Criminal Justice
Warning: another annoying post about an item that’s just about to expire. I’m four episodes into this five parter that was on Monday to Friday last week on BBC1 and it’s pretty good, starts slow and then picks up. As it was all on in the last seven days all five parts are currently available [...]
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
“The story you are about to see really took place …only with less swearing and more nudity.” I’m being naughty, posting something that’s half way to expiring on iPlayer, but I only got a chance to watch this last night, and it’s a complete corker. So, run! run! to watch it in the next 3 [...]
Love Soup: Whose God is it Anyway?
I should start by saying that the best comedy on British telly at the moment is toe-curlingly rude secondary school sitcom The Inbetweeners. It’s on Channel 4, though, which means I can’t embed it here. So here’s episode 10 of Love Soup series two instead: also brilliant (and pretty rude too). Love Soup’s quite difficult [...]
Doctor Who: Partners in Crime
Dr Who returns for what will no doubt be a triumphant fourth series. Tennant and Tate seemed to be shot in a golden light, reflecting perhaps the love and esteem in which Russell T Davies and the rest of the country holds them. Whether Tate will find the same place in the nation’s hearts that [...]
Holby Blue
Early evening crime in Britain is pretty wholesome stuff: more soap than episodic drama. Later in the evening things get a bit tougher and more inventive (with, like, time travel) but before the kids are in bed it’s all nicely-starched uniforms and cheeky shoplifters. Holby Blue’s an interesting effort to bridge the gap. A pre-watershed [...]
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