I am a member of the generation of young women that had been, in a way, brought up by the now classic Sex and the City series. Although I was definitely not their target audience (I was in my late teens and early twenties when I discovered the series and later the films), I had [...]
Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson (Steptoe and Son, Hancock’s Half Hour) this lost BBC gem has finally found its way to DVD courtesy of Acorn Media. You could be forgiven if you’ve not heard of this near 40-year-old sitcom starring Leslie Philips, it has been sitting deep in the BBC vaults since its [...]
“Before the beginning, after the great war between heaven and hell, God created the earth and gave dominion over it to the crafty ape he called man. To each generation was born a creature of light and a creature of darkness and great armies clashed by night in the ancient war between good and evil… [...]
Warning, what follows is something of a rant! For 8 years, Scrubs was one of my favourite shows. Set in the fictional hospital of Sacred Heart, this was a new and unique type of comedy that many people immediately took a shine to. It was written and directed well, had some fantastic characters with complimenting [...]
Alias has been, quite unfairly, a bit forgotten. It had the dubious luck of being the heavily serialised, sprawling, mystery-driven show that JJ Abrams made just before Lost, and has been quite dramatically overshadowed by its big brother show. However, for those who watched it at the time, or the few who’ve discovered it more recently, it’s [...]
