@Elevenish is a new attempt to make a successor to the long-dead Channel 4 series The 11 O’Clock Show. The name stems from the fact that it’s broadcast around… yes, 11pm. The first episode started …
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@Elevenish is a new attempt to make a successor to the long-dead Channel 4 series The 11 O’Clock Show. The name stems from the fact that it’s broadcast around… yes, 11pm. The first episode started …
Continue readingThirteen is the first drama commissioned for BBC3 as an online-only channel, yet like all of its new programmes they’re clearly contractually obliged to air on normal TV as well, so basically they’re getting a …
Continue readingStewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle is rather like Luther – it comes round every 2-3 years and is to the TV schedules what oxygen is to our bodies – an essential requirement. Often, the programme is …
Continue readingThe Night Manager is the first John Le Carré novel to become a TV series in more than 20 years, following 1991’s TV movie, A Murder of Quality, starring Denholm Elliott, Joss Ackland and Glenda …
Continue readingOne Child is part of BBC’s China Season and the title is also the policy within China of one child per household. That policy plays a part in this, but it doesn’t dominate the proceedings, …
Continue readingThe Rack Pack is a new BBC film, and the first produced exclusively for BBC iPlayer, which concentrates on the rise and fall of Alex Higgins, World Snooker Champion for 1972 and 1982, as well …
Continue readingTracey Ullman’s Show is the comedienne’s first programme for UK television since ITV’s Girls On Top back in 1983 and presumably she couldn’t call it the more customary title of The Tracey Ullman Show as …
Continue readingThe Husbands Of River Song finds Peter Capaldi‘s Doctor back in upbeat mode having been inadvertently completely forget all about Clara Oswald following the events of the Series 9 finale. It’s Christmas Day 5343 and, …
Continue readingLuther Series 4’s conclusion began with apparent clairvoyant Megan (Laura Haddock) passing on Alice’s message as: “Tell John that Stacey Bell has the owl”, referring to a woman who killed her grandma when she was …
Continue readingThe Bridge Season 3 is out now on Blu-ray and DVD, and this review assumes you have seen all of SEASONS ONE AND TWO! I had higher expectations for this than the first two, not …
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