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Netflix UK TV review: People Just Do Nothing (Season 2)
August 16, 2016 | David Farnor
“Never underestimate the power of spray painting things gold. It triples the value.” Those are the words of Chabuddy G, entrepreneur, owner of the UK’s only dial-up Internet cafe, and friend of Kurupt FM, Brentwood’s second biggest pirate radio station.
VOD film review: The Commune
July 29, 2016 | Matthew Turner
An experiment in communal living takes a fraught turn in this compelling Danish comedy-drama.Read More
VOD film review: Summertime (La Belle Saison)
July 16, 2016 | Ian Loring
Great performances and quietly devastating material combine to make Summertime a real treat.Read More
9 reasons you should be watching Happy Valley
July 10, 2016 | Matthew Turner
Season 3 premieres on 1st January 2023.
Wherever you were in May 2014, it’s a cast-iron certainty that at some point you heard a variation on the phrase, “Oh my goodness, did you see Happy Valley last night?” The first … Read More
Netflix UK film review: Notes on Blindness
July 1, 2016 | Matthew Turner
This skilfully made, profoundly moving British documentary explores and illuminates the experience of blindness.Read More
UK TV review: Detectorists
June 1, 2016 | David Farnor
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
May 29, 2016 | David Farnor
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
May 8, 2016 | David Farnor
“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
April 19, 2016 | David Farnor
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)
April 9, 2016 | David Farnor
“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
