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...
Dawn and Sarah join Matt to talk about the best Christmas TV and review the first 4 new shows of the new year. Firstly, Sky and Peacock bring us Colin Firth in a harrowing retelling of one man's search for answers following the Lockerbie disaster. Then, James Norton...
Matt and Dawn are joined by fellow Maid for TV podcaster, Sarah Kennedy to review four new shows. Firstly, Ted Danson infiltrates a nursing home in new Netflix comedy A Man on the Inside. Colman Domingo stars in tense conspiracy thriller The Madness also on Netflix....
When Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash called time on The Royle Family following the Christmas Special in 2000 I was desperate to see what the pair would do next. Caroline would move to Australia and create the short-lived Dossa and Joe and Craig Cash would team with...
This year the BBC turns 100. Fundamental to Britain and funded by licence fee payers, the BBC has garnered a worldwide reputation for quality. For this special post highlighting the highlights of the corporation's massive contribution to television, I've decided to...
In our latest podcast we look at the political debates, Sheridan Smith in Inside No.9 and wonder why BBC1's The Ark had to happen.
In a week in which we lost an X-Factor host, a Top Gear host and gained a new Homes Under the Hammer host in Dion Dublin; the actual TV output has been quite quiet. Indeed it comes to something when one of the biggest shows of the week is a macabre comedy drama that...
In our latest podcast we discuss James Corden's late night debut in the US. Louis Theroux's latest doc on BBC Two, the return of Inside No.9 and wonder where Gary really is!
If Hitchcock was the Master of Suspense, and Poe the Master of the Macabre, then (ex) The League of Gentleman’s Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton are surely the Masters of Claustrophobia. Following 2014’s triumphant first series, Inside No. 9 returns to our screens...
One of the comedies of last year was BBC2's Inside No.9 Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's anthology series which told six different stories only linked by the number 9. Though Initially sceptical that viewers would come back to a show each week when there weren't...
As well as being Easter Sunday, today marks the fiftieth anniversary of BBC Two which broadcast its opening night on the 20th April 1964. Although said opening night was plagued with problems BBC Two has since gone on to produce some of the nation's most loved...
Did we like it? Bearing in mind that Hughie Green was one of the most insincere and oleaginous personalities in front of the camera, and that by most accounts he was a monstrous bully in his private life, then enjoy isn’t really the right word. But a superb...
Did we like it? Jimmy McGovern's Bafta-winning drama has had better episodes, but the series two opener was still an interesting little thriller. What was good about it? • David Thewlis as twins Joe and Harry managed to differentiate between the pair, even though one...
Did we like it? It was rather like watching ITV1 reinvent the wheel in the shape of a square simply for the sake of proving they could do something new as the utterly corrupt local police force left the whole thriller morally rudderless. Nevertheless, a superb cast...
Did we like it? Dramas such as Northern Lights are the Monday mornings of the TV schedules, something to be tolerated, and, although it may contain one or two delights, will sap the will to live through the knowledge that there will be another facsimile next week....
Did we like it? Yes, because Ian Richardson was gleefully snobbish and unbearably rude. What was good about it? • Ian Richardson’s turn as an arrogant, lecherous snob. • Neil Pearson and Brian Murphy as feuding neighbours. • It was undemanding fare featuring some...
Series one Doctor Who, BBC1, Saturday What to say of you liked it The long overdue return of the most versatile and enduring character in television history, but this time faithfully accompanied by stunning special effects. What to say of you didn’t like it After...
If the BBC took advertising, then Clocking Off would be sponsored by the Ford Transit. Like Cold Feet, it is also set in Manchester, but this time recognisably so since everyone talks with a Northern accent, lives in a terrace near the City of Manchester Stadium and...
Nonsense. In this tale by Manchester-based writer Russell T Davies (Queer As Folk), the Son of God returns to Earth and lands in Manchester. He performs a couple of miracles, convinces the world that he’s genuine, and stays in Manchester, telling the human race that...