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Ridley Road – Review

3rd October 202119th October 2021Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Agnes O’Casey, Eddie Marsan, Rory Kinnear, Tom Varey, Allan Corduner, Danny Hatchard, Danny Sykes, Gabriel Akuwudike, Hannah Onslow, Hannah Traylen, Henry Wilton-Hunt, James Craze, Julia Krynke, Nigel Betts, Preston Nyman, Rita Tushingham, Romane Portail, Samantha Spiro, Stephen Hogan, Tamzin Outhwaite, Tracy Ann Oberman, Will Keen – CHANNEL: BBC iPlayer, BBC1 – FIRST SHOWN: 3rd October 2021 [click for more...]

The Crown reigns as streamers dominate the Emmys

20th September 202120th September 2021Jason Korsner

The Crown – the Netflix series based on the British Royal Family – has dominated the first Emmy Awards since the pandemic, which [click for more...]

Help – Review

16th September 202115th October 2021Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Jodie Comer, Stephen Graham, Angela Griffin, Cathy Tyson, David Hayman, Ian Hart, Lesley Sharp, Steve Garti, Sue Johnston – CHANNEL: All 4, Channel 4 – FIRST SHOWN: 16th September 2021 [click for more...]

Ant & Dec, David Tennant, Line of Duty and After Life among NTA winners

9th September 202110th September 2021Jason Korsner

Ant & Dec have come out top at a Covid-delayed National Television Awards ceremony, being named the best TV presenters for the twentieth [click for more...]

Back To Life – Review

31st August 20211st October 2021Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Daisy Haggard, Geraldine James, Richard Durden, Adeel Akhtar, Adrian Edmondson, Christine Bottomley, Frank Feys, Imogen Gurney, Jamie Michie, Jo Martin, Juliet Cowan, Keir Charles, Liam Williams, Lizzy McInnerny, Meera Syal, Souad Faress – CHANNEL: BBC iPlayer, BBC3 – FIRST SHOWN: 31st August 2021, Season 2 premiere [click for more...]

The Chair – Review

20th August 20217th September 2021Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Sandra Oh, Bob Balaban, David Duchovny, David Morse, Ella Rubin, Everly Carganilla, Holland Taylor, Jay Duplass, Ji-yong Lee, Nana Mensah, Ron Crawford – CHANNEL: Netflix – FIRST SHOWN: 20th August 2021 [click for more...]

Modern Love – Review

13th August 202113th September 2021Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Anna Paquin, Dominique Fishback, Garrett Hedlund, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Grace Edwards, Isaac Powell, Kit Harington, Lucy Boynton, Lulu Wilson, Marquis Rodriguez, Minnie Driver, Miranda Richardson, Sophie Okonedo, Tobias Menzies, Zane Pais, Zoë Chao, Andrew Scott, Anne Hathaway, Catherine Keener, Dev Patel, James Saito, Jane Alexander, John Gallagher Jr, John Slattery, Julia Garner, Olivia Cooke, Shea Whigham, Sofia Boutella, Tina Fey – CHANNEL: Amazon Prime – FIRST SHOWN: 13th August 2021, Season 2 premiere [click for more...]

The HFPA has backed widespread reform – but can the Golden Globes be saved?

7th August 20218th August 2021Jason Korsner

The body behind the Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, has backed a new set of by-laws, in the first step towards [click for more...]

Plans for major new film studio in Hertfordshire

1st August 20212nd August 2021Jason Korsner

American investors are planning to build a $1 billion dollar film and TV production studio complex in Hertfordshire, in what the UK government [click for more...]

Strong British showing at US TV Academy Emmy nominations

13th July 202113th July 2021Jason Korsner

After a year when most people across the world – and certainly in the US – have been stuck at home, watching the [click for more...]

Time – Review

6th June 20218th July 2021Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Sean Bean, Stephen Graham, Aneurin Barnard, Brian McCardie, Cal MacAninch, David Calder, Dean Fagan, Franc Ashman, Hannah Walters, Jack McMullen, James Nelson-Joyce, Jonathan Harden, Kadiff Kirwan, Kevin Harvey, Lee Morris, Nadine Marshall, Paddy Rowan, Siobhan Finneran, Sue Johnston, Terence Maynard – CHANNEL: BBC iPlayer, BBC1 – FIRST SHOWN: 6th June 2021 [click for more...]

Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You dominates TV BAFTAs

6th June 20217th June 2021Jason Korsner

Michaela Coel was the big winner of the BAFTA TV Awards, with two of the top awards on the night to add to [click for more...]

Line of Duty – Review

2nd May 202126th June 2021Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Adrian Dunbar, Martin Compston, Vicky McClure, Ace Bhatti, Aiysha Hart, Anna Maxwell Martin, Anneika Rose, Brian McCardie, Christina Chong, Craig Parkinson, Daniel Mays, George Costigan, Gina McKee, Gregory Piper, Jason Watkins, Kate Ashfield, Keeley Hawes, Kelly Macdonald, Lennie James, Mark Bonnar, Maya Sondhi, Neil Morrissey, Nigel Boyle, Owen Teale, Patrick Baladi, Paul Higgins, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Shaun Parkes, Stephen Graham, Thandie Newton, Tommy Jessop, Tony Pitts – CHANNEL: BBC iPlayer, BBC1 – FIRST SHOWN: 6 seasons 2012 – 2021 [click for more...]

Small Axe and The Crown dominate BAFTA TV nominations

28th April 202129th April 2021Jason Korsner

No sooner are the year’s film awards out of the way, than TV awards season kicks in with BAFTA announcing the nominations for [click for more...]

Bloodlands – Review

21st February 202116th May 2021Jason Korsner

FEATURING: James Nesbitt, Lorcan Cranitch, Michael Smiley, Charlene McKenna, Ian McElhinney, Kathy Kiera Clarke, Lisa Dwan, Lola Petticrew, Peter Ballance, Susan Lynch, Valerie Lilley – CHANNEL: BBC iPlayer, BBC1 – FIRST SHOWN: 21st February 2021 [click for more...]

Netflix dominates Brit-heavy Golden Globe nominations

3rd February 20217th February 2021Jason Korsner

The most nominated film and TV series at this year’s Covid-delayed Golden Globes are Netflix productions, with both the biopic Mank and drama [click for more...]

What’s Worth Seeing – or avoiding – from 2020?

31st December 20203rd January 2021Jason Korsner

Well, that’s a year that many people will be glad to see the back of – not least a cinema industry where social [click for more...]

Death to 2020 – Review

27th December 20207th February 2021Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Diane Morgan, Hugh Grant, Kumail Nanjiani, Lisa Kudrow, Samson Kayo, Samuel L Jackson, Tracey Ullman, Charlie Brooker, Cristin Milioti, Joe Keery, Laurence Fishburne, Leslie Jones, Lily Sullivan – CHANNEL: Netflix – FIRST SHOWN: 27th December 2020 [click for more...]

Mangrove – Review

15th November 202024th December 2020Jason Korsner

DIRECTED BY: Steve McQueen – FEATURING: Letitia Wright, Malachi Kirby, Rochenda Sandall, Sam Spruell, Shaun Parkes, Alex Jennings, Derek Griffiths, Gary Beadle, Gershwyn Eustache, Jack Lowden, Jodhi May, Joseph Quinn, Jumayn Hunter, Nathaniel Martello-White, Richard Cordery, Richie Campbell, Samuel West, Steven O’Neill, Thomas Coombes [click for more...]

The Queen’s Gambit – Review

23rd October 20205th January 2021Jason Korsner

FEATURING: Anya Taylor-Joy, Harry Melling, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Marielle Heller, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Annabeth Kelly, Bill Camp, Chloe Pirrie, Christiane Seidel, Dolores Carbonari, Isla Johnston, Marcin Dorocinski, Matthew Dennis Lewis, Moses Ingram, Patrick Kennedy, Rebecca Root, Russell Dennis Lewis, Ryan Wichert – CHANNEL: Netflix – FIRST SHOWN: 23rd October 2020 [click for more...]