The Fight is the directorial debut of Jessica Hynes (Shaun of the Dead, Spaced, Years And Years). She also takes the lead as Tina, a mother whose life is in turmoil her daughter, Emma (Sennia Nanua), is being bullied at school, she and husband Mick (Shaun Parkes) are trying to pay the bills by working […]
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Years And Years is a new drama from Russell T Davies, whose work has had a chequered past with me, in that I really enjoyed some, but didn’t like others. This starts off as a seemingly normal family drama, to the point where I wondered if anything was going to happen at all. I knew […]
There She Goes is a new comedy/drama which is based on a true story, which shines a light on the highs and lows of raising a daughter with a severe learning disability. I was drawn to this from the re-pairing of David Tennant (Bad Samaritan) and Jessica Hynes (W1A, Twenty Twelve) (Hey, Tennant & Hynes […]
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Hang 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 whole house rather than just a room, but it’s mostly what we see through the ‘eye’ of his laptop camera), […]
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Paddington 2: This Time It’s Personal… no, that was Jaws IV: The Revenge, but both feature individuals who are little alien in their respective environments because they’re getting hassled by ‘the man’. There’s a complex plot about how Aunt Lucy’s 100th birthday is coming up, and the little bear cub decides he should get her […]
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W1A enters its third series, so is doing brilliantly well, given that it was spawned from the two-series Twenty Twelve, which did for the London Olympics what The Thick Of It did for politics. That said, this is rumoured to be the W1A‘s last. This time, the BBC is heading towards its charter renewal, and […]
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Bridget Jones’ Baby – let’s get this right from the start. For me, that’s the title, NOT “Bridget Jones’s Baby”. Who puts the extra, redundant ‘s’ in these things? Probably the same people who say ‘forward slash’ in a web address, when it’s just ‘slash’. You’d only have a ‘back slash’ if you had an […]
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Cider With Rosie is based on the late Laurie Lee‘s novel, partly autobiographical, telling the story of his growing up coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds, in Gloucestershire, staring off during World War I and continuing afterwards. However, the actual scene featuring the drinking of cider with Rosie only featured in one scene. Is this […]
Posted in Reviews, TV Series Tags: Annette Crosbie, Anthony Cozens, Archie Cox, Bebe Cave, Ben Vanstone, Billy Howle, Bob Goody, Cider with Rosie, Dylan Turland, Emma Curtis, Finn Bennett, Georgia Brinkworth, Georgie Smith, Helen Gregory, Ian Drysdale, Ines De Clercq, Isabella Polkinghorne, Jack Harris, Jake Haywood, James Inkling, Jessica Hynes, June Whitfield, Laurie Lee, Libby Easton, Matthew Steer, Maya Gerber, Peter Salem, Philippa Lowthorpe, Rafaella Hutchinson, Ruby Ashbourne Serkis, Samantha Morton, Sarah Sweeney, Shola Adewusi, Teddie-Rose Malleson-Allen, Timothy Spall No Comments »The BAFTA 2015 Television Awards took place tonight, and the winners are as follows: Best Leading Actor Jason Watkins – The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies Best Leading Actress Georgina Campbell – Murdered by My Boyfriend (right) Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running […]
Posted in Features Tags: Ant And Dec, Ant And Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, BAFTA 2015, BAFTA 2015 Television, Children On The Frontline, Clive James, Coronation Street, Detectorists, Dispatches, Gemma Jones, Georgina Campbell, Grand Designs, Grayson Perry, Happy Valley, Jason Watkins, Jeff Pope, Jessica Hynes, Life And Death Row, Marvellous, Matt Berry, Murdered By My Boyfriend, Sherlock, Sky News, Stephen Rea, The Graham Norton Show, The Island With Bear Grylls, The Lost Honour Of Christopher Jefferies, The Paedophile Hunter, True Detective, WW1 Remembered, jon snow No Comments »W1A Series 2 returns to BBC2 next week and as the recent teaser confirms, this new series will DEFINITELY be on BBC2, even if PR guru Siobhan Sharpe Jessica Hynes isn’t quite sure. W1A is the the postcode of BBC Broadcasting House and the series will again be written by John Morton, and features the […]
