Girlfriends has quickly followed the ridiculously-titled Love, Lies and Records as another Kay Mellor drama to grace our screens, and the moment a dire cover of “Ain’t No Mountain Hugh Enough” boomed out over the …
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Girlfriends has quickly followed the ridiculously-titled Love, Lies and Records as another Kay Mellor drama to grace our screens, and the moment a dire cover of “Ain’t No Mountain Hugh Enough” boomed out over the …
Continue readingZanzibar is the name of the hotel in which the first episode of Inside No.9 Series 4 is set, and it looks at the residents on the 9th floor. It’s a difficult episode to describe …
Continue readingMcMafia centres around dodgy Russians, the mafia and money laundering, with James Norton (Flatliners), who’s in a pickle as his business is under threat from rumours about dodgy financial investments, and he’s looking for a …
Continue readingUSS Callister is the first of six new episodes which comprise Black Mirror Series 4 and begins with a Star Trek spoof – where Jesse Plemons (Fargo Season 2) makes for quite an amusing Captain …
Continue readingKiri is a new four-part drama starring Sarah Lancashire as Miriam, a social worker who owns a dog with low-level depression, whom she dotes upon, and her visits to her mother, Celia (Sue Johnston), in …
Continue readingTROUSERS! Vic and Bob’s Big Night Out was one of my favourite shows on Channel 4 when it first aired in 1990, and it only ran for two series, yet stuck in my brain ever …
Continue readingAlan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom? is a new documentary about the radio sports presenter turned TV megastar… in Norwich. This documentary ‘celebrates’ Alan Patridge’s return to the BBC, next year reporting on …
Continue readingThe Miniaturist is set in Amsterdam, 1686, where Petronella, aka Nella (Split‘s Anya Taylor-Joy) is marrying sugar trader Johannes Brandt (Alex Hassell), and feels very much a fish out of water, even though she’s quite …
Continue readingTwice Upon A Time sees The First Doctor – played originally by William Hartnell, but here by David Bradley – in his final story arc, The Tenth Planet, leaving for the TARDIS in the South …
Continue readingThe League of Gentlemen is something I never got into back in the day. I couldn’t watch the first two series thanks to the canned laughter (when they take audience laughs from another part of …
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