Dawn and Mo join Matt to review another 4 new shows. On Channel 4, Steve Coogan interviews Harriet Walter's Margeret Thatcher in true-life drama Brian & Maggie. The BBC's latest Sunday night fare tells the little-known story behind the Austen sisters in Miss...
DISNEY+ GREENLIGHTS HIT SHOW “RIVALS” FOR EAGERLY AWAITED SECOND SEASON Today, Disney+ have announced their “must-watch” drama Rivals, based on the novel by Dame Jilly Cooper, will return for a second season. Starring David Tennant, Alex Hassel, Aidan Turner,...
Dawn Glenn and Mo Walker join Matt to review four new shows. First, they travel back to 1986 to a life of excess in Disney's take on Jilly Cooper's hit novel Rivals. Then, imagine life on the set of a Marvel-esque superhero movie in Sky and HBO comedy The Franchise....
The BBC today announces that Ian Fletcher, Head of Values, will be allowing cameras into New Broadcasting House again early next year for another series of W1A, following his day-to-day problem creating and solving abilities. Until the cameras roll it won't be known...
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...
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.
If you follow me on Twitter or read the site with as much enthusiasm as me then you'll be well aware of my love of new BBC1 drama serial One Night. The series has received rave reviews from critics and viewers alike but has been given a poor time...
If I told you that starting on Monday is one of the best, most compelling, well crafted and beautifully acted pieces of drama so far this year you’d be pretty excited wouldn’t you? If I told you the title of the drama is One Night you’d probably look at me blankly. I...
Did we like it? We loved it. We got the usual mix of jokes about vol au vents, turkey twizzlers and chips, and the remote control plus plenty of tear-jerking moments, hair-flicking, laminating, a stairlift and an orthodox Jew being introduced to the delights of the...