Top TV shows and films on BBC iPlayer (30th August 2015)

Familiar faces from long ago resurface on BBC iPlayer this week – and we don’t just mean Goodness Gracious Me.

Anne Robinson’s return to presenting brings us Britain’s Spending Secrets, an excuse for the Weakest Link host (whose credentials as … Read More

Catch up TV reviews: The Trials of Jimmy Rose, School Swap, Muslim Drag Queens

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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First look Netflix UK TV review: Narcos

“Magic realism is defined as what happens when a highly detailed realistic setting is invaded by something too strange to believe. There is a reason magic realism was born in Colombia.”

Narcos follows the 80s cocaine boom from the very … Read More

UK TV review: The Strain Season 2, Episode 1

“You’re a doctor. Find a cure,” demands Eph’s son in the opening episode of The Strain Season 2, but not before uttering a well-chosen swear word. If you can’t imagine the ickle Zach of Season 1 cursing at his pa, … Read More

UK TV review: Hannibal Season 3, Episode 11

Already seen Episode 11? Read on at the bottom for spoilers.

As the light dims on this series (we’ve only got till lucky number 13), every episode begins to grow dimmer, shot through with darkness. Episode 11 is both physically … Read More

UK TV review: Show Me a Hero, Episode 2

Already seen Episode 2? Read on at the bottom for spoilers.

If parts of Show Me a Hero’s opener perhaps felt a little too calculated, Episode 2 feels much looser and chaotic, as the proverbial excrement hits the fan for … Read More

Amazon Prime Video TV review: Catastrophe Season 1

Catastrophe is not the most reassuring title for a romantic comedy. But Channel 4’s show, so good that it was snapped up earlier this year by Amazon Prime to distribute in the US as an “Original”, isn’t a catastrophe in … Read More

Top TV shows and films on BBC iPlayer (23rd August 2015)

On Sunday 23rd August, the BBC begins the start of an ambitious project with CBS: a live string of three broadcasts from Monterey Bay in California. Filming from the sea, the air and from an aquarium studio, the hope is … Read More

UK TV Review: Agent Carter Season 1, Episode 7

Already seen Episode 7? Read on at the bottom for spoilers.

All seems lost for Agent Carter this week. She is under arrest and her fellow agents present her with a wall of evidence of her secret doings since the … Read More

Catch up TV reviews: Very British Problems, Flockstars, Katie Price: In Therapy

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