That any given episode of Call the Midwife will be emotional is a given. This show churns out a resonant tearjerker week after week by both showing life’s cruel realities and allowing for glimpses of hope. But, in this episode, the aim is more to stir up feelings of rage and exasperation, as a young teacher in a relationship … >
If there’s a connective thread between this episode of Call the Midwife and last week’s instalment, it’s that both are concerned with people in difficult and unusual situations having to dig deep for strength. Season 5’s opener told the story of a family encountering the effects of the drug Thalidomide, and here we see a couple struggle to deal … >
Call the Midwife is back for its fifth season – and it’s now set in 1961, so we can expect some of the changing attitudes within society start to seep into the drama. The show immediately has a more modern feel in this premiere episode, with a little bit of Mad Men’s style to the costuming and the feeling … >
BBC One has released a trailer for the new season of Call the Midwife. The drama returns at 8pm on Sunday 17 January on BBC One, following last month’s Christmas special. > Buy the complete Season 1-4 box set on Amazon. In the first of eight new episodes, Easter 1961 is approaching, and for the … >
Picking things up after the more heartbreaking and downbeat end to its fourth season, Call the Midwife returns to BBC One for its annual Christmas special. Like last year’s festive instalment, and many other episodes of the show, it juggles a significant number of storylines. There are probably about five separately identifiable intersecting strands to the episode’s plot, … >
Writer Toby Whithouse has confirmed that The Game has been axed. Set in the secretive world of 1970s espionage, the six-part drama launched on BBC Two in April, starring Tom Hughes (Silk) and Brian Cox (The Bourne Supremacy). Whithouse announced on Twitter yesterday: “Sad to confirm that there’ll be no 2nd series of The Game. … >
If there’s one thing the finale of BBC Two’s The Game makes abundantly clear, it’s that Toby Whithouse should really write a DCI Jim Fenchurch spin-off. One where, each week, Shaun Dooley gets to be angry at a criminal such as a KGB agent or someone who nicked the money from the Post Office till. … >
The Game is BBC Two’s new spy thriller series from Being Human creator Toby Whithouse. Set in the secretive world of 1970s espionage, the six-part drama stars Tom Hughes (Silk), Brian Cox (The Bourne Supremacy), Paul Ritter (Quantum Of Solace), Shaun Dooley (Misfits), Chloe Pirrie (Black Mirror), Victoria Hamilton (What Remains), Jonathan Aris (Sherlock) and Judy Parfitt … >
It’s another week of The Game, so it’s another round of Commie-catching cat and mouse. That is, it would be if the cat and his colleagues had to wear trench coats and keep a discreet distance as the mouse went about its secret mouse business of selling cheese secrets or blueprints of mouse-traps. Can Arkady, … >
Watching The Game is like learning to appreciate good single malt. It’s a complex and carefully-crafted thing that you’d probably love to drink faster, but which you’re meant to just sip at, as the plot unfolds at its own pace. If you want a spy drama you can chug, The Game is not for you. … >