The BBC have confirmed further of Louis Theroux's interview series coming to BBC Two next year. The six-part series will see Louis Theroux going behind the scenes and in conversation with stars of the British entertainment industry, including Stormzy, Dame Judi Dench,...
Race Across the World gets promotion to BBC One.
The BBC have confirmed the first details of the long-awaited third series of Race Across the World. The third series, which had to halt production when the global pandemic made it impossible to film, will be promoted to BBC One when it returns next year. Billed as,...
Louis Theroux lands chat show on the BBC.
The BBC have announced Louis Theroux is to front his own intimate chat show. In the first episode of the six-part series The Louis Theroux Interviews (working title), he joins multi-award winning, British Musician Stormzy on tour and at home for an in depth and...
NEWS: ITV commits to more of ‘Gordon, Gino & Fred.’
ITV is lining up a whole world of new adventures for Gordon Ramsay, Gino D’Acampo and Fred Sirieix as it announces two newly commissioned series and two Christmas specials that will see the trio take their RV, their culinary skills and their determination to wind each...
NEWS: ‘Mortimer & Whitehouse Gone Fishing’ to return for Series 4
The much-loved, critically acclaimed and award-winning, Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing has been commissioned for a fourth BBC Two series, it was announced today (TUES). The most recent series, which finished on Sunday night, once again entertained the...
The Top 50 of the Decade: 50 – 20
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...
NEWS: Bob Mortimer and Paul White to return for more ‘Gone Fishing.’
The BBC has confirmed they've ordered a third series of Gone Fishing with Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer. Over the summer, Gone Fishing once again charmed the nation with consolidated audiences of 2.2 million tuning in to see lifelong friends and comedic royalty,...
Matt on the Box: Next of Kin, Hard Sun, Wedding Day Winners, The Voice UK, Dancing on Ice and The Biggest Little Railway in the World
Welcome, to another weekly column this week covering the first full week of TV highlights for 2018 which appears to be mainly focused on the opening weekend of the year. Indeed, five of the six shows that I'm covering in this article aired on either Saturday or Sunday...
Matt on the Box: Call the Midwife, The Miniaturist, The Great Christmas Bake-Off, Child Genius Vs Celebrities and Eric, Ernie and Me
So how was your Christmas? As ever mine was made up of over-indulging on Quality Street and watching the majority of what was on the box over the festive period. Whilst not a comprehensive guide of everything I watched the first Matt on the Box column in over a year...
Serial Killer with Piers Morgan and the problem with ITV factual.
There are three words guaranteed to make most documentary lovers shudder: ITV Factual Entertainment. Uuugh! The most recent show to fall under that umbrella was 'Gone to Pot' a three-parter that sent a few celebs over to America to investigate the positives and the...
Why Channel 4 need to pull the plug on Naked Attraction
Channel 4's head of programming Jay Hunt recently left the channel. She came onboard at a difficult. They'd just lost Big Brother and had a ton of gaps in the schedules that needed filling. It's fair to say Hunt and her team revolutionised the channel. Every recent...
Educating The Greater Manchester: Everyone deserves a second chance.
If there is one thing that the Harrop Fold team believes in, it’s second chances. Last night's Educating Greater Manchester put the spotlight on two badly behaved students and the teachers that refused to give up on them. We watched expectantly as the...
The Great British Bake-Off: Final Review
And then there were three. Back in August I don't think I would've predicted that Andrew, Jane and Candice would've been the final three. At the time Andrew was presented as one of the weaker bakers whilst everybody was that obsessed with Selasi that they felt he...
Matt on the Box: Ordinary Lies, Him, Tutankhamun, Married at First Sight and The Crystal Maze
After a couple of weeks off I'm back with a look at a week packed with strange drama, returning nuptials and one big nostalgia hit. We start with the return of a drama that was one of last year's surprise hits, especially to me as I didn't think much of it at all....
The Great British Bake-Off: Patisserie Week
Apologies for missing last week's review but life got in the way and I had to prioritise which unfortunately meant no Bake-Off. However I wanted to say how disappointed I was that Benjamina left and felt that it was possibly Selasi's time to go in the quarter final....
The Great British Bake-Off: Botanical Week
With the furore around The Great British Bake-Off having died off to an extent I do feel that I'm able to watch the show again without thinking of the impending end of things as we know them. One thing I have noticed though is this series has seemed to lack the vigour...
Matt on the Box: National Treasure, Paranoid, Hunted, Celebrity Island and Red Dwarf
Hi folks, it's been a while since I presented the week's TV in highlight form but I back to do it again as for the first time in a bit there's actually been stuff to discuss. First up is a programme that I've been looking forward since it was announced at Edinburgh...
Matt on the Box: The Secret Agent, Eden, Child Genius, Man Down, Friday Night Dinner and Fleabag
Well the summer's finally here and we're still in a bit of slow period for TV however there have been some highlights with Channel Four being the frontrunner when it comes to airing new and returning programming. But the highlight of the last fortnight has been the...
How Gogglesprogs has stolen our hearts
Contributed by Matt Donnelly We've long learnt to lower our expectations when the summer rolls round. It's a time that television goes on holiday and broadcasters roll out programmes they'd not get away with in the autumn. There are some exceptions to that rule...
Matt on the Box: The Island, Maigret, Murdered by My Father, Can’t Touch This, Two Doors Down and Fresh Meat
Welcome back guys, hope you had a happy Easter and that you like me checked out some of the great and not so great TV that we had on offer. We kick off with Bear Grylls' attempt to take over television as he returned alongside twenty regular folks for the the...
Matt on the Box: Churchill’s Secret, Thirteen, Murder, Stag and Bear Grylls: Mission Survive
It's fair to say that I've been genuinely underwhelmed with the TV output for the past month or so but thankfully this week has finally offered up a vast array of telly highlights which I've had the honour of unpicking and will present my opinions on right now. With...
Nominees for Royal Television Society Announced!
Today saw the nominees announced for the Royal Television Society Programme Awards 2016 Britain’s favourite hosting duo Ant and Dec (I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!, Britain’s Got Talent and Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway) are...
Matt on The Box: The Jump, Vera, Back in Time for the Weekend and Celebrity Big Brother
Another week in TV Land is over and that means it's time for another Matt on the Box where I'm struggling again to find many notable highlights. The TV programme that has probably garnered the most headlines this week is Channel 4's Winter Olympic themed competition...
Matt on the Box: The Great Sport Relief Bake-Off, Sugar Free Farm, The Real Marigold Hotel and Murder Games
As we're getting into the first down period of the year, this week's Matt on the Box tries to delve around the schedules to find a few new shows that kicked off over the last seven days. I honestly think that this week's instalment should be dubbed a celebrity special...