Category Archives: TV

Alien: Earth. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Samuel Blenkin, Essie Davis, Babou Ceesay, Adrian Edmondson, Timothy Olyphant, Adarsh Gourav, Erana James, Lily Newmark, Jonathan Ajayi, David Rysdahl, Diêm Camille, Moe Bar-El, Sandra Yi Sencindiver, Kit Young, Michael Smiley.

Alien is quite rightly considered one of the most important films to have graced the cinema and home viewing apparatus ever; a combination of science fiction and horror to which many have tried to emulate, and failed, be it by just a degree or full hearted collapse, the direction of Ridley Scott and the screen writing of Dan O’ Bannon was just too potent a force to ever truly equal.

The Count Of Monte Cristo. Television Drama Series Review. (2025).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Sam Clafin, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Jeremy Irons, Ana Girardot, Blake Ritson, Karla-Simone Spence, Lino Guanciale, Michele Riondino, Gabriella Passion, Harry Taurasi, Poppy Corby-Tuech, Nicolas Maupas, Amaryllis April Maltha August, Jason Barnett, Nicholas Farrell, John Ioannou, Martina Laird, Matthew Wilson, Steven Pinder, Kate Woodman, Simone Zambelli, Ben Moor, Bastien Fontaine-Oberto, Luke Carroll, Méghane De Crook, Robin Greer, Louise Gold.

Dexter: Resurection. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Michael C. Hall, Uma Thurman, Jack Alcott, David Zayas, Ntare Guma Mbaho, Kadja Saraf, Dominic Fumusa, Emilia Suárez, James Remar, Peter Dinklage, David Magidoff, Jason Alan Carvell, Darius Jordan Lee, Jill Marie Lawrence, Reese Antoinette, Eric Stonestreet, Steve Schirripa, Emily Kimball, John Lithgow, Erik King, Jimmy Smits, Marc Menchaca, Max von Essen, Desmond Harrington, C.S. Lee, Neil Patrick Harris, Krysten Ritter, David Dastmalchian, Lesley Stahl, Christian Carmargo.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia, Babs Olusanmokun, Martin Quinn, Rebecca Romijn, Melanie Scrofano, Dan Jeannotte, Carol Kane, Cillian O’Sullivan, Mynor Luken, Chris Myers, Paul Wesley, Adrian Holmes, John de Lancie, Rhys Darby, Patton Oswalt.

The third series of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is one where subtly and humour merge with intent and add to the overall charm that has been evident since the first episode that frames the time before Captain James T. Kirk was a hero on board the Enterprise and sheds more light on the life of the doomed Captain Pike and the early roles of those who would become legendary in television history, and within the overall arc of the world of science fiction.

Bookish. Series 1. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Mark Gatiss, Polly Walker, Connor Finch, Elliot Levey, Buket Kömür, Blake Harrison, Tim McInnerny, Paul McGann, Joely Richardson, Daniel Mays, Rosie Cavaliero, Gerard Horan, Anton Antoniadis, Tom Forbes, Amanda Drew, Ella Bruccoleri, Angeliki Papoulia, Jonas Nay, Harry Taurasi, Mark Umbers, Hannah Snow, Amanda Payne, Mark Winstanley, Chris Brooker, Charlie Cattrall, Michael Workeye, Elizabeth Berrington, Amanda Payne, Mariken van Lammeren, Mark Benton,  Loveday Smith, Luke Norris, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Shaniqua Okwok, Rina Krasniqi, Isabelle Connolly.

Ghosts (U.S). Series Four. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Rose McIver, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Brandon Scott Jones, Danielle Pinnock, Richie Moriarty, Asher Grodman, Rebecca Wisocky, Devan Chandler Long, Román Zaragoza, Sheila Carrasco, Betsy Sodaro, John Hartman, Tristan D. Lalla, Arthur Holden, Stuart Fink, Nigel Downer, Christian Daoust, Cat Lemieux, Punam Patel, Caroline Aaron, Cody Crain, Kathryn Greenwood, Christian Jadah, Steven Yaffee, Odessa A’zion, Mary Holland, Crystle Lightning, Deniz Akdeniz, Matt Walsh, Neil Crone, Jessie Ennis, Dean Norris.

Whiskey On The Rocks. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Rolf Lassgård, Anders Mossling, Artur Svorobovich, Kestutis Stasys Jakstas, Andrius Bialobzeskis, Filip Berg, Mark Noble, Niklas Engdahl, Per Ragnar, Harry Jansson, Per Lasson, Anders Karlsson, Rolf Lydahl, Oskar Vygonovski, Elsa Saisio, Daniel Hansson, Vytautas Kaniusonis, Adam Lundgren, James Studdert, Giedrius Kiela, Albinas Keleris, Philip Hughes, Vladislav, Onischenko, Jekaterina Makarova, Andrew Lowery, Cecilia Forss, Anton Lundqvist, Katrin Sundberg, Andrius Ziurauskas, Annika Nordin, Jörgen Persson.

Snowpiercer. Television Drama Series. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jennifer Connelly, Daveed Diggs, Mickey Sumner, Alison Wright, Sean Bean, Lena Hall, Iddo Goldberg, Kate McGuinness, Susan Park, Sam Otto, Sheila Vand, Roberto Urbino, Mike O’ Malley. Annalise Basso, Jaylin Fletcher, Steven Ogg, Rowan Blanchard, Chelsea Harris, Archie Panjab, Clark Gregg, Michael Aronov, Happy Anderson, Kerry O’ Malley, Timothy V. Murphy, Aaron Glenane, William Stanford Davis, Vincent Gale, Karin Konoval, Tom Lipinski.

Salem. Television Drama Series. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Janet Montgomery, Shane West, Seth Gabel, Tamzin Merchant, Ashley Madekwe, Elise Eberle, Iddo Goldberg, Oliver Bell, Joe Doyle, Jeremy Crutchley, Lucy Lawless, Xander Berkeley, Michael P. Gardner, Michael Mulheren, Desiree Page, John R. Bennett II, Samantha Hanratty, Azure Parsons, Stephen Lang, Lara Grice, Samuel Roukin, Thomas Francis Murphy, Mary Katherine O’Donnell, Stuart Townsend, Christopher Berry, Clint James, Emma Claire Wynn, Marilyn Manson, Benjamin Mouton.

Not Going Out. Series 14. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Lee Mack, Sally Bretton, Ray Fearon, Eileen O’Brien, Mike Wozniak, Angela McHale, Philip Correia, Laurence Howarth, Felicity Montague, Lu Corfield, Matthew Kelly, Ed Jones, Manpreet Bambra, Margret Cabourn-Smith, Diana Vickers, Dean Coulson.

No matter how good an addition the three children to the family dynamic in Not Going Out were, the opportunity for the show to reinvent itself for a third time and be the beacon for some truly quality farce is not only welcome, it is a necessity of a mainstream channel to highlight a programme capable of bringing the backbone of humour to life.