Latest reviews

The Good Place

The Good Place (2016)

The Good Place

When those who have been good throughout their lives pass away they go to 'The Good Place.' When Eleanor arrives there, it soon becomes apparent that she's been sent to 'the wrong place.'

Bread

Bread (1991)

Bread

Carla Lane's sitcom divided opinion when it was first shown, but eventually the series peaked at 21 million viewers

The Umbrella Academy

The Umbrella Academy (2019)

The Umbrella Academy

Based on the comic book series of the same name, 'The Umbrella Academy' revolves around a dysfunctional family of adopted siblings who are trained to be superheroes in order to stop an impending apocalypse. Seasons 1 to 4 reviewed.

Sez Les

Sez Les (1969)

Sez Les

Once described as the best-loved fat man in Britain Les Dawson won his place in the national heart not for his corpulence but for his comedy. Sez Les was made during the peak of his popularity and is often unfairly overlooked as a prime example of sketch-show comedy at its very best.

I, Claudius

I, Claudius (1976)

I, Claudius

The thirteen episodes of 'I, Claudius' were a masterpiece of costume and design and when shown in the USA on PBS the series single-handedly redefined the boundaries of acceptability on American television.

Saki: The Improper Stories of H.H. Munro

Saki, The Improper Stories of H.H. Munro (1962)

Saki: The Improper Stories of H.H. Munro

Hector Hugh Munro, better known by the pen name Saki, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirised Edwardian society and culture and he is considered a master of the short story.

Medium TV series

Medium (2005)

Medium TV series

Primetime Emmy Award winning series about a mother and housewife who has psychic visions about dead people and the violence surrounding their deaths. Can she balance her family life whilst solving crime - and who is going to believe her?

The Ravelled Thread

The Ravelled Thread (1979)

The Ravelled Thread

Set in Portsmouth in 1864, John Lucarotti’s 'The Ravelled Thread', is a story of secrets and lies and a plot that could drag England into the American Civil War.

Sons of Anarchy

Sons of Anarchy (2008)

Sons of Anarchy

An adrenaline-charged, often violent journey into the treacherous world of a motorcycle club that operates both legal and illegal businesses in the small town of Charming, USA - and how the loyalty of two brothers are divided.

Freedom in September

Freedom in September (1962)

Freedom in September

A Soviet musician is missing from his hotel. He wanders through 1962 London trying to contact people he has met and known in Russia. Who are these people? What lies behind his desperate search?

Monkey TV series

Monkey (1978)

Monkey TV series

Considered a cult classic, "Monkey" was an inventive and energetic Japanese produced adventure based on the tale of a 7th century Buddhist priest who travelled across the continents in search of enlightenment.

The Wednesday Play

The Wednesday Play (1964)

The Wednesday Play

Now regarded as a shining light of British television's golden age, The Wednesday Play is often held up as the perfect example of the impact that television had on a generation of viewers.

The Musketeers TV series

The Musketeers (2014)

The Musketeers TV series

Swashbuckling series based on Alexander Dumas' adventurous 17th century characters. When d'Artagnan and his father are attacked on the way to Paris resulting in the father's death, the young swordsman seeks revenge on the murderer. A musketeer called Athos.

Young Woodley

Young Woodley (1960)

Young Woodley

When a school housemaster's wife becomes interested in a young student, a scandalous situation that could jeopardise his entire future, is not far away. 'Young Woodley' so outraged the Lord Chamberlain, that he banned it from every theatre in England.

Deadwood cast

Deadwood (2004)

Deadwood cast

Set in 1876, when the richest gold strike in U.S. history drew a throng of restless misfits to an outlaw settlement in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Deadwood features a cast of surly inhabitants led by actors Timothy Olyphant and Ian McShane.

R3

R3 (1964)

R3

A group of scientists and doctors try to solve real world problems whilst dealing with issues of their own in this typical 1960's BBC drama series.

Troy: Fall of a City

Troy: Fall of a City (2018)

Troy: Fall of a City

An epic story of love and war, intrigue and betrayal, and an unnecessarily complicated plot and missed opportunities.

The Diary of Samuel Pepys BBC TV series

The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1958)

The Diary of Samuel Pepys BBC TV series

In 1958 the BBC embarked on its most ambitious television series yet. The Diary of Samuel Pepys was a 14-part historical costume drama that had over 120 cast members with 162 speaking parts.

Atlantis

Atlantis (2013)

Atlantis

Inspired by Greek mythology, Atlantis was an impressive looking fantasy-adventure series set in a world of legendary heroes and mythical creatures.

Private Schulz

Private Schulz (1981)

Private Schulz

The story of an SS scheme carried out by a German fraudster to swamp wartime Britain with forged banknotes, which could be put into circulation in order to destroy the British economy.

Blott on the Landscape

Blott on the Landscape (1985)

Blott on the Landscape

Tom Sharpe's comic tale about the proposed construction of a motorway through an ancestral home, and the double-dealings involved.

Spitting Image

Spitting Image (1984)

Spitting Image

The 1980's puppet show that broke new ground on British Sunday night television with its biting satire and grotesque caricatures - the 'establishment' would never be the same again.

Medici Masters of Florence

Medici Masters of Florence (2016)

Medici Masters of Florence

Political drama set in Florence in the early fifteenth century. The Medici family, bankers of the Pope, may be the most upwardly mobile family in history. In just over a century they went from being one of a number of banking houses in Florence to supreme political power.

The Devil's Crown

The Devil's Crown (1978)

The Devil's Crown

Ambitious BBC dramatisation of the life and times of the Plantagenets - Henry sees the opportunity to seize the Crown of England and create a kingdom of law and order.

Marco Polo

Marco Polo (2) (2014)

Marco Polo

Set in a world of greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry, Netflix's “Marco Polo” is loosely based on the famed explorer’s adventures in Kublai Khan’s court.

Benidorm

Benidorm (2007)

Benidorm

The premise for Benidorm is a simple one as it follows a selection of characters on their holiday at an all-inclusive hotel in sunny Spain, called the Solana. There are sex-mad swingers, dodgy dealers, arguing couples, dysfunctional families and everything in between. Disaster never seems to be far down the road.

Trust TV Series

Trust (2018)

Trust TV Series

When the 16 year-old heir to the fortune of one of America's wealthiest families is kidnapped - who, if anyone, is going to pay the ransom? 'Trust' is based on the true story of the kidnap of heir to the Getty fortune John Paul Getty lll.

The IT Crowd

The IT Crowd (2006)

The IT Crowd

Sitcom about a computer support team - Roy, Moss and Jen, who make up the I.T. Department of Reynholm Industries. Jen knows nothing about computers, whilst Roy and Moss are socially inept geeks.

The Tudors

The Tudors (2007)

The Tudors

Fictionalised historical drama set in 16th century England set around the reign of Henry VIII.

Police Squad

Police Squad! (1982)

Police Squad

A nutty satire of police dramas from the creators of the `Airplane!' films, with a nonstop barrage of sight gags, puns and silly jokes.