Cleaning Up sees ITV kicking off the new drama year with the reliable Sheridan Smith as Sam, a single parter with a grumpy ex. She’s stuck in a horrible cleaning job with an over-demanding boss, and also has a gambling addiction to the point where she’s even playing roulette games on her mobile while driving. […]
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Care is a new Jimmy McGovern drama which, for me, has come at a depressingly poignant time. We know that strokes can hit someone – mostly in their later years, but sometimes also in a person’s younger years. It does not discriminate. For Mary (Alison Steadman), it’s today, and it’s just about to happen, while […]
Posted in Reviews, TV Series Tags: Alexandra Afryea, Alison Steadman, Anthony Flanagan, Care, Colin McKeown, David Blair, Donna Molloy, Elizabeth Rider, Gemma Dobson, Gillian Juckes, Jessica Hall, Jimmy McGovern, Jodie Barchha Lang, Karen Taylor, Kerri Quinn, Kevin Doyle, Lee Toomes, Lois Chimimba, Lola Shaw, Lynn Roden, Macy Shackleton, Moey Hassan, Olwen May, Richard Huw, Robin Bowerman, Rochenda Sandall, Sheridan Smith, Sinead Keenan, Stephanie Bishop, Steven Hillman, Tanya Moodie No Comments »Staying at No.1, in the UK Top 100 Music chart summary w/e November 16th 2017, is Camila Cabello feat. Young Thug) with Havana, and I’ve heard worse No.1s, but at least it has an amusing video, which I’ll include below. Shame it also includes autotune. Released this week is a great dance track for Dannii […]
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The Moorside tells the tale of Karen Matthews, the idiot who claimed her daughter, Shannon, had been kidnapped when she was hidden under a bed the entire time. Karen thought she could hoodwink the media in the same way Kate and Gerry McCann hoodwinked them into thinking they were great parents by leaving their children […]
Posted in Reviews, TV Series Tags: Catherine Breeze, Cody Ryan, Darren Connolly, Dean Andrews, Erin Shanagher, Faye McKeever, Gemma Whelan, John Dagleish, Ken Horn, Kirsty Armstrong, Macy Shackleton, Martin Savage, Neil McKay, Paul Opacic, Paul Whittington, Rebecca Manley, Sally Carr, Sheridan Smith, Sian Brooke, Siobhan Finneran, Stephan Fleming, Steve Oram, The Moorside, Tom Hanson, William Hunt No Comments »BAFTA 2016 Television nominations have been announced, and the awards will be broadcast on BBC1 on May 8th. Best Actor: Ben Whishaw, London Spy Idris Elba, Luther Mark Rylance, Wolf Hall Stephen Graham, This is England 90 Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running […]
Posted in News Tags: A British Story, Adele at the BBC, Anton Lesser, Asian Provocateur, BAFTA, BAFTA 2016, BBC News at Six, Back in Time for Dinner, Ben Whishaw, Big Blue Live, Bitter Lake, Brit in Space - Tim Peake Special, Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners, Britain’s Got Talent, Catastrophe, Celebrity Juice, Chanel Cresswell, Charlie Brooker’s Election Wipe, Chewing Gum, Children of the Gaza War, Claire Foy, Coronation Street, Cucumber, Cyberbully, Cyril Nri, Dance to Freedom, Dispatches, Doctor Foster, Don’t Take My Baby, Eleanor Worthington-Cox, Emmerdale, Escape from Isis, FA Cup Final, First Dates, From Turkey to Greece, Gogglebox, Graham Norton, Grayson Perry’s Dream House, Great Ormond Street, Have I Got News for You, Holby City, Hugh Bonneville, Humans, ITV News At Ten, Ian McKellen, Idris Elba, I’m a Celebrity, Javone Prince, Jihad, Kevin McCloud, Leigh Francis, Lesley Manville, Life After Suicide, London Spy, Louis Theroux, MOTD Live, Making a Murderer, Mark Rylance, Michaela Coel, Michelle Gomez, Miranda, Miranda Hart, My Son the Jihadi, Narcos, No Offence, Outbreak, Paris Attacks Special, Paris Massacre, People Just do Nothing, Peter Kay, Peter Kay's Car Share, Poldark, QI, Refugee Crisis, River, Romesh Ronganathan, Rudolf Nureyev, Ruth Madeley, Sharon Horgan, Sheridan Smith, Sian Gibson, Six Nations – Final Day, Sky News, Spiral, Stargazing Live, Stephen Fry, Stephen Graham, Strictly Come Dancing, Suranne Jones, TFI Friday Anniversary Special, The Ashes, The C Word, The Detectives, The Detectorists, The Dresser, The Enfield Hanting, The Go-Between, The Good Wife, The Graham Norton Show, The Grand National, The Great British Bake Off, The Hunt, The Javone Prince Show, The Last Panthers, The Murder Detectives, The Secret Life of Five Year Olds, The Sound of Music Live, The Tribe, The Truth About Ebola, The Vote, This Is England 90, This World, Toby Jones, Tom Courtenay, Transgender Kids, Transparent, Travel Man, Unforgotten, W1A, Wolf Hall, Would I Lie To You, channel 4 news, doctor who, eastenders, luther, peep show No Comments »The Huntsman: Winter’s War is a spin-off-cum-prequel to 2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman, this time without Kristen Stewart’s Snow White, but instead with Emily Blunt‘s Ice Queen. No sentient plot details are known at the moment, but the film is written by Frank Darabont, David Koepp, Craig Mazin and Evan Spiliotopoulos, and the cast […]
Posted in Movie, TV & game trailers Tags: Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth, Colin Morgan, Craig Mazin, David Koepp, Emily Blunt, Evan Spiliotopoulos, Frank Darabont, Jessica Chastain, Nick Frost, Rob Brydon, Sam Claflin, Sheridan Smith, Snow White and the Huntsman, Sophie Cookson, The Huntsman, Winter's War No Comments »The Huntsman: Winter’s War is a spin-off-cum-prequel to 2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman, this time without Kristen Stewart’s Snow White, but instead with Emily Blunt‘s Ice Queen. No sentient plot details are known at the moment, but the film is written by Frank Darabont, David Koepp, Craig Mazin and Evan Spiliotopoulos, and the cast […]
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Black Work shows that however long you’ve been married, there’s always going to be something that you don’t know about your better half. SPOILER ALERT: This programme is broadcast on ITV on Sunday night at 9pm, but has been released early on ITV Player to watch now. If you’re waiting until its broadcast date/time to […]
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The C Word told the story of a remarkable young lady who I hadn’t heard about before watching this – Lisa Lynch, who was diagnosed with breast cancer and she found an outlet by recording her thoughts in a blog online. In this drama, Lisa is portrayed by Sheridan Smith, fast approaching ‘national treasure’ status […]
Posted in Reviews, TV Series Tags: Amy Strange, Bexley Green, Candida Gubbins, Chrissie Cotterill, Haydn Gwynne, Jamie Baughan, Janette Legge, Kris Hallenga, Lisa Lynch, Marcus Griffiths, Michael Heath, Michael Maloney, Molly Taylor, Naomi Ryan, Nate Fallows, Nicole Taylor, Orla Fitzgerald, Paul Nicholls, Peter Landi, Rebekah Staton, Sheridan Smith, Silas Carson, Simon Lewis, Stephanie Vogt, Susannah Fielding, The C Word, Theo Yeldham, Thusitha Jayasundera, Tim Kirkby, Tom Cotcher, Tom Hutch No Comments »The C Word stars Sheridan Smith as Lisa Lynch, a young woman approaching her 30s, who receives the devasting news that she has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and decides to write a blog about it. Initially, she thinks only her friends will want to read it, but they encourage her to make it available […]
