* BBC One and Netflix have released first look images of miniseries Inside Man, a new thriller from Steven Moffatt. The four-part drama follows a prisoner on death row in the US, a Vicar in a quiet English town, and a maths teacher trapped in a cellar, as...
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....
In 2014, Channel 4 launched a spin-off to 24 Hours in A&E. Like the show it spun off from, 24 Hours in Police Custody used fixed rig cameras to go inside the Custody suits to give viewers unprecedented access to the work of Luton and Bedfordshire police....
Nicola Walker and Sean Bean are to star together in new four-part drama Marriage. The series comes from Stefan Golaszewski, the writer behind Mum and Him & Her. Marriage sees married couple Ian (Bean) and Emma (Walker) negotiate the ups and downs of...
It's time for another roundup of the news from the last few days in the world of TV. *Sunday night saw the 2021 Emmy Awards with Netflix's The Crown and Apple TV+'s Ted Lasso being the night's big winners. The Crown was named Best Drama whilst Olivia...
Reviewing Friends: The Reunion is tricky. It's difficult to judge whether the nearly two-hour reunion show gives fans what they want. At the very beginning, the Ben Winston directed special tells us that the six friends have only been in a room together once in the...
At 10pm on Friday the 25th February 2011, the great British nation found themselves face to face with a hairy topless man chomping his way through a ‘lovely bit of squirrel’; an overly-exciteable woman desperate for her ‘Bobble’ to meet a nice ‘female’; two...
Over the last two nights, Channel 4 have aired a special edition of their award-winning fixed rig docuseries 24 Hours in Police Custody. The double episode, entitled Black Widow told the story of Victoria Breeden who tried to persuade three men to kill her...
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...
This years’ series of Educating Greater Manchester is different in more ways than one. Filmed in 2018, the series takes us back to a simpler time when the biggest concern teachers had was a Year 11 secretly selling bags of Starburst in the...
As its title suggests, Channel 4's new 2-part documentary, The School That Tried to End Racism follows a group of Year 7 pupils as they join a three-week program aimed at tackling our unconscious racial biases. First trialled in the US, the program uses a measure of...
More and more of late I've found myself turned off by scripted drama. I've found it increasingly harder to lose myself in fiction when we have so many incredible true stories at our fingertips. While many will flock to Netflix for their original comedies and dramas, I...
It's time for our Top 20 of the Decade. If you've missed the countdown so far you can find out what made 50-20 here Let's crack on. 20) Game of Thrones (2011, HBO) No television series defined the decade as much as HBO’s adaptation of George R R...
As we prepare to enter a new decade I wanted to compile a top 50 of the best of the last ten years. It's fair to say that this decade has seen television reign supreme with film taking a back seat. It's been a decade that has seen the rise of streaming giants like...
BBC's Director of Content Charlotte Moore announced a raft of new commissions for BBC One with new dramas, sitcoms and documentaries all being announced. Sherlock co-creator Dracula Steven Moffatt brings a new four-part drama series to the channel in the form of...
FX’s award-winning and critically acclaimed hit limited series franchise American Crime Story will return next year with its third instalment, Impeachment: American Crime Story and will be shown on BBC Two. Written by Sarah Burgess, Impeachment: American Crime Story...
“I don’t have a split personality, I’m just a normal individual” Words from a man who eluded the American authorities across three states for just under three months after abducting and murdering 30+ women. The Netflix special ‘Conversations with a Killer: The Ted...
It's that time of year when we celebrate the best of TV! 2018 had a bit of something for everyone and whilst it wasn't it wasn't the most consistent year for drama, the highs were very HIGH! So, here's the list of our favourite shows of the year. Inside No.9 (January...
“What do you say to the person you love most in the world when they say they have feelings for someone else?” Louis Theroux’s ‘Love Without Limits’ part of his new series of documentaries ‘Altered States’ explores the benefits and constraints of Polygamous...
Fifteen years ago if you had an extensive collection of serial killer literature on your bookshelf your date might leave with certain preconceptions about you and they might not be in a hurry to see you again. These days they'll probably ask you what podcasts you're...
Speaking today at Edinburgh TV festival, Damian Kavanagh, Controller BBC Three, announced four new commissions for the youth-focused channel. Amongst the commissions are Billy Whizz (w/t), a documentary that follows the remarkable story of Billy Monger, a young racing...
I've never really been a fan of the comedy of either Paul Whitehouse or Bob Mortimer and I have even less interest in fishing. You can imagine my surprise when a show featuring the pair chatting on river/lake beds whilst waiting for their fish to bite captivated...
The Staircase, which 'dropped' on Netflix today (Friday 8th June) may feel familiar. It has things in common with the services' other true crime juggernauts like Making a Murderer and The Keepers. In truth, The Staircase predates those and should perhaps be credited...
Welcome back once again folks to my weekly column as this time I've decided to do something a bit different and lead with three documentaries that have all been highlights of the past seven days. I'm kicking off with the latest series of Life and Death Row; a BBC...