Caroline Aherne, the co-creator/writer and star of the brilliant late 90s British situation comedy, The Royle Family, has died at the age of 52. Aherne, who played Denise Royle, co-created and wrote all three series of the critically-acclaimed comedy with co-star, Craig Cash. Centered around the lives of a blue collar, television-fixated Manchester family, the Royles, comprised of family patriarch Jim […]
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With the BBC’s Hollow Crown hitting the air on BBC2 in the UK, it’s hard, once again, to find words to describe the next chapter in the book on Benedict Cumberbatch when it comes to his acting ability. It was 2004 when I first ran across the star of Sherlock in the television film, Hawking, where he brilliantly portrayed […]
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As they hit the halfway point of the alphabet, QI, (which stands for Quite Interesting), is losing its long-time host, the brilliant Stephen Fry (insert sad-face here). While Fry’s final series begins tonight at 10p on BBC2, when series 14 begins filming in the Spring/Summer of 2016, Sandi Toksvig will be charged with the herculean […]
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40 years ago this coming Saturday, the first episode of, arguably, the best comedy series ever to be shown on telly premiered on BBC2. Fawlty Towers has long been said to have been based on the experiences of the Monty Python comedy team staying at the Gleneagles Hotel in the seaside town of Torquay. The idea came from […]
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Sunday night brought to a close the Clarkson/Hammond/May Era of Top Gear. Without getting into the who’s right/who’s wrong politics of the events leading up to the dismissal of Jeremy Clarkson, who has been a fixture on the series since 1988, let’s review the final piece in the Top Gear puzzle as it played out Sunday […]
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Ok, once again, I’m a bit late to the telly party. It happens every so often just due to the sheer volume of good television that’s out there these days. Just in case you haven’t arrived yet either, I wanted to mention a title that, if you didn’t see on BBC2 back in January, you […]
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Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies are headed to telly in the not-too-distant future. Scheduled to transmit in the UK on 21 January beginning at 9pm on BBC2 and tentatively set for its American premiere on PBS beginning March 29, 2015, the small screen adaptation of Mantel’s Tudor novels […]
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Imagine you create and produce reality television and you strike gold with one of your ideas. How do you even begin to top yourself and find the next bright and shiny thing? It’s simple if you’re Love Productions, creators of the wildly successful reality series, The Great British Bake-Off. Fresh off last weeks brilliant announcement that Bake-Off […]
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The Wrong Mans Rule #1 – After witnessing a horrific car crash on a desolate country road, never EVER answer the dead driver’s ringing mobile. If only Sam Pinkett had read rule #1.
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Already signed to play Freddie Mercury in the forthcoming film chronicling the life of Queen frontman, Ben Whishaw will also be returning to the small screen for a BBC2 espionage thriller, London Spy. Whishaw will also reprise his role as Q in the next Bond film, Bond 24 in 2015. The as-yet-to-be-titled Freddie Mercury […]
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