Catch up TV reviews: Secret Life of Puppies and Kittens, Bus Garage, It’s Not Me It’s You, Oscar Pistorius

What’s available on-demand on Freeview? Keep up-to-date with our weekly catch-up TV column, including reviews of shows on ITV Hub, new releases on All 4 and a guide to My5.  

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UK TV review: Outlander: Season 2, Episode 12 (The Hail Mary)

Warning: This contains spoilers.

Time and tide wait for no man – and that’s clearer than ever as Outlander Season 2 nears its big, battled-filled finale.

Diana Gabaldon’s story has always been one titled against the odds – romance against … Read More

Netflix UK binge-review: Orange Is the New Black Season 4, Episode 5 and 6

Watch Season 4 of Orange Is the New Black along with us: leave your comments below for Episodes 5 and 6, all spoilers welcome. Not caught up with Season 4? Read our spoiler-free review of the first four episodes here. … Read More

UK TV recap: Legends of Tomorrow, Episode 16 (Legendary)

Legends of Tomorrow has had its fair share of disappointing episodes, so you could be forgiven for experiencing a certain degree of nervousness going into the finale. Happily, as with other superhero shows on the CW network (notably Arrow), the … Read More

UK TV review: Penny Dreadful Season 3 Finale (Episode 8 and 9)

Warning: This contains spoilers.

“It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human.”

The creatures of the night. What music they make. And what music they have made for three seasons during the course of Penny Dreadful … Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Scream Season 2, Episode 4 (Happy Birthday to Me)

Warning: This contains spoilers.

Scream the TV series has so far been a writer’s affair, knowingly playing with the cliches of the genre and unknowingly doing so with ultra-cheesy dialogue. Episode 4 of Season 2, though, proves that it can … Read More

UK TV review: Preacher Season 1, Episode 4 (Monster Swamp)

“You know the rules, I don’t talk about how my meat gets made and you don’t talk about your magic man in the sky.”

Odin Quincannon’s words to Jesse might sound tough in Episode 4 of Preacher, but it seems … Read More

UK TV review: Game of Thrones Season 6, Episode 9 (Battle of the Bastards)

Warning: This contains spoilers.

Was this it? Was this the moment television finally overtook cinema as the pre-eminent popular art form of our age? Given the mediocrity on display at the summer box office, versus what’s being served up to … Read More

UK TV review: Outlander: Season 2, Episode 11 (Vengeance Is Mine)

Warning: This contains spoilers.

It’s not easy being the head of the Jacobite Rebellion. Firstly, your nickname is Bonnie. Secondly, you look and sound like a petulant schoolboy. And thirdly, nobody in your war cabinet can agree on what the … Read More

UK TV review: Penny Dreadful Season 3, Episode 7 (Ebb Tide)

Warning: This contains spoilers.

Who’s the better boyfriend: Dr. Frankenstein or Dracula? Any TV show based around that question deserves to win all the awards. As Penny Dreadful Season 3 nears its conclusion, that dilemma has never been more keenly … Read More