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...
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...
Welcome to this final Matt on the Box instalment of 2013 where I look back at the major shows that played in the funny week between Christmas Day and New Year's Eve. Starting with three programmes from Christmas Day we find the show that got the biggest peak audience...
"You're Like a Real Life Paula Abdul": The Return of Grandma's House Its fair to say that I gave up early on the first series of Grandma’s House which aired back in 2010. I understood it was a semi autobiographical comedy from Simon Amstell but for some reason the...
Much like the life of man or woman, brilliant comedies have three distinct stages: the astonishing, witty and original first series, which gleefully burns comedic stale tropes at the stake and dances round them laughing and naked; the second/third series in which the...
Julia Davis was half of the duo (with Rob Brydon) who made BBC2’s Human Remains, the dark, cruelly funny portraits of a series of emotionally dysfunctional couples. Now she’s written, and starred in, a dark comedy drama of her own, billed by the BBC as “A West Country...
How many items on Monkey Dust were funny? • TV controller gets excited about the suggestion of Dead Celebrity Cam inside George Harrison's coffin, presented by Trevor McDonald and Jade from Big Brother. Funny • After seeing an alien invasion, a man forgets to...