Temple stars Mark Strong as surgeon Daniel Milton, whose wife, Beth (Catherine McCormack), has died and this leads him to running an operating room from underneath the Temple Underground station in London, which is a perfectly natural reaction, yes? However, there are some people who can’t wait to be top of the NHS waiting list, […]
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Chernobyl is a new Sky Atlantic drama which focuses on the tragedy when the Chernobyl nuclear reactor went into meltdown following the explosion of the core inside, and turned the working town of Pripyat into an uninhabitable wasteland. It’s now out on Blu-ray and DVD, but I’ll come to that later. The series begins on […]
Posted in Reviews, TV Series Tags: Adam Nagaitis, Adrian Rawlins, Chernobyl, Con O'Neill, Craig Mazin, Donald Sumpter, Emily Watson, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Jared Harris, Jessie Buckley, Johan Renck, Joshua Leese, Michael Socha, Paul Ritter, Robert Emms, Sam Strike, Sam Troughton, Sanne Wohlenberg, Stellan Skarsgård No Comments »The Man Who Invented Christmas centres around how Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens) created Ebenezer Scrooge (Christopher Plummer), Tiny Tim and a number of other classic characters from the timeless tale, A Christmas Carol, as he mixed real life inspirations with his vivid imagination, in what looks like a very amusing family film based on the […]
One 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, so it could’ve had a better title. The drama begins, and largely takes place in the Ghangzhou where the penniless […]
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Hell Bent began with The Doctor entering a ’60 diner, with a cover of Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now playing on the jukebox, and Clara seemingly behind the counter. This made me think, “Oh come on, bringing Clara in a lot, after she died, is just taking the proverbial!” I was expecting her to return […]
Hell Bent is the final episode in Doctor Who Series 9 (finally!), and this concludes the final two-parter of this series, and Peter Capaldi is joined by a number of other characters on Gallifrey, including… bloody Maisie Williams again. This time, we have a trailer, an introduction to the episode and, returning after an absence […]
Jekyll and Hyde was first announced by the babbling continuity announcer with “contains some violence and scenes that young children might find upsetting”, so it’s going for the Doctor Who audience, then, although older viewers have found that upsetting by the fact that the episodes during Capaldi’s tenure to date have been frequently tedious, thanks […]
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Coalition is a Channel 4 drama based on the week following the 2010 UK general election, as Labour came to the end of a chequered 13-year term in government, with the Tories snapping at their heels. It begins during the time of the first leaders’ debate, but we don’t get to see them actually doing […]
Posted in Reviews, TV Series Tags: Adam James, Alex Avery, Alex Holmes, Andrew Bone, Ben Abell, Bertie Carvel, Caroline Fitzgerald, Chris Larkin, Coalition, David Annen, Deborah Findlay, Dixie Linder, Donald Sumpter, Duncan Wisbey, Ian Grieve, James Francis Andrews, James Graham, Leah Perkins, Lee Nicholas Harris, Mark Dexter, Mark Gatiss, Marta Barrio, Michael Cochrane, Michael Sheldon, Nicholas Burns, Nick Holder, Richard Teverson, Sally Scott, Samuel Sim, Sarah Curtis, Sebastian Armesto, Steve Conway, Terry Diab No Comments »CHANNEL 4 continues its run of outstanding television with brand new period drama The Mill, a powerful series set in Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire during the industrial revolution. Acorn Media is delighted to announce its release on DVD. This exceptional drama is Channel 4’s first factually-inspired period drama and is written by BAFTA award-winning […]
