TV is finally back in a normal rhythm, and that means the podcast is back! Matt and Dawn are joined by Dawn's podcast co-host Lucy from The Shipyard to review four shows available this week. It's September, and it's ITV, so by law, Sheridan Smith must portray a real...
ITV’s Director of Drama, Polly Hill, has commissioned six-part heist drama, Frauds, starring BAFTA and RTS award winning actresses Suranne Jones and Jodie Whittaker as skilled confidence tricksters who’ve been separated by an arduous 10-year prison sentence. Sam,...
In its London showcase event, Netflix also confirmed new shows from 'Slow Horses' producers See-Saw Films, 'Peaky Blinders' creator Steven Knight and 'His Dark Materials' writer Jack Thorne. New series featuring Jamie Dornan as identical twins and Julie Delpy as the...
The BBC has released the first details for the second series of drama Vigil. The series will look to the skies for its second series, with a brand-new investigation that takes Amy Silva (Suranne Jones) and Kirsten Longacre (Rose Leslie) into the world of the British...
It's that time of year again, here's our look at the best shows of 2015! Last Tango in Halifax (December 2014 - February 2015, BBC1) A fixture on our best of the year list since it began in 2012, Last Tango in Halifax proved once again to be one of the best dramas on...
My followers on Twitter will know I've been slightly downbeat about the state of UK drama this year. The C-Word aside, there hasn't been a BBC to grab me by the short and curly's. I'd hoped it would be Doctor Foster, I'd previewed the first episode and LOVED Surrane...
In a short, but still as sweet Podcast, we discuss the finales of The Great British Bake Off and Doctor Foster and praise ITV's newest drama Unforgotten.
We discuss Sky's new 'comedy' You, Me & The Apocalypse, the semis of Bake Off and Matt has a stressful week.
Gary and Matt discuss new BBC1 drama Doctor Foster, Channel 4's intriguing new documentary series Hunted and why Strictly still works.
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...
The newest installment of the BBC’s Original British Drama, Doctor Foster stars Suranne Jones as Doctor Gemma Foster (and yes, the nursery rhyme does pop up), a successful GP living a comfortable suburban life in a beautiful home with a seemingly doting husband,...
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...
A commentary on the new John Lewis advert, the best episode of The Apprentice and a traumatic TV moment all in the one podcast!
Luke, Gary & Matt look at whether TV is playing it too safe. Review Our Girl, Scott & Bailey and The Driver and Gary pays tribute to a departing member of 'The Voice.'
This week's edition of Matt on the Box features a mixed bag of ITV crime drama, issue-based TV plays and a whole lot of glitz and glamour. We start things off with the first episode of the fourth series of the fantastic Scott and Bailey which I feel is back on...
BBC One have announced a new five-part drama series entitled Doctor Foster. Doctor Jenny Foster is a woman in control: she is a trusted GP, the heart of her village, a woman people can trust. But Doctor Foster’s life is about to explode. When she suspects her...
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...
For the first podcast to feature the complete TV loving trio for ages we discuss The Edinburgh TV Festival, our love for the Mel & Sue and new BBC1 drama What Remains.
Welcome back to this much more punctual look at the week's TV, in what can only be described as a crime special. First up we have What Remains, a programme centring around the look for the killer of a young woman found murdered in the attic of the share house in which...
One second in and I know that series two of A Touch of Cloth is going to be gold. I know this because Todd Carty is the first thing in the sequel to Charlie Brooker’s 2012 Bank Holiday weekend gag reel. A robbery at ‘Bankleys’ by the not-so-masked crusaders throwing...
Welcome once again to another look back at the last seven days in TV. Kicking off with a traditional bit of Sunday night crime drama courtesy of Case Histories. Case Histories, based on the novels of Kate Atkinson, first hit our screens in 2011 with three stories...
Welcome back to another look back at the seven days in TV and, unlike last week, there hasn't been a lot on. First up this week we have the return of Channel 4's superior documentary series 24 Hours in A&E. The programme is one of many fly-on-the-wall shows in...
Welcome to the second part of your two for one deal as I look back at what the rest of this week's TV had to offer. First up we have the return of ITV's superior crime drama Scott and Bailey. This first episode of series three is set six months after the events of...
This time year I sat in a very different office, and oddly in a very different country pondering on what I'd enjoyed most in 2011. 365 days later (roughly) it's time to sit and ponder again on my personal highlights of a packed TV year. I knew before I compiled 2012...