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, …
This Town, the new BBC drama from Peaky Blinders creator Stephen Knight, revisits the Midlands setting, also doubling as a somewhat backhanded tribute to the region and a paean to the Two-tone music — an amalgam of ska, punk and reggae — that emerged from it. The backdrop for Knight’s heroes is the aftershocks of …
Recently the BBC slashed its budget for local radio. Yet again. When it comes to cuts, regional broadcasters have become an easy target. Britain’s regional media is in a sickly state. Decades of low investment mean many people don’t see its value. A vicious cycle has been created. The more cuts there are the less …
Anyone who tore through Steve Chambers’ first thriller has had to wait quite a long time for his second — 11 years, to be exact. Worth the wait, though, I’d say. The Dark Months, set mostly in rural Northumberland and full of tension and lethal skulduggery, is that publisher’s dream, a page-turner. There’s a precedent …
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 …
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 …
Tony Baker, one of the North East’s most eminent journalists and broadcasters, has died, aged 76, following a long illness. Ever-present on BBC screens for almost 30 years, his communication skills, empathy and understanding of ‘the story’, meant Tony was comfortable in the presence of a huge spectrum of people from Prime Ministers and Parliamentarians, …
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 …
It was while on honeymoon in 2018 that Rachel Stockdale first had the idea for Fat Chance. Arriving at a restaurant in Lake Bled with her new husband, she had allowed herself the small luxury of eating carbs again after months of dieting to ensure she could zip up her wedding dress. “A table for …
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