*The review contains some spoilers for those who haven't watched the whole of series 2 on BBC iPlayer.* In the middle of the second series of The Responder, Marco (Josh Finan) breaks down and cries and is cradled by a neighbour. "I'm sick of this Brenda."...
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...
Did we like it? A throbbing, dripping ball of testosterone that could alter the sex of fish if dumped unscrupulously in rivers that is saved from being Bruce Willis incarnate by some great acting and some ‘traditional*’ plotlines. * ‘Traditional’ means predictable but...
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...
Anything with Tony Garnett in the credits is worth checking out. As a producer, he’s worked on some of TV’s most ground-breaking dramas, from Cathy Come Home in the 1960s to This Life and the wickedly funny Cardiac Arrest in the 90s. That said, he also produced the...