Matt and Luke hop aboard their TV Time Machine to view the TV landscape of February 2000. EastEnders turns 15 with a double episode which sees the residents of Albert Square locked in the Vic when an unexploded WW2 bomb is discovered nearby. The BBC try their hand at...
Warning: Explicit, in-depth spoilers for The Star Beast 15 years ago, Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) forgot the Doctor (David Tennant). If she were ever to remember him, she would die, and so the Doctor moved on and Catherine Tate left the show. Two years later, David...
Catherine Tate will return to the BBC for a new comedy Queen Of Oz. Tate will star in the leading role as well as executive produce the series. Princess Georgiana (Tate) is the black sheep of a fictional British Royal Family. A PR disaster, she’s spent her spoilt,...
Catherine Tate is to reprise her role as 'Nan' for two new specials for BBC One. The news comes after the BBC gave 'Nan' her own half hour sitcom last year. Shane Allen, Controller, Comedy Commissioning, says: "Nan is one of the most iconic comedy characters of...
The BBC have announced that Britain's Got Talent runner-up Jack Carroll will star in the new series of David Walliams' Big School. The young comedian is going to play Dean, a new arrival to Greybridge School. Walliams, who'll return as Head of Chemistry Mr Church,...
In the first podcast of 2014 we cover Christmas and 2014. Including confusion and praise for Sherlock, our Christmas highlights and new drama The 7.39.
Happy New Year to all and welcome to this first new edition of Matt on the Box covering the first five days of 2014. It was indeed a happy new year for all of us who have been anticipating the return of Sherlock for the past two years. The first of the two episodes...
In a recent article I bemoaned returning comedies, but without wishing to step all over my well made points I think Catherine Tate has managed to do it successfully. In her one-off resurrection of foul mouthed Joanie Taylor Tate has breathed new life into the...
Welcome once again to another look back to at the last seven days in TV Over the past six months or so it seems that the current state of British comedy is in a bit of a crisis. With recent offerings such as Vicious, Count Arthur Strong and Badults being critically...
Did we like it? It's yet another comedy drama with not enough of either – and the added problem of Catherine Tate as an ee-bah-gum northerner. We expected her to bring out a sponsorship form in aid of some Geordie unfortunates at any minute. What was good about it? •...
The Catherine Tate Show, BBC2, Thursday 27 October 2006 Did we like it? BBC2 has delivered a strong comedy line-up on Thursdays recently (That Mitchell & Webb Look, Mock The Week, Extras) and the welcome return of Ms Tate certainly didn’t dent its highly...
Highlights of episode one, series two • Lauren slagging off her teacher's frumpy clothes. "I thought maybe someone had thrown it at you or somefing. Are you going out on the street like that." • Lauren slagging off her teacher's Jesus sandals. "Are you a Christian,...
The first series of Wild West didn’t exactly receive a storm of critical acclaim, but some decent ratings, plus (probably) the clout of writer Simon Nye (Men Behaving Badly) and star Dawn French, won it a second series. So far, it’s looking as if it deserves it -...