While we start to settle down for winter, with our TV guides delivered via Magazines Direct and our onesies and prepare for a cosy season of great telly, it’s a good time to reflect on some of the most iconic moments in UK TV – because there are quite a few to reminisce on! Here … >
It was pretty big news back in September that Netflix has picked up 12 new episodes of Black Mirror, ensuring that we haven’t seen the last of Charlie Brooker’s anthology popular show. It seems that the eerie and unsettling world is posed for even bigger and disturbing things to come, which is of course why … >
Winter is coming, which means it’s time to drop the tinsel and start thinking about what to get the ultimate TV fan in your life this Christmas. After all, it can’t be novelty-themed socks every year. You want to give them something that they’ll love and which, more importantly, won’t be easily obscured by a shoe. … >
BBC One’s Our Girl started life as a 90-minute TV movie that struck a chord with viewers in the UK and drew in over 6 million viewers. The army drama was popular enough to ensure that a full season was commissioned, gaining new fans in the US, Canada and Australia. What was it about Molly … >
Your TV is a prime and significant source of your entertainment. Be it favorite TV shows, gaming, or Netflix, you really can’t live without it. So what happens when your TV suddenly malfunctions? What happens when you get no picture, or can’t get a specific input to function? Or when black bars are suddenly flooding … >
History and time travel collide in the classic BBC adaptation of Alison Uttley’s acclaimed novel, A Traveller in Time, finally out on DVD this month. > Buy A Traveller in Time on DVD on Amazon. What was it about? Twentieth century London teenager Penelope Taberner Cameron is sent to stay with her aunt on … >
It is common for people to check out a review before going to watch a movie. It is increasingly important for the movie to have a good rating – after all, people do not wish to waste their money or time on something which will not be interesting and up to the mark. Due to … >
Sometimes the use of games like poker and chess in television and film are not as random as you might think. Rather, the inclusion of main characters engaging in games is as important to the story as the main plotline itself. Usage of games is a clever storytelling technique to give the viewer an opportunity … >
Well, would you look at that, we’re nearing the end of Season 9. Whoosh. Don’t feel blue. We’ve got some exciting stuff to come: something involving Rigsy and a raven, an episode solely featuring Peter Capaldi, and (hopefully) the resolution of this season’s main story arc: the ‘Hybrid’. The Hybrid isn’t the only arc this … >
Guaranteed to infuriate anyone who likes to refer to Doctor Who stories with acronyms, this week’s ‘The Zygon Inversion’ was the conclusion of the two-part tale which began with ‘The Zygon Invasion’. With the Doctor granted a pivotal speech on the futility of war, Clara was also busy; first entrapped and then manipulating “Bonnie”, her … >