Category Archives: TV

Inside No.9: Mother’s Ruin. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Anita Dobson, Phil Daniels.

It’s too late to ask your parents to reveal their secrets when they have left this mortal coil, but what lengths would you go to ask them for the truth when they are in Heaven or Hell, or the Limbo in between.

In typical resounding style, Inside No.9’s Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith take the opportunity to delve into the realm of the nightmare and the visionary in the latest episode of the successfully long running series, wonderfully titled, Mother’s Ruin.

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(383 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Magpie Murders. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Lesley Manville, Tim McMullan, Conleth Hill, Matthew Beard, Alexandros Logothetis, Michael Maloney, Daniel Mays, Claire Rushbrook, Ian Lloyd Anderson, Karen Westwood, Jude Hill, Harry Lawtey, Joel Birkett, Pippa Haywood, Nia Deacon, Dorothy Atkinson, Chu Omambala, Karl Collins, Lorcan Cranitch, Sanjeev Kohli, Sutara Gayle, Danielle Ryan, David Herlihy, Nathan Clarke, Paul Tylak, Adam Ewan, San Shella, Azeem Alahi, Daniel Costello, Phina Oruche, Killian Donnelly, James Flynn, Kate Gilmore.

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

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans. Television Review. (2023).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Will Poulter, Lucy Boynton, Daniel Ings, Jonathan Jules, Alistair Petrie, Nicholas Asbury, Maeve Dermody, Nia Trussler Jones, Christian Patterson, Morwenna Banks, Richard Dixon, Benedict Wolf, Leon Ockenden, Amy Nuttall, Miles Jupp, Paul Whitehouse, Hugh Laurie, Rufus Bateman, Nicholas Banks, Joshua James, Patrick Barlow, Carlie Enoch, Conleth Hill, Alfie Bottley, Tim Treloar, Tom Farrer, Maxine Evans, Sam Farrer, Dan Tetsell, Maggie McCarthy, Timothy Harker, Robert Rhodes, Martyn Ellis, Trevor Cooper, Andria Doherty, Bob Goody, Simon Markey, Jim Broadbent, Emma Thompson.

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(553 words, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)

Beyond Paradise. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Kris Marshall, Sally Breton, Zahra Ahmadi, Dylan Llewellyn, Felicity Montague, Barbara Flynn, Jamie Bamber, Jade Harrison, Annette Badland, Ingrid Oliver, Phil Daniels, Monserat Lombard, Ruth Madoc, Pooky Quesnel, Marcia Warren, Samantha Spiro, Don Warrington, Ralf Little, Shantol Jackson, Tahj Miles, Spencer Jones.

“Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.”

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(656 words, estimated 2:37 mins reading time)

Passenger List. Audio Drama Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Kelly Marie Tran, Elyse Dinh, George Q Nyugen, Colin Morgan, Ben Daniels, Ian McQuown, Doyla Gavanski, Valarie Vennix, Tessa Auberjonis, Pej Vahdat, Lauren Shippen, Carl Prekopp, Richard Tanner, Kelsey Venter, Sean T. Krishnan, Adam O’Byrne, Julie Adamo, Nathan Osgood, Laurel Lefkow, Gabby Brooks, Kathleen Early, Richard Doyle, Adrian Latourelle, Kristian Bruun, Patti LuPone, Steve Basaula, Mark Henry Phillips, Philip Desmeules, Becci Gemmell, Eben Figueiredo, Fode Simbo, Nicole Stedwell, Nick Massoub, Ray McAnally, Rob Benedict, Mary Gordon Murray, Richard Doyle, Heather Craney, Anjili Mohindra, Briggon Snow, Alex Brown Marshall, Raad Rawi, Marie France Arcilla, Clare Corbett, Jennifer Armour, Barbara Barnes, Eric Meyers, Chrstopher Ragland, Cyril Nri, Danielle Lewis, Akie Kotabe, Carlyss Peer, Gianna Kiehl, Kerry Shale.

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(693 words, estimated 2:46 mins reading time)

Happy Birthday Mr President. B.B.C. Audio Drama. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Lydia Wilson, Justin Salinger, Isabella Inchbald, Simon Harrison, Clare Perkins, Jason Barnett.

Pop culture moments tend to stick in the collective memory more than most, even when a person is obviously too young to have witnessed it first hand, the abundance of times it has been watched and rewatched, the stories of its greatness handed down from one generation to the next; pop culture is the ultimate foundation of the 20th and 21st Centuries to which glory has been immortalised in a single snap shot of a camera’s lens.

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(595 words, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)

50 Berkeley Square. B.B.C Audio Drama. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Gwyneth Keyworth, John Heffernan, Tom Kiteley, Hughie O’ Donnell, Chloë Sommer, Roger Ringrose.

A ghost story does wonders for the spirits…

We walk through Time without thinking of the pieces of ourselves that we leave behind, shedding skin, leaving our imprint on everything we have held, touched, sat in, argued with, loved, abused, cared for; our soul has its own legacy to which we leave echoes of our lives trapped in the moment of Time forever.

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(499 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)

Lady Killers With Lucy Worsley. (Series Two). Radio Series.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Murder is an abhorrence to nature, and yet there are circumstances in which the taking of a life can be seen as a mercy, that it can be driven by political fears, and that of desperation when viewed through the lens of self-defence.

Even in age where there appears to be a glut, an overwhelming dedicated number of column inches in newspapers and social media driven commentary to any number of murders that take place in Britain, and around the world, it still comes as a shock to the senses that someone would willingly take another life, and even more astonishing when the murderer is revealed as a woman.

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(680 words, estimated 2:43 mins reading time)

Grace: Dead Like You. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: John Simm, Zoë Tapper, Craig Parkinson, Richie Campbell, Laura Elphinstone, Brad Morrison, Clare Calbraith, Boni Adeliyi, Andy Apollo, Rakie Ayola, Lizzie Back, Steve Broad, Joanna Brookes, Eliot Cable, Charlotte Christof, Alexander Cobb, Darcy Collins, Thomas Coombes, Rai Endah, Heather Ann Foster, Ernest Gromov, Darragh Hand, Robert Hands, Molly Harris, Jo Herbert, Sam Hoare, Rob Jarvis, Claudia Jolly, Max Krupski, Kiera Lester, Sibylla Meienberg, Henry Miller, Luke Norris, Jack Pierce, Tyler-Jo Richardson, Rebecca Scoggs, Nicholas Tizzard, Ben Wiggins, Charlotte Workman, Jay Oliver Yip.

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(502 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon. Big Finish Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Billie Piper, Camille Coduri, Shaun Dingwall, Mark Benton, Joe Jameson, Waleed Akhtar, Amerjit Deu, Elli Garnett, Julia Hills, Syrus Lowe, Gemma Page, Alistair Petrie, Dan Starkey, Elizabeth Uter, Robert Whitelock, Claire Wyatt.

Across dimensions she has searched for the one she called Doctor. For Rose Tyler, companion of the ninth incarnation of the mysterios man in the box, and the trusted friend of the tenth to bear that name, time has been a burden, time is running out, for across the galaxy, across all dimensions, the stars are going out, and each Earth is facing its own unique set of problems in which it will eventually die.

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(583 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)