There have been countless movies over the years that center around our increasing reliance on mechanical help and/or artificial intelligence. In most cases, it never ends well as greed enters into the picture causing such a reliance to short circuit. At the time, most of these were considered fantasy, not reality. With the new Channel […]
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Fresh on the heels of a monstrously successful Sherlocked get together comes news of the official BBC Doctor Who Festival at London’s Excel. Slated to attend are current Doctor Peter Capaldi and series showrunner Steven Moffat. If Sherlocked is any indication, one would guess that there will be a host of other guest announcements coming […]
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Latenight telly is in turmoil. David Letterman is no more with Stephen Colbert ready to take over at some point. Jon Stewart is stepping down in early August. Craig Ferguson, sadly, has left the latenight building and Conan, as he freely admits, has been banished to ‘basic cable’. With so much attention to last weeks […]
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There are times you have to go public with your telly ‘guilty pleasures’. Being Human, one of my early earliest, had a fairly improbable story line about a werewolf, a vampire and a ghost who rent a flat in Bristol and attempt to live ‘normal’ lives. More recently, it was the brilliant psychological thriller Mad Dogs, starring Phillip Glenister, […]
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For the first two series of Death in Paradise, the BBC comedy/mystery/drama which is set on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie, was a bit painful to watch mainly because of the extremely uncomfortable nature in which London-based DI Richard Poole (Ben Miller) tried to deal with the island paradise and it’s laissez faire way of life. I emphasize […]
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UK viewers who find themselves left with a big Poldark hole in their television viewing on Sunday nights have but only this Sunday (10 May) to find something to occupy their time. According to Eddie Marsan, there will still be “plenty of totty on Sunday nights” when the new fantasy drama Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell […]
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One of the main reasons it takes in the neighborhood of two excruciatingly long years between Sherlock series is the fact that both Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman seem to be on the top of everyone’s short list for every film that is green-lit for production on the planet. The brilliant news is both stars […]
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If you happen to reside in the UK, cancel all plans on Sunday and watch Sheridan Smith in The C-Word. Having had the great good fortune to have seen this at the 2015 BBC Showcase in Liverpool back in February, this is powerful telly. Unfortunately, most 60-minute programs on the small screen seem like they are 90 […]
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Now that we’ve thrown a bit of a bone to the Downton Abbey-Nation with yesterday’s post about the cast getting together for initial read-throughs of the final series scripts, it’s time to turn our attention to Sherlock! It is only fitting, and fair, that we bring you news from the production set of the forthcoming […]
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You’d think, given the recent headline grabbing events surrounding the filming of Top Gear, there would be a memo circulating with instructions around BBC Broadcasting House that Jeremy Clarkson’s name mustn’t be mentioned at the BBC. When that happens, life and art will officially blur as evidenced in the case of the new series of the […]
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