YEARS AND YEARS (BBC, 2019)
One night in 2019, politician Vivienne Rook causes a scandal on live TV. At the same time, the Lyons family is united, as Rosie gives birth to a son.
LUTHER – Series Five
When a series of killings become ever more audacious, Luther and new recruit DS Catherine Halliday are confounded by a tangle of leads and misdirection seemingly designed to protect an untouchable corruption.
GOOD OMENS (Amazon/BBC, 2019)
In 1990, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman co-authored Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch. The book was nominated for...
LES MISERABLES (BBC, 2018)
BBC TV adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel which follows Jean Valjean as he evades capture by the unyielding Inspector Javert. Set against a backdrop of post-Napoleonic France as unrest beings to grip the city of Paris once more.
WATERSHIP DOWN (2018)
Fleeing their doomed warren, a colony of rabbits struggle to find and defend a new home.
Diagnosing DOCTOR WHO Series 11
Taking the temperature of a most divisive year for the long-running sci-fi drama.
THE AVENGERS – ‘Tunnel of Fear’
"Tunnel of Fear" is the 20th episode of the first series of the 1960s British TV series The Avengers, and one of only three known complete series 1 episodes to have survived original broadcast...
DOCTOR WHO – ‘Twice Upon a Time’
And so we bid farewell to Peter Capaldi and the Twelfth Doctor. A shame really, as Capaldi was not best served by his writers...
TRUST ME (BBC, 2017)
Cath Hardacrre (Jodie Whittaker) is an overworked and underpaid ward sister in a Sheffield Hospital. She’s also mother to a young daughter with a...
DOCTOR WHO, 10.12 – ‘The Doctor Falls’
With a Christmas Special yet to close Steven Moffat’s tenure as Doctor Who’s showrunner, “The Doctor Falls” still has plenty of work left to...
DOCTOR WHO, 10.11 – ‘World Enough and Time’
After that startling opening showing an older, somewhat crumpled version of The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) apparently regenerating, Steven Moffat clearly decided that, as this...
DOCTOR WHO, 10.10 – ‘The Eaters of Light’
Welcome back Rona Munro, writer of this week’s Doctor Who, “The Eaters of Light”. Munro, as many fans will recall, wrote what turned out...