There’s a lovely exchange in this superb new comedy as husband and wife BAFTA Award-winning writers, Sean (Stephen Mangan) and Beverly (Tamsin Greig), debate whether to adapt Lyman’s Boys for an American audience after meeting brash executive Merc Lapidus (John...
Shameless What weird jobs some people have. On our local news the other night there was the usual story about a man who had robbed a bank. They had nicknamed him the Bad Hat Bandit. He is on the run, but rather than focus on the crime he had committed, our local...
Did we like it? If The Daily Express gets bored of persecuting immigrants and should it plump for lawyers to become the new Guy whom they lust to set ablaze atop its conflagration of odium, it needs only to slip this between the covers of its weekend supplement and...
Series two Channel 4, Friday 31 March 2006 Did we like it? It is both admirable and funny for straying from the well-grazed pastures of joke-based comedy into the verdant jungles of the utterly bizarre. What was good about it? • The way in which the menagerie of...
Did we like it? A well-written, well-acted drama that takes a mundane topic and drapes it in the fineries of TV theatrics. What was good about it? • A brilliant cast that sees Sarah Smart in her slightly dizzy Virginia from the Braithwaites mode as the hapless Jane...