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Mercurio Rising: From Bodies to Line of Duty, the climb of the UK TV showrunner
May 12, 2019 | Ian Winterton
With Line of Duty Season 5 having reached its conclusion, fans of the show will be feeling withdrawal symptoms. Happily, various UK streaming services are chock-a-block with writer-creator Jed Mercurio’s back catalogue of hard-hitting dramas. We look back at the … Read More
7 reasons why you should watch Easy on Netflix
May 12, 2019 | David Farnor
This weekend sees Easy return to Netflix, and Joe Swanberg’s anthology series, about a string of Chicagoans stumbling through life and relationships, is as gently remarkable as ever. With the third season also set to be its last, we run … Read More
The May 2019 Watchlist: 27 UK TV highlights for this month
May 8, 2019 | VOD News
Netflix. Amazon Prime Video. BBC iPlayer. NOW. Walter Presents. There’s so much TV to watch these days in so many places that it can be hard to keep up. Every month, we boil down what’s on the box to the … Read More
F1 2019 UK TV calendar: How do I watch the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in the UK?
April 27, 2019 | VOD News
The 2019 F1 season is underway, with Lewis Hamilton once again defending his Formula 1 crown after winning his fifth title in 2018 at the Mexican Grand Prix, making him the most successful British F1 racer of all time. Can … Read More
Game of Thrones: Season 7’s Top 13 moments
April 14, 2019 | David Farnor
With the eighth and final season coming at 2am on Monday 15th April, we count down by looking back at some of the show’s best bits (in no particular order), season by season. The re-watch is dark and full of … Read More
Game of Thrones: Season 6’s Top 9 moments
April 13, 2019 | David Farnor
With the eighth and final season coming at 2am on Monday 15th April, we count down by looking back at some of the show’s best bits (in no particular order), season by season. The re-watch is dark and full of … Read More
Game of Thrones: Season 5’s Top 10 moments
April 11, 2019 | David Farnor
Game of Thrones Season 5 saw HBO’s fantasy epic depart from the books for the first time, and that decision to abbreviate, omit or introduce brand new elements worked both for and against the programme. Accelerating its momentum by stripping … Read More
Game of Thrones: Season 4’s Top 10 moments
April 6, 2019 | David Farnor
If Game of Thrones Season 3 was a story of new unions being formed, Season 4 shook things up by giving us 10 episodes of people battling, competing, killing and splitting up, smashing all those precious alliances and truces against … Read More
The April 2019 Watchlist: 21 UK TV highlights for this month
April 3, 2019 | VOD News
Netflix. Amazon Prime Video. BBC iPlayer. NOW. Walter Presents. There’s so much TV to watch these days in so many places that it can be hard to keep up. Every month, we boil down what’s on the box to the … Read More
Game of Thrones: Season 3’s Top 12 moments
March 30, 2019 | David Farnor
Two words loom over the whole of Game of Thrones Season 3: Red. Wedding. But before that traumatic, violent, shocking climax changed Westeros forever, the third run of HBO’s fantasy is packed with memorable milestones in the unfolding political web … Read More
