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...
Channel 4's newest large-scale drama, Indian Summers started tonight after much hype surrounding the show. Hailed as Channel 4's answer to Downton Abbey, Indian Summers certainly looked like a big-budget period drama; from set designs to costumes, the show situated...
Channel 4 have announced that Julie Walters will lead the cast in their new epic ten-part drama series Indian Summers. Set against the sweeping grandeur of the Himalayas and tea plantations of Northern India, the drama tells the rich and explosive story of the decline...
Did we like it? Julie Walters gave another of her towering performances as television decency campaigner and guardian of the nation’s morals, Wolverhampton teacher Mary Whitehouse. With great support from Alun Armstrong as her faithful husband, Ernest and Hugh...
What to say if you liked it An insight into what goes into making a West End musical (tea, flattery, camp men shouting things) What to say if you liked it An overlong advert for an overlong musical What was good about it? • Victoria Wood's twee narration, as if she...