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The Outlaws – Review

30th May 202413th June 2024Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Stephen Merchant, Charles Babalola, Christopher Walken, Claes Bang, Clare Perkins, Darren Boyd, Dolly Wells, Eleanor Tomlinson, Gamba Cole, Grace Calder, Ian McElhinney, Jessica Gunning, Julia Davis, Justin Edwards, Kojo Kamara, Nina Wadia, Patrick Robinson, Rhianne Barreto, Richard E Grant, Ricky Grover, Tom Hanson – CHANNEL: BBC iPlayer, BBC1 – FIRST SHOWN: Season 1 – 25th October 2021, Season 2 – 5th June 2022, Season 3 – 30th May 2024 [click for more...]

Happy Valley, Top Boy, Black Ops among TV BAFTA winners

12th May 202413th May 2024Jason Korsner

Happy Valley, Top Boy and The Sixth Commandment were among the shows to receive two awards at this year’s BAFTA TV Awards. Sarah [click for more...]

The Responder – Review

5th May 202414th July 2024Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Martin Freeman, Adam Nagaitis, Adelayo Adedayo, Amaka Okafor, Bernard Hill, Christine Tremarco, David Bradley, Elizabeth Berrington, Emily Fairn, Faye McKeever, Ian Hart, Ian Puleston-Davies, James Nelson-Joyce, Josh Finan, Jude Cooper-Kelly, Kevin Eldon, Mark Womack, MyAnna Buring, Philip Barantini, Philip Shaun McGuinness, Rita Tushingham, Romi Hyland-Rylands, Warren Brown – CHANNEL: BBC iPlayer, BBC1 – FIRST SHOWN: Season 1 – 24th January 2022 Season 2 – 5th May 2024 [click for more...]

Blue Lights (Season 2) – Review

15th April 202413th June 2024Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Katherine Devlin, Martin McCann, Nathan Braniff, Sian Brooke, Alfie Lawless, Andi Osho, Andrea Irvine, Craig McGinlay, Dearbháile McKinney, Derek Thompson, Desmond Eastwood, Frank Blake, Hannah McClean, Joanne Crawford, Jonathan Harden, Paddy Jenkins, Seamus O’Hara, Seána Kerslake – CHANNEL: BBC iPlayer, BBC1 – FIRST SHOWN: 15th April 2024 [click for more...]

Scoop – Review

5th April 20246th June 2024Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Billie Piper, Gillian Anderson, Keeley Hawes, Rufus Sewell, Alex Waldmann, Alice Bailey Johnson, Amanda Redman, Andrew MacBean, Charity Wakefield, Colin Wells, Connor Swindells, Jordan Kouamé, Lia Williams, Richard Goulding, Romola Garai – CHANNEL: Netflix – FIRST SHOWN: 5th April 2024 [click for more...]

Finders Keepers – Review

7th February 202416th April 2024Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Fay Ripley, James Buckley, Neil Morrissey, Ace Bhatti, Brendan Coyle, Herbert Forthuber, Jessica Rhodes, Nick Harris, Nimmi Harasgama, Quentin Lee, Rakhee Thakrar, Shane Attwooll, Thom Jackson-Wood, Tracey Ann Wood, Wayne Foskett – CHANNEL: Channel 5, My5 – FIRST SHOWN: 17th January – 7th February 2024 [click for more...]

Here We Go – Review

2nd February 20249th May 2024Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Jim Howick, Katherine Parkinson, Tom Basden, Alison Steadman, Dolly Wells, Ed Kear, Freya Parks, Harry Enfield, Jon Furlong, Jude Morgan-Collie, Mark Williams, Mica Ricketts, Simon Farnaby, Tim Key, Tori Allen-Martin – CHANNEL: BBC iPlayer, BBC1 – FIRST SHOWN: 2nd February 2024 [Season 2] [click for more...]

Succession, Beef and The Bear dominate TV’s Emmys as Elton John joins the EGOT club

16th January 202416th January 2024Jason Korsner

At a ceremony delayed by the Hollywood strikes, which meant there’d have been no-one to write the awards show and no-one to collect [click for more...]

Oppenheimer and Succession dominate as Hollywood welcomes back Globes

8th January 202418th January 2024Jason Korsner

Barbie might have won the battle of the box office, but it’s Oppenheimer that has dominated at the first major awards ceremony of [click for more...]

Mr Bates vs The Post Office – Review

1st January 202420th February 2024Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Toby Jones, Will Mellor, Adam James, Alex Jennings, Amit Shah, Amy Nuttal, Conor Mullen, Ian Hart, Ifan Huw Dafydd, James Naughtie, John Hollingworth, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Katherine Kelly, Krupa Pattani, Lesley Nicol, Lia Williams, Monica Dolan, Nadhim Zahawi, Pip Torrens, Shaun Dooley, Susan Brown – CHANNEL: ITV1, ITVX – FIRST SHOWN: 1st January 2024 [click for more...]

The Tourist (Season 2) – Review

1st January 202420th February 2024Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Danielle Macdonald, Jamie Dornan, Conor MacNeill, Diarmaid Murtagh, Emer Casey, Francis Magee, Greg Larsen, Mark McKenna, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Olwen Fouéré, Raresh DiMofte, Siobhán O’Kelly, Victoria Haralabidou – CHANNEL: BBC iPlayer, BBC1 – FIRST SHOWN: 1st January 2023, 2024 [click for more...]

Fool Me Once – Review

1st January 202427th February 2024Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Michelle Keegan, Richard Armitage, Adeel Akhtar, Anthony Howell, Charlie Cain, Craige Els, Daniel Burt, Danya Griver, Dino Fetscher, Emmett J Scanlan, Hattie Morahan, Jade Anouka, James Northcote, Joanna Lumley, Laurie Kynaston, Lawrence Hodgson-Mullings, Marcus Garvey, Natalie Anderson, Thea Taylor-Morgan – CHANNEL: Netflix – FIRST SHOWN: 1st January 2024 [click for more...]

What’s Worth Seeing – or not – from 2023

31st December 2023Jason Korsner

As another year draws to a close, the film industry is still coming to terms with the impacts of two devastating strikes that [click for more...]

Barbenheimer: the fight is back on at the Golden Globes

11th December 202318th January 2024Jason Korsner

The big box office battle that spawned the term Barbenheimer during the summer is back on, as Barbie and Oppenheimer have topped the [click for more...]

Boat Story – Review

19th November 202317th January 2024Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Daisy Haggard, Paterson Joseph, Tchéky Karyo, Adam Gillen, Cherie Gordon, Craig Fairbrass, Ethan Lawrence, Jason Pennycooke, Joanna Scanlan, John Henshaw, John O’Neill, Kate Dickie, Lucy Montgomery, Matthew Mellalieu, Michele Austin, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Oliver Sheridan, Paul-Hector Antoine, Phil Daniels, Rick S Carr, William Fox – CHANNEL: BBC iPlayer, BBC1 – FIRST SHOWN: 19th November 2023 [click for more...]

The Newsreader – Seasons 1 and 2 – Review

9th November 202315th December 2023Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Anna Torv, Sam Reid, Stephen Peacocke, William McInnes, Bert LaBonté, Caroline Lee, Chai Hansen, Chum Ehelepola, Edwina Wren, Jackson Tozer, John Leary, Marg Downey, Maria Angelico, Maude Davey, Michelle Lim Davidson, Rhys Mitchell, Robert Taylor, Tim Draxl, Tony Rickards, Rory Fleck Byrne, Daniel Gillies – CHANNEL: BBC iPlayer, BBC2 – FIRST SHOWN: S1: 24th July 2022 and S2: 9th November 2023 [click for more...]

Time (Series 2) – Review

29th October 202315th December 2023Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Bella Ramsey, Jodie Whittaker, Tamara Lawrance, Alicia Forde, Brody Griffiths, Conor McCarry, Danielle Henry, Isaac Lancel-Watkinson, Jackie Jones, James Corrigan, Julie Graham, Karen Henthorn, Kayla Meikle, Lisa Millett, Louise Lee, Matilda Firth, Nicholas Nunn, Siobhan Finneran, Sophie Willan – CHANNEL: BBC iPlayer, BBC1 – FIRST SHOWN: 29th October 2023 [click for more...]

The Reckoning – Review

9th October 202315th December 2023Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Steve Coogan, Fenella Woolgar, Gemma Jones, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Mark Lewis Jones, Mark Stanley, Michael Jibson, Neil Pearson, Peter Wight, Robert Emms, Siobhan Finneran, Tommy Finnegan – CHANNEL: BBC iPlayer, BBC1 – FIRST SHOWN: 9th October 2023 [click for more...]

Boiling Point – TV Review

1st October 20231st December 2023Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Vinette Robinson, Ahmed Malek, Áine Rose Daly, Cathy Tyson, Daniel Larkai, Gary Lamont, Hannah Traylen, Hannah Walters, Izuka Hoyle, Joel MacCormack, Missy Haysom, Ray Panthaki, Shaun Fagan, Stephen Graham, Stephen McMillan, Stephen Odubola, Steven Ogg, Taz Skylar – CHANNEL: BBC iPlayer, BBC1 – FIRST SHOWN: 1st October 2023 [click for more...]

TV viewers honour Happy Valley, EastEnders, Strictly and Traitors at the NTAs

5th September 202311th September 2023Jason Korsner

Sarah Lancashire won two awards as her show, Happy Valley, was named the best returning drama Two shows have secured multiple awards at [click for more...]