Comedian Steve Hall’s TV choices

Described as “the most intelligent stand-up you’ve never heard of” by GQ and “wonderfully misanthropic” by the Sunday Times, comedian Steve Hall will be performing his solo show at the Edinburgh Fringe this August. Steve Hall’s Very Still Life will be “a show about achieving things, if I can be bothered to write it”, says … >

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‘The Hour’: Episode 2 review

Last week’s opening episode of BBC Two’s latest foray into quality original period drama featured a lot of set-up. That’s not to say it was dull – far from it – but at times the exposition threatened to overwhelm.

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‘Treme’: Season 1 Blu-ray review

Treme is one of the greatest TV shows that you don’t watch but really should do. The brainchild of David Simon, creator of The Wire and Generation Kill, Treme is a sprawling ten-part series focusing on the good folks of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

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‘The Big C’: Season 1 DVD review

“Cancer is not a gift; cancer is not a passport to a better life.” So says Laura Linney as Cathy, the lead in the US channel Showtime’s new dark sitcom, The Big C. Kinney’s line, in rebuke to some happy-clapping Bible support group members, could also be taken as a rejection of possible preconceptions about this show.

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