VOD film review: Dark Habits

Pedro Almodóvar’s entertaining third movie is a step away from farce and into more serious territory.Read More

Armando Iannucci defends BBC in rousing Edinburgh speech

Armando Iannucci delivered a passionate defence of the BBC in his speech to the Edinburgh TV Festival last night,

The 40th annual James MacTaggart Lecture, which has previously been delivered by Oscar winner Kevin Spacey and the former BBC director … Read More

VOD film review: 45 Years

Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay are superb in Andrew Haigh’s haunting study of relationships and memory.Read More

Amazon adds HDR streaming to Prime Video

Amazon has become the first VOD service to offer HDR streaming in the UK.

The site introduced high dynamic range video earlier this year in the US at no extra cost to subscribers.

Season 1 of Amazon Original Series … 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

YouTube Gaming powers up

YouTube Gaming has officially powered up.

Gaming.youtube.com launched at 6pm today as the video giant looks to take on a growing number of rivals.

Amazon-owned Twitch has dominated the live-streaming arena when it comes to gaming content, putting the pixellated … Read More

VOD film review: Margot at the Wedding

Noah Baumbach’s clinical portrait of a dysfunctional family is compellingly awkward to witness.Read More

Study shows most households in favour of licence fee

A study by the BBC suggests that the majority of British households are happy to pay the licence fee as it stands.

The research, commissioned by the Beeb and conducted by independent research agency MTM, saw 70 households go without … Read More

HBO’s Ballers available to watch online in UK from September

HBO’s Ballers has been given a UK air date of Tuesday 8th September.

The show, which stars Dwayne Johnson, premiered in the US on HBO in June and will be broadcast in the UK at 10pm on Sky Atlantic, when … Read More

Debra Winger joins Ashton Kutcher on Netflix’s The Ranch

Debra Winger will join Ashton Kutcher on Netflix’s The Ranch.

The comedy series, announced earlier this year, reunites That 70s Show’s Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson. The multi-camera show is set on a Colorado ranch and will see Kutcher returning … Read More