Since 2014, Big Finish’s loving recreations of The Avengers’ lost episodes have transported us back to the formative years of a much loved cult classic. With a harder edge and less absurdity than it became known for, the show was a crime drama which focused on Dr David Keel and the enigmatic spy who regularly … >
Lev Grossman’s trilogy TV adaptation is back for its second season and I, for one, cannot be happier. The first season finale left fans hanging on by their fingernails as the team from Brakebills has their showdown with the Big Bad Martin Chatwin. He dispatches them quickly enough, even Alice, who has levelled up to … >
“Life is hard in Fortitude,” says series creator Simon Donald, and after the events of Season 1, it’s difficult not to agree with him. Sky Atlantic’s Arctic horror series Fortitude returns for its second season, revealing the aftermath of the prehistoric wasp attack that threatened to tear the town apart and setting out new threats … >
Her story may be over on television, but Alex Kingston’s time travelling archaeologist continues to thrive on audio. While last year’s debut season saw her encounter the Eighth, and she has subsequently starred in his Doom Coalition saga, this second box set allows Ms Song to cross Doctors Six and Seven off her temporal bucket … >
“I can’t plead biology. Sex may be an animal pleasure but adultery, I’m discovering, is a human one.” Westminster is a place that has seen many historic speeches, political scandals and let’s be honest, a few extra marital quickies too. It is in these famous halls Yvonne (Emily Watson) meets a confident stranger determined to be … >
‘Gloriana’ feels as though it’s been constructed as the series finale to a different programme. Consider the ending of the show. Elizabeth’s final scene, now named Elizabeth Regina rather than Elizabeth Windsor, feels like it’s supposed to be this great milestone; akin, perhaps, to the first time a superhero puts on their costume and takes … >
It’s now August of 1940 and Americans are leaving London—and the Halcyon—in droves. German propaganda leaflets are being dropped along the coast and dogfights are taking place in the air above the hotel. Rather than run for cover, the intrepid Brits stand in the street and applaud RAF victories. Joe O’Hara’s boss has offered him … >
We are now midway through the second season of ITV’s gripping crime drama. DCI Cassie Stuart and her colleague DS Sunny Khan (Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar) continue to demonstrate a relaxed working relationship with each other which makes compelling viewing. The pair’s acting is never contrived, never competitive, but both seem to intuitively know the next … >
Big Finish’s latest three-disc Torchwood release is not set in Cardiff, nor does it contain any Captain Jack. Instead it gives us a few days in the life of the Canary Wharf headquarters before it was so rudely destroyed by Daleks and Cybermen. Titled Torchwood One: Before the Fall, it stars Tracy-Ann Oberman as Yvonne Hartman … >
Winston Churchill is a difficult individual to get to grips with. On the one hand, he’s revered for having steered Britain through World War Two, oft credited with having held a key role in the eventual victory of the Allies. Indeed, it’s because of these achievements that he’s typically considered one of Britain’s greatest politicians, … >