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...
The BBC has today confirmed that Inside No 9, written by and starring Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, is set to return for a third series. The anthology format continues as before, each film being set in a different location, the style and tone changing each...
In our latest podcast we look at the political debates, Sheridan Smith in Inside No.9 and wonder why BBC1's The Ark had to happen.
In a week in which we lost an X-Factor host, a Top Gear host and gained a new Homes Under the Hammer host in Dion Dublin; the actual TV output has been quite quiet. Indeed it comes to something when one of the biggest shows of the week is a macabre comedy drama that...
In our latest podcast we discuss James Corden's late night debut in the US. Louis Theroux's latest doc on BBC Two, the return of Inside No.9 and wonder where Gary really is!
If Hitchcock was the Master of Suspense, and Poe the Master of the Macabre, then (ex) The League of Gentleman’s Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton are surely the Masters of Claustrophobia. Following 2014’s triumphant first series, Inside No. 9 returns to our screens...
One of the comedies of last year was BBC2's Inside No.9 Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's anthology series which told six different stories only linked by the number 9. Though Initially sceptical that viewers would come back to a show each week when there weren't...
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...
In a special podcast for Valentines, we discuss the returns of Outnumbered, George Gently, DCI Banks and Channel 4's new police comedy Babylon.
With the weather outside becoming increasingly volatile you would think that the TV would provide some sort of comfort and escape from the storms outside. Unfortunately, two new dramas this week appear to want to focus on the melancholic aspects of life rather than...
Well, that was brutal, wasn’t it? I mean, really brutal. While only coming into The League of Gentlemen toward the back-end of its run, I thought Inside No. 9, a new venture from Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith might be fun but it was quite the opposite. Confined...
It has been revealed that BBC Two has ordered a second series of Inside No. 9 before the first series has even aired. Inside No. 9 is a dark comedy series written and created by League of Gentlemen and Psychoville duo Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith. ...
The first question that needs to be asked about Psychoville is: does it even have the most gossamer threads of a plot? To which the answer is a defiant ‘no’; and it’s probably a good thing, too. Psychoville proved in its first splendid run that it uses plotlines as a...