Reviews

The day to day business of running a fictitious Fleet Street newspaper, the Daily Globe.

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.

2003 British television film that depicts the political rise of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and the pact they made to determine the future leadership of the Labour Party

Meet John Lacey, a forty-something language teacher at a Comprehensive School. He has everything; a steady job, nice house, beautiful wife, loving son and a car. Until one day he gets home from work and finds a letter from his wife informing him that their relationship is over...

A rarely successful adaptation from Britain to America in this sitcom concerning a divorced man who tries to get his life back in order after losing everything to his ex-wife

Quirky sitcom centred around two cultured ladies, Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket who reside together in the genteel and picturesque village of Stackton Tressel

Set in 1803, six years after Elizabeth and Darcy’s marriage, Death Comes to Pemberley transforms Austen’s world into a gripping murder mystery, where family ties, old rivalries, and dark secrets collide against the grandeur of Pemberley estate

It may seem like paradise, but what are the chances of getting off the glorious tropical island of Saint Marie - alive?

Anglia Television's first adaptation of a P.D. James novel finds Adam Dalgliesh investigating the murder of a forensic biologist

A grief‑stricken salesman spirals through a chaotic Sussex road trip with his young son, confronting guilt, masculinity, and haunting memories. Matt Smith leads with intensity, while Rafael Mathé delivers a breakout, emotionally resonant performance

A Welsh murder mystery that gently pokes fun at the cosy crime genre by creating its own combination of comedy and mystery. A curmudgeonly retired actor meets an eager young detective - they're the perfect crime-fighting duo, if they can only get along

Billed as an "early evening scene" Dee Time starred charismatic former BBC Radio 1 DJ Simon Dee in a series of hip talk shows in which he interviewed the big names in the TV and film showbiz-set as well as stars of the world of popular music...

Courtroom Drama: One of the most ground-breaking and, at times, controversial American television shows of the 1960s

Crisis comes when auntie decides to leave her cash to a dogs' home. Murder follows.

It starts with a jaunty, jazz-tinged theme, then whisks you away on an journey of culinary arts - 1970s style

A high adrenalin, all-action series including obligatory car chases and beatings up of London's criminal fraternity (as well as international drug-pushers and terrorists) in a style that took over where The Professionals left off.

Dennis always tried to help out-only to find that he had created mayhem in his wake.

"Whilst the cases which made up the bulk of the show's episodes were often fun, ingenious riffs on the standard spy/caper craze of that particular decade, where the series really scored was in the interplay between the three central characters involved."

A moody, character-driven crime drama that delivers on both substance and style. Matthew Goode is mesmerising as the damaged detective, and the central mystery is rich enough to hook you early and keep you guessing

Henry Fonda starred - well occasionally, in this 1950s Western series that also gave a television debut to Robert Redford.

Deputy Dawg was, without doubt, Mississippi's laziest lawman.

Thibaud, a half-Arab, half-French knight travels the Holy Land defending the pilgrim route.

American sitcom centred round a successful interior design firm...

Classic British sitcom set in a Peckham barber shop, which is a gathering place for an assortment of local characters

Wisteria Lane is a perfect upper-middle-class American suburb, with beautiful homes, neat lawns, minivans and sport-utility vehicles in the driveways, and an occasional baseball game in the street for the youngsters. But there are troubles beneath the surface.

Lost short-lived BBC spy thriller in which a team of experts in various fields are brought together by the Prime Minister to defeat ruthless saboteurs

BBC anthology series in which each week a different famous literary detective is brought to the screen. The series spawned several long-running series including 'Cluff,' 'Father Brown,' and 'Sherlock Holmes'

"In the beginning this tale tells how I, George, eldest born son of Master Salathiel Treet, strolling player and man of genius, came to have greatness thrust upon me."

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.