The best comedies, the greats, often feature people you wouldn't want to spend any time with if you were unfortunate to bump into them at a dinner party or a bus stop. The best recent examples are This Country and BBC Two's Mum. We loved those shows, but we'd cross...
The BBC have confirmed that romantic comedy Starstruck from Rose Matefo will return for a second series. In February, she told comedian James Nokise on his Eating Fried Chicken In The Shower podcast that when filming was postponed from March 2020 because...
In my review of Line of Duty's series six opener, I spoke about the burden of expectation that the episode had given that it would naturally be compared to its predecessors. Over the course of this series, we've seen online expectation grow every episode to the point...
Those who have been following my weekly Line of Duty reviews know that I've found this series to be a rollercoaster and not always in a positive. However, like everybody else, I am still intrigued to see how this series ends and what shocks Jed Mercurio has in store...
Those of you who have been reading my reviews thus far know that I have struggled with some aspects of this series of Line of Duty. Although I've enjoyed some of the character arcs and several of the set pieces, the pace of the episodes has been slightly off since the...
The BBC has released the first trailer for the second series of This Time With Alan Partridge.Alan Partridge returns as co-host of BBC One magazine show ‘This Time’, relishing his career Indian summer and the chance to showcase his broadcasting chops to the...
I feel that I've been fair when it comes to my judgement on this series of Line of Duty so far. I've given Jed Mercurio and company time to let the drama play out. However, as we're more than halfway through the series, one element I'm still really...
One of the delicate balancing acts that dramas like Line of Duty must walk is the decision on how much information should be revealed to the audience that the characters don't know. Similarly, it's tricky to know when the characters discover the information that the...
'Mother of God!' Such is the exclamation made by many a Line of Duty fan when they realise that they will have to wait an entire week to see how the latest cliffhanger is resolved. What kind of medieval torture is it to make the audience wait when streaming...
In the words of Ted Hastings, 'now we're sucking diesel.' After an underwhelming start to series six, tonight's second episode was more engaging and was much better paced. It also felt like a classic episode of Line of Duty with a clear focus now being established as...
David Tennant (Des; Staged; Doctor Who), Dolly Wells (The Pursuit of Love; Dracula; Can You Ever Forgive Me?) and Lydia West (It’s A Sin; Years and Years; Dracula) will lead the cast of a major new thriller from BAFTA and Emmy award-winning writer Steven Moffat...
Broadcast is reporting last night's opening episode of Line Of Duty achieved the highest overnight rating since records began. The sixth series began its run with 9.6million viewers making it the most-watched drama across all channels since September 2018’s Bodyguard...
Whether fair or not, long-running TV shows often have the burden of expectation attached to them ahead of a new series. This is certainly true with Line of Duty, which returned to BBC One tonight, as it's a series which is known for its explosive openers. Over...
Emmy and Golden Globe winner Claire Foy (The Crown; Wolf Hall) and BAFTA-nominated Paul Bettany (WandaVision; Uncle Frank; Avengers: Infinity War) will lead the cast of BBC One and Amazon Studios’ A Very British Scandal, from the makers of the...
The BBC have released the first proper trailer for the upcoming sixth series of Line of Duty. Vicky McClure, Adrian Dunbar and Martin Compston will return alongside Shalom Brune-Franklin, a new addition to the AC-12 team. Kelly Macdonald makes her debut as guest...
Matt Berry will reprise his role of Steven Toast as he moves to Hollywood and attempts to become a movie star in a new six-part series coming to BBC One and BBC iPlayer.Written and created by Arthur Mathews and Matt Berry and produced by Objective Fiction in...
The BBC has confirmed Peaky Blinders is back in production on the sixth and final series.One of the BBC’s most successful dramas, Peaky Blinders has become a huge international phenomenon, thrilling millions of viewers worldwide with the story of Tommy Shelby and his...
In June of last year, as the number of pre-COVID TV shows began to dwindle, David Tennant and Michael Sheen came to our rescue with a comedy that satirised the life we had all been living for the last three months. Staged starred Tennant and Sheen as...
Inspired by real events, The Serpent tells the remarkable story of how the conman and murderer Charles Sobhraj (Tahar Rahim) was brought to justice. Posing as a gem dealer, Sobhraj and his girlfriend Marie-Andrée Leclerc (Jenna Coleman) travelled across Thailand,...
It's fair to say that 2020 didn't turn out the way anybody had hoped. I don't think I've ever come been in a time where literally everyone everywhere was affected by one issue. In all honesty, I don't think the true full-scale nature of the pandemic hit me properly...
A first look image has been released today of Sean Bean as prisoner Mark Cobden and Stephen Graham as prison officer Eric McNally in BBC One’s major new drama Time, written by Jimmy McGovern and made by BBC Studios Production. Joining Sean and Stephen...
Jason Wong (The Gentleman, Chimerica, Strangers) has joined the cast of BBC One’s hugely popular primetime drama Silent Witness, which is currently filming its 24th series. The explosive conclusion of Series 23, in February 2020, shocked audiences with the...
Piers Wenger, Controller of BBC Drama and Charlotte Moore, BBC Chief Content Officer, have commissioned brand new true crime drama The Sixth Commandment (w/t), which explores the death of Peter Farquhar in the village of Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire, and the...
In the second series of His Dark Materials, Lord Asriel (James McAvoy) has opened a bridge to a new world, and, distraught over the death of her best friend, Lyra (Dafne Keen) follows Asriel into the unknown. In a strange and mysterious abandoned...