In addition to the new trailer, the BBC confirms that Riot Women will air on BBC iPlayer and BBC One this October. The BBC and BritBox have released a trailer for Riot Women, which provides the first glimpse at the brand-new drama series from the multi-BAFTA...
Podcast – Time Machine 17 – Jan 2000: Trigger Happy TV, Castaway, At Home with The Braithwaites, Clocking Off
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...
First Look: Sally Wainwright’s Riot Women
The BBC and BritBox have released first look pictures of Riot Women, the brand-new drama from the multi-BAFTA award-winning writer Sally Wainwright (Happy Valley, Last Tango in Halifax, Gentleman Jack). Set and filmed in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, the six-part...
Unforgiven, ITV1
Did we like it? We've got plaudits aplenty for this drama which managed to be popular yet intelligent and full of big name actors who are not just in it for the pay check. What was good about it? • Writer Sally Wainwright adopts a welcome harder edge than with her...
Fear, Stress & Anger, BBC2
Did we like it? The BBC's comedy commissioners have done it again – given time and money to an utterly useless sitcom that no-one will admire and which will join the likes of Blessed, Mad About Alice and According To Bex as a stain on the BBC's reputation for comedy...
The Last Detective, ITV1
ITV1 is quietly carving a niche for itself as purveyor of nostalgic drama to the nation. After years of success with Heartbeat (1960s) it did well with last year’s Foyles War (1940s) and has just commissioned a second series of Heartbeat spin-off The Royal. Now it’s...
At Home With The Braithwaites, ITV1
The most likeable dramas tend to be the ones that don’t take themselves too seriously, and nothing takes itself less seriously than At Home With The Braithwaites. Based on a cheerfully far-fetched premise (Leeds woman wins £38 million in Euro-lottery), it’s populated...




