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Broadchurch: Series One, Episode Three
The third episode of Broadchurch feels like a consolidation. There are a lot of moody clouds and plenty of moody music, thanks to Olafur Arnald’s excellent score. He tweets that it’s ‘…a bit more...
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TV Review: Top Gear Africa Special (BBC2)
There’s something about Top Gear and Africa. They seem to fit together very well. Like Jeremy Clarkson and the phrase ‘he is bloody annoying isn’t he?’ After a couple of very poor specials, Top Gear...
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TV Review: The Lady Vanishes (BBC1)
The Lady Vanishes is a) very enjoyable, b) a remake of the seminal 1938 Hitchcock thriller of the same name and c) a Daily Mail readers’ wet dream. You can imagine them watching this lavish production,...
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Five Things We’ve Learned From… Mad Men
The sixth season of darkly glamorous advertising retrospective Mad Men is currently airing on Sky Atlantic. But what have we learned from five and a bit whole years of morally ambiguous, booze-fuelled...
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TV Review: Greggs- More Than Meats The Pie
Boring folk always tell us that fast food from McDonalds and Burger King will harm us due to the litres of fat used to cook a solitary chip. Then they’re the killjoy vegans who’ll do what they can to...
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TV Review: Banshee (Sky Atlantic)
Sky Atlantic describes Banshee as a gritty, pulpy thriller and the latest show to have multiple award-winning producer, Alan Ball, behind it. Despite having not seen a great deal of Ball’s previous...
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Doctor Who: Series Seven, Episode Thirteen – The Name of The Doctor
The Name of the Doctor answered all the questions we weren’t asking. From here on in it’s all – as River Song would say- ”spoilers, sweetie!” But before we got those answers, we were in pure fan...
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TV Review: Quick Cuts (BBC4)
Picture: BBC Let me be honest: I only started watching Quick Cuts because I had forgotten Parks and Recreation had finished, but the first scene of people showing up in front of the hairdressers where...
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TV Review: Skins- Fire (C4)
Skins: Fire was the first feature length story in the ‘end of Skins trilogy’, a.k.a. the seventh series of the C4 teen drama. While Skins: Fire sounds like a Pokemon game, the other two instalments...
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TV Review: Amish Mafia (Discovery Channel)
Personally, I don’t understand the whole idea of ‘scripted’ reality shows, but at least the likes of TOWIE, Made in Chelsea and their brethren know what they are. For all the documentary-style...
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