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...
When I sat down to watch Wolf Hall, I was unsure about what to expect; mainly because I don’t know a lot about the Tudor period, and I wasn’t sure about whether a Tudor period show would be up my street. It’s safe to say that I was pleasantly surprised with BBC Two’s...
BBC Two have announced the cast of their epic medieval drama Wolf Hall. Fresh from his turn in Homeland, Damian Lewis will play King Henry VIII opposite Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell. The drama, which is adapted from novels of Hilary Mantel, will chart the...
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...
New Year's Day sees the hugely anticipated return of Sherlock. When we last saw Sherlock he was apparently died in Watson's arms. This being Sherlock all wasn't as it seemed and he reappeared soon afterwards. I spoke to writers Steven Moffat and Mark...
What to say if you liked it Like falling through a trap door from the quaint reality of Blackpool into a twilight world of debauchery, manipulation and dread. What to say if you didn’t like it In much the same way as Liam Gallagher’s voice has declined from piercing...
Julia Davis was half of the duo (with Rob Brydon) who made BBC2’s Human Remains, the dark, cruelly funny portraits of a series of emotionally dysfunctional couples. Now she’s written, and starred in, a dark comedy drama of her own, billed by the BBC as “A West Country...