When you hear that two of the UK's finest actors, Stephen Graham and Daniel Mays, are starring in a new series as crimebusting cops you kind of what to expect. Something hard and gritty, with plenty... more
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#blackAF is the newest series from Kenya Barris, creator of Emmy-nominated Black-ish (and spin-offs Grown-ish and Mixed-ish). In #blackAF Barris stars as... more
This was never going to be as spectacular as your usual Comic Relief/Children In Need nights. Put together in record time with everyone filming in their home (or to be more precise for many of the... more
Warning: there are series spoilers in the review below.The second series of After Life starts with some gorgeous-looking scenes of British small town life played out to the melodic sound of The... more
The idea of a Red Dwarf film has been floating around for years and now they have finally done it. OK, The Promised Land is not getting a Star Wars-style major cinema release and in a way the show's... more
Well, they do say timing is everything in comedy. At the end of Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast interview with Charlie Brooker Herring asked the Black Mirror writer what he was up... more
When the coronavirus hit home last week there was a lot of talk about comedians setting up online gigs as their touring workload dropped off a cliff. As well as Scott Bennett setting up a show in his... more
And so the third and final series of This Country bows out in style. There was always a risk that the third run would see the quality drop off, but it ends as strongly as it began. And actually,... more
I'm going to do a thing that I don't think I've ever seen a critic do before. I'm going to say that my review was wrong. When I reviewed the first episode of the latest series of The Trip, set in... more
I must be getting live comedy withdrawal symptoms, I dreamt about being at a Stewart Lee gig the other night. Still maybe help is at hand. Comedians have been quick to get stuck into the online world... more
