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Rellik, BBC One review - tricksy procedural messes with timeTuesday, 12 September 2017
There are two Williams brothers – Jack and Harry – who are mainly known for two series of The Missing. No chance of the Williamses going missing. Quite the reverse. As of today – Monday 11 September – they seem to have cloned. Read more...
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Liar, ITV - who, if anybody, is telling the truth?Tuesday, 12 September 2017
Could handsome, successful, designer-stubbly Ioan Gruffudd really be a rapist? Yes, according to schoolteacher Laura Nielson (Joanne Froggatt). No, according to Gruffudd’s character Andrew Earlham, a distinguished surgeon and widower apparently horrified to be accused of such a thing. Read more... |
Tin Star, Sky Atlantic - broken characters stalked by remorseless fateMonday, 11 September 2017
Sometimes you can find yourself hankering after those old-fashioned TV dramas where you got a self-contained story every week, so you can drop in on it at any time and still keep up with what’s going on. With Tin Star, on the other hand, you need to stick with it for at least four episodes before the scope of the story begins to reveal itself and it starts to exert a painful grip. Read more... |
Cold Feet, series 7, ITV review - more comedy than dramaSaturday, 09 September 2017
When the ITV comedy drama Cold Feet returned last year after a 13-year break, it seemed something of a risk. Looking back, after the near-universal acclaim and excellent viewing figures, it’s difficult to think it could have been anything but a sure-fire hit. Read more... |
Safe House, series 2, ITV review - the abduction and captivity show returnsFriday, 08 September 2017
Forget Christopher Eccleston and the Lake District. Two years on, Ed Whitmore’s ready-mix thriller Safe House returns with Stephen Moyer in Merseyside. Read more... |
Doctor Foster, Series 2, BBC One review - belief suspended for a pacy and tense returnWednesday, 06 September 2017
They say that living well is the best revenge. To be fair, they also say it’s a dish best served cold and I’m pretty sure they’re thinking of gazpacho, so I’m not entirely clear how much real meaning is to be found in these dictums. Read more... |
Imagine... Alma Deutscher: Finding Cinderella, BBC One review - beguiling profile of a musical prodigyTuesday, 05 September 2017
Morag Tinto’s documentary is a profile of composer Alma Deutscher, who hit the headlines at the end of last year when her opera based on the Cinderella story premiered in... Read more... |
Top of the Lake: China Girl, BBC Two, series finale review - torpor not traumaFriday, 01 September 2017
So who killed Cinnamon? Six weeks ago we saw the strangled sex-worker – packed in a pink suitcase – pushed into Bondi Bay. The finale of Top of the Lake: China Girl withheld enlightenment. Puss, the chief suspect, denied responsibility. Why would the baby-farmer destroy such a valuable (pregnant) asset? Read more... |
Educating Greater Manchester, Channel 4 review - a study of hope, humanity and heartFriday, 01 September 2017
Cast your minds back, if you will, to 2011. Remember Jamie Oliver’s Celebrity Fight School? Read more... |
The Great British Bake Off, Channel 4 review – a cake with adverts is still a cakeWednesday, 30 August 2017
By the outrage it prompted, you’d be forgiven for thinking that The Great British Bake Off’s move to Channel 4 was a national disaster. If only the public felt so indignant about the sale of the Post Office, or the creeping privatisation of a beleaguered NHS… but hey-ho, cakes it is, then. Read more... |
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