Netflix UK TV review: Scream Season 2, Episode 3

Warning: This contains spoilers.

Will she or won’t she? That’s the question we’re left with by the end of Episode 3 of Scream’s second season. It’s a significantly more exciting question than the previous one: Did she or didn’t she? … Read More

Why The Living and the Dead should be your next box set

More than your average ghost story, this creepy, character-driven drama is a pastoral horror show to savour.Read More

Catch up TV reviews: Eurotrash, Gogglesprogs, Interview with a Murderer

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.  

(For BBC TV reviews and round-ups, see our … Read More

Why you should be watching UnREAL on Amazon Prime Video

There is something very fitting about the fact that it was Lifetime which picked up the darkly brilliant drama UnREAL last year. The natural home of the kind of output popular with predominately female viewers – from TV movies that … Read More

Amazon pilot reviews: The Interestings, The Last Tycoon, Little Big Awesome and more

Amazon’s summer 2016 pilot season is here, with two adult dramas and six kids’ series available for anyone (including non-Amazon Prime Video subscribers) to stream for free. Audience feedback is then used to choose which pilots get commissioned to become … Read More

10 years on: How YouTube’s Lonelygirl15 help invent the web series

Say the words “Lonelygirl15” to someone these days and you’ll likely be met with faint recognition. “Oh yeah, that YouTube hoax”, they might say. “How long ago was that?” The answer is 10 years ago.

16th June 2006. That was … Read More

Why you should be watching BBC Three’s Murder in Successville

This hilarious, inventive improv crime comedy series is one of the most unique things on TV.Read More

First look Netflix UK TV review: Orange Is the New Black Season 4

This spoiler-free review is based on Episodes 1 to 4 of Orange Is the New Black Season 4.

Gangsta with an “a” is how Piper describes herself at the start of Orange Is the New Black Season 4. It’s exactly … Read More

UK TV review: Game of Thrones Season 6, Episode 8 (No-One)

Warning: This contains spoilers.

The time for talking is nearly over and the time for hitting and stabbing is as good as upon us. No-One was an episode steeped in the promise of violence, the notion of violence, and actual … Read More

UK TV review: Penny Dreadful Season 3, Episode 6

Warning: This contains spoilers.

“There is only one defence against isolation: be with those you love.” That’s one of Penny Dreadful’s underlying themes right there – the strength of outsiders who would normally be alienated and alone uniting and supporting … Read More