Doctor Gabriel Monroe (James Nesbitt), the titular and principal character in Peter Bowker’s entertaining ITV1 drama series, is a neurosurgeon at St Matthew’s Hospital in Leeds. His wit is as incisive as his scalpel and his private life is as messily traumatic as the injuries of the people upon whom he operates.
The second season of Nurse Jackie demonstrates quite how wonderful and under-rated this show is. Edie Falco was consistently one of the best things about The Sopranos over its six season tenure and so a starring TV vehicle for the actress was warmly welcomed when Nurse Jackie premiered in 2009.
A new époque is ushered in at ad agency Sterling Cooper as Mad Men goes from strength to strength with its fourth season, set in the heart of the swinging sixties.
1973’s four-part ‘Carnival Of Monsters’ comes just on the wrong side of ‘classic’ Jon Pertwee and as such is unlikely to be sleeping in the memories of many baby-boomers – no giant green maggots or Sea Devils here – but it’s still a sharply defined adventure.
The Doctor, Tegan and Turlough arrive in 1980s London, finding themselves embroiled in a plot involving some old villains and a couple of guest stars from the world of light entertainment.
The third and seemingly final run of metal’s best fake cartoon band continues the high bloodening of the previous shows of yore.
John Barrowman and Bill Pullman will head to Cannes next week to promote the upcoming Torchwood: Miracle Day at MIPTV 2011.
ITV has announced production on Titanic, an epic new six-part drama written by Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey, Gosford Park and The Young Victoria).
Kind can mean a group, the ability to treat others well, and – if your German translation isn’t that hot – child. It’s that mixture of youthfulness, shared experience, and compassion (or lack thereof) that make up the main themes of Christopher And His Kind.
The episode titles for Doctor Who‘s opening two-parter of Series 6 have been revealed. Episode 1 is ‘The Impossible Astronaut’ and Episode 2 is ‘Day Of The Moon’.