Later in this new series imagining and fleshing out famous showbiz stories we've got the prospect of Noel Fielding as Alice Cooper and Jack Whitehall as Marc Bolan, but first up is Gemma Arterton as... more
Reviews
The Laugharne Weekend is one of the arts/literary festival circuit’s best kept secrets and I hope it stays that way. The last thing this tiny South Wales town – pronounced "Larn" – needs is to be... more
After a successful first series, the second series of This Country has kept up the momentum and high quality level with six more glorious episodes. After last week's classic when Kerry failed to make... more
I got in late on Easter Monday so I watched an old repeated documentary, Dave Allen: God's Own Comedian, before I watched the eagerly anticipated new BBC2 biopic, Dave Allen At Peace. This might have... more
I probably have seen a worse television programme than The Generation Game but I have to be honest, nothing immediately springs to mind. I used to love the Bruce Forsyth version and I quite liked the... more
The mockumentary format seems to be an established sitcom style now. I don't know if The Office was the first to do it - but the shadow of David Brent hangs heavy over this new series about the two... more
Maybe there was a fanfare somewhere but I managed to miss it. Episodes returned for its fifth and final series this week, slipping out on BBC2 at exactly the same time that the more heavily promoted... more
Write about what you know they say. Or failing that get some writers in to write about what you know. In The Long Run, set on a London council estate in the 1980s is based on the childhood of its... more
Not one, not two, not three, but four James Acaster shows have just started streaming on netflix under the overall banner of Repertoire. There is Recognise (2014), Represent (2015), Recognise (2016)... more
Over a 100 acts applied to be in this year's Sketch Off Competition and after heats it was whittled down to a final ten. Compere Colin Hoult, in the guise of waspish thespian Anna Mann, described... more
