ITV have announced filming has nearly finished on the seven-part phone hacking drama The Hack from acclaimed screenwriter Jack Thorne with David Tennant, Robert Carlyle and Toby Jones in leading roles and produced by the team from Mr Bates vs The Post Office. The...
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...
Channel 4 have confirmed further details of their upcoming 8-part drama Humans. William Hurt (A History of Violence, Damages), Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd, The Honourable Woman), Tom Goodman-Hill (Mr Selfridge), Colin Morgan (Merlin, The Fall), Rebecca...
Today Den of Geek broke the news that Channel 4 won't be recommissioning Dennis Kelly's sublime Utopia for a third series. A representative for the channel was quoted as saying, ""Utopia is truly channel-defining: strikingly original, powered by Dennis Kelly's...
Filming has started on a new Channel 4 series from acclaimed writer Paul Abbott. The 8-part series titled 'No Offence,' is filming in Manchester and is made by Paul Abbot's Production Company Abbott Vision. Abbott said: “No Offence is a precinct cop drama. It’s also...
In our first podcast since The World Cup finished we discuss the weird and wonderful programmes we've discovered during all the sports and we finally unveil the first 'postcards from the eels'!
In the first series of Dennis Kelly’s Utopia the entire audience was led to believe that a plucky group of youngsters, a shadowy group known as The Network and a fugitive named Jessica Hyde were all searching for a graphic novel called ‘The Utopia Experiments’. The...
Last year I was won over by an incredibly striking and unique drama created by one of the co-writers of the underrated BBC Three sitcom Pulling. Dennis Kelly's Utopia took as on an unusual and satisfying ride as we learnt of a conspiracy relating to a cult comic book...
In our last proper podcast of 2013 we discuss the not so welcome returns of Splash! and The Voice. We also praise Last Tango in Halifax and prove that Matt is the only one of the trio to watch telly.
Telling a story from two different points-of-view is an interesting way to write a drama especially one that features strong characters. Over the past two nights, Chris Chibnall has presented The Great Train Robbery from the points-of-view of the man who supposedly...
Over the years there have been plenty of dramatisations of the event known as The Great Train Robbery, where a group of men stole money from a Royal Mail train in 1963. Most recently we've seen the event dramatised in Mrs Biggs, which told the event from the eyes of...
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 a week in TV. The summer months of TV usually signal an endless dearth of repeats, tennis and Big Brother. For those of you not interested in these options, there's rarely anything to watch but this year the BBC are...
Presumably, not every episode of this series will feature a chalk and cheese pairing, but as with last night, so Jenny and Nick were less than well suited. Although just how unsuited was a surprise. After the rather jolly psychological drama of David and Mia (not to...
Hi folks and welcome back to another look back at the week just gone. It's fair to say that Channel 4 have had a great start to 2013 with success for shows such as My Mad Fat Diary, Black Mirror and Utopia but it appears as if they're not resting on their laurels....
So here we are again the end of another week of TV and as there wasn't a lot of new programmes I'll be looking at some of the shows I've really been enjoying. First though the return of one of the most original dramas in years as Channel 4 gave Charlie Brooker...
Hi folks we're back with another week in TV that saw a mixture of comedy drama, daytime delights and a slice of musical nostalgia jostle for position on my television screen. I find that in today's society a lot of the most famous faces on TV are viewed as polarising...
This week we discuss My Fat Diary, Utopia, Derek and the lack of interesting output on ITV
Welcome back folks to another sideways look at the last seven days in TV and what a week it has been filled with snow and more snow thankfully then we had our old friend the telly-box to see us through the wintry weather. According to the viewing figures the best way...
Hi guys and welcome to this new weekly feature in which I dissect the biggest programmes of the week and give my own unique take on them. In this first instalment we have some great new drama from Channel 4, a nostalgic coming-of-age show from E4 and another new BBC3...