Category Archives: TV

Romantic Getaway. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Romesh Ranganathan, Katherine Ryan, Johnny Vegas, Harrie Hayes, Phaldut Sharma, Neil D’Souza, Julie Legrand, Jordan Coulson, Mensah Bediako, Jackie Morrison, Stephen Samson, Jerry-Jane Pears, Chris Aukett, Charlie Brook, Alwyne Taylor, Charles Baker, Martin Buchanan, Mara Allen, Billy Clements, Alexandr Delamere, Tom Davis, Lila Garrad, Jules Brown, Adam Young, Melissa Phillips, David Bresnahan, Farshid Rokey, Steven Jeram, Simon DeSilva, Chris Robb, Lindsay Townley.

What could be the most desired event in your life you could make happen without stepping across a moral line.

Romantic Getaway. Television Review. full post

(559 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

Willow. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Ruby Cruz, Warwick Davis, Ellie Bamber, Erin Kellyman, Tony Revolori, Amar Chadha-Patel, Dempsey Byrk, Claudia Hughes, Ralph Ineson, Graham Hughes, Joonas Suotamo, Sifiso Mazibuko, Kenny Knight, Joanne Whalley, Rosebell Laurenti Sellers, Adwoa Aboah, Derek Horsham, Annabelle Davis, Simeon Dyer, Daniel Naprous, Eileen Davies, Vitas Le Bas, Charlie Rawes, Talisa Garcia, Alexis Rodney, Christian Slater, Tom Wilton, Dee Tails, Simon Armstrong, Mario Revolori, Jean Marsh, Julian Glover, Sarah Bennett, Sallyanne Law, Hannah Waddingham, Amalia Vitale.

Willow. Television Series Review. full post

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

Stonehouse. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Matthew Macfadyen, Kevin McNally, Keeley Hawes, Dorothy Atkinson, Emer Heatley, Simon Greenall, Orla Bird, Aoife Checkland, Archie Barnes, Paul Westwood, Celia Robertson, Alex Caan, Robin Laing, Timothy Walker, Will Adamsdale, Albert Welling, Catherine Skinner, Emma Davies, Jessica Murrain, Rupert Wickham, Sam Lockwood, Samantha Yetunde, Alan Sylvester, Dainton Anderson, Brian Caspe, Ieva Andrejevaite, Igor Grabuzov, Richard Dillane, Carl Batchelor, Devon Black, Elyot Burnett, Celeste Wong, Timothy Knightley, Adrian Metcalfe, Jeremy Secomb, Jonathan Rhodes, Mike Sengelow, Crispin Letts.

Stonehouse. Television Review. full post

(593 words, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)

A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Mark Gatiss, Nicholas Farrell, James Backway, Angelina Chudi, Joni Ayton-Kent, Zak Ford-Williams, Aoife Gaston, Edward Harrison, Sarah Ridgeway, Joe Shire, Christopher Godwin.

We must put the time of year into perspective, we must understand the reasons, or even accept that there are none in which seem logical, that Christmas as a holiday has become one of division and brimming with its own sense of dogma.

A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story. Television Review. full post

(576 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

Avenue 5. Series 2. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Hugh Laurie, Josh Gad, Zach Woods, Rebecca Front, Suzy Nakamura, Lenora Crichlow, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ethan Phillips, Himesh Patel, Jessica St. Clair, Kyle Bornheimer, Andy Buckley, Daisy May Cooper, Ada, Pålsson, Neil Casey, Lucy Punch, Justin Edwards, John Finnemore, Sacharissa Claxton, Leila Farzad, Jonathan Aris, Arsher Ali, Kelly Coughlin, Julian Ovenden, Priyanga Burford, David Fynn, Julianna Kurokawa, Joanna Scanlan, Amanda Lawrence.

To be given the opportunity to study the craft of a genius, that is surely all any writer or observer of life can ever hope to be gifted, and to be involved with one of Britain’s foremost political satirists and writers of modern farce, even in a viewing capacity, must be at the very least, sheer heaven.

Avenue 5. Series 2. Television Review. full post

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

Ghosts: It’s Behind You. Christmas Special 2022. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Charlotte Ritchie, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Lolly Adefope, Matthew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, Ben Willbond.

Making plans and celebrating special occasions is a staple of humanity’s need for order, and Christmas is perhaps the time when those plans, carefully drawn to the minute with military like precision, are likely to come apart at the seams, fraying at the edge, causing upset and damage to the one so immersed in believing that to be perfect is the least that is acceptable.

Ghosts: It’s Behind You. Christmas Special 2022. Television Review. full post

(592 words, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)

Inside No.9: The Bones of St. Nicholas. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Simon Callow, Shobna Gulati.

Never mind Halloween, if you want to feel the chill of fear wrap its clawed hand around your heart and mind, then Christmas is the time in which the intoxication of the spirit is more than just filling a glass of your favourite tipple, it is the beginning and the end of all things rational.

Inside No.9: The Bones of St. Nicholas. Television Review. full post

(449 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

I Hate Susie Too. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Billie Piper, Daniel Ings, Leila Farzad, Matthew Jordan-Caws, Lorraine Ashbourne, Phil Daniels, Douglas Hodge, Blake Harrison, Elle Piper, Katy Trafford, Bessie Carter, Layton Williams, Omari Douglas, Reza Diako, Gary Lamont, Jolyon Coy, Ayesha Antoine, Angela Sant’Albano, Yasser Zadeh, Tobi Ejirele, Emmanuel Kome, Fred Fergus, Anastasia Jille, Peter Caulfield, Jude Mack, Elijah W Harris, Bea Svistunenko, Craig McCulloch, Lucy Martin, Sandra Huggett, Ambika Mod.

It is perhaps to be thankful that for the vast majority of us, someone like Suzie Pickles is but a figure to whom we might only come across when we are confronted with when they make a bee line to inject concern and chaos into our lives.

I Hate Susie Too. Television Review. full post

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

Strike: Troubled Blood. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Tom Burke, Holliday Grainger, Sophie Ward, Jonas Armstrong, Kenneth Cranham, Robin Askwith, Sutara Gayle, Abigail Lawrie, Jessica Impiazzi, Georgia Furlong, Tilly Walker, Carys Bowkett, Thomas Harper-Jones, Ian Redford, Linda Bassett, Syrus Lowe, Phil Langhorne, Kerr Logan, Sarah Sweeney, Genevieve Hulme Beaman, Artie Wilkinson-Hunt, Morgan Jones, Kate Speak, Kierston Wareing, Calvin Dean, Charlie Price, Samuel Oatley, Fionnula Flanagan, Mazz Murray, Giles Matthey, Toni Peach, Eliza Collings, Jack Morris, Ruth Sheen, Andy de la Tour, Jacob James Beswick, Lionelle Nsarhaza, Sam Woolf, Crispin Letts, James Corrigan, Celia Learmonth, Jack Greenlees, Carol MacReady, Anna Calder-Marshall, Madhav Sharma, Dayo Koleosho, Claire Dunbar, Simon Snashall, Ben Crompton, Flaminia Cinque, Cherie Lunghi, Edward Rowe, Michael Tully, Daniel Peacock, Michael Byrne, Mary Roscoe, Billy Boyle, Mollie Holder, Christina Cole, Charlotte Eaton, Henri Merriam, Phil Cornwell, Suzanne Burden, Joe Johnsey.

Strike: Troubled Blood. Television Review. full post

(627 words, estimated 2:30 mins reading time)

Vienna Blood: Deadly Communion. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Matthew Beard, Jurgen Maurer, Amelia Bullmore, Conleth Hill, Charlene McKenna, Luise von Finckh, Raphael von Bargan, Szonja Oroszlán, Lara Mandoki, Lisa Marie Pothoff, Nils Arzimann, Lujza Hajdú, Sara Schmitt, Jurgen Maurer, Josef Ellers, Robert Reinagl, Anna Kulbatzki, Victoria Nikolaaevskaj, Ákos Inotay, Markus Freistätter, Luise von Finckh, Xaver Hutter, David Rott, Dániel Kozma, Miriam Hie, Rainer Egger, Péter Végh, Raphael von Bergen, Zsófia Bach, Attila Arpa, Ilvie Moritz, Maria Köstlinger, Laura Podlovica, Lilla Czvikker, Mara Romel, Stefen Puntigam, Levente Törköly.

The fashion industry is murder.

Vienna Blood: Deadly Communion. Television Review. full post

(577 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)