Happy New Year one and all and welcome to the first Matt on the Box of 2016 We kick off with ITV's biggest dramatic offering of the week in the form of Harry Price: Ghost Hunter. Price (Rafe Spall) was a man who was known as a ghost hunter but more famously as an...
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...
Welcome to the latest Matt on the Box in which we look back at the TV highlights from the last week or so. First up is the return of Idris Elba's bonkers cop drama Luther; a show that I'm personally a big fan of. The show's return is supposedly due to the fact...
Welcome once again to a look back at the TV highlights of the last couple of weeks. We begin with the second series of one of my favourite new dramas of last year in the form of Chris Lunt's Prey. As you'll recall the first series focused on John Simm's DS Marcus...
Hi folks, as we're are in the run up to Christmas it appears that TV highlights are thin on the ground however I've managed to scrape together three rather big and incredibly diverse shows to talk about this week. We kick off with BBC One's latest drama Capital which...
Hey folks, welcome back to another review of some recent TV highlights as I cast my withering gaze over what the small screen as offered us recently. We start with a drama that has been the subject of several news reports due to the single complaint one of its scenes...
It's another week and there's a lot of TV to talk about so let's get started. It's fair to say that ITV haven't a great year so far in terms of drama with highlights being short on the ground. Even series that had promising starts, such as Black Work, fizzled out and...
It seems that autumn is definitely upon us and TV reflected this with the return of a perennial favourite as well as a number of new comedy outings that will keep us laughing during the dark winter nights. The one show that best signalled the countdown to Christmas...
This week we present a rather drama heavy instalment of Matt on the Box as we have three very different offerings that aired on different channels over the past seven days. Firstly we have one of my most hotly anticipated dramas of the year in the form of Shane...
Welcome once again to this saunter through this week's big highlights in the world of TV. It's fair to say that, with one or two exceptions, this year's BBC One drama output has been quite stale. However this week the channel took steps to redeem itself in the form of...
As the nights become darker and cooler TV seems to be getting back into its stride again as we head into the autumn months. One indicator that we're hurtling towards Christmas at an alarming rate is that The X-Factor returned this week for its twelfth series. There...
As we drift through the tail end of summer, it seems that TV is still in somewhat of a flux state as this week's instalment contains the slimmest of pickings. We start with the only big release of the week; BBC Two's sumptuous costume drama The Scandalous Lady W....
As we are now in the thick of summer the TV highlights are few and far between however BBC One have chosen this time to bring back two of their most popular shows which are both returning for their twelfth series. But in the case of the channel's veteran crime drama...
Hi Folks. After a bit of time away I'm back to talk all the goings on in TV-land over the past seven days. We kick off with BBC One's new Sunday night drama in the form of Sadie Jones' two-part adaptation of her own novel The Outcast. While doing my research on the...
Welcome once again to another look back at this past week's TV highlights and I feel it's been a particularly strong one for female-led drama. It's fair to say that ITV lead the way when it comes to crime drama and this year has seen its fair share of mediocre...
Welcome back to another look at what was an incredibly mixed week in the world of TV. As we approach the halfway point of 2015 it's fair to say that this year's TV hasn't been the greatest. In fact most of the best British TV shows have come from Channel 4 and that...
Hello readers, sorry to have been away for a couple of weeks but I'm back with plenty of TV to talk about. We start with one of the best dramas of the years and one that certainly contained the best female performance of 2015 so far. I'm talking of course about The C...
It's time once again to look back at a week in TV that's offered up its fair share of highlights even if not all of them have been great. After weeks upon weeks of costume drama, this week's main dramatic offering is a rather contemporary affair. Ordinary Lies is...
Hi folks and welcome back to Matt on the Box where I look back on some of the most recent highlights that TV has offered up to us. We start with BBC One's latest attempt to claim back Sunday nights with their newest adaptation of Winston Graham's Poldark. Stepping...
Welcome back to another look back at the week in TV and as always we have quite an eclectic bunch of shows so let's get started. We're kicking off with a new drama from Sky One which, just like their other productions, doesn't scrimp on the budget. I was quite excited...
Welcome back friends to another instalment of my look back at some recent TV highlights. We start with a battle for Sunday night supremacy from two new dramas that felt incredibly similar in tone. Inevitably winning the ratings battle was Sarah Phelps' three-part...
We seem to be slipping into that part of the year where debuting programmes are short on the ground, so this week's Matt on the Box focuses on a couple of shows that came to an end this week. We start with possibly on one of the most successful TV programmes of the...
After a week or so away it's time to look at what TV has offered us in the past few weeks We start with a drama that you would have at least heard something about unless you've been living under a rock for the last month or so. Sky Atlantic's Fortitude has been...
Welcome back to another chair-spinning, semi-improvised and real time look back at the last seven days in TV. We start with the aforementioned chair spinning as The Voice UK returns for its fourth series. The biggest change to this series has to be the inclusion of a...