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...
Welcome back friends to another instalment of my look back at some recent TV highlights. We start with a battle for Sunday night supremacy from two new dramas that felt incredibly similar in tone. Inevitably winning the ratings battle was Sarah Phelps' three-part...
In the twee, cloistered town of Pagford – a beautiful English idyll – there is a war going on. The scenery of The Casual Vacancy (adapted by The Crimson Field’s Sarah Phelps from JK Rowling’s first foray into adult literature back in 2012) might be...
The BBC have confirmed the welcome return of comedy The Wrong Mans from James Corden and Matthew Baynton Having earned their status as hometown heroes in the first series, Sam (Mathew Baynton) and Phil (James Corden) are blasted back to zero again. Now 4,000...
Filming has recently started on the second series of the In-House produced BBC Two and Hulu’s critically acclaimed comedy The Wrong Mans, created by and starring BAFTA and Tony Award-winning actor James Corden (One Man Two Guvnors, Gavin & Stacey, The History...
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...
Happy New Year to all and welcome to this first new edition of Matt on the Box covering the first five days of 2014. It was indeed a happy new year for all of us who have been anticipating the return of Sherlock for the past two years. The first of the two episodes...
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...
BBC2's action comedy The Wrong Mans was the biggest BBC2 comedy launch since Extras back in 2005. The opening episode of the action packed comedy peaked at 3.4m. The series, written by and starring Matthew Baynton and James Corden follows the twisted tale of two...
In our latest podcast we discuss whether the X Factor Bootcamp is cruel, new Channel 4 comedy London Irish and the final ever episode of The IT Crowd.
Welcome to yet another look back at the last seven days of TV Highlights. It's starting to feel very autumnal and both ITV and BBC have presented us with their dramas which they hope will win Sunday night audiences. ITV have backed a known commodity in Downton Abbey,...
Well - there you have it. The dust has settled on the first episode of James Corden and Mat Baynton’s new comedy The Wrong Mans (sorry, I can’t do the ‘s’ in smaller type) and I’m still trying to soak it all up. Talk about a rollercoaster opener! Baynton heads the...
Let's begin with something that will shock you to your very core. Ready? It’s a somewhat shameful admission, but I never saw Gavin & Stacey. Not one episode. So, while I was aware of the swirl of media attention surrounding bright young thing James Corden, I never...
If there’s one sort of drama that does nothing for me it’s the forensic crime series while I will watch the odd CSI from time to time I’ve never really watched Waking the Dead while the spin-off The Body Farm left me cold. It’s also been years since I watched Silent...
it's the least sexy show on TV since Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way. A corpse at a crime scene. One of the forensic scientists, a woman, is repeatedly stabbed by a man hiding under a bed at the scene. Another woman then slashes her wrists in the bath....
Did we like it? Amid all the tinselly telly, this was welcome bleak midwinter fare, but Dominic Savage's drama – an indictment of the inequalities in Britain today – lacked the punch to prick the consciences of the pricks in the City now wheelbarrowing six-figure...
Did we like it? Even though we feel like as though we’ve feasted to the point of gluttony on the lavish historical regal dramas to the point when they will become hunted to extinction in the grand forests of TV, this was a well-acted, well-paced drama. And while a few...