A Film and Screenwriting Graduate who will provide in depth and entertaining looks at the Film and TV industry through reviews, box office reports, predictions/forecasts, and much more.
Arriving five years after the incredible success of the first season, there was huge amounts of anticipation for this second season, and it somehow managed to not only live up to it, but it my eyes exceed it. Moving Alan from the travel tavern to a little caravan where he lives on the grounds of …
Continue reading “I’m Alan Partridge Season 2 (2002) – TV Review”
When I heard that Jack Whitehall was going to be hosting a lockdown series for the BBC that would focus on British sport, I was throughly uninterested, as I thought it was an odd pairing of topic and host, and that it would also just be a glorified highlights package. However, I decided to give …
Continue reading “Jack Whitehall’s Sporting Nation (2020) – TV Review”
There are many iconic and well loved characters from British comedy throughout the years (Del Boy, Basil Fawlty, Brian Potter etc.) but in my opinion, there is no greater British comedy character than Alan Partridge. He has appeared in many different formats but he is at his absolute best here in a more traditional sitcom …
The full list of winners is in and the detailed list is below. After last years show got it so right with big wins for Killing Eve and Patrick Melrose, this years (delayed) BAFTA TV awards may go down as one of the most random and unjust awards shows in recent history. Obviously, everyone has …
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Some of the best documentaries ever made have focused on sport and the people behind it, potentially due to the undeniable tension that sport creates and the mental and physical challenges it takes to reach the top. In ‘The Edge’ the focus is on the the rise of Andrew Strauss’ England side from disrepair to …
Following her enormous success with 2016s ‘Fleabag’, Phoebe Waller-Bridge turned her talent to a hugely different project, this time an adaptation of Luke Jennings’ Villanelle novels, and remarkably she found even more success. I am doing a weekly rewatch of the three seasons of the show and will post a review of the particular season …
Following the devastating cliffhanger to what was intended to be the final ever episode of ‘Car Share’, Peter Kay and Sian Gibson returned to their characters for one final go around to conclude the story. Instead of feeling like the ‘fans demanded a new ending’ story that it actually is, this episode just flows naturally …
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My review for this show should have been up over a week ago but due to some family tragedy, no posts have been uploaded in the past week so I apologise for that, but I am back with a large quantity of varying posts from now on, some of which have already been posted and …
Tomorrow the nominations for the 2020 Emmy Awards will be officially announced ahead of the ceremony in September, and due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the usual awards campaigns have not been run and therefore predictions are more difficult. However, I have given it a go here by using industry insight, Emmy history, and personal gut …
Frankie Boyle has spent his entire career offending people and pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable to say. However, he has also spent his career as one of the most consistently brilliant comedians in the business. Boyle isn’t just someone who stirs controversy for the sake of it, he uses comedy to explore the …
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