●●●●○ The Greatest Dancer, by all appearances, is a generic televised talent competition. Currently airing on the BBC, it’s set up as a panel of four judges positioned against an elaborately lit stage, reminiscent of the glory days of X … Continue reading The Greatest Dancer Season 2 // Review
●●●●● With over two hundred screen adaptations to his name, Count Dracula ranks second only to Sherlock Holmes in his cinematic popularity. Consequently, the practice of resurrecting the character has become an increasingly difficult one to pull off over the … Continue reading Dracula // Review
●●●●○ Woe betide any show that tries to start its run at the same time as cultural behemoth Game of Thrones airs its final season – but that is exactly what this intrepid half-hour comedy is doing. Following three series … Continue reading Ghosts BBC // Review
●●●○○ When it comes to adapting the epics, you can’t get much bigger or bolder than the BBC’s lavish eight-hour plunge into the fall of Troy. Long before the creation of the camera, scripts or decent lighting, this was a … Continue reading “You can’t get much bigger or bolder than this”: Troy: Fall of a City // Review Deputy TV Editor, Lily Casson, shares her views on the first season of the new BBC drama.
Derry Girls was a sleeper hit, launching unexpectedly into the stratosphere of tender, witty new comedy (it’s almost as if TV is finally realising women can be funny). Set in the early ‘90s, the series follows Erin (Saoirse-Monica Jackson) and … Continue reading Comedies to Cure Your Derry Girls Withdrawal TV Deputy Editor, Lily Casson, recommends some top female-led comedy shows to keep you ticking over until season two of Derry Girls.
Call the Midwife is perhaps the BBC’s most unexpected long-running series of the 2010s. A cynic might be forgiven for asking, “But who would want to tune in to a guaranteed hour of women screaming and babies crying every week, … Continue reading Crying Out for More “Call the Midwife” What “Call the Midwife” has cracked is a recipe for introducing change while appearing to stay the same.
My new year’s resolution is to take one of MC Grindah’s home truths as a life lesson: “set your goals low, so you might be able to achieve them.” What may sound depressing, is in fact the key to a … Continue reading Relatable Character of the Month – MC Grindah from People Just Do Nothing TV Editor, Roxane Von Hurter, picks MC Grindah as January’s Relatable Character of the Month.
●●●○○ This dark, seventeenth-century historical thriller takes its lead from Tom Hardy’s Taboo and Peaky Blinders, bringing shady alleys and violence to period drama. There’s something of the vanity project to this three-parter – Kit Harington co-produces and stars as … Continue reading BBC One’s “Gunpowder” – review It’s 1605, Elizabeth I is dead, James VI of Scotland has become James I of England, and Protestant persecution of Catholics is escalating.
This past September was Live Lounge month at BBC Radio 1 in celebration of their 50th anniversary. Nearly every day over the course of the month a massive pop icon took to the microphone, creating some moments of pure musical … Continue reading BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge: The Highlights Live Lounge month has all our fave artists channelling their inspirations.
●●○○○ It seems it’s written into the BBC’s statutes that they must have a series about the armed forces airing at all times, as latest war drama Our Girl returns for a third series. It essentially fills in for recently-finished … Continue reading “Our Girl” Isn’t Up To It BBC One’s latest military drama fulfils the requirements, without exciting anyone.
The Cuckoo’s Calling was published in 2013 as the debut crime novel of Robert Galbraith. The release was soon overcome by a media frenzy after it was leaked to The Sunday Times that the pseudonym was, in fact, the first … Continue reading BBC’s “Strike: The Cuckoo’s Calling” “Harry Potter” this is decidedly not.
I could tell by the cut of the coat. The team behind the reveal of Doctor Who’s latest regeneration tried to maintain the suspense a little longer – it was a dark, masculine grey, with broad shoulders and a black … Continue reading “It’s about time” – Doctor Who Casts First Female Lead