After the surprise success that was Season 1 of the US sitcom Modern Family, the natural question arose – would the makers of this show be able to continue the high quality of the award-winning and ratings smash?
Being Human creator Toby Whithouse returns to Doctor Who once more with a nightmare hotel, David Walliams as a mole and a couple of shocks up his sleeve. But does it continue the fine run of episodes?
After last week’s opening instalment of Appropriate Adult, which was concerned with the police investigation into the killings of Fred and Rose West, the action shifts for this concluding part.
Few comedies can successfully turn physics into punchlines, but The Big Bang Theory hits its fourth year on DVD with a confident and unashamedly nerdy stride.
One of the countless great things about Doctor Who is the way an episode can change in a heartbeat, ending up a million miles away from where it started.
‘This is a good idea with bad possibilities,’ one of the principal characters in BBC Three’s new pre-apocalyptic drama The Fades announces at the beginning of this opening episode, and it’s a fair summing up.
Like a chronic drunk stumbling through the streets after kicking-out time, Miracle Day has tripped over its own feet and staggered under its own weight so many times that its final collapse into a heap seemed inevitable.
As Dexter villains go, the Trinity Killer (John Lithgow) – with his love of deer, family, opening femoral arteries and his Yoda-like fascination for the show’s hero – was always going to be a hard act to follow.
Forty-five years after its original transmission as part of The Wednesday Play series, the BBC have re-released one of director Ken Loach’s most feted early works on DVD.
If the opening instalment of this likeable adaptation of Denise Mina’s novel overdid the ‘80s retro and the Raintown-esque Glaswegian backdrops, the concluding part matches the wistful nostalgia with dark good humour and a seedy, side-street splendour.