Welcome back to another look back at the week in TV news. *Saturday saw Netflix celebrate Stranger Things Day with a host of events over the fantasy show's social platforms. The big reveal was a new trailer, which saw Millie Bobby Brown's Eleven's new life...
Another BIG News Update...*It has been announced that seven of the UK's biggest soap operas and continuing dramas will be uniting to help highlight climate change. Casualty, Coronation Street, Doctors, EastEnders, Emmerdale, Holby City and Hollyoaks have each filmed...
It’s an irrefutable, scientific fact that a show is good if Charlotte Ritchie is in it. Fresh from her success in.. well, bloody everything, the second series of Dead Pixels arrived to dispel January and Lockdown gloom. Charlotte plays Alison, long-suffering housemate...
Channel 4 has acquired much-anticipated animated comedy Duncanville in a new deal with NBCU. The series will transmit close to the US premiere this year, getting a first look on Channel 4 and repeat on E4. An animated American sitcom co-created by Emmy Award©...
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...
E4 Controller, Karl Warner has today announced a host of brand new linear and digital commissions, developments and returning favourites, as well as E4’s very first nationwide hunt for the next generation of stars, all of which will bring a wealth of fresh and...
As if there wasn’t enough good comedy on British television at the moment, with This Time, Fleabag, Derry Girls, Home and Timewasters currently on the air, Dead Pixels has now arrived to win laughs from the world of gaming. Created by Jon Brown, who also created...
E4 have acquired the rights to show all three seasons of ABC family comedy Speechless. All three Maya DiMeo (Minnie Driver) is a mom who will do anything for her husband, Jimmy (John Ross Bowie), and kids Ray (Mason Cook), Dylan (Kyla Kenedy), and JJ (Micah...
Before I publish the Best of 2018 which celebrates the little gems of the year that we'll remember with nothing but fondness, I wanted to take a look at how bad this year has been. This list isn't an excuse for me to lay into the shows I hated, it's more a look at the...
E4 comedy Gap Year will not return for a second series. Head writer Tom Basden has suggested interference and a lack of promotion from Channel 4 were factors in the cancellation of the comedy-drama, which starred Tim Key, Ade Oyefeso, Anders Hayward, Alice Lee and...
It appears that TV is in limbo at the moment with a summer stuffed full of sports there's very little to watch for those of us who have no interest in that sort of thing. Luckily I've rustled together a few highlights from the last fortnight with a mix of comedy,...
As the US networks set out their new schedules some shows have bitten the dust. Below is a list of shows we know to have been axed or ended. A Agent Carter (FX in the UK) American Idol *Aired its final season this year.* (FiveUS/VIVA in the UK) Angel from Hell...
Welcome back friends as we see the end of another week which had an interesting batch of TV highlights. These days E4 mainly relies on US imports to garner success with the likes of The 100 and The Big Bang Theory being some of their big hitters. So it was a surprise...
Welcome once again to a look back at the TV highlights of the last couple of weeks. We begin with the second series of one of my favourite new dramas of last year in the form of Chris Lunt's Prey. As you'll recall the first series focused on John Simm's DS Marcus...
It's another week and there's a lot of TV to talk about so let's get started. It's fair to say that ITV haven't a great year so far in terms of drama with highlights being short on the ground. Even series that had promising starts, such as Black Work, fizzled out and...
Contributed by Mo Walker If Leonard and Sheldon were laypeople instead of scientists, the Series Nine opener of The Big Bang Theory would have been titled Be Careful What You Wish For instead of The Matrimonial Momentum. How could two...
As we are now in the thick of summer the TV highlights are few and far between however BBC One have chosen this time to bring back two of their most popular shows which are both returning for their twelfth series. But in the case of the channel's veteran crime drama...
We discuss the changes of a cash strapped BBC and bemoan the decision on BBC Three. We review Odyssey, Not Safe for Work and My Mad Fat Diary.
Welcome once again to another look back at this past week's TV highlights and I feel it's been a particularly strong one for female-led drama. It's fair to say that ITV lead the way when it comes to crime drama and this year has seen its fair share of mediocre...
Even if Jonny Depp was beckoning me from atop a hill with his penis...it would have to wait” Ah, My Mad Fat Diary, it is SO good to have you back. Returning for its three-part final fling, the show has been E4’s most successful and loved home grown drama since...
As a TV critic you're supposed to be approach every new show with an open mind. It's a concept I've often struggled with. Sometimes on paper it's clear I'm not the 'key demographic'. Occasionally though, TV will throw a 'curve ball' your way. A show based on a...
E4 have announced three new series that will air on the channel in the near future. Comedy drama Tripped stars Blake Harrison as Danny, an average 24-year-old who has decided to settle down and marry long-term girlfriend Kate much to the chagrin of his childhood...
Channel 4 have announced that the third series of the wonderful My Mad Fat Diary is to be its last. Consisting of three hour-long episodes; the final series will move the action to 1998 where Rae (Sharon Rooney) and her gang are about to embark on the biggest summer...
So we've done it! We've reached the end of the year. 2014 wasn't as packed as last year, but when it was good, it was very good indeed. Sherlock - Series 3 (January 2014, BBC1) 2014 began with one of the most anticipated returns in a long time when we all sat round to...