‘The Hour’ DVD review
This is so immersive a world for the viewer that, after only one episode, we longed to put on a v-neck sweater, grease our hair, and smoke an awful lot of cigarettes.
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This is so immersive a world for the viewer that, after only one episode, we longed to put on a v-neck sweater, grease our hair, and smoke an awful lot of cigarettes.
If you’ve recently seen E4’s comedy drama, Beaver Falls – which looks like Ibsen compared to this – you’ll know the drill.
At some point during the 1980s, Thames Television created an episode of children’s anthology series Dramarama that was so disturbing that we can still vaguely remember it to this day.
Stand By Me is perhaps one of the best coming-of-age movies of all time.
Louis Theroux is one of our best documentarians and this new release of his five most recent films confirms that he is improving with age.
Having set an incredibly high bar with his previous works, We Can Be Heroes and Summer Heights High, Angry Boys is the weakest of Chris Lilley’s mockumentaries to date.
Ian McShane’s rogueish antiques dealer in Lovejoy represents one of the decade’s more dated but well-loved comedy-dramas on British TV.
From the pen of acclaimed crime writer Anthony Horowitz (Foyle’s War, Collision) comes this sleek five-part psychological legal thriller, broadcast across one week on ITV1 earlier this year.
One glance at this recent series looking at the wonders of the human body and you can just picture the TV execs huddled around the desk contemplating a bold ‘event’ documentary delving inside ourselves.
Hoovering up Emmys and Screen Actor’s Guild awards in the US, Monk has been a consistently strong drama since it launched in 2002 and deserves more fans over here in the UK.