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Blackadder series 2

Blackadder Two

Blackadder series 2

Lord Edmund Blackadder, great grandson to the original, is a Tudor courtier attempting to win the favour of Queen Elizabeth l while avoiding execution by decapitation.

Blackadder the Third

Blackadder the Third

Blackadder the Third

In the Regency era, Mr E. Blackadder serves as butler to the foppish numskull Prince George.

Blackadder Goes Forth

Blackadder Goes Forth

Blackadder Goes Forth

Stuck in the middle of World War I, Captain Edmund Blackadder does his best to escape the banality of the war.

Blackadder - A Christmas Carol

Blackadder - The Specials

Blackadder - A Christmas Carol

A parody of Charles Dickens, a time machine based on Leonardo da Vinci's original plans, and some random dips into history. Daniel Tessier rather cunningly rounds up the whole Blackadder saga.

Sapphire and Steel

Sapphire & Steel - Assignment One

Sapphire and Steel

All the clocks have stopped. Rob and Helen's parents have vanished. Two mysterious strangers arrive unannounced and tell the children they are their only hope of escaping from the ghosts that have invaded their isolated country house. And then there's that nursery rhyme...

Sapphire and Steel - Assignment Two

Sapphire & Steel - Assignment Two

Sapphire and Steel - Assignment Two

When the ghost of a World War One soldier begins to haunt an old railway station, Sapphire and Steel suspect the location is a recruitment ground for the dead. But what do the forces of darkness want with these lost souls?

Sapphire and Steel Assignment Three

Sapphire & Steel - Assignment Three

Sapphire and Steel Assignment Three

The time agents receive a puzzling assignment at an apartment block where time is poised to attack. The occupants look like two normal 1980s residents...but they are not all they seem.

Sapphire and Steel - Assignment Five

Sapphire & Steel - Assignment Five

Sapphire and Steel - Assignment Five

As events unfold in 1980 Time itself is trying to change history. Sapphire and Steel must play out a scenario that happened fifty years before - to avoid the destruction of the entire human race.

Sapphire and Steel - Assignment Six

Sapphire & Steel - Assignment Six

Sapphire and Steel - Assignment Six

In their final serial Sapphire & Steel arrive at a seemingly abandoned roadside café where time has stopped and the only clue is two humans who claim to be from 1948. How they got there, they don't know.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 1

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"In every generation there is a chosen one... she alone will stand against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer."

Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 2 review

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 2

Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 2 review

The emotional stakes are raised as Buffy and Angel fall in love. But their union will lead to the unleashing of terrifying and deadly consequences...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 3

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 3

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 3

Buffy returns to Sunnydale only to discover that her friends have been battling the forces of darkness without her. And there's a new Slayer in town - but can Faith be trusted?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 4

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 4

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 4

With some of the most iconic episodes in its run, Season 4 follows the 'Scoobies' as they move into the next phase of their lives. Leaving the past behind means discovering new relationships, new goals...and new monsters

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 5

A season of huge change that unashamedly pulls on viewers heartstrings with brilliantly realised and unexpected developments as Buffy must deal with personal tragedy, a sister who appears from nowhere, and the Prince of Darkness himself...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 6

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 6

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 6

The 'Scooby Gang' hope to bring Buffy back from the dead, but they haven't considered the consequences. When further tragedy strikes, Willow turns to the dark side and plans to destroy the world. And everyone dances for a grim reaper! Once more...with feeling

Angel

Angel - Season 1

Angel

Buffy the Vampire Slayer's spin-off took a while to settle, but when it did, it proved to be as popular as its parent series. The stakes are as high in L.A. as they were in Sunnydale

Angel - Season 2

Angel - Season 2

Angel - Season 2

Angel's second season opens with a bold statement of a new, perfected style

Angel - Season 3

Angel - Season 3

Angel - Season 3

When Darla turns up pregnant with Angel’s child, the team embarks on a quest to unravel the mystery behind this seemingly impossible pregnancy and decipher its significance

Stranger Things Season 2

Stranger Things Season 2

Stranger Things Season 2

One year after the events of the first season, everything seems back to normal... but a darkness lurks just beneath the surface, threatening all of Hawkins

Stranger Things - Season 3

Stranger Things - Season 3

Stranger Things - Season 3

It’s 1985 in Hawkins, Indiana, and summer’s heating up. School’s out, there’s a brand new mall in town, and the Hawkins crew are on the cusp of adulthood

Star Trek: Picard

Star Trek: Picard

Star Trek: Picard

Jean-Luc is an elderly gent weathered by grief, regret and anger. Haunted by memories of a career-ending catastrophe at Starfleet, he passes time by tending to the soil at the Picard vineyard in France. But all that is about to change...

Star Trek: Picard - Season 2

Picard and his crew are thrown into a present day alternative reality. The only way to escape it is to travel back in time. But to do so, they must do a deal with the one being in the universe that Picard fears: The Borg Queen...

Picard Season 3

Star Trek: Picard - Season 3

Picard Season 3

A spoiler light review of season three with minimal plot details as the season billed as the last of this franchise finally gives fans what they wanted all along - a reunion of the 'The Next Generation' crew

The Boys tv series

The Boys - Season 2

The Boys tv series

"The best thing about Season One was its spot on satire of contemporary corporate and popular culture, with ironic emphasis on the entertainment media themselves. This goes into overdrive in Season Two"

The Boys - Season 3 review

The Boys - Season 3

The Boys - Season 3 review

The Boys search for a mysterious weapon in Russia while things are brewing behind the scenes at Vought. In Season three, there's plenty of trouble, gore and twists, and a vocabulary that would probably shock a reunion of Merchant Navy veterans in a Hamburg bordello!

The Great - Season 2 review

The Great - Season 2

The Great - Season 2 review

Four months after the events of the first season, Catherine's plans for a coup against Peter to take the Russian throne seem to have stalled - Huzzah!

The Great

The Great - Season 3

The Great

Inspired by a visit from the US ambassador, Catherine sets up a conference where peasants, nobles and merchants can all give their input on developing a new Russia. Huzzah!