When I was Five, heavily influenced by my older brother’s scifi tastes, and Twinkle comic for girls, I wrote about a girl and her dolls who went to the beach and “found a dead huntsman with no head”. Now I’m not saying that BBC One’s new Sunday night drama Boat Story...
The BBC has released first-look images for brand new six-part thriller Boat Story, starring Daisy Haggard (Back to Life, Breeders) and Paterson Joseph (Vigil, Noughts & Crosses). Alongside them are Tchéky Karyo (Baptiste, The Missing), Joanna Scanlan...
In this podcast we look at the return of Peep Show, discover Gary hasn't seen all of Father Ted, and discover the joy of private browsing. There's also two rounds of Matt Vs Luke.
On this week's Matt on the Box we have two very different types of policing drama plus department store dilemmas and doggy disasters. Earlier in the year, I was excited by the prospect of a satirical drama written by Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong and directed by Danny...
Matt and Gary hold the fort as Luke heads to the jungle?? They discuss the end of Doctor Who, the start of the Fall and the usual reality TV section.
After mentioning the multitude of crime dramas that were populating our screens in the last instalment, this week we welcomed even more. As well as the superb Line of Duty, which you can read about elsewhere on the site, two other crime dramas debuted this week....
In a special podcast for Valentines, we discuss the returns of Outnumbered, George Gently, DCI Banks and Channel 4's new police comedy Babylon.
Not to state the obvious but Survivors is completely bonkers. Its one of those rare things though that manages to be bonkers and yet utterly enjoyable and loveable. Like an eccentric Uncle who you love even though you wouldn’t necessarily want to see him all the time....
Did we like it? An impressive edifice of drama, supplemented by a good cast, but blighted by the inexplicable decision to build over the gleaming foundations with a gaudy, vulgar comedy shopping ‘mall’, gushing with derivative conceit. What was good about it? • The...
Did we like it? As the nights draw in, the temperature plummets, and we all start to get the sniffles, what better way to cheer ourselves up than by watching this update of the old 70s Terry Nation-scripted serial? Set in Britain after a virus has wiped out at least...
Did we like it? A glinty-eyed, fang-bearing masterwork of drip-drip-drip storytelling, characters with more glistening facets than the Star of India and some juicy eccentrics dropped in to the plot like food parcels to spies aiding the French Resistance. What was good...
Did we like it? Like the rest of this series, this final episode lacked the integrity and inventiveness of the first three runs and was more like a run-of-the-mill sitcom. What was good about it? • David Mitchell brilliantly conveyed the horror of heading headlong...
Did we like it? The marvellous misanthropists continue to provide an x-ray of the misery of modern Britain either through the eyes of unwilling conformist Mark or debauched wastrel Jez. What was good about it? • Despite this being the fourth series, the palpable truth...
Welcome to the heavyweight league, Martin Clunes. This isn't a dig at his size (he's cuddly, not fat) but praise for his emergence as a truly classy actor. (Readers who don't like praise being lavished should turn off now). Depths never really evident in No Place Like...