After last week’s episode the Internet jury is still out on whether Ross Poldark is a rapist. Some of the audience think not, others think so. A drama about sexy mining has suddenly become a sex-offending minefield. Seeing the reaction over the past week has been like watching 12 Angry Men, if 12 Angry Men … >
Nine weeks after their rather fractious adventure in Moscow, which resulted in a bust up between the pair, we pick up with Hooten on the trail of another fabled item; this time the wish-fulfilling Chintamani jewel. Searching in the Cambodian jungle, Tomb Raider style, he is on the trail of artefacts which hold clues to … >
Well obviously, the winner of The Great British Bake Off 2016 is Candice. In practical terms, it always was going to be. A baker who was determined to do the best she could, whose meeting of own personal expectations of her levels of excellence were probably more important to her than the Bake Off trophy … >
As we head into the second episode of ITV’s new supernatural horror drama, HIM, the bright points of the show are starting to shine through. However, a few of the glaring missteps in its production are all too evident as well, leading to a mixed bag of an episode. “He kept doing that fight or … >
John Williams is a name that is truly ubiquitous when discussing film music; especially when discussing iconic film music. Last night London’s Royal Festival Hall played host to The Best of John Williams in concert. A man who is arguably a legend in his own time, Williams is responsible for so many instantly recognisable movie … >
After a busy series opener and a slightly less frenetic, if rather gory follow-up, Class settles in to its weekly pattern with ‘Nightvisiting’, which draws its beautifully macabre premise from the notion of the dead returning to visit those left behind. Despite seeing a fair amount of death on the show already, the episode focused … >
In another busy month from the Doctor Who audio producers, we celebrate Torchwood’s Tenth Anniversary with the special release ‘The Torchwood Archive’ and John Hurt returns in another trio of adventures for the ‘The War Doctor Volume 3: Agents of Chaos’. Also, those stalwart Victorian investigators of the infernal, Jago & Litefoot notch up their … >
The final episode of Red Dwarf XI is as funny as it is frustrating. In ‘Can of Worms’, the crew run into a female felis sapien – i.e. a lady version of Cat. However, Cat’s dream-come-true isn’t all that she appears to be… The gang discover that she’s actually a polymorph (a shapeshifting creature, for … >
Howard Overman clearly loves a good grave digging. Just like the early episodes of his other E4 hit Misfits, this week we find our main characters getting rid of a corpse under cover of nightfall. Deliberate running trend or just a bit of a coincidence? We may never know… What we do know though is … >
Cold Feet has spent the past seven weeks proving that not all revivals have to be terrible. But with the sixth season coming to a close, and all sorts of plot points still to be resolved, could it keep the quality up? There’s one thing to know about last night’s finale; the characters are positively tripping over … >