With the David Fincher/Kevin Spacey backed US version of House of Cards currently wowing critics and audiences alike on Netflix, now seems a perfect time as ever to revisit the classic BBC version on DVD and Blu-ray.
Lawks a mercy! That was a camp confection and no mistake!
As a writer, Mark Gatiss doesn’t so much wear his influences on his sleeve as parade them like a popinjay. So it should come as no surprise that he is singularly suited to assembling such a preposterous patchwork of period pastiche.
It’s difficult to say now how Spartacus will be remembered, but the members of its vocal fanbase are sure to keep recommending the show to anyone and everyone who’ll listen and it wouldn’t be surprising to see that legion of fans become something much larger as the series is exposed to a wider audience through DVDs.
The X-Files star Gillian Anderson returns to British TV, aided by Once Upon A Time‘s Jamie Dornan, in BBC Two’s brilliant new five-part investigative thriller, The Fall.
From writer Lucy Gannon (Soldier Soldier) comes Frankie, a new BBC One drama series set in the world of district nursing, starring Eve Myles (Torchwood) and Dean Lennox Kelly (Shameless).
A more sedate episode than last week’s barnstormer, ‘Kissed By Fire’ gives us a new insight into several characters, while the spectre of Ned haunts the Stark children.
We don’t know what’s more impressive: that Shakespearean stalwarts Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi are finally working together, or that it’s in an ITV sitcom which is actually funny.
Mark Gatiss is a man who knows his Who and – as his past BBC documentaries attest – he’s also a scholar of horror. After the tension of ‘Cold War’ Gatiss blends his twin passions together into a frothing tankard of a script, ‘The Crimson Horror’; a bonkers draught of fun and scares. It’s ‘Whorror’. Oh, no… no, we’re never saying that again…
Ever since its title was first announced, this has been one of the most eagerly anticipated episodes of this run of Doctor Who.
Writer Paula Milne returns to the political arena with a sequel, of sorts (but not really), to her 1995 Channel 4 series, The Politician’s Wife (starring Juliet Stevenson and Trevor Eve).