It's that time of year again, here's our look at the best shows of 2015! Last Tango in Halifax (December 2014 - February 2015, BBC1) A fixture on our best of the year list since it began in 2012, Last Tango in Halifax proved once again to be one of the best dramas on...
We look at the unbearable X Factor Live judge's houses. The Apprentice goes shopping for our pets. And ITV gets arsey with the BBC. Plus the hugely welcome returns of Catastrophe and Detectorists
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...
In our latest podcast we praise Channel 4's new comedy Catastrophe and wonder whether new drama Cucumber was too explicit.
My expectations for comedy is at an all time low, it has been for a while. I sit bemused and a tiny bit infuriated by the unfathomable popularity of Mrs Brown's Boys and Miranda which lead me to grimace rather than smile. I suppose the last time I laughed at loud at a...
Sky have announced further cast information for their new Christmas drama Agatha Raisin And The Quiche Of Death. The one-off comedy drama stars Ashley Jensen as Agatha, the show also stars Hermione Norris as long suffering housewife Jo Cummings and reunites...
Channel 4 have commissioned Pulling's Sharon Horgan and American comedian Rob Delaney to co-write and star in a new sitcom called Catastrophe. The six part series follows an Irish Woman and an American man who make a bloody mess as they struggle to fall in love in...
So unbelievably we've reached that point again when we look back fondly on the last twelve months of television and celebrate the best. Ripper Street (January 2013, BBC1) This series wasn't what a lot of viewers were expecting when they settled down on a dark Sunday...
The more observant of you may have noticed that I've been absent for a week, but that's primarily because I felt there wasn't that much TV to discuss. So instead I have decided to look at five of the biggest shows from the last fortnight in which we've been offered a...
In the latest podcast we discuss new BBC1 drama The Escape Artist, get the inside scoop on Channel 4 documentary series Bedlam and Gary sings!
Never, ever underestimate the power of bad manners to insult people, whether the slight is perceived or otherwise. I’ve always been a stickler for saying “please” and “thank you” and utterly loathed the absence of such fundamental politeness in others. But a simple...
The BBC have released the trailer for new thriller The Escape Artist. The Escape Artist is an original suspense thriller set in the world of criminal law. David Tennant plays Will Burton, a talented junior barrister who specialises in spiriting people out of tight...
Welcome once again to my weekly look back at the last seven days of TV. We start this time with ITV's newest 'comedy drama' Love and Marriage. The programme centres on the sprawling Coventry-based Paradise family as they struggle with their various life dilemmas. We...
In the most recent podcast we discuss Matt Smith leaving Doctor Who, ITV's new comedy drama Love & Marriage and ITV's new US import The Americans.
There are two things about ITV's latest comedy drama Love & Marriage that set it apart. Firstly, it's set in Coventry (can't even remember the last drama to be set there) and secondly it features nice little segments where our main characters chat to an invisible...
Love & Marriage is ITV's newest six-part comedy drama and stars Alison Steadman and Celia Imrie. The series centres around the big love which binds the sprawling and chaotic Paradise family. The series starts with Pauline Paradise: on the day she retires from...
Did we like it? A mostly awful morass of indulgence, hypocrisy and spite with only one or two bolts of inspiration screwed ineptly into the script. What was good about it? • Ashley Jensen as Maggie, as, despite her character being liquidised to the state of gurgling...
Did we like it? This story of a geeky woman who gets the better of New York fashionistas is a lot of fish-out-of-water fun. After all the hype, the pilot was a little bit of an anti-climax but did lay the foundations of a series we'll follow slavishly. What was good...
Did we like it? Actually we were a little disappointed. There's genius at work here and lots of brilliant moments but it felt like we were watching an over-extended in-joke and writers Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant were trying far too hard to impress. What was...
Did we like it? There were refreshing elements and there was probably enough there to give it a second chance. But truth be told, we were slightly underwhelmed. What was good about it? • Astonishingly, it was an ITV drama that didn’t feature Robson Green or Ross Kemp....
Extras, BBC2 What to say if you liked it Chameleonic comic Ricky Gervais dextrously metamorphoses his scaly iridescent skin from the toady grotesque David Brent to the cynical misanthrope Andy Millman. What to say of you didn’t like it A comedian with so little talent...