After suffering some unsteady Christmas scheduling, Dickensian is settling down for a regular Wednesday/Thursday night slot. God bless us, everyone! Because even at a time when an audience can record, download, binge, and then awkwardly chill while the dog’s not watching, there’s no better way to kill a show – especially one that acts like … >
Hurrah! Silent Witness is back on our screens. It feels an age since Season 18 concluded last February and now we can finally catch up with the latest hard-hitting cases for our favourite pathologists. ‘After the Fall’ is a dramatic, often tense and at times deeply psychological opener which features Dr. Nikki Alexander (Emilia Fox) … >
Based on David Walliams’ book of the same name, Billionaire Boy is the inspiring story of one man’s quest to unleash his potential to become an exceptionally terrible person with the help of a miraculous windfall – or possibly the story of one boy’s discovery that wealth isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. We … >
A new episode of Sherlock is a rare treasure that only emerges once every blue moon and causes by its very existence a feverish excitement among its fanbase. Two years on from the third season, we have a one-off special to tide us over. ‘The Abominable Bride’ carries off from where we left Sherlock in … >
Happy New Year, Dickensian fans. Tip of the topper and a toast raised to you. Dickens wrote about new year, y’know, in a short story called ‘The Chimes’. ‘A new heart, for a new year, always!’ is the only quote anyone remembers from it, and that’s only because it sounds like a good idea that’ll … >
Off the back of three terrific, exciting episodes, Jessica Jones slows down a little for a final set of episodes that generally bring things to a satisfying conclusion. Most Netflix shows with a thirteen episode run tend to lack enough story to fill all 13, leading to a fair bit of padding in the later … >
BBC Two’s We’re Doomed! The Dad’s Army Story is very like the show that inspired it. It’s an ensemble piece where each player has their own little moment, yet again and again it comes back to its two lead characters. The leads here are writer Jimmy Perry and writer/producer David Croft. Though not exactly the … >
In what is hopefully becoming an annual Christmas tradition, Harry Hill returns to BBC One as Professor Branestawm in – appropriately enough – Professor Branestawm Returns. There’s enough deliciously inventive books from Norman Hunter to plough through to give us material for at least a few more years, and those grown up kids who fear … >
Christmas is a time of traditions: The Queen’s Speech, Christmas Dinner, presents and time spent with family or watching the TV. Among the many seasonal programmes – tucked between the Dickens, the comedy specials and the family films – there is always something more supernatural to spice up the holiday viewing. This year ITV has … >
Always nice to splurge a bit at Christmas isn’t it? Clearly the BBC, with its unashamed pro-sprout agenda, agrees. No need to ask ‘Please sir, may have I some more?’ as we’re treated to another two helpings of Dickensian. Given its serial nature, I’m going to lump both eps together in this review but it’s … >