Hang Ups is, effectively, another of those ‘one room’ comedies, this one the house of Richard Pitt (Stephen Mangan), a therapist whose business collapsed, so today is Day One of working from home (so, a whole house rather than just a room, but it’s mostly what we see through the ‘eye’ of his laptop camera), […]
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Age Before Beauty proves that yet again, if it’s Tuesday night on BBC1 at 9pm, it’s “TV for women” hour… and this new drama has lots of them working in a beauty parlour. As the meme goes: Change my mind! Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the […]
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Travels in Trumpland with Ed Balls begins with the MP losing his seat when they go for the voting count (yes, I said COUNT!) Sadly, he went on to be the resident idiot on Strictly Come Dancing. Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running […]
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Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema is a new five-part BBC4 series about the movie critic’s first love, which starts with romantic comedies, and it doesn’t take long before Mr Kermode breaks films down a bit more than the rest of us would, for example, in terms of showing how Splash perfectly fits the three-act structure […]
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Picnic At Hanging Rock has made the transition from a novel and movie to a six-part series, co-funded by Amazon Studios, with Game Of Thrones and The Hunger Games‘ Natalie Dormer as the overly strict Mrs Appleyard, who buys a large mansion out in the Australian bush and labels it Appleyard College, where many young […]
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Sharp Objects is a new HBO mini-series, broadcasting in the UK on Sky Atlantic, which is based on the novel by Gillian Flynn, and published in 2006, and follows newspaper journalist Camille Preaker (Amy Adams – Batman Vs Superman: Dawn of Justice), who’s pulled away from her reportings in her dilapidated living area of St […]
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Keeping Faith is a new 8-part drama starring Torchwood‘s Eve Myles in the lead role, which starts next Thursday, July 12th, but which has already aired on BBC Wales. Aside from the cheesy title, lawyer Faith finds herself in rather a quandry as her husband and business partner, Evan (Bradley Freegard), goes AWOL one morning […]
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The Bridge Season 4 – The finale is here, and note that this review assumes you’ve seen seasons 1-3! Yes, for me, this is the pinnacle of Nordic Noir drama. Well, this and Braquo, but that came to an end after four seasons, and this has done so, too. I guess there’s only so far […]
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Stath Lets Flats centres around Stath (Jamie Demetriou), the son of a Greek estate agent proprietor, who lets out flats… and houses, but let’s not let facts get in the way of a snappy title. Demetriou plays up as a bit of an idiotic estate agent who’s quite crap at his job, as well as […]
Richard Osman’s House Of Games is an early evening gameshow which Osman says is something he’s been wanting to get on the box for some years, but as he constantly reminds us, he only ever thought of himself as a TV producer, and never a presenter. However, it’s the success of BBC1’s Pointless which has […]
