Following the news that the licence fee will be frozen for two years, Robin Parker looks at where the BBC goes from here. It’s rapidly becoming less a tactic than a matter of policy: whenever they’re in for a kicking, this government initiates Operation Bash the Beeb....
The BBC has announced brand new comedy 'Stuck', written by Dylan Moran and starring Dylan Moran and Morgana Robinson, is coming to BBC Two and BBC iPlayer in 2022. Made by Hat Trick Productions and filmed in Belfast, the five-part series is a sometimes dark, sometimes...
You're only 53 seconds into Episode 1 of Toast of Tinseltown when you realise that Stephen Toast (Matt Berry) and his bizarre theatrical world has not merely been ported from its original home on Channel 4 to BBC Two, but has been given the star treatment. Because...
This without question my favourite post of the year. It's another chance to celebrate the best television had to offer. 2021 was another strong year. Standouts It's a Sin, Mare of Easttown, Only Murders in the Building and the long-awaited third season of Succession....
*Netflix have released the trailer for their upcoming Harlan Coben adaptation 'Stay Close'. The Good Fight's Cush Jumbo leads an all star cast which includes Richard Armitage, James Nesbitt, Jo Joyner and Sarah Parish for the twisty thriller. The eight-part drama...
Welcome to a special news update as the BBC have now announced what shows will be airing over the festive period. Headlining the season will be the debut of four gripping new dramas including Sarah Phelps’ A Very British Scandal, starring Claire Foy and...
*To mark 100 years of the BBC in 2022, the Corporation has announced a bumper year of sports, events and landmark commissions for TV, Radio, and Online to inform, educate and entertain the nation, under the banner BBC 100. In 2022 special content will range from the...
As broadcasters and streamers scramble to fill the void left by Game of Thrones, we look at how that show has been under our noses since 2015! First aired Thursday 22nd October 2015 on BBC Two Game of Thrones may have ended with a whimper rather than a bang, but its...
Megan Hyland looks at the brilliance of What We Do in the Shadows and why the series hasn't caught on here in the UK and why that needs to change. My first experience of What We Do In The Shadows was watching the 2014 film halfway across the world with no furniture,...
"You could find yourself reflected in any of these women – or all of them – but what mattered most was that they were all powerful in their own ways, and as someone who saw themselves as more of a Tara than a Buffy, the idea that there could still be strength in...
American Crime Story is back. It's a show that attracts big names and asks them to play possibly bigger names like OJ Simpson, Gianni Versace and President Bill Clinton. It's also a show, in my opinion, that shouldn't be as riveting and exciting as it is. It actually...
It's another BIG news Update*Channel 4 has commissioned an eight-part crime thriller Suspect (w/t) which is an adaptation of the original Danish series. The 8 x 30’ drama stars James Nesbitt, Joely Richardson, Anne-Marie Duff, Richard E....
Welcome to another look at a round-up of all the TV news that has broken over the last few days. *The BBC has confirmed that the seventh series of Reece Shearmsith and Steve Pemberton's comedy anthology has started filming. Headlining series seven are Daniel...
Sophie Willan’s larger-than-life comedy creation is Alma, a spirited, optimistic woman with a chaotic childhood, and an excellent line in fabulous furry pink coats. She’s doing her best despite life cruelly not living up to her glitzy expectations. In autobiographical...
I started to write this as a response to John Whittingdale's White paper but whilst I was writing it, Whittingdale was removed from his post. It's still a worthy discussion about what constitutes 'British-ness' on television and which channels are performing the...
Inside No. 9 concludes its sixth series with an uncomfortable ‘state of the nation’ piece, including more political and religious themes than ever before. The episode revolves around a family coming together to watch the Last Night of the Proms on...
Having previously appeared (via audio only) in series 3 episode The Devil of Christmas, Derek Jacobi becomes the first guest star to make a second voyage Inside No. 9. This week’s instalment, How Do You Plead? takes place in a lavish...
Although Simon Says, by the time it aired, had an accidental link to Line Duty, this week’s instalment of Inside No. 9 has an intentional one, in the form of guest star Adrian Dunbar playing a version of himself. The setup...
The latest episode of Inside No. 9 is a story of surveillance and secrecy. A rather drab man has booked himself into an even drabber hotel room so that he can spy on a woman across the road, worried that she’s seeing another man. But is he the only one who’s...
When you’re a fan of a long-running TV show, you’ll no doubt have expectations for its final episode. And if these expectations aren’t met, it’s only natural that you might be left feeling disappointed, underwhelmed, or even angry. But whereas in the past you would...
It’s a bold move for an anthology show to kick off a new series with possibly its most bonkers entry yet. Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have talked about how (aside from budgetary constraints) they essentially have free rein to do what they...
The BBC has released the trailer for the upcoming sixth series of Inside No.9. The upcoming series from creators Reece Shearmsith and Steve Pemberton confirmed its guest stars earlier this year. Sian Clifford, Adrian Dunbar, Paterson Joseph, Lindsay Duncan, Kevin...
The Investigation is a Danish drama based unusually for the genre we’ve come to know and love entirely on real events. It revolves around the work of two men - Jens Moller, the Head of Homicide for Copenhagen Police and Chief Prosecutor Jakob Buch, reuniting...
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...