Matt, Dawn and Gary board the TV Time Machine and enter a new Millennium. They review four new shows that began in January. Dom Jolly takes to the streets to terrorise and irritate the British public in Channel 4's hidden camera hit Trigger Happy TV. The BBC attempt...
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...
Gary takes down his TV Diary we review, Capital, The Apprentice and stunning Nordic Noir The Bridge returns for a third series!
Hi folks, as we're are in the run up to Christmas it appears that TV highlights are thin on the ground however I've managed to scrape together three rather big and incredibly diverse shows to talk about this week. We kick off with BBC One's latest drama Capital which...
So we've done it! We've reached the end of the year. 2014 wasn't as packed as last year, but when it was good, it was very good indeed. Sherlock - Series 3 (January 2014, BBC1) 2014 began with one of the most anticipated returns in a long time when we all sat round to...
A commentary on the new John Lewis advert, the best episode of The Apprentice and a traumatic TV moment all in the one podcast!
Luke, Gary & Matt look at whether TV is playing it too safe. Review Our Girl, Scott & Bailey and The Driver and Gary pays tribute to a departing member of 'The Voice.'
This week's edition of Matt on the Box features a mixed bag of ITV crime drama, issue-based TV plays and a whole lot of glitz and glamour. We start things off with the first episode of the fourth series of the fantastic Scott and Bailey which I feel is back on...
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...
So unbelievably we've reached that point again when we look back fondly on the last twelve months of television and celebrate the best. Ripper Street (January 2013, BBC1) This series wasn't what a lot of viewers were expecting when they settled down on a dark Sunday...
Welcome once again to another look back at the last seven days in TV. Kicking off with a traditional bit of Sunday night crime drama courtesy of Case Histories. Case Histories, based on the novels of Kate Atkinson, first hit our screens in 2011 with three stories...
Welcome back to another look back at the seven days in TV and, unlike last week, there hasn't been a lot on. First up this week we have the return of Channel 4's superior documentary series 24 Hours in A&E. The programme is one of many fly-on-the-wall shows in...
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...
This time year I sat in a very different office, and oddly in a very different country pondering on what I'd enjoyed most in 2011. 365 days later (roughly) it's time to sit and ponder again on my personal highlights of a packed TV year. I knew before I compiled 2012...
You have to be confident to take things this slowly. Confident to let the opening scene painstakingly bleed into the narrative as two coppers – one idealistic, the other corrupt – investigate the scene of an assassination. A drug baron has been shot dead. The older...
Did we like it? One of the best ITV1 dramas for years. Although full of flaws, it was clever enough to have us holding our breath as the tension mounted. Normally with ITV dramas, we're holding our breath hoping to pass out to end the suffering. What was good about...
Did we like it? Imagination. Invention. Good acting. A drama not set in London or a feeble token effort set in the North inhabited by people who are ‘the salt of the earth’. What have you done, ITV? Keep producing decent dramas like this and you may not have to keep...
Nonsense. In this tale by Manchester-based writer Russell T Davies (Queer As Folk), the Son of God returns to Earth and lands in Manchester. He performs a couple of miracles, convinces the world that he’s genuine, and stays in Manchester, telling the human race that...