On May 12 the 70th BAFTA Television Awards Ceremony will take place, and Happy Valley could cement its position as one of the greatest shows ever produced in Britain by becoming the first to win the coveted Best Drama award for the third time. If it does win, it will be a richly deserved success …
Amazon Prime’s latest big budget TV show Fallout is the adaptation of a long-running and much loved series of video games that are set in a version of the United States that has been pretty much eviscerated by nuclear war. Like several of the games, the narrative starts before the bombs drop, in a version …
This week’s box set may be less familiar to readers than previous recommendations. Firefly is a space western that was cancelled after only one season in 2002, but then subsequently built up a significant and loyal fanbase whose calls for a second season were answered in part by the 2005 follow up film Serenity. The …
As a fan of eighties movies and murder mysteries, I would probably have watched and enjoyed Only Murders In The Building, the US comedy-drama co-created by and starring Steve Martin, even if it wasn’t absolutely brilliant. Martin shares top billing with fellow eighties comedy icon (and fellow Amigo to boot) Martin Short and singer, songwriter, …
If I was to produce a list of things that might tempt my wife to watch a new show, ‘zombie apocalypse’ and ‘based on a Playstation game’ would appear very near to the bottom of it, sandwiched somewhere between ‘features graphic scenes of seal clubbing’ and ‘presented by Joey Barton’. And yet, for nine weeks …
It was said that Edith Piaf could sing the phone book and make it sound good. Last night at Newcastle’s O2 City Hall Liam Gallagher did his level best to do something similar. The album Liam Gallagher & John Squire is not a great record. I’m not even sure it’s a good one. Nobody in …
The Thick Of It is a British sitcom that lifted the lid on the inner workings and backroom hustles of the Government, as imagined by creator and chief writer Armando Iannucci. The show was first broadcast in 2005 when New Labour were in power and had gifted the term Spin Doctor to the world at …
The Bear tells the story of a revered and award winning chef, Carmen Berzatto Jeremy Allen White), who returns to his home town of Chicago to run a sandwich shop left to him after the suicide of his addict brother Mikey. The kitchen Carmen inherits is being run in a perpetual state of chaos and …
In the Summer of 2017 Ellis Short, chairman of newly relegated Sunderland football club, agreed to allow production company Fulwell 73 (named in homage to the club via the road next to its former Roker Park ground) extensive behind the scenes access to the team’s push for promotion straight back into the Premier League. Short …
The Handmaid’s Tale is based on the famous dystopian novel of the same name by the celebrated Canadian author Margaret Atwood. It tells the story of an America where the government has been overthrown by a totalitarian movement that hides behind religious dogma and is hellbent on removing women’s reproductive rights. Apparently in 1985, this …
@2024 The QT All Rights Reserved. Built by Nebula Labs
