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...
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...
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...
Channel 4 have released the first look at the new drama from Shameless writer Paul Abbott. No Offence is an eight-part drama centering around a unit of unorthodox coppers working out of a crumbling police station in Manchester. The cast is littered with well...
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...
Sky Atlantic’s first UK produced drama is a triumph. It’s gritty, unashamed and unlike anything you will have seen before. On paper Hit & Miss may sound like a convoluted tale of a transgender, hit woman who struggles to make her way in the world but what...
For our most recent Podcast we discuss the cringeworthy aspect of The Baftas, the continual brilliance of Silk and Sky Atlantic's first UK made drama Hit & Miss. Enjoy!
Writer Paul Abbott is certainly versatile. From gritty northern factory drama Clocking Off he went south for State Of Play, last year’s glossy thriller about power and politics. Now he’s back in Manchester, for a different kind of drama again, a darkly comic piece...
No-one does political thrillers like the BBC, and in an age when focus-group wisdom prescribes an attention span of two episodes (hence endless ITV two-shot dramas), no-one holds out for a good, old-fashioned six-parter like the BBC, either. Thus we have State Of...
If the BBC took advertising, then Clocking Off would be sponsored by the Ford Transit. Like Cold Feet, it is also set in Manchester, but this time recognisably so since everyone talks with a Northern accent, lives in a terrace near the City of Manchester Stadium and...