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Sky takes on Netflix as it steps up original content spend for 2018
November 28, 2017 | David FarnorSky is stepping up its competition with Netflix, as the broadcaster plans to increase its spend on original content for 2018.
Group Chief Executive Jeremy Darroch’s pledged earlier this year to increase investment in original productions by 25 per cent, … Read More
Why you should be watching The Deuce
November 26, 2017 | Martyn ConterioA humanist drama streets ahead of most movies released in 2017, The Deuce is a surprising and thoroughly riveting watch. Read More
UK TV review: The Walking Dead Season 8, Episode 1
October 24, 2017 | Neil BrazierThis is a spoiler-free review. Read on below for additional, spoilery notes – plus how to watch online.
After the standoff at Alexandria, Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) regrouped his Saviour army back at the Sanctuary and declared to his raucous … Read More
First look UK TV review: The Gifted
October 8, 2017 | David FarnorThis new X-Men series gets off to a confident, if uneven, start.
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Autumn UK TV preview 2017: Top 26 shows coming soon
September 17, 2017 | David FarnorSeptember’s here, so put down the sun cream and pick up your remote – because the next couple of months will see a torrent of top series hit your living room. The wave of peak TV has already begun, with … Read More
Why you should be watching Tin Star
September 7, 2017 | David FarnorTim Roth is on stellar form as a man whose two lives collide in Sky’s slick crime drama.Read More
NOW TV to raise Entertainment Month Pass price
July 14, 2017 | David FarnorNOW is raising the price for an Entertainment Month Pass this August.
The streaming service, which launched several years ago in the UK, is the equivalent of a cord-cutting VOD service in the USA, giving non-Sky customers access to Sky’s … Read More
UK TV review: Twin Peaks The Return, Episodes 5 to 7 (spoilers)
June 21, 2017 | Simon KinnearThis new season of Twin Peaks is increasingly amongst the finest work David Lynch has ever done.Read More
VOD film review: Rock Dog
June 16, 2017 | David FarnorThis musical animation is a disappointingly forgettable compilation of other films’ greatest hits.Read More
UK TV review: The Wizard of Lies
June 16, 2017 | Mike WilliamsAfter decades of movie output that’s not so much undone the largely fantastic body of work that includes Raging Bull and Goodfellas, but redefined his character type in modern film, HBO’s The Wizard of Lies sees him return to his … Read More