New Apple TV drama Smoke is based on the hit podcast Firebug. About a serial arsonist lighting up southern California in the 1980s. And what could be worse than one uncatchable arsonist? How about two? In that classic TV trope, arson investigator Dave...
Award-winning actor Rafe Spall (The English, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) stars opposite Kelly Reilly (Yellowstone, Here) in the gripping new Sky Original crime thriller ‘Under Salt Marsh’. Also joining the series are the award-winning Jonathan Pryce (The Crown,...
It’s tricky making a western nowadays. Just going route one and making a classic example of the genre is too cliched, and more than a little problematic given the standard “cowboys and Indians” narrative. Likewise, though, I think we’ve collectively had enough of the...
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...
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...
You have to be confident to take things this slowly. Confident to let the opening scene painstakingly bleed into the narrative as two coppers – one idealistic, the other corrupt – investigate the scene of an assassination. A drug baron has been shot dead. The older...
Did we like it? The performances from Rafe Spall and David Walliams were fantastic, but because of certain episodes of Frankie Howerd’s life being over-stretched and others condensed into a smile and a wink, it felt more like the opening episode of a short drama...