Reviews

Influential humorous improvisation series hosted by Clive Anderson - starring a myriad of quick-witted comedians.

Agatha Christie's delightfully twisty tale of amateur sleuths, deadly secrets, and one unforgettable question. Bobby Jones discovers a gravely injured man at the foot of a cliff. With his last breath, the stranger utters a baffling question: "Why didn’t they ask Evans?"

Much maligned children's magazine series which, despite its critics, ran for 22 years

After their husband's are killed, four widows plan a daring armed robbery.

Think classic Western, espionage thriller, and science fiction romp all rolled into one, with a good helping of humour. In short, it was “James Bond on horseback.”

In the post Victorian era a group of working-class women are discovering a feisty new spirit as their thoughts turn to the suffrage movement

An author of suspense thrillers gets caught up in real life mysteries.

In New York City a gay lawyer and his best friend a straight Jewish woman share an apartment.

Series based on Richmal Crompton’s Just William books, starring young Dennis Waterman as the scruffy, mischievous schoolboy William Brown, the eternally eleven-year-old ringleader of chaos

First published in 1908, Kenneth Grahame's classic children's story was turned into an innovative series by Anglia Television in 1970...

Originally a Comedy Playhouse presentation from 1968, this was one of those rare beasts that was made into a full series but with an entirely different cast with entirely different character names.

Two three-times widowed sisters share a house and begin their search for husbands number four.

BAFTA nominated eight-part drama series based on Winston Churchill's enforced political exile during the 1920s and 1930s, starring Robert Hardy and an all-star cast

Brutally real drama series, set in Baltimore, USA. The Wire centres around the city's inner-city drug scene, the dealers and the law enforcement agency that tries to bring them down.

Geralt of Rivia, a solitary monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than monsters and beasts.

Animated dark fantasy spin-off of the Netflix series The Witcher, which tells the origin story of a young witcher who slays monsters for money and glory, but has to face his past when a new threat emerges

Set within the stark confines of a women's prison, the series broke new ground with its predominantly female cast, offering a compelling portrait of institutional life, where duty, dignity, and personal conflict simmer beneath a veneer of order

An FBI taskforce is assigned to find people who have gone missing without trace

Bold, unflinching, and unlike anything the average household had seen on the small screen. It dared to pull back the curtain on a hidden side of London life, offering a grim but truthful composite of the thousands of women who, night after night, plied their trade on the city's streets

US Sitcom centered round a radio station

Drama series about a Canadian coroner

The BBC's excellent award-winning historical drama on the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII

Glossy, graphic and often gruesome teen horror series starring Sarah Michelle Gellar

The BBC’s adaptation of The Woman in White brought Wilkie Collins’ classic Victorian thriller to television in a six-part serial. With its gothic atmosphere and intricate plot the production aimed to capture the suspense and intrigue of the original novel for a new generation of viewers

Jenny Seagrove, Deborah Kerr and Liam Neeson bring to life Barbara Taylor Bradford's bestselling romantic novel about a bright and ambitious servant girl, who overcomes her impoverished beginnings to become a retailing magnate

Years before “recycling” and “environmentally friendly” became part of our everyday language, 'The Wombles' captured the imagination of a generation of children with their comical antics and the simple motto "Make Good Use of Bad Rubbish."

Well acted, very well directed, and extremely well produced - Woman at War is an emotional period drama set in 1914 during World War One, and pays tribute to the countless women who broke free from their gender roles to serve their country