Welcome once again folks to another look back at the best and worst of what the TV week had to offer. We're starting off by going on the road with BBC's newest drama Truckers. Truckers is created by William Ivory, who nearly twenty years ago devised the TV series...
When ITV first announced new six-part drama Breathless, people (myself included I'm ashamed to say) were quick to comment and say ITV were cashing in on the huge success of BBC1's Call the Midwife. I suppose the comparison is fair with them both focusing on the early...
Back in July I was invited to the set of ITV's newest period drama Breathless. The series, set in 1961 follows the lives of a group of doctors and nurses working in a London hospital, a world in which everything and everyone has their place. But underneath the...
ITV’s Monroe was one of my favourite drama series of 2011. The cast were all superb, the storylines emotional and engaging and let’s just face it, James Nesbitt can do no wrong. The series, which revolved round the life and work of Neurosurgeon Monroe was bound...
James Nesbitt (The Hobbit, Occupation, Cold Feet) and the strong ensemble cast from the acclaimed first series are joined by Neil Pearson (Bridget Jones' Diary, Between The Lines, Drop the Dead Donkey), Tracy-Ann Oberman (Doctor Who, EastEnders)...
Did we like it? Series four opened with a sensationally good episode. What was good about it? • No other show could interweave the dilemma of a mother whose new baby is going to be disabled with a jokey testicle implant and a Hot Chocolate song. • Christian Troy...
Series two Channel 4, Friday 31 March 2006 Did we like it? It is both admirable and funny for straying from the well-grazed pastures of joke-based comedy into the verdant jungles of the utterly bizarre. What was good about it? • The way in which the menagerie of...
1 Abby getting her white doctor's coat. At last. She certainly deserves it and can now perfect more of her ultra-concerned facial expressions and spend lots more time scribbling things on that perspex board (when she's not being pestered by the pesky Neela) 2 The...
What to say if you liked it An intelligent, understated medical drama which has sent Hugh Laurie soaring high in a new direction, far removed from his trademark nitwittery, while his erstwhile partner Stephen Fry is stuck in his curmudgeonly posho rut. What to say if...