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...
The top 13 highlights of the Shameless Christmas Special, Channel 4, Thursday 1 Frank emerging from under a blanket of snow – the first evidence of his presence being the patch of yellowing snow 2 Sheila giving birth while screaming for consonants and vowels Countdown...
Writer Paul Abbott is certainly versatile. From gritty northern factory drama Clocking Off he went south for State Of Play, last year’s glossy thriller about power and politics. Now he’s back in Manchester, for a different kind of drama again, a darkly comic piece...
No-one does political thrillers like the BBC, and in an age when focus-group wisdom prescribes an attention span of two episodes (hence endless ITV two-shot dramas), no-one holds out for a good, old-fashioned six-parter like the BBC, either. Thus we have State Of...