Douglas Is Cancelled is something that could come as a shock to Douglas Bellowes (Hugh Bonneville – To Olivia), who presents the equivalent of The One Show – alongside Madeline Crow (Karen Gillan – Guardians …
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Douglas Is Cancelled is something that could come as a shock to Douglas Bellowes (Hugh Bonneville – To Olivia), who presents the equivalent of The One Show – alongside Madeline Crow (Karen Gillan – Guardians …
Continue readingPlodding On is the sixth and final episode of Inside No.9 Series 9, and the last EVER episode! Before this aired, I was hoping we’d finally get the Robin Askwith bus conductor episode which they …
Continue readingChicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget comes 23 years after the original movie from 2000, which was good fun, but didn’t reach the heights of the Wallace and Gromit output. Sadly, for whatever reason, Zachary …
Continue readingSimon Says is the second episode of Inside No.9 Series 6. Frustrated after a long evening, writer Spencer Maguire (Steve Pemberton, with a hairdo in the style of David Lynch) gets home after learning how …
Continue readingHitmen is the first scripted sitcom for evergreen pairing Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, aka Mel and Sue, although not for Sue. I remember them first on Channel 4’s daytime show Light Lunch – and …
Continue readingSally4Ever gives us Catherine Shepherd (above-centre) as Sally, a woman in her early 40s who’s trapped in a 10-year relationship from which she should have long since escaped. She feels pressured into marriage, and really …
Continue readingChristopher Robin is… hang on, haven’t we already had this? Okay, so that was Goodbye Christopher Robin, but why do we always get two films in quick succession about a particular subject that no-one’s been …
Continue readingCollateral is a new four-part drama which begins with one situation, but then moves on quite neatly bringing in a slew of other characters, which is a little dizzying but still highly engaging. After pizza …
Continue readingBridget 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 …
Continue readingThe Martian is Matt Damon‘s character, Mark Watney, part of the six-strong Ares III mission, visiting the red planet to collect soil samples etc. Unfortunately, some planet seem to have worse weather than Greater Manchester …
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