Why you should be watching Line of Duty

Jed Mercurio’s outstanding, ambiguous TV drama immerses us in the murky world of bent coppers.Read More

Top TV shows and films on BBC iPlayer (8th September 2015)

As autumn gets underway, the season of appointment TV begins once more in fresh earnest. The X Factor and Strictly join The Great British Bake Off in the TV industry’s efforts to create event television – the kind of thing … Read More

UK TV review: Show Me a Hero, Episode 4

This is a spoiler-free review of Episode 4. Come back after the UK broadcast for added spoilers.

If Alfred Molina’s performance as Spallone in Show Me a Hero to date has resembled, more than any other film or television performance, … Read More

Catch up TV reviews: Educating Cardiff, Modern Life is Goodish, Life Stories, Sugar Rush

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

Netflix TV review: Narcos (Episodes 2 to 5)

Tony Montana famously said “if you want a war, you got a war”. Pablo Escobar actually fought one. Continuing its rich blend of truth and past-tense fear-mongering, Narcos Season 1 lives up to the standards the fellow Netflix Originals have … Read More

First look Amazon TV review: Hand of God (Episode 1 and 2)

As the old saying goes, when a TV show starts with a naked Ron Perlman chanting in a fountain, you know you’re in for a good time. It’s a bold opening for Amazon’s new series, Hand of God, the kind … Read More

UK TV review: Hannibal Season 3, Episode 12

Already seen Episode 12? Read on at the bottom for spoilers.

Things continue to get more grim for our heroes, as they pit themselves directly against the Dragon and his arsenal of delusions. Before the Dragon gets another opportunity to … Read More

UK TV review: Show Me a Hero, Episode 3

Already seen Episode 3? Read on at the bottom for spoilers.

This week’s Show Me a Hero opens with a moment of levity before heading back into the brawl, as a montage shows Nick’s repeated failure to get fellow Democrat … Read More

UK TV review: Fear the Walking Dead, Episode 1 (spoiler-free)

AMC’s spin-off series feels surprisingly unique without losing the franchise’s familiar element of fear.Read More

UK VOD TV review: Agent Carter, Season 1, Episode 8

Already seen Episode 8? Read on at the bottom for spoilers.

The stakes are suitably high at the start of Valediction, the Season 1 finale of Agent Carter. Following on from last week’s massacre at the cinema, the SSR has … Read More