Slow Horses’s 5th episode slows down as they face going into the finale blind
After some of Slow Horses best episodes, season 5 slows down for episode 5 “Circus”. It’s essentially an epilogue and prologue - dissecting the...
Task delivers a cathartic finale.
There's another version of Task that ends with Maeve (Emilia Jones) getting the bag of money from her uncle, and Tom (Mark Ruffalo) and Aleah (Thuso...
Blood, Sweat and Tears – Riot Women is Sally Wainwright’s greatest gift to women
When menopausal, lonely, bereft school teacher Beth (Joanna Scanlan) decides to take her own life, she’s interrupted by a call from her brother....
Slow Horses sets surprising cogs in motion as it heads towards the season climax
There is perhaps no drama on TV right now which more narratively echoes the idea of a Rube Goldberg machine - a contraption which relies on a chain...
Blue Lights series 3: The Thrilling Cop Show with a Big Heart
It’s getting colder, darker, and I am dreading winter. Thank goodness for the return of Blue Lights. Whilst the squalid corridors of Blackthorn...
Task delivers one of the best episodes of the year.
Last week, Tom Brandis (Mark Ruffalo) gave Robbie (Tom Pelphrey) his last chance to walk away from all this mess. In an emotional and honest car...
Sir Gary Oldman shows how to be silent and deadly in Slow Horses 5×03
If someone hadn’t watched this week’s episode of Slow Horses, it would be hard to convince them that an episode whose pivotal movements include...
Politics takes a swerve in Slow Horses’ new episode Incommunicado
There is nothing better in the world of Slow Horses than when Head Horse Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) has his proteges around him, is 12 steps ahead...
Task episode 4: The walls are closing in.
In episode 3 of Task, we were treated to a flashback to the day Tom (Mark Ruffalo), his wife, and their young daughter, Sara (Phoebe Fox), welcomed...
Slow Horses Season 5 is more timely and more brilliant than ever
As the nights draw in, and the end of the year looms, there are particular British certainties - the heating will go on, Strictly will dominate...
Blood is Thicker Than Water in Danish Drama Families Like Ours
As climate change causes the world to heat up and the waters rise, so too is a wave of anti-immigration hatred and violence rising up in the UK, and...
Task Episode 2 is nerve-wracking.
This is incredibly awkward. I have to start this review by confessing to something. In my review for the first episode, I omitted what is clearly a...
The Shows that fell victim of the WGA writer’s strike and what we can learn from their demise.
Back in May, the Writers' Guild of America went out on strike. Paralysing the TV and film industry and closing down productions across the world. It...
The Power of Parker’s creator Paul Coleman on why stalking was a lot harder in the ’90s
This Friday The Power of Parker is the latest BBC sitcom out of the stalls when it arrives on BBC One and iPlayer. Created and written by half the...
The best shows of 2023 So far…
With TV slowing over the summer, it's time to look back at the best shows of the year to this point and perhaps give you the chance to catch up with...
Black Mirror: The Top 5 episodes.
The sixth season of Black Mirror is just around the corner and with it will come a brand new batch of dystopian sci-fi for fans to sink their teeth...
My Love Letter to TV: Thanks for Always Being There.
When Sarah Lancashire recently won her much-deserved Royal Television Award, she brought up an incident she’d experienced on Christmas Eve in a...
Why Unforgotten is the perfect show to handle the grief of loosing a best friend.
Towards the end of the fourth episode of Unforgotten's fifth series, police colleagues Sunny Khan (Sanjeev Bhaskar) and Jessica James (Sinéad...
The Good Wife – Remembering one of TV’s most multifaceted and compelling series
I love The Good Wife. That’s not exactly a cool position to take. Despite having positive reviews throughout its run, it’s rarely mentioned...
Why Early Doors needs to be talked about more in the pantheon of British comedy.
When Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash called time on The Royle Family following the Christmas Special in 2000 I was desperate to see what the pair...
East 17, Bryan Adams, and Britpop: Why BBC4’s Top of the Pops repeats are exactly what we need right now
In 1996, my husband Mark – then seventeen – was meeting his mates in his local pub with a landlord who was willing to turn a blind eye. At the same...
2023: 23 Shows I’m desperate to see.
Another year is upon us and 2023 is already packed with exciting and noteworthy new and retuning shows that we can't wait to see. The Last of Us...
Best of 2022: Our Picks
As we say goodbye to 2022, we thought we'd pay tribute to the best shows of the year by publishing all of our team's Top 10 shows of the year that...
The Best of 2022: A year stacked with great television.
When it came time to compile our Best of the Year piece two things struck me. The first was that wasn't one BIG show that resonated with people in...
Cast announced for Unforgotten Series 7 on ITV1.
ITV’S CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AND TOP-PERFORMING DRAMA, UNFORGOTTEN, COMMENCES FILMING ON ITS SEVENTH SERIES ITV, Mainstreet Pictures and MASTERPIECE...
The BBC announces impressive new cast for Sherwood series 3
Lorraine Ashbourne, Lindsay Duncan, Robert Glenister, Robert Lindsay, Lesley Manville, David Morrissey and Claire Rushbrook return to James Graham’s...
New comedy from Ruth Jones and Steve Speirs ordered by BBC Wales and BBC Comedy
The story will revolve around an unlikely friendship between two people who meet at a knee trauma clinic BBC Wales and BBC Comedy have commissioned...
BBC announces the return of Peaky Blinders with two new series
Writer and creator Steven Knight is bringing a new generation of Shelbys to the screen. Much-loved series Peaky Blinders will return with a bang to...
BBC announces Narges Rashidi and Joseph Fiennes as leads in Prisoner 951, a powerful new drama that follows the story of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Richard Ratcliffe, alongside first-look images
The series will launch on BBC iPlayer and BBC One later this year. Narges Rashidi (Gangs of London, Under The Shadow, The Allegation) and Joseph...
New on-set photos released for Mackenzie Crook’s much-anticipated Small Prophets
The six-part series will feature a host of comedy stars, including Mackenzie Crook, Sir Michael Palin, Pearce Quigley, Lauren Patel, Sophie Willan,...