Dawn and Sarah join Matt to review four new shows and break down their thoughts on the latest episodes of The Traitors. First, after a 3-year absence, Severance is finally back on Apple TV+ Easily one of the most anticipated shows of the year, the trio get lost in the...
Matt and Luke board the TV Time Machine for one final time in 1999 to review 4 not so festive treats from December. Firstly, Martin Clunes stars in an off-kilter comedy-drama about the inner workings of a shock TV show entitled 'Sex And Death' Then, there's the only...
TV and ITVX commissions thriller, Out There, starring Martin Clunes and Louis Ashbourne Serkis, written by Ed Whitmore and Marc Evans, produced by Buffalo Pictures. County lines drug dealing and an escalating, insidious crime wave sweeping the British...
Welcome once again to this saunter through this week's big highlights in the world of TV. It's fair to say that, with one or two exceptions, this year's BBC One drama output has been quite stale. However this week the channel took steps to redeem itself in the form of...
Following hot on the heels of Wolf Hall and The Casual Vacancy comes Arthur & George, television’s latest in its merciless attempt to adapt every single book ever written. The only ones now left are the Lonely Planet’s guide to Iceland, Michael Vaughan’s...
ITV have released the first look at Martin Clunes as Arthur Conan Doyle in new three-part drama Arthur & George Conan Doyle recaptures his zest for life by pursuing and challenging a notorious miscarriage of justice. It is the case of George Edalji, a hard-working...
ITV has commissioned a three-part adaptation of Julian Barnes’s novel, Arthur & George, based on an intriguing series of genuine events in the life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Martin Clunes will play the celebrated novelist and physician who created the detective...
Martin Clunes reveals how Doc Martin is making a thank you gift to the people of Port Isaac for the loan of their picturesque village for the filming of Doc Martin. “For four months of the year we take over the village to make the series and we decided to give...
Contributed by Matt Donnelly ITV drama is in a great shape so far this autumn. The Last Weekend, the upcoming Mrs. Biggs and now an extremely tense and brilliantly acted two-parter in A Mother's Son. It's the story of the difficulties of combining two...
When a teenage schoolgirl is found murdered in the woods near a local town in Suffolk the news rips through the heart of the whole community, and that of mother of two Rosie Haleton (Hermione Norris) who discovers damning evidence that could be...
Now I don’t know whose to blame for the lack of really decent comedies on TV of late. Of course there are a few exceptions namely The Inbetweeners, Outnumbered, The IT Crowd, Peep Show and the cruelly axed BBC1 sitcom Not Going Out but where are the gems? Perhaps its...
Did we like it? We tried to pretend this didn't exist before and wasn't a 1970s TV great mixing misery and mundanity in a cynical sitcom. Pretend it's brand new. Come to it fresh. The verdict: this is quite a funny sitcom with a few good characters and a few good...
The summer is great isn’t it. Sunshine, ice cream and barbecues with the neighbours! What’s it is not so good for is TV, hence things have been less than hot on the reviewing front for me of late. Now (prepare the trumpets) I’m back and so are Ant and Dec! The Brits...
Did we like it? Yes, because Ian Richardson was gleefully snobbish and unbearably rude. What was good about it? • Ian Richardson’s turn as an arrogant, lecherous snob. • Neil Pearson and Brian Murphy as feuding neighbours. • It was undemanding fare featuring some...
What’s it all about? Fungus is one of the breed of subterranean bogeymen – green troll-like, wilfully filthy creatures who try to scare humans by breaking into their homes at night and dirtying the furniture. What to say if you liked it A glorious adaptation of the...
What to say of you liked it Cut-above-the-average comedy drama featuring Martin Clunes as a burnt-out surgeon grumpily coming to terms with life as a GP in a Cornish fishing village. What to say of you didn’t like it Yet another bunch of snide metropolitans attempting...
Welcome to the heavyweight league, Martin Clunes. This isn't a dig at his size (he's cuddly, not fat) but praise for his emergence as a truly classy actor. (Readers who don't like praise being lavished should turn off now). Depths never really evident in No Place Like...