In 2006, the BBC took quite a big gamble. In a TV landscape where safe procedurals like New Tricks and a revamped Silent Witness were big hitters, Life on Mars, which saw a modern-day policeman transported back to 1973 didn't exactly fit. It helped, though, that that...
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...
Believe it or not I have been known to venture out on the town on Friday nights. The living room lays silent and the TV gets a well earned rest but all that silliness stopped two weeks ago when the BBC decided to schedule the final series of Ashes to Ashes on a...
Did we like it? An impressive edifice of drama, supplemented by a good cast, but blighted by the inexplicable decision to build over the gleaming foundations with a gaudy, vulgar comedy shopping ‘mall’, gushing with derivative conceit. What was good about it? • The...
Did we like it? It's a winner – with an inventive twist on conventional cop dramas and a great lead in John Simm, the 2006 Detective Chief Inspector in Manchester who is run over and wakes as a mere Detective Inspector in 1973. What was good about it? • There's a bit...