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...
The BBC today announces that Ian Fletcher, Head of Values, will be allowing cameras into New Broadcasting House again early next year for another series of W1A, following his day-to-day problem creating and solving abilities. Until the cameras roll it won't be known...
Late as usual, this week's Matt on the Box is focusing on a programme that is at the moment a frontrunner for Best British TV show of 2014. It doesn't take too much guesswork to deduce that that programme is the brilliant Line of Duty which came to an end last week....
With one of the podcast team struck down with illness Matt & Gary look at the final of Line of Duty and get frustrated by Will I AM, disagree on W1A and are left cold by The Widower.
In 2007 the ending of the BBC’s new crime drama Five Days really disappointed. The story centered around the mysterious disappearance of a woman who bought a bunch of flowers from a roadside flower seller In a scene that wouldn’t have appeared out of place in an...
Did we like it? A throbbing, dripping ball of testosterone that could alter the sex of fish if dumped unscrupulously in rivers that is saved from being Bruce Willis incarnate by some great acting and some ‘traditional*’ plotlines. * ‘Traditional’ means predictable but...
What to say if you liked it A sumptuous, delightful contemporary adaptation of one of the Bard’s best plays. What to say if you didn’t like it A parasitic 90 minutes which brought to mind the image of a grotesquely obese TV producer, growing ever more bulbous as he...
Debut Friday 11 February 2005, Channel 4 Chris Morris's return to TV, a sitcom featuring the obnoxious character from satirical website TVGoHome. It is co-written by The Guardian Guide's Charlie Brooker. Barley is a former public schoolboy who lives in fictional...
What to say of you liked it A lavish drama recounting the daring lascivious exploits of Giovanni Giacome Casanova the most famous, or perhaps notorious, seducer in the history of humanity (apart from Ken Barlow, of course). What to say of you didn’t like it A...