter Capaldi with long hair in a coat in Black Mirror season 7

Black Mirror season 7: release date, recaps, episode titles, trailer, cast and everything we know

By David Hollingsworth last updated

Black Mirror season 7 is on the way and we now have casting, plus teases from Charlie Brooker...

Netflix
A key art shot of the Beyond Paradise cast, standing on the quayside in Shipton Abbott (portrayed by the Cornish town of Looe). From left to right: Dylan Llewellyn as PC Kelby Hartford, Sally Bretton as Martha Lloyd, Kris Marshall as DI Humphrey Goodman, Zahra Ahmadi as DS Esther Williams and Felicity Montagu as Margo Martins.

Beyond Paradise copies Death in Paradise as main character to become prime suspect

By David Hollingsworth published

Is Martha a murderer?

TV Shows
Tosh (Alison O'Donnell) and Calder (Ashley Jensen) are sitting at a table by a window in a beachfront bar. Tosh has a glass of white wine on the table in front of her, and both of them look happy and relaxed.

Shetland season 10: everything we know

By David Hollingsworth last updated

Calder and Tosh investigate the sinister killing of an elderly woman...

TV Shows
Bella Maclean in Rivals.

Rivals season 2 star Bella Maclean admits 'feeling the pressure' with filming about to start

By David Hollingsworth published

Bella Maclean hopes series 2 can match the heights of the first

TV Shows
Ben Miller

Ben Miller — things you didn't know about the Death in Paradise star

By David Hollingsworth last updated

Ben Miller almost got a PhD in Quantum Physics and is a talented musician.

Biographies
The cast of Austin

Austin: release date, cast, plot and everything we know

By David Hollingsworth, Sean Marland last updated

Ben Miller stars with Sally Phillips in this fun comedy...

TV Shows
The Witness (Park Hae-soo) in Karma

Netflix adds 'pulse-pounding’ crime thriller series featuring Squid Game star

By David Hollingsworth published

Karma on Netflix is a thriller that sees the lives of six people become entangled after a fateful accident

Netflix

Alan Titchmarsh has just launched a new TV show on YouTube — and he films it in his own garden!

By David Hollingsworth published

Get top tips from Alan!

UK Shows
Ripper Street cast

Netflix adds Matthew Macfadyen's acclaimed Victorian detective TV series

By David Hollingsworth published

Ripper Street ran for five seasons and boasted a great cast

Netflix
Sam Quek

Sam Quek — things you didn't know about the ITV racing team member and Olympic star

By David Hollingsworth published

Sam Quek got married in an unusual place!

Biographies
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

All episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer have just dropped on ITVX as we await revival

By David Hollingsworth published

Watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer again as excitement builds for revival

TV Shows
Alan Townsend, Gerald Cooper, Annie Gray, Jeremy Clarkson, Lisa Hogan, Kaleb Cooper, Charlie Ireland in Clarkson's Farm season 4

Clarkson's Farm series 4 release date finally revealed — and it's not long to wait!

By David Hollingsworth published

Jeremy Clarkson is back, but obviously nothing goes to plan

TV Shows
The Commissioner (Don Warrington) in Death in Paradise

Is Don Warrington officially leaving Death in Paradise as The Commissioner?

By David Hollingsworth last updated

Has Don Warrington announced his exit from Death in Paradise? Will he be in season 15?

TV Shows
Vincent Cassel in Banger on Netflix

Netflix adds French comedy caper starring Vincent Cassel as a DJ recruited to bust a criminal gang

By David Hollingsworth published

Vincent Cassel plays a DJ sent on a secret mission

Movies
Peter escapes onto the subway in The Night Agent season 2

I finally watched The Night Agent season 2 — I wish I hadn't bothered!

By David Hollingsworth published

What have they done to Peter and Rose?!

Netflix
Death in Paradise season 14 lead Don Gilet as DI Mervin Wilson

Death in Paradise season 14 full season guide: plot, cast, and more

By David Hollingsworth last updated

Death in Paradise season 14 sees Don Gilet as Detective Inspector Mervin WiIson

TV Shows
best James Bond films - Sean Connery as Bond for Dr. No

Why Sean Connery was chosen as James Bond for Dr. No — and why he stubbornly refused to perform a screen test

By David Hollingsworth published

Sean Connery also helped inject wit into Bond

Movies
Mount Etna erupting

Volcano with Dara Ó Briain: release date and everything we know

By David Hollingsworth published

'Volcanoes are very alluring, so you're drawn like a moth to a flame,' says Dara

UK Shows
Esther and Kelby in Beyond Paradise season 3

Beyond Paradise's Esther and Kelby both look for romance in new series tease stars

By David Hollingsworth published

Esther gets a mystery man

TV Shows
Clemency Burton-Hill in My Brain: After the Rupture

BBC2 tonight airs a powerful doc about a musician who suffered a catastrophic brain haemorrhage and survived

By David Hollingsworth published

BBC Proms presenter Clemency Burton-Hill's life was turned upside down when she was 38

TV Shows

How to watch Beyond Paradise season 3 online or on TV

By David Hollingsworth published

Make sure you don't miss DI Humphrey Goodman's new set of mysteries

TV Shows

Death in Paradise season 14 finale sees echoes of notorious Neville case

By David Hollingsworth published

Mervin becomes a murder suspect just like Neville

TV Shows

ITV axes Dancing on Ice after nearly 20 years on air

By David Hollingsworth published

Broadcaster reveals it's 'rested' the show with no plans for any more series

UK Shows
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