Following on from another huge success in Season 7, and this time not having a huge cliffhanger to build off to start the season, there was pressure on this season of the show to continue the good work, and luckily for us it does. Kicking off the season with a compellingly Treehouse of Horror episode, …
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Fleabag (2016) – TV Review
Following on from the big success of her one woman show, the BBC hired Phoebe Waller-Bridge to turn ‘Fleabag’ into a tv show, and the rest was history. The result is a show that mixes comedy and drama together with such ease that it can cause the viewer whiplash as they bounce between genres, almost …
Bad Education (2020) – TV Review
For many years as he was churning out box office hits as Wolverine whilst also starring in successful studio programmers/awards flicks/popular plays, Hugh Jackman was an almost universally loved actor and somehow still very much under appreciated, mainly because of how easy he made it look. Now, on the back of a career high performance …
The Simpsons Season 7 (1995) – TV Review
Starting with the high profile conclusion to the epic “who shot Mr Burns” saga, there was a huge amount of pressure on the show to see if it could live up to the hype of the thing it was parodying: the “who shot JR” from ‘Dallas’, and the show managed to deliver. Moving on from …
I’m Alan Partridge Season 2 (2002) – TV Review
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 …
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Jack Whitehall’s Sporting Nation (2020) – 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 …
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The Deceived (2020) – TV Review
This four part thriller has been a ratings success for Channel 5, and I don’t think it’s any surprise why when you consider it is from the writer of ‘Derry Girls’ and stars ‘Normal People’ breakout megastar Paul Mescal (more on his role later). It is very much cut from the cloth of Daphne du …
I’m Alan Partridge (1997) – 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 …
BAFTA TV Awards 2020 – Winners and Reaction
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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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005) – TV Review
‘It’s Always Sunny’ is now the joint (and soon to be) longest running live action sitcom in American history, but if you had told me or anyone watching or involved in the show that this would be the case fifteen years after that first season, not one person would have believed you. The season is …
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