Netflix UK film review: Notes on Blindness

This skilfully made, profoundly moving British documentary explores and illuminates the experience of blindness.Read More

UK TV review: Detectorists

Dig past the tranquil surface of this gentle comedy and there’s real treasure here. Read More

Review: Top Gear – and why it could learn a thing or two from BBC Three’s Extra Gear

Top Gear without Clarkson, Hammond and May? The BBC reboot was always damned if it did and damned if it didn’t. And, sure enough, the first episode aired with Twitter in full backlash mode. Some were angry it was too … Read More

Why W1A should be your next box set

“That’s all good, then,” says Ian Fletcher, Head of Values at the BBC after another unproductive group discussion. For anyone who watched mockumentary Twenty Twelve – or saw Season 1 of this Beeb-themed follow-up – Ian Fletcher’s (Hugh Bonneville) defeated … Read More

Shakespeare Day Live: The full BBC iPlayer line-up

Saturday 23rd April marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death – and BBC iPlayer is celebrating in style.

Shakespeare Day Live will take place across the whole of Saturday, with a host of events streaming live on a dedicated pop-up … Read More

BBC Three box set review: In the Flesh (Season 1)

“You get bitten. You come back. We’ve seen it in the films. That’s how it works.”

That’s one of the residents in Roarton, Lancashire, a town where the dead have started coming back to life. Zombies? In a TV show? … Read More

BBC Three TV review: Flat TV

The words “flatshare” and “sitcom” may not fill you with excitement, but Flat TV, BBC Three’s latest new comedy series, defies your expectations (and its title) throughout: it doesn’t fall flat once.

The show follows Tom and Naz, two twenty-something … Read More

The best films and TV shows on BBC iPlayer (20th March 2016)

We review the best TV shows and films currently available on BBC iPlayer. (Click here to skip to our reviews of the best movies on BBC iPlayer.)

Sport Relief

Catching up with a whole night of live TV fundraising … Read More

The best films and TV shows on BBC iPlayer (13th March 2016)

We review the best TV shows and films currently available on BBC iPlayer. (Click here to skip to our reviews of the best movies on BBC iPlayer.)

Trapped

“It seems more than likely that someone was murdered and dismembered … Read More

Why The Fades should be your next box set

“They are the dead and they’re trapped here. When people die, they go up or stay here. Those that stay here, we call them the Fades… The problem? You imagine being trapped in a world you can’t touch, can’t taste. … Read More