Having just finished broadcasting on BBC One the second series of Robert Thorogood’s comedy murder mystery is just the antidote for the Monday blues and is out now on DVD. Series one was an unexpected ratings winner when it was broadcast in 2011, over six million of us tuned in every week to see Ben Miller [...]
Homeland is a show that makes me question the sanity of anybody foolish enough to have not yet witnessed its thrilling brilliance. It recently won an armful of Emmy Awards and it’s even one of Barack Obama’s favourite television treats. Those who have seen it will no doubt appreciate the reference in that opening line, [...]
Chris O’Dowd co-writes and stars in this semi-autobiographical comedy about life growing up in Ireland in 1989. If you’ve didn’t catch the broadcast or don’t have Sky, you won’t want to miss the DVD release of this endearing new series. Moone Boy is set in a small town and follows the antics of the youngest member of [...]
Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’ updated Sherlock is an outstanding reworking of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation. Despite being a TV series, each feature length episode is better than many Hollywood movies. The only crime this show is guilty of is being just 3 episodes per series, but it’s quality not quantity that counts. In [...]
The recent news of not one, but two spin off TV series based on characters from Silence of the Lambs got me thinking about all those other TV spin offs based on movies. There have been some successes, Buffy was an average movie but a legendary series, and whilst I wasn’t a fan, Stargate managed [...]
