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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Hi folks, hope you all had a fine Christmas and that much telly was watched by all. Now it's time to reflect on what you've watched with my look back at the best offerings from Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day. It was in fact Boxing Day which provided the...
Channel 4 have revealed their Christmas line-up which includes festive specials of some of their most-loved programmes The incredibly popular First Dates concludes its current run with a Christmas Special focusing on faces that we've seen in the restaurant before....
At its recent Upfronts Event Channel 4 announced the arrival of several new programmes as well as confirming the returns of popular factual entertainment series Hunted and SAS: Who Dares Wins. The second series of Hunted will follow a similar format but will this time...