TV is finally back in a normal rhythm, and that means the podcast is back! Matt and Dawn are joined by Dawn's podcast co-host Lucy from The Shipyard to review four shows available this week. It's September, and it's ITV, so by law, Sheridan Smith must portray a real...
Matt's back with Dawn Glen and Mo Walker to review the high-octane British spy thriller Black Doves on Netflix. Slightly less high-octane but still a spy thriller, The Agency over on Paramount+ as well as the high concept US drama Mrs Davis and true crime drama The...
In an age where new series come and go in the blink of an eye, it's worth remembering that some of the best series are close-ended. The mini or 'limited' series which asks very little of you in terms of commitment but deliver a concise and satisfying story. I've put...
Prime Video have released the first images for The Sticky (6x30), a fast-paced, dark comedy, inspired by the true story dubbed the "Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist." From showrunners Ed Herro and Brian Donovan, the series follows Ruth Landry (three-time Emmy winner...
The BBC have set an airdate for The Reckoning - The four-part drama which stars Steve Coogan as disgraced TV and Radio personality Jimmy Saville. The drama, which has been in development for three years, will air on Monday 9th October 2023 at 9pm with the...
In one of the opening scenes of The Long Shadow, a mother looks at her four children asleep in bed. It’s 1975 and the titles have established the state of life in Britain at that time - the strikes, the fuel shortages, and the cost of living crisis - and with all 4...
Early in the first episode of The Sixth Commandment, Peter Farquhar (Timothy Spall) takes a friend Elizabeth Zettl (Sheila Hancock) to visit a mutual friend in a care home. They sit at her bedside and Liz is uncomfortable. "Poor Christine. How is this fair? Living in...
When it came time to compile our Best of the Year piece two things struck me. The first was that wasn't one BIG show that resonated with people in the same way Normal People and I May Destroy You did in 2020 or It's a Sin and Mare of Easttown last year. The second was...
Two of the UK’s most renowned actors, David Threlfall and John Simm, are to join forces in new ITV drama Code of a Killer, produced by World Productions. The drama is based on the extraordinary true story of Alec Jeffreys’discovery of DNA fingerprinting and its first...
Late as usual, this week's Matt on the Box is focusing on a programme that is at the moment a frontrunner for Best British TV show of 2014. It doesn't take too much guesswork to deduce that that programme is the brilliant Line of Duty which came to an end last week....
With one of the podcast team struck down with illness Matt & Gary look at the final of Line of Duty and get frustrated by Will I AM, disagree on W1A and are left cold by The Widower.
© ITV There’s no combination more enticing than the pairing of Reece Shearsmith and Sheridan Smith. ITV’s The Widower has been widely publicised by the channel (it’s even got its own printed elevator), and it’s definitely one to watch out for but while this is so,...
© ITV Monday 17th March sees the start of a brilliant new three-part drama based on the real life events of serial killer Malcolm Webster. The Widower tells how, over a 13 year period Malcolm Webster set about poisoning and murdering his first wife, attempting to...
In our last proper podcast of 2013 we discuss the not so welcome returns of Splash! and The Voice. We also praise Last Tango in Halifax and prove that Matt is the only one of the trio to watch telly.
Telling a story from two different points-of-view is an interesting way to write a drama especially one that features strong characters. Over the past two nights, Chris Chibnall has presented The Great Train Robbery from the points-of-view of the man who supposedly...
Over the years there have been plenty of dramatisations of the event known as The Great Train Robbery, where a group of men stole money from a Royal Mail train in 1963. Most recently we've seen the event dramatised in Mrs Biggs, which told the event from the eyes of...