When HBO Max launched in the UK, Netflix lost one of its most-watched shows to the new streaming platform. That show, Friends (began in 1994 and ended in 2004) was constantly rewatched and clocked up 32.6 billion viewing minutes on the platform in a single year. I...
In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Ted Lasso star and co-creator Jason Sudeikis says an “epiphany” convinced him to make the decision to revive his show, after the third season had been declared “the end”. It’s not hard to imagine that the epiphany may have...
“Shut it down! Shut it all down!” When this line is shouted less than 15 minutes into the first episode of Widow’s Bay, you know exactly the influences shaping Apple’s comedy horror. It’s the same cry the mayor in Jaws fails to heed, and the damning demand of...
In the greyest of grey Januaries, it is a gold-star-level move by Apple to bring us the third season of sunshine-in-a-bottle comedy drama Shrinking. The Jason Segel/Harrison Ford vehicle, focusing on grieving therapist Jimmy Laird (Segel) and his surrounding support...
TV in 2025 has been a mixed bag. Mostly that's because a lot of our favourite shows or shows we'd been anticipating didn't live up to our expectations. Notably, the second season of The Last Of Us, I'm still not sure what happened there. The third season of The White...
Early in the new season of Only Murders in the Building, someone says to someone else, "Four is a lot of murders for one building." It's hard to disagree, but I appreciate that the comedic murder mystery, helmed by Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez, is...
I'm currently rewatching the American version of The Office for what I think must be the fifth time. And yes, I was one of those dead against it when it was first announced. How could an American remake possibly reach the heights of Gervais' and Merchant's...
The Curb Your Enthusiasm creator and star has re-teamed with the premium cabler on a sketch comedy limited series about American history. David is writing the series with Jeff Schaffer, who was the showrunner, executive producer, and frequent director on “Curb.” David...
This review contains spoilers for the entire fourth season of The Bear. The Bear is a show that set such a high bar for itself throughout its first two seasons that the third season felt like a real disappointment. On reflection, I think we all judged it too harshly....
After having celebrated its 20th anniversary on June 5, “The Comeback” — the beloved comedy co-created by Lisa Kudrow and Michael Patrick King that stars Kudrow as actress Valerie Cherish — has been renewed at HBO for Season 3. The announcement also says “final...
In the mid-80s 80s movies like The Big Chill and Peter’s Friends, and TV shows like thirtysomething showed a popularity for the “Friends Reunited” genre - stories exploring the dynamics and peculiarities of groups of old college friends. The characters were inevitably...
New series from A24 is adapted from award-winning author Holly Gramazio's New York Times bestselling book oday, Apple TV+ announced the new eight-episode comedic drama “The Husbands,” starring SAG and BAFTA Award winner Juno Temple (“Ted Lasso,” “Fargo,” “Atonement”),...
Dawn and Tyler join Matt to review the week's notable TV. First, BBC One's gangster drama, This City City is Ours starring Sean Bean. Next, Netflix's lavish comedy murder mystery from Shondaland, The Residence. Then, Apple lampoons Hollywood in Seth Rogen's comedic...
Today, Apple TV+ announced it has greenlit “Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed,” a new 10-episode series that will star Emmy Award winner and Golden Globe award nominee Tatiana Maslany (“Orphan Black,” “The Monkey,” “Invincible”). “Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed” is a half...
At the end of the second season of Hacks, comedian Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) had decided to release her standup special via home shopping network, QVC, when the television network’s showed little interest in picking it up. And in a depressing “life imitates art”...
Sky has exclusively acquired seasons 3 & 4 of multi-Emmy®-winning comedy series Hacks in the UK, following huge success in the Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy and Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy categories...
Matt is joined by podcast regulars Dawn Glen and Sophie Davies to review dark comedy No Good Deed on Netflix. Christmassy fare Bad Tidings on Sky as well as the final season of What We Do in the Shadows on Disney+.
In the sixth episode of the final season of Somebody Somewhere, Sam (the heartbreakingly tender Bridget Everett) takes a walk with a man she finds attractive. Known to her as 'Iceland' (the always brilliant Ólafur Darri Ólafsson), he is living in her parent's old...
Matt and Dawn are joined by fellow Maid for TV podcaster, Sarah Kennedy to review four new shows. Firstly, Ted Danson infiltrates a nursing home in new Netflix comedy A Man on the Inside. Colman Domingo stars in tense conspiracy thriller The Madness also on Netflix....
The series is based on the Oscar-nominated documentary 'The Mole Agent, also available on Netflix. Netflix has released a trailer for its upcoming comedy series A Man on the Inside. The series sees Ted Danson reunite with creator Mike Schur after they worked together...
On the heels of the second season premiere of “Shrinking,” Apple TV+ today announced that the critically acclaimed, Emmy Award-nominated comedy has landed a renewal for season three. Co-created by Jason Segel, Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein, the first two episodes...
It feels like forever since therapy-based comedy drama Shrinking landed on Apple+, so I have to ask, “First of all, are you okay?” Because even if you’re not, don’t worry, Shrinking season 2 is upon us and it’s going to make it all better. The charming...
It shouldn't surprise me, but I am constantly surprised at the consistency of Only Murders in the Building. It is a show that so easily could have been a one-and-done project to bring Steve Martin and Martin Short together for their first foray into television....
Apple TV+ unveiled the premiere date and a first look at the 12-episode second season of Shrinking, starring Emmy Award nominee Jason Segel and multi-award winner Harrison Ford. Shrinking follows a grieving therapist (played by Segel) who starts to break...