TV
The Count of Monte Cristo, U&Drama review - silly telly for the silly seasonTuesday, 05 August 2025
Alexandre Dumas’ novel has been filmed an immeasurable number of times (there was a new French version only last year) and televised even more frequently (a Mexican incarnation materialised in 2023). Yet the world still can’t get enough, so here’s... Read more... |
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, BBC One review - love, death and hell on the Burma railwayThursday, 31 July 2025
Readers of Richard Flanagan’s Booker-winning novel will be familiar with its themes of war, extreme suffering, ageing, memory, fidelity and infidelity, as it roves over the decades from World War Two to the late Eighties.Flanagan based much of the... Read more... |
The Waterfront, Netflix review - fish, drugs and rock'n'rollMonday, 28 July 2025
You wouldn’t really want to belong to the Buckley family, a star-crossed dynasty who run their fishing business out of Havenport, North Carolina. As Bree Buckley (daughter of Harlan and Belle) tells recently-discovered family member Shawn, “I wouldn... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: writer and actor Mark Gatiss on 'Bookish'Tuesday, 22 July 2025
Having played Sherlock Holmes’s politically involved older brother Mycroft in the BBC’s hit crime series Sherlock, Mark Gatiss may not be an obvious candidate to now follow in the footsteps of the famous detective. But with his new murder ... Read more... |
Ballard, Prime Video review - there's something rotten in the LAPDTuesday, 22 July 2025
Following the success of its screen version of Michael Connelly’s veteran detective Harry Bosch, starring Titus Welliver, Prime Video aims to make lightning strike twice by televising Connelly’s series of Renée Ballard books. Like Bosch,... Read more... |
Bookish, U&Alibi review - sleuthing and skulduggery in a bomb-battered LondonMonday, 21 July 2025
As a sometime writer of Poirot, Sherlock and Christmas ghost stories, Mark Gatiss is no stranger to enigmatic crimes and bizarre occurrences set in carefully-recreated versions of the past. He revisits similar themes in Bookish, his new series about... Read more... |
Too Much, Netflix - a romcom that's oversexed, and over hereMonday, 14 July 2025
A thirtysomething American woman with wavering self-confidence, a tendency to talk too much and a longing for married bliss with Mr Darcy at his gorgeous country pile tries to reset her life post-breakup with a grown-up new job in London. Welcome to... Read more... |
Insomnia, Channel 5 review - a chronicle of deaths foretoldThursday, 10 July 2025
A mixture of legal drama, medical mystery and psychological thriller with creepy supernatural overtones, Insomnia sometimes seems to be trying to cram too much in, but it’s well worth sticking with it to the end to reap the full benefits. Not the... Read more... |
Live Aid at 40: When Rock'n'Roll Took on the World, BBC Two review - how Bob Geldof led pop's battle against Ethiopian famineTuesday, 08 July 2025
“Bob’s not the kind of guy you can say no to,” said Sting, reminiscing about the origins of 1984’s Band Aid charity single “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”. “He’s persistent.”He spoke, of course, of Bob Geldof, then best known as the singer with... Read more... |
Hill, Sky Documentaries review - how Damon Hill battled his demonsFriday, 04 July 2025
Some world champion racing drivers make it look effortless, but it was never that way for Damon Hill. His path to the championship he won in 1996 had been fraught with difficulties, including not just his increasingly ill-tempered on-track battle... Read more... |
Outrageous, U&Drama review - skilfully-executed depiction of the notorious Mitford sistersMonday, 23 June 2025
If somebody submitted a treatment for a new costume drama series set in the 1930s in which not just one but two fictitious sisters from a fading aristocratic family pair off with leading fascists, while the cousin warning them off these liaisons is... Read more... |
Prost, BBC 4 review - life and times of the driver they called 'The Professor'Saturday, 21 June 2025
With Brad Pitt’s much-trumpeted F1 movie about to screech noisily into the multiplexes, it’s not a bad time to be reminded of the career of one of the sport’s indisputable greats. Alain Prost doesn’t seem too fussed about bigging himself up on... Read more... |
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