‘Frankie’: Episode 1 review
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).
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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).
With sombre opening music and shots slowly panning over a body we are introduced to writer/director Joe Aherne’s rather serious take on vampires.
2008’s Iron Man was the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to be released, and it’s the film that set the template and paved the way for all those that followed.
“Dracarys”. And with that word, Game of Thrones fans around the world leap out of their seat and punch the air in solidarity with the queen of dragons.
Imagine Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. Imagining it? Good. Brilliant, isn’t it? Now, imagine that said chocolate factory is about to explode – BOOM, wibbly-wobbly chocolatey-wocolateyness everywhere – and that a bewildered Charlie is trapped, wandering through rooms of marvellous impossible treats, while Willy Wonka is planning to rescue him. Now, replace ‘chocolate’ with ‘time’, switch a few names, and you’ve got ‘Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS’.