Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: James McArdle, Emun Elliott, Sarah Greene, Stephen Moyer, Tamsin Grieg, Eliza Bennett, John Dagleish, Paul Kaye, Clea Martin, Peter Ferdinando, Robbie Gee, Nicholas Nunn, Lex Shrapnel, Barry Castagnola, Stanley Morgan, Nitin Ganatra, David Kennedy, Cally Lawrence, Michael Obiora, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Clare Burt, Megan Morgan, Hannah van der Westhuysen, Nicola Wright, Ralph Brown, Andy Eadie, Javier Ramos.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Richard Dormer, Lara Rossi, Adam Hugill, Marama Corlett, Jo Eaton-Kent, Samuel Adewunmi, Bianca Simone Mannie, Craig Macrae, Wendell Price, Joe Vaz, Shane John Kruger, Anna Chancellor, Paul Kaye, Natalie Walsh, Matt Berry, Marc Hyland, Ingrid Oliver, Ralph Ineson, Trevor Frost, Russell Crous, Ruth Madeley, James Fleet, Jonathan Pienaar, Tarryn Wyngaard, Hakeem Kae-Kazim.
If the Devil is in the detail, then it must have taken one hell of a being to come up with the intricacies that lay in the world of Ankh-Morpork, and the realm that encompasses Discworld.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Jude Law, Katherine Waterston, Naomi Harris, Emily Watson, Paddy Considine, Mark Lewis Jones, John Dagleish, Jessie Ross, Richard Bremmer, Freya Allan, Borje Lundberg, Paul Kaye, Nico Parker.
British Folk Horror or the gothic supernatural doesn’t perhaps get the respect it deserves in the 21st Century, few writers will embrace it, and it appears even less people wish to dip their toe into the murky, almost pitch black seas to which the mirroring and observances of the closed community has thrived unabated by the pressures of time, or indeed the interference of the outside world.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke, Rory Kinnear, Gina McKee, Richard Roxborough, Joseph Quinn, Clive Russell, Kevin McNally, Aiste Gramantaite, Georgina Beedle, Camilla Borghesani, Thomas Doherty, Andrew Rothney, Paul Kaye, Adam El Hagar, Antonia Clarke, Phil Dunster, Georgina Hale, James Northcote.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Colin McFarlane, Sophie Stone, Zaqi Ismail, Morven Christie, Arsher Ali, Steve Robertson, Paul Kaye, Neil Fingleton, Peter Serafinowicz, Corey Taylor.
There are moments in the world of science fiction in which as a viewer, the onlooker into the world of the fantastic and seemingly off kilter from our own perceptions of reality. Where you just know in a darkened corridor or locked basement where writers are kept from the prying eyes of the public and their demands, that the occasional fist bump, high five or even hugging with certain amounts of glee are to take place when they explain themselves out of a possible predicament in a story line. If that is the case then all three signs of exuberant showmanship should have been heard somewhere around the bay of Cardiff as the fourth episode of the 2015 series of Doctor Who played out.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Bertie Carvel, Eddie Marsan, Marc Warren, Charlotte Riley, Alice Englert, Samuel West, Enzo Cilenti, Paul Kaye, Edward Hogg, Brian Pettifer, Ariyon Bakare, Vincent Franklin, John Heffernan, Richard Durden, Robbie O’ Neil, John Sessions, Clive Mantle, Lucinda Dryzek, Ronan Vibart.
For all the other channels and subscriber based ways of watching television, for all the smoke and mirrors of television programmes being played out endlessly and arguably without diligence and care for the viewers intelligence, when the B.B.C. gets something completely right it normally becomes the best thing to have been seen in the comfort of your armchair all year and in Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell such worthy praise and lofted heights is needed.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Martin Sheen, Jonas Armstrong, Charles Furness, Adam Raynor, Jolyon Coy, Jassa Ahluwalia, David Gyasi, John Boyega, Ferdinand Kingsley, Paul Kaye, Chris Starkie, Andre Aguis, Joe Azzapardi, Macram Borg, Stephen Buhagiar, Jimi Busutti, Graham Charles, Aklileu Gudetta, Ian Shaw, Bolton White, Valentino Stojanov.
In amongst the seemingly endless repeats, festive cheer, tear-jerkers and the inane, sometimes a made for television film comes along in the run up to Christmas Day that is a sparkling jewel, a reason why television actually deserves its place in the lives of all, a piece of quality so rare that it has been worth being forced to listen to other people’s conversations about the latest celebrity gossip and ghoulish-like fascination of the box in the corner.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, Gillian Sakar, Charlene McKenna, Paul Kaye, MyAnna Buring, Gina Bellman, Justin Avoth, Chris Patrick Simpson, David Wilmot, David Dawson, Damien Molony, Kirsty Oswald, Callum Turner, Liam Burke, Gwynne McElveen.
The writers of Ripper Street have never been afraid to head down the path afforded the rich history of Whitechapel for its inspiration. Whether it is the world of male prostitution, the salaciousness of Molly Houses, the rights of women, the Irish question or the straight poison that stalked the streets of the East End in 1888, there is not a moment in that dark history of Whitechapel that isn’t worth exploring.