Reviews

Last Tango in Halifax

Last Tango in Halifax (2012)

Last Tango in Halifax

Alan and Celia, both widowed and in their seventies, rekindle a passionate relationship that fate stole from them over sixty years ago

The Last Tycoon

The Last Tycoon (2016)

The Last Tycoon

F. Scott Fitzgerald's last novel is an absorbing trip back to Hollywood's not-so-Golden Age and centers on its first wunderkind studio executive in the 1930s, and the power struggle between him and his mentor and current head of the studio.

The Latchkey Children

The Latchkey Children (1980)

The Latchkey Children

When they discover that their favourite meeting place is about to be 'modernised', five youngsters decide to fight their local authority. Drama based Eric Allen's prize-winning short novel which was used in many schools' curricula for years

The Laughing Policeman

The Laughing Policeman (1974)

The Laughing Policeman

Deryck Guyler with an assortment of musically minded puppets in a fun lunchtime music show aimed at pre-school children from Yorkshire Television

Law & Order TV series

Law & Order (1990)

Law & Order TV series

Dick Wolf's unique, multi-award winning, two-tiered examination of the complex mechanics of the American justice system.

The League of Gentlemen

The League of Gentlemen (1999)

The League of Gentlemen

Following in the mighty footsteps of Monty Python and influencing popular follow-ups like Little Britain, The League of Gentlemen always felt that little bit more twisted.

Leave it to Todhunter

Leave it to Todhunter (1958)

Leave it to Todhunter

Long lost six part BBC serial about a man who commits the perfect murder only for his deed to have unexpected consequences. 'Full of suspense and a great deal of humour - in some cases rather macabre'

The Legend of Vox Machina

The Legend of Vox Machina (2022)

The Legend of Vox Machina

A band of eight unlikely heroes, find themselves on a quest to save the realm of Exandria from dark magical forces in this animated series that was originally funded via Kickstarter

Lenny the Lion

The Lenny the Lion Show (1957)

Lenny the Lion

Hugely popular children's show that began on BBC in 1956. Terry Hall was one of the first ventriloquists to use an animal rather than a little boy...

Leonardo tv series 2021

Leonardo (2021)

Leonardo tv series 2021

Amazon Prime's bio-series dramatizing Leonardo da Vinci's extraordinary life through the works that made him famous, and through the stories hidden within those works

The Liars (1966)

'Lost' series of short stories about a family of liars who tell tall tales for their own amusement, which range from the hilarious to the macabre

Wyatt Earp TV Series

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955)

Wyatt Earp TV Series

Consistently good Western Series starring Hugh O'Brian about the famous US Marshal, whose trademark was a pair of "Buntline Special" pistols with extra-long barrels with which he kept the peace.

Life On Mars TV Series

Life on Mars (2006)

Life On Mars TV Series

"My name is Sam Tyler. I had an accident and woke up in 1973. Am I mad, in a coma, or back in time? Whatever's happened it's like I'm on a different planet. Now maybe if I can work out the reason...I can get home."

Life with Lucy

Life with Lucy (1986)

Life with Lucy

She was the Queen of Television Comedy, but Lucille Ball’s fourth and final series was an all-around disaster. What happened to the Lucy we loved?

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

The Lifes and Loves of a She-Devil (1986)

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

BBC drama serial adapted from Fay Weldon's 1983 novel about the destruction of love and the burning need for revenge when a dowdy wife discovers her husband is having an affair with a glamourous romantic novelist

Life's Too Short TV series

Life's Too Short (2011)

Life's Too Short TV series

Warwick Davis stars as a showbiz dwarf in this comedy written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.

The Likely Lads

The Likely Lads (1964)

The Likely Lads

A Sharply scripted comedy of character and wryly observed social change both series held a perceptively laughter gilded mirror to the changing face of the work-deprived industrial North East and of British society during the middle nineteen-sixties and early seventies.

Lillie TV Series

Lillie (1978)

Lillie TV Series

Excellent BAFTA Award winning production about "The Jersey Lily"; a British-American socialite, actress and producer who charmed Victorian London.

Lilyhammer

Lilyhammer (2012)

Lilyhammer

A New York mobster goes into hiding in rural Lillehammer in Norway after testifying against his former associates.

The Lincoln Lawyer

The Lincoln Lawyer (2022)

The Lincoln Lawyer

American legal drama based on the books of Michael Connelly in which a defence attorney in Los Angeles works out of a chauffeur-driven Lincoln Navigator

Lipstick on Your Collar

Lipstick on Your Collar (1993)

Lipstick on Your Collar

Dennis Potter's witty and moving musical drama that takes a nostalgic dive into 1950s Britain was among the last works of the highly acclaimed writer

David Kossoff in Little Big Business

Little Big Business (1964)

David Kossoff in Little Big Business

Standard sitcom starring David Kossoff as a wise but stubborn furniture maker who resists his son's attempts at modernisation.

David Walliams and Matt Lucas

Little Britain (2003)

David Walliams and Matt Lucas

Surreal, disturbing, crossing the boundary of good taste, Little Britain features some of the most grotesque characters ever seen on television.

Little House on the Prairie

Little House on the Prairie (1974)

Little House on the Prairie

A beloved classic of American television which follows the life and adventures of the Ingalls family in the nineteenth century American Midwest