Hi folks and welcome back to Matt on the Box where I look back on some of the most recent highlights that TV has offered up to us. We start with BBC One's latest attempt to claim back Sunday nights with their newest adaptation of Winston Graham's Poldark. Stepping...
We discuss BBC1's new series of Poldark. Israeli drama Hostages, new comedy Nurse and have some shocking news for Gary.
The jokes have been made already (‘Goodness, this is a long Aviva car insurance advert’) and the comparisons to Ricky Gervais’ Derek have been posted well in advance. And it’s true that Paul Whitehouse’s bittersweet new sitcom for BBC2, about a hard-pressed Community...
We're only a couple of weeks away from Christmas now and that might explain the mixed bag of offerings that TV has given us over the past seven days. From hard-hitting documentary to rock spoof through to a star-studded gala it's fair to say there's been something for...
As we approach the summer, and more specifically a certain popular footballing tournament, the amount of programmes to cover are certainly drying up. This last week has mainly been dominated by continuing shows and the underwhelming semi-finals of Britain's Got...
After mentioning the multitude of crime dramas that were populating our screens in the last instalment, this week we welcomed even more. As well as the superb Line of Duty, which you can read about elsewhere on the site, two other crime dramas debuted this week....
What to say of you liked it An excruciatingly well observed comedy, written by and starring master funny men Chris Langham and Paul Whitehouse, in which a psychotherapist analyses the problems of the lurid menagerie of his patients. What to say if you didn’t like it...