‘The Hour’: Series 2 preview
Everything in The Hour, from the production design to the music, succeeds in evoking a world of stale, whisky-sodden patriarchy.
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Everything in The Hour, from the production design to the music, succeeds in evoking a world of stale, whisky-sodden patriarchy.
Oh, Downton Abbey – how could you? You go through an entire world war and barely kill off a soul, and now you sacrifice the youngest and demurest of them all!
The central conceit of the show is there, gloriously and shamelessly, in the title. This is a world where magic and sci-fi collide.
There are times when Downton Abbey resembles nothing so much as an episode of French and Saunders.
Downton Abbey returns for a third series this weekend and Cora’s mother sweeps into Downton for Matthew and Mary’s wedding.
The year is 1920 and it’s a great starting point for Downton’s characteristic exploration of the subtleties and nuances of social mores.
Starring Jon Pertwee as the Doctor, classic Doctor Who adventure Death to the Daleks is out now on DVD.
Caroline John, the news of whose death on 5th June has been confirmed today, made for an atypical Doctor Who companion when she entered the series in 1970.
The action is so po-faced and the themes so familiar from other, better Pertwee stories that it’s hard to care.
One Doctor Who story that has deserved rather more acclaim than it has been accustomed to getting is 1988’s The Happiness Patrol.