It would be easy to decry the idea of creating an updated version of 1972’s ‘Day of the Daleks’ with modern CGI as a doomed attempt to polish a turd – too easy, in fact.
The premise of The Strange World Of Gurney Slade sounds like a 1960’s TV precursor to The Truman Show: a sitcom actor walks off the set in the middle of a live episode only to find that the ‘real world’ is in fact a sitcom.
It’s a wonder there are still new crimes to cover now that there are exactly 108 (a complicated lab test involving iodine was used to determine this number) variants of the CSI franchise.
The Arthurian legend is retold once again in the Starz series Camelot. Taking its cue from other recent dramatic reinterpretations of historical tales and myths, this is a dark and gritty version of the legend.
Probably the best of cult 1960s TV producer Irwin Allen’s shows, The Time Tunnel is perhaps best known for its much-lampooned opening title sequence.
No, Angela Lansbury fans, it’s not that Beauty And The Beast. But, in its own way, it is a tale as old as time: district attorney city girl falls in love with subterranean lion-human hybrid. We’ve all been there.
You could guarantee the existence of Doctor Who in the seventies, come strikes, droughts, changes of government or comedians defecting to ITV. And usually, like ‘The Sun Makers’, it was pretty damn good.
For lovers of slow-motion jiggling everywhere, it’s the fourth season of Baywatch; a quite remarkable confection of sea-based melodrama, intercut with soft rock video montages and lots (and lots) of running. Made at a time before David Hasselhoff discovered irony, the Hoff takes the lead with a dewy-eyed conviction in the homespun American values of … >
Bored To Death is one of those shows where you almost wish it was bad, just so you could use the title itself as a cheap gag review. Unfortunately, that isn’t possible in this particular instance.
Nobody ever said that cop shows had to be realistic to be effective. Okay, they did, and in some cases they were almost certainly right, but the maxim doesn’t apply to BBC One’s Luther.