Rare Imports: Lesser-Known Gems of European TV
The rise in popularity of international TV drama on our screens is a testament to not only the quality of foreign imports, but the...
DAD’S ARMY (2016)
Among the fine tradition of classic British sitcoms, few stand as revered—or, indeed, as British—as Dad’s Army. Set during World War II, this beloved...
SHERLOCK – ‘The Abominable Bride’
A considerable number of theories were spun about how Sherlock writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss would transplant their very postmodern take on Sherlock...
2016: Television Preview
A new year brings fresh entertainment from the world of television. To help you get over the loss of 2015 to the mists of...
2015: The Best Things We Saw This Year
It wouldn’t be late-December without an exhaustive number of end-of-year lists appearing online, looking back on the year’s great and terrible. It would be...
DOCTOR WHO – ‘The Husbands of River Song’
When a man pops his head out of a police box door and asks a duffle-coated Matt Lucas for an opinion on the set...
LUTHER – Series Four
It’s been two years since we last saw DCI John Luther (Idris Elba); the dishevelled, troubled, imposing detective with a knack for solving extremely...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.12 – ‘Hell Bent’
If there’s one thing that Steven Moffat’s “Hell Bent” achieves, it’s certainly not clarity. Picking up from The Doctor’s (Peter Capaldi) arrival back on...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.11 – ‘Heaven Sent’
“As you come into this world, something else is also born. You begin your life, and it begins a journey towards you. It moves...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.10 – ‘Face the Raven’
Every song must end. Clara Oswald’s (Jenna Coleman) comes to an end so matter-of-factly when Rigsy (Joivan Wade), last encountered in “Flatline“, rings her...
UNFORGOTTEN – Series One
Despite being lumbered with one of those bland, generic and, yes, forgettable one-word titles that soil ITV’s larder like mounds of rotten cheese, Unforgotten...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.9 – ‘Sleep No More’
I find enthusiastic claims made by the creators of any film or television episode that it’s going to be scary rarely ring true, and...