After a summer of sport, TV is getting its act together this autumn. Yes, the World Cup will disrupt things in November but the streamers have plenty to keep us non-footie fans occupied. Here are the shows we're looking forward to over the next few months. Minx...
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 our first podcast since The World Cup finished we discuss the weird and wonderful programmes we've discovered during all the sports and we finally unveil the first 'postcards from the eels'!
Last night saw a new thought provoking drama from acclaimed writer Jimmy McGovern, one of my TV heroes. In this illuminating podcast Jimmy discusses his decision to tackle the Joint Enterprise Law as well as his advice for new writers. A must listen for lovers of TV...
Justice, or the lack of it, is hardly an unfamiliar subject for writer Jimmy McGovern. From the creator of many of the UK's most searing social dramas of the last few decades, Common (BBC ONE – Sunday 6th July, 10pm) follows in the footsteps some of the...
Sunday sees a powerful new drama from the wonderful Jimmy McGovern. Common stars Nico Mirallegro as seventeen year old Johnjo O’Shea who finds his world turned upside down when he gives his friends a lift for a pizza. The consequences of that one act have a...
The BBC have released a first trailer for upcoming Jimmy McGovern drama Common starring Nico Mirallegro. The one-off drama centres around seventeen-year-old Johnjo O’Shea who gives his cousin Tony and some mates a last-minute lift in his brother Patrick’s car....
Welcome back to a week of pies, shopping and horrible plastic surgery. 'Bitching to a level, never before associated with cakes.' This was the way James Morton described some of the hurtful comments made about the three women who were finalists in this Tuesday's...
Did we like it? Edmund Coulthard’s film is worthy of a nomination when Bafta picks its best single dramas of the year. What was good about it? • The plot. Man gets pushed off a balcony during a party. His deaf flat-mate is the prime suspect. Deaf flat-mate and the...
What to say if you liked it The return of the medical drama where back-stabbing, back-biting and the swallowing of bitter pills among the staff is added to the gory injuries and troublesome illnesses faced by the patients What to say if you disliked it Must we really...