Jack Ryan is the CIA Analyst who’s been played onscreen by as many people as I have fingers on one hand. First, Alec Baldwin took the role in 1990’s The Hunt For Red October, followed …
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Jack Ryan is the CIA Analyst who’s been played onscreen by as many people as I have fingers on one hand. First, Alec Baldwin took the role in 1990’s The Hunt For Red October, followed …
Continue readingDisenchantment is the latest creation from The Simpsons and Futurama head honcho Matt Groening. Set in Medieval times, in a fantasy kingdom called Dreamland, it centres around Tiabeanie – aka Bean (Abbi Jacobson), a hard-drinking …
Continue readingHang 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 …
Continue readingAge 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 …
Continue readingTravels 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 …
Continue readingMark 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 …
Continue readingPicnic 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 …
Continue readingSharp 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 …
Continue readingKeeping 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 …
Continue readingThe 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 …
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