It’s hard to believe that, in the realm of greatest love stories told by the BBC - alongside Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy, and Fleabag and the Hot Priest - we have a Welsh truck driver/sometime bouncer and a dodgy Essex plumber who never kiss, yet that’s what Gavin...
Did we like it? “It’s Chriiiisssstmaaasss!” hollers Smithy down the phone to Gavin, and indeed it is. Unlike some Christmas specials whose only relevance to this time of year is the transmission date, our December date with the Shipmans and the Wests was the...
The Surgery, BBC2Dreadful youth programme with the unremarkable Jeff Leach appearing as the trendy version of Kilroy in a yawnsome discussion on dating. Harry Hill's TV Burp, ITV1 ...and we have shock news. We were unimpressed by two items (the Heartbeat shaving foam...
I Know My Kid’s a Star You’ll be happy to know I’ve found my perfect job in television. One that will guarantee me some screen time on one of the BBC’s biggest reality series but with only the one crucial line to remember. That’s right, I want to take over from...
Did we like it? We won’t lie to you – truth be told, the return of this Essex/Wales sitcom is as welcome as a Grand Slam to a Welsh rugby fan. And fair play, at the end of the day, the writers and cast have managed to keep the quality of this second series as high as...
Last week I was lucky enough to speak to actress and Gavin & Stacey writer Ruth Jones. The series which premiered on BBC3 last year has become a favourite of mine. The series scooped Ruth and writing partner James Corden the best comedy newcomer and best new TV...
Did deserve our undying devotion? Mr custard.tv .tv stepped from his front door into the elegant, bustling streets of the Weekend’s TV Schedules with one thing alone on his mind – to find a bride. In his distracted reverie, he was almost run over by the numbing wheels...
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...
What to say if you liked it The return of the comedy which is, in essence, a satanic ritual in the form of a TV show. What to say if you didn’t like it The drabbest sitcom to hit earth since My Family, which has no laughter for the very good reason of it being utterly...
As the All Star Comedy Show and Chelsea FC have recently proven, throwing together a host of star names is not enough for a recipe for success. This new animated comedy features such luminaries as Julia Davis, Simon Pegg and Amelia Bullmore. It's the creation of Steve...
Julia Davis was half of the duo (with Rob Brydon) who made BBC2’s Human Remains, the dark, cruelly funny portraits of a series of emotionally dysfunctional couples. Now she’s written, and starred in, a dark comedy drama of her own, billed by the BBC as “A West Country...