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...
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 once again to my weekly look back at the last seven days of TV. We start this time with ITV's newest 'comedy drama' Love and Marriage. The programme centres on the sprawling Coventry-based Paradise family as they struggle with their various life dilemmas. We...
In the most recent podcast we discuss Matt Smith leaving Doctor Who, ITV's new comedy drama Love & Marriage and ITV's new US import The Americans.
There are two things about ITV's latest comedy drama Love & Marriage that set it apart. Firstly, it's set in Coventry (can't even remember the last drama to be set there) and secondly it features nice little segments where our main characters chat to an invisible...
Love & Marriage is ITV's newest six-part comedy drama and stars Alison Steadman and Celia Imrie. The series centres around the big love which binds the sprawling and chaotic Paradise family. The series starts with Pauline Paradise: on the day she retires 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 we like it? Given the hype for this show we were half-expecting the televisual equivalent of the Second Coming, and while it’s not quite as celestial as that we are sure that if God found this excellent newborn comedy abandoned in a dustbin He would wrap it in...