Category Archives: TV

True Love: Adrian. Television Review. B.B.C. Television.

Originally published by L.S. Media. June 21st 2012.L.S.

Media Rating * * * * *

Cast: David Morrissey, Gemma Chan, Jo Woodcock, Kaya Scodelario, Neil Bell.

The final part of True Love centred on a divorced father who was willing to go the extra mile for that someone special. If Sandra, the previous episode was the weak chain in the five part series, then writer Dominic Savage pulled out all the stops to make Adrian a tour de force that really could have gone on for a lot longer than the half hour allotted to it.

True Love: Adrian. Television Review. B.B.C. Television. full post

(386 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

True Love: Sandra. Television Review. B.B.C. Television.

Originally published by L.S. Media. June 21st 2012.

L.S. Media Rating * *

Cast: Jane Horrocks, Alexander Siddig, Charlie Creed Miles, Genevieve Barr.

The penultimate episode of B.B.C.’s True Love season of short, partly improvised plays by Dominic Savage sees empty nest syndrome mum Sandra question her position in the world after her daughters have finally grown up and left the family home.

True Love: Sandra. Television Review. B.B.C. Television. full post

(391 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

True Love, “Holly”. B.B.C. Television. Television Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. June 20th 2012.L.S. Media Rating * * * *

Cast: Billie Piper, Kaya Scodelario, Charlie Creed Miles, Jenny Agutter, Jo Woodcock.

In the third of five episodes by writer Dominic Savage, Billie Piper shows her mettle as lonely and unsatisfied teacher Holly. Being a teacher is a thankless task, especially when your private live is unfulfilling, your mother asks the same questions about who you are seeing and then all of a sudden your private life, well it’s not so private anymore.

True Love, “Holly”. B.B.C. Television. Television Review. full post

(411 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

True Love, “Paul”. Television Review. B.B.C. Television.

Originally published by L.S. Media. June 19th 2012L.S.

L.S Media Rating * * *

Cast: Ashley Walters, Jaime Winstone, Lacey Turner, Aymen Handouchi.

The second of B.B.C.’s new series of partly improvised plays sees Ashley Walters as Paul, a man with a good job, a good wife and a nice house but whose fatal flaw is boredom.

True Love, “Paul”. Television Review. B.B.C. Television. full post

(402 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

The Other Woman. Television Review. Sky Arts Television.

Originally published by L.S.Media. June 8th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating * * * *

Cast: Trevor Eve, Geraldine James, Tom Ellis, Richard E. Grant.

When art imitates life, are those that are the subject of the creative mind really aware of what they have become? This was the question that vexed Geraldine James and Trevor Eve in the latest of series of plays shown by the Sky Arts channel.

The Other Woman. Television Review. Sky Arts Television. full post

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

True Love. “Nick”, Television Review. B.B.C. Television.

Originally published on L.S. Media. June 18th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating * * * *

Cast: David Tennant, Joanne Froggatt, Vicky McClure, Lacey Turner, Luke Bryant, Jo Woodcock, Peter McNeil O’ Connor.

It may be the thought of Sky Arts encroaching into old familiar B.B.C. territory with their half hour series of plays that forced the channel to follow suit and commission Dominic Savage to write five stand-alone plays that break the boundaries of television drama production.  Whatever the reason, Dominic Savage came up with the goods in the first of these to be televised over the next few nights and in Joanne Froggatt, David Tennant and Vicky McClure they hit quality drama gold.

True Love. “Nick”, Television Review. B.B.C. Television. full post

(480 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

The Man. Television Review. Sky Arts.

Originally published by L.S. Media. June 9th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating * * * *

Cast: Stephen Fry, Zoe Wanamaker, Stellan Starsgard, Hayley Atwell, Tony Cosh.

The second play written for the Sky Arts series of plays by Sandi Toksvig, the engaging The Man was quite possibly one of the strangest that the series had produced so far and yet also one of the most compelling for viewers to get their thoughts around.

The Man. Television Review. Sky Arts. full post

(419 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

The Secret History Of Our Streets, Television Review. B.B.C.2.

Originally published on L.S. Media.

L.S Media Rating * * * *

At the time of Charles Booth, London was the biggest and most populated city the world had ever seen. An ever changing metropolis that Charles Booth mapped with great care and dedication on how each street fared in its social standing, position, the type of people who lived there and needs.

The Secret History Of Our Streets, Television Review. B.B.C.2. full post

(426 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Walking The Dogs. Sky Arts. Television Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. June 2nd 2012.

L.S. Media Rating * *

Cast: Eddie Marsan, Emma Thompson, Russell Tovey, Bryony Afferton.

The latest in the Sky Arts Playhouse Presents series, Walking The Dogs, tackles the very real life moment when in 1982 Michael Fagan broke into Buckingham Palace.  This event caused a sensation, resulting in a media fury as it was revealed he had gained entry to the Queen’s bedroom and chatted with her about a variety of subjects.

Walking The Dogs. Sky Arts. Television Review. full post

(398 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Care. Television Review. Sky Arts.

Originally published by L.S. Media. May 20th 2012.L.S. Media Rating ***

Cast: Gina McKee, Aimee Kelly, Margaret Jackman, Kevin Watham.

The latest in the series of one-off plays shown by the Sky Arts channel dealt with the bleak and socially topical subject of care within the community.

Titled Care, the half hour drama starred Gina McKee as a district nurse charged with looking after Elsie, a long term diabetic, in the long-neglected and infamous Byker Estate in Newcastle. Like other productions within this series, it dealt very heavily with the idea of what goes on in the mind, although in this particular case it was how the mind could be seen to deal when something inside finally snaps.

Care. Television Review. Sky Arts. full post

(480 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)