Matt is joined by podcast regulars Dawn Glen and Sophie Davies to review dark comedy No Good Deed on Netflix. Christmassy fare Bad Tidings on Sky as well as the final season of What We Do in the Shadows on Disney+.
Chris McCausland (The Wonders of the World I Can't See) and Lee Mack (Doctor Who, Inside No. 9, Brassic) will star in Sky Original ‘Bad Tidings’, a mischievous festive special about two perpetually feuding neighbours in Stockport who become unlikely heroes, saving...
Hello folks and welcome back to another look at what last week's TV had to offer us. In my last Matt on the Box I was complaining about the over-abundance of crime drama on ITV, citing Lewis and Grantchester as examples. I suppose I should be grateful then that the...
So much has happened in the last four days that I've had to split my TV review pieces into two separate articles with this first post covering the funnier aspects of the Christmas week. Though I have to preface this piece by saying that not all of what I saw made me...
In this episode Matt and I discuss the awful new Hilary Devey vehicle, the return of Not Going Out and the superior sixth episode of Broadchurch
Welcome to the second part of your two for one deal as I look back at what the rest of this week's TV had to offer. First up we have the return of ITV's superior crime drama Scott and Bailey. This first episode of series three is set six months after the events of...
“I’m going to hate this aren’t I?” bristled David Mitchell as new host Rob Brydon prepared to recite from the Cockney Bible. But raising the hackles of the amusing Mitchell is one of the conceits that Would I Lie To You? relies on to thrive and survive in the same...
Did we like it? Series three of the one BBC1 sitcom we like got off to a rather unremarkable start. What was good about it? • The usual sprinkling of fine one-liners and the lovely aerial shots of London (oh look, there's our house). • Tim Vine's Tim was as...
These comedy panel games are diverting enough, but the proliferation of the genre means they're no longer must-see TV programmes (apart from Have I Got News For You). What was good about It? • Team Captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell • Lee's opinion of David as an...
Did we like it? We nearly didn't last five minutes, but after three episodes, we're happy that we've stuck with the Lee Mack/Andrew Collins-scripted sitcom. What's good about it? • If we said "the texture" would you think we're being pretentious. It's just that we...