Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is a TV adaptation based on a novel by Susanna Clarke. Since I don’t read books, I’d never heard of it before, but when the trailer appeared on TV, I …
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Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is a TV adaptation based on a novel by Susanna Clarke. Since I don’t read books, I’d never heard of it before, but when the trailer appeared on TV, I …
Continue readingThe Affair rolled out onto Sky Atlantic with not as much fanfare as the terrible Fortitude, but in the two leading American character roles, it starred the distinctly British Dominic West and Ruth Wilson, both …
Continue readingNo Offence is the latest Paul Abbott drama to come to Channel 4 in a blaze of publicity, with the same trailer being shown about 954 times in the past few weeks, or so it …
Continue readingThe C Word told the story of a remarkable young lady who I hadn’t heard about before watching this – Lisa Lynch, who was diagnosed with breast cancer and she found an outlet by recording …
Continue readingThe Game (2015) is a new thiller TV series which I was initially in two minds about, after reading about it and seeing the trailer and a clip, as it looked very similar to the …
Continue readingSeance Time is the final episode of series 2 of Inside No.9, began with a suitably spooky opening as the mysterious Hives (Reece Shearsmith) escorted young lady Tina (Sophie McShera) into a darkened room where …
Continue readingPeter Kay’s Car Share is the first new series starring Peter Kay since… well, I had to look it up, since he’s made a fortune living off the fortunes of Phoenix Nights after taking the …
Continue readingNana’s Party is the penultimate episode of series 2 of Inside No.9, and it’s the most disappointing in the series so far. In fact, while I normally post a detailed look at each episode in …
Continue readingSafe House… Yes, they’re never particularly safe, are they? In 2012’s Safe House, we saw Ryan Reynolds trying to find one for bad guy Denzel Washington and that didn’t work out too well for either …
Continue readingBreaking Bad is one of those TV series which has been on my to-do list for some time. Everyone has told me how good it is, and it’s not that I didn’t believe them, nor …
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