Tag Archives: Julie Graham

Time: Series Two. Drama Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Bella Ramsey, Tamara Lawrence, Siobhan Finneran, Louise Lee, Alicia Ford, Lisa Millett, Nicholas Nunn, Sophie Willan, Julie Graham, Kayla Meikle, Matilda Firth, Brody Griffiths, Isaac Lancel-Watkinson, Terri Reddin, Karen Henthorn, Conor McCarry, Jackie Jones, Danielle Henry, James Corrigan, Alexandra Monaghan, Cindy Humphrey, Michelle Butterly, Maimuna Memon, Alicia Brockenbrow, Christopher Middleton, Dana Hagjoo, Louise Willoughby, Faye McKeever, Angela Wynter, Philip Hill-Pearson.

Time: Series Two. Drama Series Review. full post

(631 words, estimated 2:31 mins reading time)

Shetland. Series Seven. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Douglas Henshall, Alison O’Donnell, Steve Robertson, Anneika Rose, Julie Graham, Lewis Howden, Erin Armstrong, Anne Kidd, Shauna Macdonald, Andrew Whip, Patrick Robinson, Laurie Brett, Stuart McQuarrie, Alexandra Finnie, Connor McCarry, Angus Miller, Lucianne McEvoy, Ladi Emeruwa, Grant O’Rourke.

Disasters such as The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in 1986, the Sea Empress crashing into the sound at Milford Haven, and The Taylor Oil Spill in The Gulf of Mexico, just a pinch of the disasters that have threatened the eco system around the world in the life time of us all, and yet everyday tragedies leave the local populace and the wildlife that shares the spaces with humanity looking at ruin, feeling the pain of mankind’s folly, and even death.

Shetland. Series Seven. Television Review. full post

(536 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco, Fog Of War/In For A Pound. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Julie Graham, Rachael Stirling, Crystal Balint, Chanelle Peloso, Ben Cotton, Jennifer Spence, Chelah Horsdal, Noel Johansen, Adrian Hough, Peter Benson, Kurt Max Runte, Michael Adamthwaite, Graeme Duffy, Candus Churchill, Raphael Kepinski.

The belief in playing to your strengths is one that is fraught with the acknowledgement that you might never improve in other areas, the whole notion of only ever drawing upon one set of ideals or inspiration is an anathema to writing, it stunts creativity and can lead to the permanent pigeon holing of your possible future endeavour. Yet for all that some conceding must take place when it considers the future of what could be a demanding series, in which the plot begs for a choice to made, one of social commentary or the mystery at hand.

The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco, Fog Of War/In For A Pound. Television Review. full post

(503 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco, Not Cricket/Iron In War. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Rachael Stirling, Julie Graham, Crystal Balint, Chanelle Pelaso, Ben Cotton, Jennifer Spence, Luke Camilleri, Graeme McComb, Wesley Salter, Agape Mngomezulu, Aria Birch, Eric Breker, Primo Allon, Jesse James, Matthew Smalley, Trevor Lerner.

The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco, Not Cricket/Iron In War. Television Review. full post

(437 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Shetland: Series Five. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Douglas Henshall, Alison O’Donnell, Steve Robertson, Mark Bonnar, Julie Graham, Lewis Howden, Anne Kidd, Rakie Avola, Derek Riddell, Catherine Walker, Ayanda Bhebe, Lorn Macdonald, Owen Whitelaw, Tracy Wiles, Isabelle Joss, Conor McCarry, Robin Laing, Ryan Fletcher, Meghan Taylor, John Kazek, Francis Mayli McCann, Angus Miller, Emma Mullen, Olivia Barrowclough, Titana Muthui, Erin Armstrong, Kirsty Stuart, Natali McCleary, Kate Dickie, Jenni Keenan Green, Itxaso Moreno, Therese Bradley, Robert Cavanah.

Shetland: Series Five. Television Review. full post

(463 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco: Presidio/Wake. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating 7/10

Cast: Julie Graham, Rachael Stirling, Crystal Balint, Chanelle Peloso, Jennifer Spence, Peter Benson, Colin Lawrence, Agape Mngomezulu, Ben Cotton, Teach Grant, Nicholas Lea, Lydia King, Neil Grayston, Sarah-Jane Redmond.

The war may have ended but for many the fight went on, especially those women from every walk of life who fought to be recognised, rightly, as equals to their male colleagues who were doing the same job as them. The code breakers, the factory girls, the women working the land, the teachers and the everyday; a war was not just won in the fields, seas and air over Britain, Europe and the whole world, it was engaged and wrestled with in the homes, in the minds and experiences of those who stood up to the evil of Fascism and who wanted at all cost, for the country to survive.

The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco: Presidio/Wake. Television Review. full post

(509 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

Shetland: Series Four. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Douglas Henshall, Alison O’Donnell, Steven Robertson, Lewis Howden, Erin Armstrong, Mark Bonnar, Anne Kidd, Julie Graham,  Stephen Walters, Neve McIntosh, Sean McGinley, Amy Lennox, Fiona Bell, Sophie Stone, Gerard Miller, Allison McKenzie, Julia Brown, Arnmundur Ernst Björnsson, Carolin Stoltz, Eleanor Matsuura, Joi Johannsson, Hannah Donaldson, Michael Moreland.

Shetland: Series Four. Television Review. full post

(546 words, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)

Shetland, Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Douglas Henshall, Alison O’ Donnell, Steven Robertson, Mark Bonar, Julie Graham, Stewart Porter, Erin Armstrong, Anna Chancellor, Ciarán Hinds, James Cosmo, Saskia Reeves, Sara Vickers, Ace Bhatti, Andrew Rothney, Archie Panjabi, Jamie Michie, Jack Greenlees, Mark Cox, Struan Rodger, Kate Donnely.

The fairly uncomplicated lives of those who reside on the outlying islands of the United Kingdom is one that is prized and highly valued, it is a way of life that has many attractions and one that many could adapt to if they put their minds to it. However, for those forced to relocate out in to the storm tossed seas that surround the mainland, the islands can represent a jail with no locks, keys or guards, the solitude is enough to drive them to the point of no return.

Shetland, Series Three. Television Review. full post

(518 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

New Tricks: English Defence. Television Review. B.B.C.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tamzin Outhwaite, Dennis Waterman, Denis Lawson, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Anthony Calf, Julie Graham, Ian Hogg, Nicholas Woodeson, Mariah Gale, Finlay Robertson, Leanne Best, Anthony Barclay, Fox Jackson-Keen, Gertrude Thoma.

Chess, it’s nearly as bad as croquet for being a particularly vicious sport when the tempers flare and the too serious take their mind to murder. However all is not as black and white as it seems as several chequered paths start to treat the UCOS team like pawns in their own game in the latest episode of New Tricks, English Defence.

New Tricks: English Defence. Television Review. B.B.C. full post

(404 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

New Tricks: Ghosts. Television Review. B.B.C.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tamzin Outhwaite, Dennis Waterman, Denis Lawson, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Ann Firbank, Emily Taffe, Louis Mahoney, Julie Graham, Georgine Anderson, Samuel Taylor, Jasper Jacob, Keith Ramsey, Katherine Jakeways, Emma Ballantine, Ruby Thompson, Arthur Shuttleworth, Scott Stevenson, Emma Louise Williams.

New Tricks: Ghosts. Television Review. B.B.C. full post

(482 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)